Re: Fleshing bull hide ideas?
[Re: Davisfur]
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Fleshing beam for starters.
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Re: Fleshing bull hide ideas?
[Re: Davisfur]
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Really not all that hard begin at the neck and work the top edge then proceed towards the bottom trying to keep the fleshed material complet it helps pull it down, kind of like fleshing a beaver just work it down pulling the hide up as you proceed
Not really all that hard just awkward due to their size if you can do a beaver you can do a cow hide it just like doing 10/15 beaver hides all together
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Re: Fleshing bull hide ideas?
[Re: Davisfur]
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Start in the center, lol.
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Re: Fleshing bull hide ideas?
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Do bull hides have a lot of fat on them?
Eh...wot?
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Re: Fleshing bull hide ideas?
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Just like doing a 1200 pound beaver. A wide beam is better, start in the middle and keep working it around so you have weight pulling down on both sides of the beam as much as possible. Don't figure on pushing much, mostly sharp work. Depends on how clean it was skinned and your beam ability, but figure about 2 hours and 100 pounds of salt. Be careful about leaving the point of the beam in the same place, hair pulls awful easy on cattle, beam point can rub it right out.
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Re: Fleshing bull hide ideas?
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At beef processing plants they just cover them with salt and fold them up. Ive also seen them put in large stock tank affairs with an arm that rotates on top of it. paddles on the arm extending down into the tank. the arm turns pretty slow and a heavy salt brine and hides are in the tank. after how ever long they get salted and folded. the brine deal is how darling international handles the hides they salvage off the cattle the dead wagon picks up. These hides are not fleshed but the Mexicans doing the skinning are experts. they are pretty well clean skinned.
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Re: Fleshing bull hide ideas?
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I have been at the hide tanning camp for the last few days,the women are doing up 4 or 5 caribou hides and 2 moose hides,all laced on frames and the flesh is scraped off with a tool like a frost scraper,only smaller,and the hair is scraped off with the same tool when the hide is semi dry.Keep the tools sharp and it goes good. A moose hide is very large.Frame is made of peeled 6 inch spruce logs and laced on with 1\4 inch rope.Lace holes are about 4 inches apart.All are being brain tanned and smoked in the traditional manner.
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