Same way I skin spring bear.Also use a bigger knife.

If you remove any thick meat and heavy fat just laying spread out on the ground will be sufficient. Most butchers skin beef clean enough to salt when they're done. Cross hatch any thin meat and membrane. Then get a bag of hay and stock salt and rub it into the hide covering all skin. Pour and rub in half the bag. Fold in half, then roll it up. Place on an incline so juice drains. Give it 24 hours, then unroll and scrape all the salt, goo and liquid off with a flat shovel. When it's salt and fluid free, resalt with the other half bag and fold and roll again. in a few days unroll and let it semi dry, so you can still fold it up to ship to the tannery. Beef hides on a beam is back breaking work for old guys. This method is not as hard on your body. Also, don't do this where you will kill grass.

Thanks again for all your help guys. I'm not sure when I'm gonna start the project. Hopefully when it cools off a little bit. Right now it's folded up in the man's freezer.

This is how Dave Rodgers (Rodgers Hides and Supplies) explained to me how he did it. He did a bunch at a time, kept them in his barn. He had a bin full of salt in there, like a double-horse-stall size bin, kept the hides in the adjoining bin. He'd shovel the salt on, fold them and let them drain.

He said they were shipped to China, tanned and shipped back. I guess it was cheaper to do that than have them tanned in the US.

power wash the fat and meat off.

Years ago, myself and 4 of my elk hunting friends went on a buffalo hunt. We all wanted buffalo rugs made. A local tannery said the only way they would tan them for us was if we would flesh them. Guess who got elected to flesh them? I did get an over-earned case of Coors Light out of it.

The hide is really thick on a buffalo. It took me about two weeks to do all 5. The only advice I could give for fleshing a buffalo hide is a cheap fleshing knife won't do. I used my Caribou.

Large, flat table and a round "Bell" type Beaver scraper with a cooler beside it!

Hate to drag this thread back up out of the depths but would anybody have any idea what to charge for fleshing a bull hide? I know what I charge people for normal furbearers but this is quite a different undertaking.

Time and materials?

It will probably be one day's work,depending how fast you are.

OK thanks guys. That's what I was looking for was just kind of a rough time estimate