Just finished converting part of my 1/2 car garage (they call it a one car garage but its more like a 1 ATV garage). When you live in a city where lots are measured in sqft, you don't got much room when it comes to setting up a fur shed. Plus this small garage also has to be used as a storage area for my other hobbies (freshwater fishing, saltwater fishing, wood working, welding, gun building, reloading, hunting, skateboarding, surfing, wakeboarding, and dirt biking), the stuff my wife doesn't want to store in the house, and my kids bigger outside toys that we don't want to get damaged by the sun. I've been trapping with a buddy who had a bigger area for us to use as a trap shed, but this season I'm going solo so needed to make my garage work.
I've I set up my work bench that I also use for building guns and reloading. I put one shelve below, and left room for my air compressor, welder, and box with misc. trap equipment can slide under. I added peg board on the wall behind the bench (i need to add one more section). This is where my skinning knife, fleshing knife, tail zipper, leg stretchers (hanger ends for cats), push pins, gloves, and other fur handling equipment hang. The next section of peg board is where all my trap modification tools will hang. My fleshing beam attaches to the left leg of my work bench and can easily be removed to keep out of the way. Then I made a shelf out of 2x6. I made it out of 2x6 because it needs to be strong without the need of a lot of supports plus I need something thick that I can screw hooks into to hang up my fur while its drying. On the far end I have eye bolts to hold my fur hangers. On the self I have my borax tub for cleaning pelts before the sale, my skinning gimble, chain, cable, and my catch pole. On the wall I have two brackets that can fold up and out of the way if I need to that holds my stretchers. The one has 2 coyote stretchers and 4 cat stretchers, and the other has 6 grey fox stretchers. Next to my bench I have my shop vac for easy access, and a Husky tote with wheels that has my traps. I can easily roll it around the garage to get it out of the way, and during the trapping season it stays in the bed of my truck. For skinning I added a carabiner to a skinning gambrel. When it's time to skin, I just clip it through one of the holes on my garage door opener on the ceiling. I'm trying to find something that I can easily stow away to put on the garage floor below where I skin and below my fleshing beam to keep some of the blood and grease off the concrete. Any ideas would be awesome.
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Its nothing big or fancy, but I can can have 8 animals drying at a time, store 5 dozen traps, 12 stretchers, and all my other misc trapping gear and only take up a small portion of my already small garage. Although I would love a nice 10x12 shed that is only for trapping and nothing else (and one day I will), you don't need a lot of room to have a functional fur shed.