Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver
[Re: The Beav]
#6746300
01/27/20 07:30 AM
01/27/20 07:30 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 42,000 Northern Maine
Bruce T
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 42,000
Northern Maine
|
Never could get the hang of clean skinning. It takes me about 10 min to beam flesh one. X2
Nevada bound
|
|
|
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver
[Re: Wild_Idaho]
#6746314
01/27/20 07:56 AM
01/27/20 07:56 AM
|
Joined: Nov 2019
Posts: 464 N.W. Pennsylvania
JTaddeo
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Nov 2019
Posts: 464
N.W. Pennsylvania
|
I bought myself a Necker 600 this year, two weeks ago in fact. Now to catch some of these Pennsyltucky beavers....
Keep your boots dry and your powder too.
I remember when a fur check was reality.....now I'm just trapping for the love of it.
Best Regards,
JT
|
|
|
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver
[Re: Wild_Idaho]
#6746350
01/27/20 08:45 AM
01/27/20 08:45 AM
|
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978 potter co. p.a.
pcr2
"Twerker"
|
"Twerker"
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978
potter co. p.a.
|
first 1000 are the hardest.guy watched me do one the other day and when i gently went right down the center and 2 in wide piece came of perfect from neck to tail with almost no effort he about passed out.if your working too hard-your workin too hard.
|
|
|
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver
[Re: Wild_Idaho]
#6746356
01/27/20 08:54 AM
01/27/20 08:54 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 42,000 Northern Maine
Bruce T
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 42,000
Northern Maine
|
Back in the day before the neckers and the rest came out ,for years I used a machete simply adding another handle to the other end.
Nevada bound
|
|
|
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver
[Re: Wild_Idaho]
#6746505
01/27/20 09:50 AM
01/27/20 09:50 AM
|
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978 potter co. p.a.
pcr2
"Twerker"
|
"Twerker"
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978
potter co. p.a.
|
i get asked a lot "how sharp is that knife."--i've had to give myself stiches and superglue twice from barely bumping it by accident.have another for coon that isn't anywhere near as sharp but when i get a rough necked coyote or coon i run for the sharp one.
with good tools-clean skinning or fleshing can be a breeze
|
|
|
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver
[Re: Wild_Idaho]
#6746596
01/27/20 10:17 AM
01/27/20 10:17 AM
|
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 45,510 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 45,510
james bay frontierOnt.
|
Paul Millette used to say,"be careful,my knives are so sharp your eyes will bleed from looking at them"
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
|
|
|
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver
[Re: Wild_Idaho]
#6746659
01/27/20 10:38 AM
01/27/20 10:38 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 10,396 MT
snowy
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 10,396
MT
|
I fight fleshing them but get it done, not that good or fast at it.
Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
|
|
|
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver
[Re: Wild_Idaho]
#6746678
01/27/20 10:56 AM
01/27/20 10:56 AM
|
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 898 N. W. MISSOURI
TRAPPER-ED
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 898
N. W. MISSOURI
|
clean skinning is all I ever know how to do a beaver that's how my grand dad and my dad always done them I always enjoyed doing them , but not as much anymore with my arthritis in my hand
50 + years of trapping & some fur buying and i still know nothing.
|
|
|
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver
[Re: Wild_Idaho]
#6746725
01/27/20 11:33 AM
01/27/20 11:33 AM
|
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978 potter co. p.a.
pcr2
"Twerker"
|
"Twerker"
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978
potter co. p.a.
|
i started with a bent over paint scraper and a rapala filet knife.limit was 3 so it worked.
|
|
|
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver
[Re: Boco]
#6746737
01/27/20 11:44 AM
01/27/20 11:44 AM
|
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 3,239 Co.-Wy. part time AK.
wy.wolfer
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 3,239
Co.-Wy. part time AK.
|
No problem leaving them on for your own use.Standard handling procedure is to remove the nose and whiskers/lips an inch ahead of the eyes. That is where the beaver are measured from even if the nose is left on it wont gain you anything and could lose you a size if boarding to the size lines. Takes longer for that thick stuff around the whiskers/nose to dry so if you need your boards to meet a deadline etc you can get the hides off a day or two quicker. Exactly!
|
|
|
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver
[Re: Wild_Idaho]
#6746842
01/27/20 01:02 PM
01/27/20 01:02 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 11,219 Oregon
beaverpeeler
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 11,219
Oregon
|
I don't own a standard fleshing beam or fleshing knife.
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
|
|
|
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver
[Re: Wild_Idaho]
#6746947
01/27/20 03:28 PM
01/27/20 03:28 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2017
Posts: 371 North, MS
TrapperCarl78
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2017
Posts: 371
North, MS
|
Clean Skun and be done!!! I have seen folks flesh beaver in all kinds of crazy ways. It’s all struggle to some degree even for those with a mastered efficient system. I have gotten to the point that I would just rather clean skin while standing comfortably upright and take em straight to the board.
TC
|
|
|
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver
[Re: Wild_Idaho]
#6746951
01/27/20 03:32 PM
01/27/20 03:32 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 15,718 MN, Land of 10,000 Lakes
Trapper7
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 15,718
MN, Land of 10,000 Lakes
|
I'd sooner skin and flesh a beaver than a coyote any day. Too much fussing around with a coyote. Besides that, some of them stink like a dog that rolled in something rotten. I like the smell of castor.
The difference between animals and humans is that animals would never let the dumbest ones lead the pack.
|
|
|
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver
[Re: pcr2]
#6746958
01/27/20 03:39 PM
01/27/20 03:39 PM
|
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 3,175 Pa.
Bigbrownie
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 3,175
Pa.
|
first 1000 are the hardest.guy watched me do one the other day and when i gently went right down the center and 2 in wide piece came of perfect from neck to tail with almost no effort he about passed out.if your working too hard-your workin too hard. I’ve been working doing beavers the last two days. In the past, I worked around the outside of the hides, taking off the easy stuff, then would do battle with the center. I read your post yesterday about shaving down the center from head to tail. I got out the whetstone and worked up the Wiebe, which I would have said was already sharp. I probably used that sharp side on 80% of the beaver hides. I did 5 big ones in half the time that I spent yesterday doing 7. I never nicked any hides, they came out great.
|
|
|
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver
[Re: Wild_Idaho]
#6746972
01/27/20 03:56 PM
01/27/20 03:56 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 11,219 Oregon
beaverpeeler
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 11,219
Oregon
|
It comes down to what you're comfortable with. Once you learn to do it a certain way any other way will seem clumsy. I always felt like skinning and then fleshing was redundant. Clean skinning does both things at the same time. I no doubt would feel differently if I had learned to rough skin and flesh on a beam.
One can argue about which is more time efficient but I don't honestly think there is that much difference for those that are experienced in either way. I average about 15 minutes to clean skin a blanket and about another 15 minutes to board it. I'm sure there are lots of guys faster than me.
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
|
|
|
|
|