I used to burn most of my fleshings. Open the old fisher and toss in a handful. Would ta work in a new cat stove?



Owl

I didnt think they made the cat stoves any more because of the trouble with them plugging up.

I burn them by the ash scoop full, 1 at a time. On a thick bed of hot coals. The fat is well mixed with the saw dust that is spread thick on the floor in the skinning fleshing area.

It's not uncommon for me to have a fire going in the fire pit outside door the kids to sit around while I work on my critters, and I'll throw my fleshings on there. They smell delicious.

We burned them in an old wood stove. I don't think I'd put them in the one we just had installed in the house cost to (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) much it has a cat.

I burn the whole carcass of coon and beaver just need a hot stove and cold night in the shop.

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Let me guess; you don't have any neighbors close by, or at least not any neighbors you are on good terms with.

"All catalytic stoves have a lever-operated catalyst bypass damper which is opened for starting and reloading. The catalytic honeycomb degrades over time and must be replaced, but its durability is largely in the hands of the stove user. The catalyst can last more than six seasons if the stove is used properly; but if the stove is over-fired, inappropriate fuel (like garbage and treated wood) is burned, and if regular cleaning and maintenance are not done, the catalyst may break down in as little as 2 years. (EPA note: Garbage should never be burned in a wood stove or fireplace.)"

When I had my outside wood boiler, I used to use coon fat to start a fire or throw it in on an already started fire. That fat was like dumping oil on the fire and really ramped the heat up in a hurry. No creosote in it either.

That's what burn barrels are for, right?

I have a barrel stove.

I dont like to remove food from the food chain on my traplines.
Putting it back into production increases the carrying capacity of the trapground, in late winter when the carrying capacity is set and especially if you take the maximum harvest of fur from your line each year.

I use a chimera.(sp?) Will take whole carcasses.

Like Boco I put all of my fleshings and other scraps back into the trapline food chain. Greasy sawdust was burned in the shop wood stove.

It really does not stink smells like barbeque.

Why would anyone buy a stove you have to replace parts on every 2-6 years?

Does anything actually eat your otter or coon?

Otter gets devoured by wolves,but not until the beaver are gone.
Ravens pick them clean down to an articulated skeleton.So the calling value for the furbearers is there.

No coon here,although I got some coon carcasses once to try.I hung them to keep the ravens from cleaning them up too quickly-they were very fat,so I thought they would be attractive as a winter bait.-No action except from small birds pecking the fatty suet.

After talking to an oldtimer I found out animals dont go for food they are not used to eating.

One old trapper from Labrador mentioned that foxes on the coast would go crazy for sealmeat but interior foxes wouldnt touch it because it was strange to them.

Interesting. In IL I've seen where carcasses of otter and coon put out in midwinter were mummified (or whatever the correct word would be) the following spring... still intact and not eaten.

Wesly Mouch has been involved. The government buys them for people in Fairbanks. The rest of us have little choice. They are more efficient, until the catalytic converter goes bad. May be impossible to replace due to corrosion and warped metal after heating ones house for a couple of years. Price of wood stoves have gone up like crazy, since EPA got involved. Who is John Galt?

"On Jan. 8, the state of Alaska will begin seeking to register wood stoves in a federally defined area of the Fairbanks North Star Borough known as the nonattainment area."