Re: Fleshing Rats
[Re: Alfa Dog]
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09/26/21 06:44 PM
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Nah. I never understood how that was supposed to work anyway. You just take off the fat on a rat. Leave all the red membrane. On most it goes really quick. I have some really fatty rats so I do em on the beam. You can just use a one-handed fleshing knife and do them on the stretcher.
Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
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Re: Fleshing Rats
[Re: Alfa Dog]
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09/26/21 09:43 PM
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I used a wringer and It does work. In my opinion most trappers over flesh rats.
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Re: Fleshing Rats
[Re: Alfa Dog]
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09/26/21 09:55 PM
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We used one in the fur shop years ago. I remember when the traveling buyers starting wanting our rats cleaner. It seemed silly and time consuming to hand flesh...but we never used it again. The one thing I remember most about it was .... if you had a bite mark or scar on the pelt, or possibly a thin pelt. it would occasionally rip the hide
Last edited by cattails; 09/26/21 10:25 PM.
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Re: Fleshing Rats
[Re: Alfa Dog]
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09/27/21 12:18 AM
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Use the broad you will stretch the pelt on, or if using wire for rats use a small rat board to flesh on. Pull the pelt on so that you can flesh the side and then flip the broad to do the other side. Then straighten the pelt out so you are ready to tack the pelt on the board. Then finish the belly and back, leaving the saddle membrane on the pelt, except mink if it has a lot of fat under the saddle. A curved small pelt (stirrup) flesher is the ideal tool for the fleshing of rats, mink/marten and other small animals when using their forming boards in the fleshing process.
The only constant in trapping is change so keep learning.
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Re: Fleshing Rats
[Re: walleye101]
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09/27/21 12:55 PM
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It works great. Fur side out, strart the nose, then a gentile pull on the nose while you turn crank. Fat, excess meat comes off leaving the proper saddle. When the hide pops free, reverse the crank about a quarter turn and swipe away fat with paper towel. Insert another rat. I will add, make sure that the hide is flat, any "pockets" of fat will pop like a zit through the hide; so make sure that you get the wrinkles and pockets smoothed out before you run it through.
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Re: Fleshing Rats
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09/27/21 11:03 PM
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Something in line with the hog scraper, you can cut one of the narrow propane gas cylinders,dull the edges,add a handle,bolted from the top. Put the pelt on a bit of undersized board side ways( hope I projected that image correctly). You flip the board instead of pelt while fleshing avoiding having to remove pelt and re-position. This is done while sitting and the base to hold flesh board anchored at a comfortable setting. Done a lot of rats that way. Worked pretty good.
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Re: Fleshing Rats
[Re: Jim Curran]
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09/28/21 08:24 PM
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I have done thousands of rats using a wringer that was designed for fleshing rats. They were designed so you could adjust the tension on the rollers. Walleye101 described the process exactly like I did The wringer does a great job except for the heavy fat around the tail which takes a second by hand. The only drawback is you do have to turn them fur out to flesh then back to the leather to stretch.. All the Trapping catalogs in the 1980's listed them for around $100. I bought an extra from Mel at M&M Fur, Bridgewater, SD during that period and it still sits on the shelf in an unopened box. Yes, I have 2 and they both have adjustable tension on the rollers. Mine are very old laundry wringers, not designed for rats, but do them very well. I found that the fat around the tail came off as well, if you stopped cranking just as you got to the end and pulled that last 1/2 inch through.
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