Re: Dangers in skinning?
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07/18/23 04:49 PM
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The Beav
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Wear rubber gloves to be on the safe side.
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Re: Dangers in skinning?
[Re: plainstrapping25]
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07/18/23 07:07 PM
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Shakeyjake
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You can get a whole pile of crap you don’t want. Don’t they mention this in every trapping course? A lot of general trapping books too for that matter. I try to use gloves and wash hands regularly. I’ve nicked myself through the glove before, no problems. But if you catch the wrong bugger or find out that you’re more susceptible to certain parasites, you’ll be sorry…lol There’s also super thin cut resistant gloves but I kinda loose too much feel, sometimes I wear one on my left hand for added grip.
Wind Blew, crap flew, out came the line crew
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Re: Dangers in skinning?
[Re: plainstrapping25]
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07/19/23 06:50 AM
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I knew a guy when I was a kid who got the bubonic plague from skinning coyotes. You could potentially get all sorts of things. Good enough idea to wear rubber gloves if you can stand to wear them. I hate wearing the dang things, only thing I usually wear them for is skinning wolves, everything else I usually do bare handed, the occasional really nasty coyote will get either rubber gloves or the ditch treatment.
Wash your hands thoroughly, especially before eating, or taking a chew, lighting a cigarette, or anything else that requires contact with your mouth.
Do as I say, and not as I do. I have skinned innumerable animals in the field, barehanded, and simply scrubbed my hands with snow when I was done. I chewed Copenhagen for years, and thought nothing of giving my thumb and finger a quick swipe on my pants to clean them of any chunks before taking a pinch while skinning. I try to be more careful these days, but I never got anything before.
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Re: Dangers in skinning?
[Re: Flint Hill fur]
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07/19/23 08:30 AM
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Another tip..keep a jug of rubbing alcohol in the fur shed handy. If cut thru a glove I quickly get a splash on the wound. Cleans up tools as well This made me think of what we do for commercial fishing. I deal a lot with shrimp, oysters, crabs and fish. My hands get cut up all the time. Something I learned as a kid from the old timers and I still do is keep a bucket of bleach water handy. Throughout the day I dip my hands in the bleach water and it prevents a lot of infections. I bet something like that would be very helpful to have when cleaning a lot of animals. I don't know about you guys but my hands get tore up from being nicked with a knife blade, stickers, etc.
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Re: Dangers in skinning?
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07/19/23 09:41 AM
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Everything in life has risk. Understand how much risk, how much risk you're will to take compared to the rewards and take reasonable steps to negate risks. As a society we have become somewhat sissies. Usually more risk more reward. Death rate on Oregon trail was somewhere around one in ten. Most people today would freak out at an activity if it had that much of a risk at twisting an ankle or catching a cold. Amen! I was just going to say that life is not a safe sport! Anything worth doing has risks. I believe that I am at less risk in the fur shed using reasonable precautions than I am sharing the road with the usual cast of characters on the road heading to the grocery store.
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Re: Dangers in skinning?
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07/19/23 09:04 PM
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Another tip..keep a jug of rubbing alcohol in the fur shed handy. If cut thru a glove I quickly get a splash on the wound. Cleans up tools as well I keep a bottle of hand sanitizer handy.
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Re: Dangers in skinning?
[Re: plainstrapping25]
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07/20/23 09:16 AM
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Allan Minear
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A box of surgical / exam gloves is cheap insurance as is a can of raid spray for any fleas or ticks the critters may have .
Scarcoptic mange is another thing to watch out for even if it's just a small patch a good friend of mine contracted it and it took quite some time to overcome the affects of it , Jim would tell you it wasn't worth the price he got for that coyote .
He skinned it while wearing gloves and wore a apron and gauntlets then washed it , hung it to dry a little bit combed it out and while fleshing it , it was still dripping water which ran down his apron soaking his blue jeans from his knees down which that was all it took .
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Re: Dangers in skinning?
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07/22/23 11:06 PM
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Another tip..keep a jug of rubbing alcohol in the fur shed handy. If cut thru a glove I quickly get a splash on the wound. Cleans up tools as well This made me think of what we do for commercial fishing. I deal a lot with shrimp, oysters, crabs and fish. My hands get cut up all the time. Something I learned as a kid from the old timers and I still do is keep a bucket of bleach water handy. Throughout the day I dip my hands in the bleach water and it prevents a lot of infections. I bet something like that would be very helpful to have when cleaning a lot of animals. I don't know about you guys but my hands get tore up from being nicked with a knife blade, stickers, etc. We always have bleach water available in the fur shed. I take empty plastic Joy dish washing soap bottles and pour a couple of inches of bleach in and fill it with water. There is always a couple of these on the counter by the skinning table. Clean up the table, knifes, hands and everything else as we go.
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Re: Dangers in skinning?
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07/23/23 07:01 AM
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I wear gloves and safety glasses. If it is too slippery you can put them white gloves over them from Harbor freight.(Adc's idea)
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Re: Dangers in skinning?
[Re: plainstrapping25]
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07/23/23 11:46 PM
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beartooth trapr
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Skinning without gloves has helped me over come my BAD habit of chewing my finger nails. Just kidding, gloves are good thing.
Let me sugar coat this
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