I can knock them out pretty fast, but I really don't enjoy it. Spending a good part of an evening putting up 3 or 4 is more my style. Add some rock and roll and a cold coke and I'm in my element. My fur room is kinda a sanctuary.

That sucks Swampy,guess just gotta keep going best we can.

Gotta love it to keep at it when it causes pain....

I've timed myself many times doing more than few beaver at a time. I can generally skin 8 an hour and that's skinning them, gutting and cleaned up. 8 an hour is typical to flesh. Maybe a little slower as I have got older, board them in five. It doesn't take but a minute or two to take off the board. The minor stuff like flipping boards, bagging pelts etc I do in the early morning when I have nothing else to do..

It took me a couple weeks to get back in the groove this winter but I still got it

Apparently, I never had it. You sir are a stud.

Lots of practice

There are guys that are faster

This guy is faster than me, can you guess who he is? He's done a beaver or two. I can't even skin a smaller beaver in less than 3 minutes.



The Howell Bros are experts in their field.





I need to totally rebuild a beam to speed up. Don't know if I will though.

Did some more weighing....my blankets averaged 2 1/8lbs and my supers right at 3 lbs.

That's more like it.

I’ve got a 64”, real beauty, on the board now. I’ll weight it when I pull it off soon.

Pulled it off and it weighed 1.4lbs. So I’d get about 30 US bucks for this 64” prime?

that's a nice looking beaver shakey-better than $30

I weighed some 60 inch plus---little over 2 p0unds---sold them yesterday for 35--28 in the lot---21 over 60 and 21 0f them were last springs beaver--stale and rubbed--bit. I trap at 7000 feet so I think they are a heavy grade, I guess it is a hatter market!

20 supers, 65 blankets and 41 XL's averaged out to 2.07 lbs each. That lot sold for $37.67 avg 126 beaver, yesterday OTC sale. Two of the buyers were weighing beaver but the high bidder was not one of the weighers.

(That was based on weighing a representative sample of 5 of each size).

Tom, were you happy with the price you got?

You must have that parchment thin leather Shakey. Nice looking beaver.

That is $18 a lb. What pretty much every buyer around here is paying.

The catch 22.

Thanks for the update Carl.

My beaver went for a little more $$$ at the ITA sale (big sizes $41 avg) but I gotta say yesterday's batch of beaver were legit hatters late season scarred up, rubbed, bites. So I'm pleased with the price.

37 is pretty good.

What is the commission?

Add in the castor and it's icing on the cake.

6% Steve.

I figured out that this season's castor has so far averaged me $7 per beaver with the unknown of how much the 14 lbs of some of my best will bring that was shipped to FHA to once agains test those waters.

Didn't you used to have a saying "beaver will shine again"?

They are shining.