it all depended on who your instructor was and what they taught and was absorbed by the individuals in the class.
That 1/4 inch screen goes a long way in tail pressing

Pin holes have to be cut out when sewing the tails together...more labour = less product

Gol dang it No50! I just finished pinning one…lol. Oh well, it’s got a small patch of mouse damage. I’ll have to dig out some screen.
Wonder who’d teach a new trapper not to pin or screen any animals tail? They’ll friggin rot, seems pretty straight forward if they’re probably teaching tricks to dry the arm pits & stuff……unless they’re not saying why it’s done.

With all the mandatory trapper education in the industry the last 30 years, hard to believe pelt handling is even an issue anymore? Of course, if anybody wanted to apply themselves, they can find pelt handling information readily available on the internut and there are probably are a multitude of u-tube videos covering a variety of species.

Andy does a great job for sure.
He is a long time certified trapping instructor and gives the courses in the Timmins area for decades.

Great video! Reminded me of a few things I forgot. Good tips!

The interesting thing is if you watch Joe Mattie's fur handling video from 35 years ago he tells trappers to pin tails out and hats are of marten tails.

Really that is correct,Boco quoted CA. dollars. I sell tails from the marten I dress to the Hasidic community in New York for $12 each, which is almost the same as $18 CA.

All good points here, I hate to see furbuyers offering to buy frozen skins, it makes producers lazy and has affected the quality of fur handling in the states. Saying you'll only be discounted $2 for green skins work fine for the buyer when you only get 1/2 or less as a basis of a good quality NORTHERN beaver pelts true value.

Is this it? It says Part 1.

^^^^^^^^ I was wrong, he says " fancy garments" . I suspect the fancy garments were those Jewish hats. Either way, it has been known for a long time that marten tails need to be split and spread for drying by trappers.

Found the production date; Make that 29 years ago.

A bit more info.
The tail fur from a marten is more than 3 times more valuable per sq inch than the rest of the marten
Other than fisher,no other animals tail comes close.
Otter is less valuable by far per sq inch compared to the body fur of the otter.
Otter tail has very limited use in the fur trade.
Master Argeriou and others have tried many ways to work it and it just does not work well in any application.
I sell the tanned tails of otter to kids at the pow wow there is little use for them as trim or articles.

Yet, the trapper sees not one thin Canadian dime for taking care of the tail.

fur buyers trick. Using so said female boards.

Ya whatever.