Salting hides
I don't usually do this but have a couple of hides I came up with and no freezer space (buffs) and it is hot here now. Should you leave them lay flat or folded......flesh side up or down......shade or...
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Not if you want to keep the hair. If you bag them while still damp, even salted, the hair may slip.For keeping hair you need to salt drain, dry, salt drain dry. The keep dry with good air circulation....
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Sorry Rick, didn't mean to give you the wrong advice. I was thinking deerskins instead of bison..well if you were waiting for the bison to drain after salting well then you are likely still waiting.....
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Chickens! I left a few hides last season out overnight with the fat and meat on them. They were draped over a propane tank outside my bedroom window. I woke to a party going on out there. 10 to 15...
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I like the chicken picture to...Looks like home..they are great for cleaning up the stray stuff that flys around. cats also.
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Thanks guys & gals! A friend of mine has a pic of raccoons fleshing one of his hides ...I will post it if I can find it....never thought of chickens though!Rick
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Kechuwa, I love chickens in the yard and on the plate. I noticed in the first two pics the most important and nessary thing for any job.... Your coffee cup on the ground. Coffee don't leave home...
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Well Chuck I took my machine in for service just yesterday! so.. I would have to say that I could use a 3000. psi for deerskins while a 4000 would be better for bison.. my poor little 2400.. will have...
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Make sure you use fine mixing salt. You can get it at any ag supply place for like 5 bucks a 50 pound sack. Also be carefull where you use it because it will kill plants if too much is dumped on the...
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I laid the hides on my flatbed trailer and salted them. Left them in the sun for a few days, even got one rain shower on them. They seemed to dry very quickly and I put them in a lean to for the time...
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yer hides should be fine Sandhill..as long as you set them so they can drain... I have a buff hide salted and dried out for several years. The guy I got it from , free.... let it hang over a fence in...
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Yep.. I think I just made the same comment on another thread on the bison skins Quills.. too funny.
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ya too funny...Great minds run together..... " You can't stop the waves .... but, you can learn to surf."
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I used a 3,500 psi power washer on a big buffalo bull hide and it worked just fine. I did have to use the high pressuer nozzle on it.Some people are only alive because there are laws against killing...
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I'd be careful about leaving any hide in the sun. Fat burn happens.You learn something new every day if your not careful. braintanned.comBraintan Made Easy DVD
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MB, good point, Wes Houser brings that up in his video on buff tanning. BTW how can we get a copy of your new DVD? Anxious to see it!Rick
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I don't remember Wes talking about that but man does he ever crank through a buff skin. I hate fat burn. Hasn't happened in a while.You can find the info on the DVD...
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Among the fur buyers and trappers it is called grease burn and it happens with furs that aren't properly fleshed. When that happens the furs just fall apart.After I flesh a fur I wash it in Dawn and...
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Kirby, I had a similar experience with magpies except they ate holes into the deerhide, draped over the firepit for the night, and ruined it. They had a blast, but I wasn't too pleased.
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MB,Been a couple of yrs since I watched the vid of Housers but if I recall correctly he cautioned about sun burn/fat burn/grease burn from the added oil in the brain solution and the absorption...
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