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primitivepaulette:
 Be my pleasure. You certainly don't need a powerwasher but you may need a good degreaser! And fleshing them very well will be a huge help and well sometimes thinning them is necessary.. I think that all depends on the particular coyote.. this last hat I made came from a coyote that was REALLY heavily laden with fat.. It was a female.. :D  ::)  well anyway I washed that skin at night because I wanted so to get past the fleshing and on to the next step and when I went to work on it there was just too much grease still remaining and even then there is STILL grease that is kind of like residual.. it's in there good and well that is tough to learn and before I got into washers and some pickles and other "STUFF" cornmeal was used.. I've even gone so far as to try white gas..well it doesn't really even WORK.. it just displaces the grease.. and then your skin smells like gas! so.. really I just do my very best to CLEAN Them up as best as I can and when you find grease on the middle of those LONG FLUFFY TAILS ? well you'll understand how discouraging that can be! Nice though to have a nice clean skin that has the fluff! It is also pretty difficult to get a skin to come out fluffy and soft and the hair too without a big tumbler with at least a 6' drop..but mine aren't too bad for backyard tanning! where there is a will there is a way! so I've just been doing what's been easy.. haha.. now you know I'm a liar cause tanning is anything but EASY! well  I just hope ya'll know how happy I am to find folks that really like this stuff and don't just think it's like totally gross!

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