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3rd Annual Moon Tree Gathering
osage outlaw:
I've got a few skins to tan also. I might bring a chipmunk hide to experiment with.
hedgeapple:
Ok, seems like we're going to attempt to tan some hides. I have 3 or 4 deer hides that were salted and have been laying in the shed for years. The mice love them. haha. They're probably on good for raw hide to convert to hide glew. We'll de-hair those. I have a hide or two that are in raw hide form that I can start the egg tanning. Have 3 hides that were egg tanned but not worked (another egg bath and work them would be good for them). I have a couple egg tanned hides that are pretty soft, that could stand a smokin'.
I will build another fleshing board other than the one shown in the picture below with 4" pvc and make a yoke for the 12" pvc. I'll build a couple 8' by 8' racks for stretching and smoking the hides.
What you can bring are:
1. eggs if you're doing the egg tan method, or whatever tanning method you might be using. That's is if you're far enough along with the process to be ready to tan a hide. Basically, that means the hide has been de-hair if needed and fleshed.
2. Pickle buckets with lids. These will be needed in the hair removal and tanning.
3. A hide scraping tool.
4. A hand-held belt sander would be nice. Mine stopped running. I need to take it apart to see if I revive it again.
5. Plenty of string to use in the hide stretching.
I'm sure I will think of something else we need. Let hope for warmer weather.
TRACY:
I've got a fleshing blade I will bring and so so fleshing beam. I used the fleshing blade on my first stave :P :o. Tanned some mink, muskrat and coons but haven't done it in years.
I'm bringing everything for breakfast casserole this year. Might not be as good as the dollar general buffet that Clint and I went and got.
Someone's going to have to bring a case of that skee or ale8 and pay you for it. Can't find it around here. Maybe Daniel will see this.
Probably bring one or two rocks to beat on.
Shotgun,shells and clays too!
Tracy
hedgeapple:
Great Tracy, It'll be good to have here who might actually know what they're doing with this tanning business. :)
We have ale-8 around here. It's actually made about 15 miles from the farm. Ski is a little harder to come by, but I'll search for some.
osage outlaw:
I picked up 50 unbroken clay targets at work the other day. Somebody was doing a little shooting at one of our rural pump stations. I made it home with about 44. I'll pick up a full box to. I can marinate some deer steaks if you have a grill I could borrow Dave.
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