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Coon skin questions
BowEd:
It's the way it is done fellas when you sell directly to a fur company by passing the middleman fur buyer.
On a different note Fox in times past I've degreased hair from neats foot oil too with white gas [coleman gas] although if the leather of your hides is saturated or infiltrated with grease I doubt much can be done.It's what we call grease burnt hides.Possibly a taxidermy product might do the trick.
It can happen to any type hides out there.
BowEd:
I should'nt be hijacking Fox's thread here but here's my tumbler I made over 35 years ago while putting up fur.2' diameter/4' long to accomodate any coyote.Geared down from a 1hp motor with pulleys and a gear reducer to turn 13 times a minute.It has 1" by 4" baffles to help lift the hides and drop them into the grit over and over.Mounted on an A frame with pillow block bearings.Plywood ends and sheet metal sides.Only needs around a half pail of cob grit to do dozens of hides.Still on the same bag of cob grit to this day.Only 5 minutes of tumbling needed to degrease a half dozen put up coon hides.
I've done thousands of hides through this tumbler.Still works good as new.
Hawkdancer:
Don,
You might find a used dryer at a moving or yard sale. That way it could be dedicated for safer living! >:D (lol). Ed, Thanks for the pictures!
Hawkdancer
BowEd:
--- Quote from: Don W on September 15, 2021, 05:15:51 pm ---I've heard of using a dryer. If I did that they'd never find my body!
--- End quote ---
A dryer does not dry up grease,at least not with air or heat.
Don W:
--- Quote from: BowEd on September 16, 2021, 01:26:26 am ---
--- Quote from: Don W on September 15, 2021, 05:15:51 pm ---I've heard of using a dryer. If I did that they'd never find my body!
--- End quote ---
A dryer does not dry up grease,at least not with air or heat.
--- End quote ---
I don't remember where I read it, but if I recall correctly (big if) it was for heat or air, it was for softening. They may have even added some rocks. Maybe even corn cobs.
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