You need to put the whole series on dvd, I'd buy it

@fullsendeverythingoutdoors6577

3 жыл бұрын

Me tooo

@Tony-hv4fx

3 жыл бұрын

same

@t.g_buffington

3 жыл бұрын

Same. Would be a lot easier than watching multiple parts on KZread.

Fantastic video series, well thought out, good editing, no gibberish chit-chat, just solid tutorial. Next project is making a cd to sell in hunting stores.

Id pay cold hard cash to be taught this, lost art it feels like

Like a boss man! You've mastered this. Thanks for the videos!

Thanks for the detailed tutorial! I'm on the second salting phase now. Hopefully it will turn out decent. This will be my first self-tanned hide.

How have I missed this great tutorial for so long?!? Nice tomato plants btw son, keep growin'!

that first snap though!!

Great tomato plants

Thanks man! With the market like it is I was considering not trapping this year, But now I'm thinking about tanning all my stuff and selling some of it myself!

@CoonCreekOutdoors

8 жыл бұрын

+Bill Wheelis good luck

Coarse salt can be ground pretty easily in a food processor or a good blender. Something to consider since the coarse salt doesn’t penetrate as well.

You do a unbelievablely good job explaining things thank you for you info

You are truly underlooked and don't get enough credit. You could make money of this type of info! Appreciated👍

Looking good Stu! Can't wait for part 3!

@CoonCreekOutdoors

9 жыл бұрын

Todd Wittenmyer thanks

My daddy used stretching boards. Whatever size board he'd lay on the porch the dog would fetch that size varmint. Moma laid the ironing board out and we ain't seen that dog again. He was a good dog.

Great Video! I think I might tan a few myself after watching this.

@CoonCreekOutdoors

9 жыл бұрын

***** thanks. best of luck

That garden probably has some succulent essence.

I plan on tanning a Fox Hyde. Do I have to board it first and dry it out or can I just skin, flesh it, and go right to salting?

Great job buddy....looking forward to part 3.

@CoonCreekOutdoors

9 жыл бұрын

***** thanks

Great videos bud! Thanks

you can go to your local coop or feed store and get feed salt for around $3 for 80lb. then you can get rid of the rock salt.

You can also buy bulk (50# bags) fine salt at feed stores or stores like tractor supply or true value for about the same price as the course salt. It's also non-iodized.

Great series Stu!

@CoonCreekOutdoors

9 жыл бұрын

Sam Rickrode thanks

I'll be using the tanning formula you used.

Very cool Stu, are you hanging on them for better prices or selling them off as wall hangers? looking forward to #3

@CoonCreekOutdoors

9 жыл бұрын

backyardmeat thanks. these will be used as wall hangers and be used in making clothing.

In your opinion, do you get a better finished product if you go threw the boarding/drying process before tanning? You mention do the right steps but I saw you mention to other people in the comments you can go from fleshing straight to salting..? Thanks in advance!

I think the plants in the back are ready to be picked 😂

I am new to all this. Have you used or heard of Krowtan2000. Any thoughts on the product. Great videos, thanks for taking time to make them. I have learned a lot from you

Thanks for all the videos...I was given 10 buck hides and learned from your videos....I make women's purses with them. What do you do with all your hides?

Im new to trapping and tanning! Thanks for the videos I am definitely going to be looking back at these. I do have a question is anyone can answer it would be awsome please and thank you !❤ when you talkwhat about salting what about using epsom salt?

How did you get them like cardboard before you tanned them? Did you just tack them to a board to dry out?

Just a quick question. I’m wondering that once I started the tanning process and after I’ve applied that tanning solution and I allowed the high to dry to the point where it’s quite firm or even hard what would the process be of breaking the hide from that point?

great info, look forward to part 3

@CoonCreekOutdoors

9 жыл бұрын

Wallace Vivian thanks

another great one. thank you.

@CoonCreekOutdoors

9 жыл бұрын

PhattDawg Trapping thanks

Does it help to leave the hide in the salt water longer like say a few hours for a fox hide?

Salting the green hides is to remove the liquid (soluble proteins). I asked the makers of HTF if I could start with step 4 when the hides were fleshed and dried for market. They said yes so I tried it. I relaxed with salt bath, thinned, washed, hung to dry a little, then applied the HTF. It seemed to work exactly the same as starting with green hides and salting. Any one else done it this way? Try it and see if it works for you.

What do you do to tbe hide prior to the first steps you show? You have dried clean hides to start. So flesh well, then what to get to the place on the hides you start your videos with?

can you reuse salt that was used previously from tanning?

love your bushes in the background

Maybe a dumb question..can I do this with a fresh hide, or does it have to be dried first?

Ok thank you did like the video. So you helped me long time ago with how to get wax cheap. So I'm watching the video and I see the rock salt and the table salt and I'm thinking...Don't know just in my head (no real world to back me up)...But you got the rock salt and I turn sugar into powder sugar in a blender. So could you take lets say take a $50 magic bullet blender and turn rock salt into salt. A) you could do 5 lbs at the kitchen then use. And B) you could save a blade and a cup for just that and have another blade and cups for everyday life. Find a friend that has one to see is it will make the salt fine enough for you. I have a blendtec blender but you got money in that...But $50 more and you have a new jar and blade. Just my 2 cents.

Awesome work 👍

When you put the hides in the water do you have to turn your hides inside out

I want to hang my first coyote up in my shop. After it’s been skinned, fleshed and boarded do I still need to tan it or can I hang it up as is?

How much Salt and tanning solution for 2 fox or coyote pelt or raccoon?

Can you recommend a online shop that's sells some wall critters.

Great, informative video. Thanks

On the Meateater podcast you said you use borax which is several years after this video was uploaded. Have you stopped using salt on the tanning process all together?

Have you done part 3 yet

How does the fur not slip with the hide being wet for so many days?

Are you planning on redoing this, this season?

Hi there. I have two deer hides that I want to tan but the weather where I live in Canada is now very cold. How can I store the hides for the winter short of putting them in a freezer. I have fleshed them. Can I salt them and put them on a stretching frame and leave them in a shed for the winter. Any help would be appreciated.

I did a fox the way u show here. It went ok till i soaked it in salt water. It started slipping after 4-5 hours but only onnone ear. Ill see how it turns out tho. I got the fox in January. Does it matter what time of the year u get it?.

Would this work for squirrels too?

9:10 the first snap was exceptional

what were the hides before you dipped them in water and salted them? were they just air dried ?thanks

@charlesmurray1220

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure he drys on solid stretcher boards in his fur shed - 55 to 58 degrees I think I heard him say once. Or there abouts.

Nice vids, just bought some tanning solution. Any suggestions of what type of garment to make out of a tanned hide.

@CoonCreekOutdoors

8 жыл бұрын

+nevrbluffs mitts are pretty easy for starting out

@seeamerica1

8 жыл бұрын

+nevrbluffs I've seen the pelts of cow, deer, rabbit, coyote, fox sell in online auctions for $45-65ea . Practically anything you can make will sell, usually within a week. Fox is always big, just buy a new inexpensive vinyl handbag, cover one side in fox, hang it's tail on the end, do a professional job & you've made about $65 & the buyer pays for the shipping. Of course most decent prices of fur sell best in the winter months especially just before Christmas.

I found an old wringer washer which works well for squeezing out water from smaller hides

Just go to Bomgaars or local feed store and get fine grade stock salt like Stockmans don’t get the red salt they will have white salt and it will have dirt mixed in it but it doesn’t hurt a thing. It’s 4 dollars a bag and it works perfect for salting skins.

Where do you buy the solution in bulk?

OK so to sell your hide to the auction keep the membrain on?

What's the longest you would let a coyote sit after drying before having to tan it? Would it be ok if I waited 3-4 months before tanning all of my hides from the season together?

@CoonCreekOutdoors

8 жыл бұрын

+Dan Fleury yes keep them in low humidity

good stuff Stu as usual

@CoonCreekOutdoors

9 жыл бұрын

Stewart Frerotte thanks

How many animals can one bottle do? 2 medium animals right? What is considered as medium?

can you do a video on that hog scrapper? like how and when you use it??

@CoonCreekOutdoors

8 жыл бұрын

+Cashew Cashew sure thanks

Nice job thanks

why is the iodinzed salt no good?

You can put the coarse salt in a food processor to grind it down and save some money

How much would you sell a skunk as a wall hanger?

How do you kill the skunk without spray?

all my pelting boards n knives disappeared years ago can i buy a couple soft tanned beaver pelts from you ,???

Do you have to board animals on a board and let them get stiff or can u tan them right after fleshing.

@CoonCreekOutdoors

9 жыл бұрын

Adam Daughety you can start tanning immediately after fleshing

I keep a fox to tan. But after soaking it in salt water o went to ring it out an the tail fur come off the hide. I don't know what could have made it slip. Its been in the freezer since December

would the process be the same with a green hide or should I dry it first?

@CoonCreekOutdoors

8 жыл бұрын

+jonathan smith no you can start with a green hide

@waylonlegend4603

2 жыл бұрын

@@CoonCreekOutdoors then what’s the point of drying it? For stretching?

Do you have a shop?

Can you dry a deer hide the same way you do so on a raccoon, beaver, skunk, etc.

@zracing1272

6 жыл бұрын

Garrett Stevens i would say yes

Some say you have to use non-iodized salt only - in your experience does it matter? Feed supply stores sell big bags of plain salt too.

@waylonlegend4603

2 жыл бұрын

It does not matter. I’m not sure why he even mentioned it like it was a big deal.

So: 1-soak 2-roll em up in salt for a day 3-rinse and repeat step 2 4- let sit in salt water for a day 5-rinse in water 6-scrape excess fat 7-hang until "semi dry" 8- apply solution 9-dry for a day "fur out" 10-dry for 3days "fur in" 11-breaking

@soundslegit307

7 жыл бұрын

Correct?

I’ve watched this video three times taking notes because I keep messing up the steps

What is the process before tanning? Can I skin the animal and go right into tanning or do I have to do some pre-tanning process first? Thanks.

@poxpox2917

7 жыл бұрын

You have to flesh it, get all the fat off of the skin

@akiraparadox1192

6 жыл бұрын

if its as been freezed with a little bit of fat u can scrap this after the salt solution no ?

with a deer would you salt for 48 hours like rest of the fur?

@CoonCreekOutdoors

7 жыл бұрын

Yes

Can I use a plywood bored to bored my coyotes like a square 1

Stu how long would you soak a ermine in the salt bath.

Awesome 🤙🤙🤙

No body ever mentioned all that weed growing in your yard at 8:30? lol

@muskyman26

7 жыл бұрын

snotballdinkweed giant ragweed king

@suthernsavage5643

6 жыл бұрын

snotballdinkweed 😂

@adamjohnson6506

5 жыл бұрын

They actually dummy plants they grow wild, they look a lot like pot but they don't bud lol got a bunch that just grows around my property

@gesachristiansen991

5 жыл бұрын

i thought too^^

@wisconsintrapper9435

5 жыл бұрын

Its rag weed. Pretty common in the midwest.

So question Brother... If I’m just salting to dry them to send to the Tannery, do I need to remove the membrane before salting? I have a horse and a deer in the basement that are thawing. The tanner requires that they be salted. So once they thaw I remove the excess meat any sizeable meat chunks. Then all I should do is salt them. 24 hours later shake it off and salt it again correct? Then they are okay to ship is that correct? Should I leave the salt on the hide when I ship it or should it be dry, salt removed then shipped? Does the membrane need to be removed before I do the salting or will it penetrate the hide with that membrane?

@zracing1272

6 жыл бұрын

ROCK O idk how did you get a horse?

@twoleggedterror4482

6 жыл бұрын

will odrz Mans horse broke its leg and he put it down. He wants the cape for a blanket hair on.

@zracing1272

6 жыл бұрын

ROCK O oh lol i thought that you went horse hunting

just a thought - dishwasher salt not soap but salt thats non iodine too but way cheaper

you should try using warm water i think it rehydrates them better

@CoonCreekOutdoors

9 жыл бұрын

David Niederquell not realy sure why warm water would dehydrate better. water is water weather cold or hot. when its adsorbed into the hide then its hydrated and ready to move on.

@davidniederquell7398

9 жыл бұрын

I dont know either maybe im wrong but in my experience warm water worked faster than cold but the only time i rehydrate them is after there tanned so that might make a difference to

Hey just put the salt in blender, coffee grinder. food processor or some such machine. Oh and let me save you alot of trubble, DO NOT USE THE LADY'S KITCHEN MACHINES!!! So you just go to thrift store and get one of your own! Thrift store sells all kinds of kitchen machines for a few bucks! ; )

@noahberger8760

8 жыл бұрын

+Mr McG Very clever about grinding the bulk salt. Also very good looking out for avoiding the wrath.

@mrmcg9288

8 жыл бұрын

noah berger Thanks! and yea NEVER use the womans machines!! LOL Go buy your own for few bucks at thrift store...No wrath! These little kitchen machines work great for all kinds of project,. like grinding big salt into powder if you want.

@celestekittie

5 жыл бұрын

I can testify the woman's wrath is real.

out of curiosity, why cant you use iodine in your salt?

@grantjohannes9802

7 жыл бұрын

It is a heavily debated subject however everything I have read says you can use either. It is usually cheaper to get non iodine salt anyway and not having the iodine means one less chemical that could potentially mess with your tanning solution. I have used both and have not noticed any differences.

So how did you get up to this point. What did you do to the hides? Any salting? Air drying? Clearly fleshed. If anyone can tell me the process up until this video much appreciated

@waylonlegend4603

2 жыл бұрын

It’s hush hush.

@mikewhitman745

Жыл бұрын

Whatever you do don't search for his tanning#1 video or the skinning videos.

That a merryjane plant in background. Haha

Don’t worry about salt with or without iodine. I use a 50lb bag of cattle salt, it’s extremely cheap and works really well. I’ve never had a problem with iodized salt. Edit: Cattle salt is pretty coarse so I use a blender to powderize it

@mikewhitman745

Жыл бұрын

So cattle salt has iodine in it then?

@redemption7449

Жыл бұрын

@@mikewhitman745 I have been told it does. However I’m not 100% sure but before I used cattle salt regular any salt worked five I’d just buy what’s on sale.

If you're gonna tan the hide, do you need to let the hide dry first?

@CoonCreekOutdoors

8 жыл бұрын

+Alex Rushing no

@nanobbox1950

7 жыл бұрын

its in between it cant be soaked but it also cant be dry

OK thanks.

hello what degreeser do you use to take the fat?

@chieffan92588

6 жыл бұрын

Manuel Herrera he fleshes the pelt with a fleshing knife then let's them dry for a time.

Who else took notes. Just me?

Lol real weed, rag weed!!! Lol

Cant you just run course salt through blender make it fine?

@cowardcantaloupe3124

6 жыл бұрын

pitrofono never thought about doing that but I would say that would work

How much is one bottle?

@CoonCreekOutdoors

8 жыл бұрын

+Coleson stevens bout 10 bucks

HOW about GRINDING the SALT ?