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Pigskin
Jan 16, 2008 9:32:57 GMT -5
Post by joanne on Jan 16, 2008 9:32:57 GMT -5
I bought some deerskins from the hideprocessor up here for the first time the other day. I've seen pig hides there just tossed in the dumpster and was never very anxious to try tanning one of those before but with the acquisition of the high powered washer I could no longer resist and asked if he had any so one of the several pigskins he gave me was from a pretty big sow. So I took some pics before and after of the pigskin I fleshed in about a half an hour yesterday. Guess bark tanning has always been suggested but as usual I say the heck with that I'll pour boiling hot scalding water on it and see how it grains. I will have to cut off the head and put it in a frame.. I'll just dry it out and take a dry scraper to it or something if the dehairing and graining leaves a lot to be desired. I like doing sh*t that people tell me I can't do.. just much more interesting spin on things, I figure. Might be the school of hard knocks or like peeing on the electric fence but you do have a tendency to wizen up pretty quick..lol. Hey fleshing this pig with a beam and scraper now would just NOT have been a bright idea at all but the washer really got the sh*t off in a hurry. Grease? what grease? It's all over the snow.. and will probably be there when the snow melts perhaps but I don't care.. I think I'm a bit more worried about all the salt in the deerskins. I got 50 of them but lots are the back half of capes and the rest are summer hides.. most of the summer skins look pretty good really.. they will be thin hides but they might be great for shirts. I don't know how he gets the summer skins..must be from all the farmers around here.. they get a special permit to kill deer that are destroying their corn crops or something.. so like the indians did I decided to go for the thin skins.. might be allright having pulled skins at least.. the ones I usually get from the hunters while most are nice big thick hides lots of them are pretty scored all over so what are ya gonna do? Anyway I really liked how the turbo nozzle and washer cleaned up this hogskin. Amazing, huh?
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Pigskin
Jan 16, 2008 16:05:22 GMT -5
Post by Buckskin Billy on Jan 16, 2008 16:05:22 GMT -5
is that pours in the skin?
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Pigskin
Jan 16, 2008 20:06:26 GMT -5
Post by joanne on Jan 16, 2008 20:06:26 GMT -5
Those are skin pores.. You could just never clean up a hogskin like this without a washer.. Some guy suggested to me today on another forum that since bear and pig are related that maybe next time I should put the washer away hand flesh and cable soften like he worked a small bear.. I don't think so. I don't do the bear skins like that either.. I'm sure some NA did just use the greasy skins and soften them and then smoke them like that and all but I just know that all that grease'd just do me right in!..I had to hand flesh the fat and flesh off the 3rd to the last bearskin I did and oh man was it disgusting.. I had so much fat from that bear.. it was a 350'lber and a lot of meat and fat was on it.. that was enough for me.. that was right after I did the 2400 psi washer seals in on the second bison skin I'd started fleshing.. so I had no choice but to go for fleshing the bear the "Tradish" way.. nah.. it ain't all that cool at al! LOL.. uck...I guess they're both great if you want to render all that down.. I mean I did save and freeze the bears fat.. supposed to be great for soapmaking but I've never learned to do that.. Well I figured the pics were interesting. I'm glad you enjoyed the pics Billy.
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Pigskin
Jan 16, 2008 20:57:17 GMT -5
Post by Grizz on Jan 16, 2008 20:57:17 GMT -5
not every day you see that.
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Pigskin
Jan 16, 2008 20:59:26 GMT -5
Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Jan 16, 2008 20:59:26 GMT -5
Bet thats some slick snow LOL
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Pigskin
Jan 17, 2008 5:58:39 GMT -5
Post by joanne on Jan 17, 2008 5:58:39 GMT -5
Dunno how slick it is, Cody but it's some yellow around the trailer there..AND it could be a new way of collecting hide glue. last year after doing coyotes in this one spot after the snow melted all this flaky stuff was stuck all over to the ground like this! This is a hey wow wouldja look at that??? kinda pic. What would you suppose it is? Hide glue stuck to the membrane tissue? I didn't save any to try as glue or anything.. just raked up the mess and pitched it all. Using the washer really makes me clean up all the messes a bit quicker I must say. I am a bit worried about all the salt that is on the skins that I just got right now.. Guess I should just probably stick them all in a pail of water and then just dump that initial bucket over the driveway and don't worry too much about what remains on the skins after a dunk in the water.. probably most will come off in the first rinse and I can do that by hand anyway.
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Pigskin
Jan 17, 2008 21:20:48 GMT -5
Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Jan 17, 2008 21:20:48 GMT -5
I dont get many with salt on them (deer) and I just soak them over night but I have a buffalo tannin video and they run it through about five big tubs of water to get salt and mud out of it . do the prosessors skin hogs hole like the ones you have or do they cut the hide off in stips .I have heared old folks here say they would put boiling water on them and scrape the hides to get the hair off and then cut stips of the hide off to skin it but I dont know if that was cause they were going to cook the skins anyway or not.
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Pigskin
Jun 27, 2011 8:16:15 GMT -5
Post by aussiemick on Jun 27, 2011 8:16:15 GMT -5
G, day. I'm finding your pigskin topic Quite interesting. I've been pig hunting in Australias Northern Territory for the last 12 years earning AU $1.10/kg for wild boar meat. Recently the local chillerbox operator shut down and there is nowhere else to take our pigs. We only earnt enough to pay for the fuel, hunting supplies and the odd vet bill but it was better than nothing. So I got to thinkin and tanning the pigskins came to mind. After a couple of minutes on the internet I stumbled across this forum. I have never tanned nuthin before so I'll keep reading, learn what I can from you guys and I'll let you know how I go.
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Pigskin
Jun 27, 2011 13:08:24 GMT -5
Post by caretaker on Jun 27, 2011 13:08:24 GMT -5
Huuuummmmmm............. interesting???
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Pigskin
Jun 27, 2011 16:41:07 GMT -5
Post by ThunderMoon on Jun 27, 2011 16:41:07 GMT -5
Now that's a piggy you can bank on!
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Pigskin
Jun 27, 2011 23:08:12 GMT -5
Post by JoAnne2Crows on Jun 27, 2011 23:08:12 GMT -5
Folks here in the states use the skins to make pork rinds so not easy to find a whole pig 'hide'. Sometimes if I do find pigs skin, it is in pieces.
The high power belt drive power washers with a special oscillating 'turbo nozzle' really perform amazingly.. A commercial degreaser from the taxidermy supplies are costly but one wouldn't require so much of the stuff after washing SO thoroughly. Bark or vegetable tanning would really produce the toughest leather to be had.
Glad you found my post interesting. Most home tanners are stumped when it comes to pigskins,,,so they fry them and eat them and wash em down with a cold beer. There's something one could bank on.
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Pigskin
Jun 28, 2011 11:50:10 GMT -5
Post by ThunderMoon on Jun 28, 2011 11:50:10 GMT -5
Ordeley~~Amiga, mucho checharones we eat them with stuffed jalipenoes out here,stuffed with comerone...MMMM-MMMM con Corona,serveza mas fina~~
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