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Post by joanne2 on Jul 12, 2008 9:56:20 GMT -5
some skins I soaked in lime for a few weeks. Matt Richards is right.. skins soaked in lime for longer grain easier. Wonder if he uses his pressure washer on them? can't live like this in the city!
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Post by longtrail on Jul 12, 2008 11:18:04 GMT -5
Hey P, we use a slanted board to pressure wash our hides on. It seems the overall mess is less and all the debris is washed away from us. :-) dlt
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Post by joanne2 on Jul 12, 2008 11:28:14 GMT -5
Morning LT.. afternoon should write. yeah but I was just showing pics of the grain removal.. hahaha.. I like to do the salty fleshing mess over my driveway, that way I'm not killing the grass! Love your pics LT.. that vista is just beautiful.. betcha the birds are going to really like that hair! Be curious to see what the nitrogen from the hair does to that place in the field.. I have some giant plants in the garden I tried to tiller deer hair under in.. it doesn't tiller under very good, I learned that.. it's also hard to burn.. I'll have to get a pic of the pile of crap I have out near the woods from racking up gads of the goo!..
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Post by paskinner on Jul 12, 2008 14:51:25 GMT -5
Isn't that b...bu...oh you know, that bad word? ;D So, does the pw take all the grain off the limed hides?
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Post by joanne2 on Jul 13, 2008 8:28:58 GMT -5
Hey it works PA. You do it all the time, but personally, if I were buying hides and skins or selling them, I would prefer them not to be bucked, because they are just weaker. You can argue with me until hell freezes over if you'd like. This is my opinion and has been for some time.
Be nice if I could tan more hides and skins without going to such extremes but it is just me here that is doing the hides and skins and so I am exploring every avenue including bucking hides.. once you lose your virginity it's gone.. however I would prefer my hides to BE virgin.. 'untouched by your bucking solutions', simple as that.
I'm just tying to get caught up around here and was curious about leaving skins in the lime for an extended period of time like the goat skins are.. you know those are hard to separate the grain from the rest of the skins and so this is the same with the deerskins and using the washers with them.. they are grained easier using the power washer having left them to soak for 3 weeks.
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Post by longtrail on Jul 20, 2008 19:19:33 GMT -5
Paulette, you asked about what the nitrogen will do for the soil. I use to have a beautiful garden very near here, one year we decided we would fertilize an area of the garden with deer hair. Two horribl weeds I had never had in my garden before came up with a vengence and totally took over my garden. One was purslane, ya its edible. and the other was some sort of viney morning glory looking thing. Impossible to get rid of. Never again. dlt
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