Trappers Cabin Season 2 Part 7 Fleshing Hides

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okay guys well this is my basically my shed toolbox or my camp toolbox same one I kept in the wall tent so you want to talk about I think it past videos but this is basically just your tool chest you keep of everything you might need to wise around the camp the cabin whatever the case may be in a more long-term camp situation so I've got a flushing knife in here washing knife is not a sharp knife it's for pushing the fat and the excess flesh off behind it does have one beveled edge but it doesn't come down to a sharp edge necessarily but they do get dull and beat up over time a little bit rusted and so what I'm gonna do with this one is I'm just going to sit here real quick I've got a file in here as well do I keep in here I'm just gonna come in here and clean this edge up real fast on this thing and cleaning it up more from the backside then from the front side that's just gonna help it to slide along the flush better not grab things if there's any gunk or rust on there I don't want to get that cleaned off doesn't have to be a long tedious process like I said you're not trying to make a sharp blade out of this thing that's the last thing you want in a flushing knife and for that thing to be sharp so I'm just kind of knocking any heavy rust off of it that might have accumulated over the last year or anything like that shining it up a little bit calling good now we're ready to go out and flush kidding with this bad boy okay so for flossing we really just need a flushing board this one just made out of hardwood you can make this yourself it's not too difficult you can use the same board for most your Coons and things but you may want smaller boards for smaller animals like Menken muskrat this apron is made out of rubber roofing I made this thing on a video probably I don't know it'd have been a couple of years ago I did a video on making this

I just cut it out of rubber roofing and stamped grommets into it and I just use paracord to tie it with and then you're gonna need your flushing knife so now this code has been sitting longer than it should it's been sitting in two days should have only really sat like one day but what that does is it allows all this fat to solidify and as it solidifies it makes it a little a lot easier really in the long run to get it off of the hide so we want to turn this hide back inside out again now it was and then slide it over this board just like this and the reason we've got this apron on it so that we can't lean against this thing and push against it without getting this stuff all over our clothes now the flushing knife you can use it very much like a draw knife or a push knife with the bevel side down in the bevel side up and you'll find that different areas of the hide are gonna work different for you but all you're gonna do is start pushing that stuff off of there just like this and you can start from the top and work your way down you're gonna find that slicing motions work better going down like this but you're also going to have areas that are thin on the high and you've got to be careful of if you get to areas like in the center where you're bumping over those lugs like that you just got to move the hide to the side so what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna get the majority of some of this real quick you want to adjust this thing to you this thing's a little bit high right now for me I had a student on this thing so I'm gonna move it a little bit to get it at a different angle for me so if this thing is not poking McClaren the top of my chest it's more down here at my sternum okay another thing I want to tell you what we're out here is you can buy these flushing knives like this with plastic handles on them right off our website and these are really really good plushy knives this is a very old-school one here and there's nothing wrong with it at all it'll work just fine for you but if you're wanting to something that's a little less maintenance doesn't this I have wooden handles on it you've got to worry about keeping oiled up then you can buy the plastic they come in different lengths so they just decide that for yourself this one's a little short for a good sized Coon something like this is going to give you more reach

a cross like this on the hide once you get down here to the bottom you can just push that stuff off you're really gonna want to get this good and clean right now I'm just kind of taking the major stuff up first and then I'm coming back you up here around the back of the neck things like that you know get a little more difficult in those areas to get some of that off of there you gotta be careful when you get down around this tail that you don't end up taking that tail off while you're doing it so you just kind of got to go to the side of that if you get a little piece of meat connected yank it off but you can always come back in here and I always like to have a the neck and I find me when I'm doing this stuff just to kind of trim some of this off that's not one to come off with the knife with the flushing knife and it's better to leave a little extra meat on here if you're selling this hide then to come in here and accidentally cut a hole in the hide any more holes you've already got from shooting it you're allowed a couple of holes in there with no knock-offs but once you start knocking big holes in the hide you're gonna have a problem and so if you've got some stubborn areas that aren't coming off with the flushing knife you better off cutting those off with a knife then just to keep ranking over it with that flushing knife and taking a chance on cutting a hole in the areas up here around the shoulders the back of the neck and that kind of stuff that stuff's not going to come off very easy anyway and you don't even need to worry about it anything above the shoulders here on the back of the neck and down you don't have to worry about too much get it as thin as you can but you're gonna have some muscle up there you're not going to get off don't worry about that real quick on the show you can see what that fat from that raccoon is doing to that knife handle it's just soaking that stuff up and so this stuff's great for any tools that you have that have wooden handles on them from your axis deer knives whatever the case may be this is a great dressing and I love using wooden tools around this stuff because it just makes the handles so much nicer over time