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I had a customer the other day that told me he separates the skin from game animals and catfish with compressed air. He said he uses an inflation needle to inject the air under the hide/skin. I have never heard of this before. Any of you folks ever seen or done this? | ||
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Some do it . Some animals don't have skin very well connected to the body.These animals such as white tail deer don't need a 'skinning blade ' , just pull it off or use compressed air .Sheep ,domestic, can be done that way. I don't know how they deal with large wound openings.The air stretches the skin away from the body - the rest is easy. Another way is to tie an end of the hide to your pick-up truck and drive off with the hide !!  | |||
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Also heard of folks using a garden hose and water. Does the same thing as the air but to me would be messier. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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My cousin raised small goats (toggenbergs) and would sell kids live to Greeks and other Medditeranean folks, many would kill them there on the farm and cut a slit into the hide inside the thigh, and blow air under the hide w/a small length of hose, using their breath/lungs! It always looked like they'd have a heart attack while doing so...Then they pretty much slipped the hide right off | |||
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I have heard of skinning a sheep the same as Joester explains but never saw it done. Regards, Keith | |||
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In the hey day of fox shooting here in Aus, people used to skin foxes using compressed air. I'll see if I can find a video on youtube. A few listed. I haven't looked at them. http://www.youtube.com/results...compressed+air&sm=12 Previously 500N with many thousands of posts ! | |||
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There are some Youtube videos on it. | |||
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Just saw it done on a deer hunt recently. Makes the skinning real quick. I was amazed. | |||
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can you use a regular shop compressor( say, 125psi) or do you need high pressure air, like a scuba tank? i am starting to thin out the wild hogs around here and the skinning is a PITA! Vote Trump- Putin’s best friend… To quote a former AND CURRENT Trumpiteer - DUMP TRUMP | |||
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Yes, 125 psi will do just fine. As someone said, the Greeks do it with their lungs alone.(BTW, the best I could do with my lungs was 20pis). There was a video posted on here of a guy skinning a whitetail in less than a minute. As loose as the skin looked I would bet it had been pneumatically loosened. Jason "You're not hard-core, unless you live hard-core." _______________________ Hunting in Africa is an adventure. The number of variables involved preclude the possibility of a perfect hunt. Some problems will arise. How you decide to handle them will determine how much you enjoy your hunt. Just tell yourself, "it's all part of the adventure." Remember, if Robert Ruark had gotten upset every time problems with Harry Selby's flat bed truck delayed the safari, Horn of the Hunter would have read like an indictment of Selby. But Ruark rolled with the punches, poured some gin, and enjoyed the adventure. -Jason Brown | |||
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I have used the method successfully even just using the tyre inflator nozzle, simply cut a slit in a back leg big enough to pump the hide off. You have to be careful as smaller vixens that are light skinned will blow the side out of the hide. Posts: 87 | Location: Victoria Australia | Registered: 07 September 2002 | |||
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What happened to the good old sharp knife LOL DRSS Chapuis 9.3 x 74 R RSM. 416 Rigby RSM 375 H&H | |||
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I wish I had thought of this while I was moose hunting. I could have brought my tech diving rig, inflated the moose, floated him down the river, and skinned him in camp.  ____________________________________________ "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett. | |||
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I kid you not that when inflated the animals grow to Michelin man size and if you could keep the air in it would work a treat. Posts: 87 | Location: Victoria Australia | Registered: 07 September 2002 | |||
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Probably need a huge air compressor to skin a moose that way  | |||
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Would be great if they could do Buffalo ! Thick, gristly hide ! Previously 500N with many thousands of posts ! | |||
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I've been hearing of people doing it for years, but I've never tried it except on alligator, which are a pain to skin with many tendon like materials attaching the hide to the gator. Make a small slit in a wrist, insert needle, blow up the gator like a balloon. It does make the skinning process much easier. | |||
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I worked at a place once where we did this to take skin off ostrich and emu……. after plucking. It worked quite well. Have never tried it on anything else. ______________________________________________ The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who are bereft of that gift. | |||
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i am wondering, though, if it would work on wild hogs, as they have a much thicker, less elastic hide. Vote Trump- Putin’s best friend… To quote a former AND CURRENT Trumpiteer - DUMP TRUMP | |||
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I doubt it. That grizzle / white stuff is very tough. I would say if you got air into it, it would in some areas "lift" the skin but I doubt it would do what it does to foxes, deer and other thin skinned game etc. Previously 500N with many thousands of posts ! | |||
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When I was a kid used to do it with a bicycle pump and the needle for blowing up footballs. Works well but you can still do it much faster by the old cut and pull method. Saw a video this week of a guy skinning a deer with his car. After hanging and making the starter cuts he hooked a cable through the hide and to his car. Pulled the entire thing off intact. Lots of gimmicks but no real purpose in my mind. The only time I could see using the inflation method would be for something like a mink. As to the car method, maybe for something like a moose or pig. Happiness is a warm gun | |||
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Last week we had a couple does killed in upstate Pa. that were left in the barn over night in 10 degree temps. The hides were frozen stiff so my son said let's try to pull it off with the truck. Well it may work when the deer is defrosted but all we did was stretch the doe about a foot and pulled off a couple strips of hide and a shoulder. I have seen it done with a warm deer and a car once. They guy skinned it down from the neck a little and tied a pair of pliers inside the loose end with a rope to his bumper. Backed up slow and off it came right down to and including the tail. | |||
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As for the inflation bit, I've done a few coyotes that way using the football needle approach. Took a bit of time to inflate everything (all we had was a car-tire electric pump) but once done the 'yote cleaned up quickly. I've done the truck-skinning but normally with a deer that hasn't frozen. Once frozen, I think the hide 'locks' on tighter. Maybe the inflation bit would work with those though. When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace - Luke 11:21 Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress...But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain | |||
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I use about 90 PSI and make a slit at the hoof/ foot of the animal and inflate. It works well on the stiff rigor'd animals. Let me pass this on, it doesn't work on beavers. Adam ______________________ Ammo, you always need more. | |||
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I've been hunting down in Palo Pinto county Texas and the land owner there uses an air compressor on the wild hogs he kills and says it works great | |||
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