2012 Model

[seldom]

This past summer I posted photos of me adding a boat winch to my skinner and the preliminary testing of it(with a towel). Here's a good example of it working with a fresh one this morning off a 2" pogo for an anchor point. Anyway, the summer testing has been verified and I can say the skinner with the winch addition meets every expectation I had!

[thebeav2]

I just got a Northern Tool +Equipment Catalog.

In there They have a 2000 lb 12volt utility winch for $59.99.
I would be looking at buying one of them and hooking It up to my reciver hitch.

[seldom]

Dec 3, 2012 15:50:46 GMT -6 @thebeav2 said:

I just got a Northern Tool +Equipment Catalog.

In there They have a 2000 lb 12volt utility winch for $59.99.
I would be looking at buying one of them and hooking It up to my reciver hitch.

Than you have to dick around covering and uncovering it and protecting it from the backwash and the salt multiple times a day. Though a power winch is even easier than the hand winch, the hand winch is very easy. Once you get up past the forelegs you're done winching anyway, all I do is just push down with my free hand on the strap for tension the rest of the way.

What I forgot to do was take a photo of doing the head and cutting the veins at the back of the jaw. No blood can run onto the pelt or on me and THAT was the whole purpose of the remodel! Not so much for winching but to be able to hot-skin and not have blood running down onto and into the pelt's head or on me.

[nightstalker1]

Another good idea Mike !!

[freepop]

Yep..hide up and body down is they way I like it too. Do you have to pull the pogo each time?

[seldom]

Dec 3, 2012 17:12:36 GMT -6 freepop said:

Yep..hide up and body down is they way I like it too. Do you have to pull the pogo each time?

What I've been doing is leaving the pogo in until I pull off a property. Since I just set this location I left the pogo in and marked it with a stick stake so I can quickly locate it continue to use it.

[thebeav2]

Put the winch up on the mast right where your boat winch Is. But of coarse I've seen tons of winches on trucks with out covers
so being out In the elements probably Is not a concern.

[renny1]

What I forgot to do was take a photo of doing the head and cutting the veins at the back of the jaw. No blood can run onto the pelt or on me and THAT was the whole purpose of the remodel! Not so much for winching but to be able to hot-skin and not have blood running down onto and into the pelt's head or on me.

I would be interested in how you cut those veins, or are you only talking about hide up and body down?

[trappnman]

I guess I really don't have too much of a problem with the veins in the jaw and bleeding from there-

Where exactly are you talking- after the ears?

[renny1]

yes after the ears, down around the mouth/jaws. Especially on hot ones. I have two hot ones to do right now. I will pay more attention. Had the same problem on some ranch fox, but unless the coyote is two days cold they bleed for me.

[renny1]

Both bleeders. ears, eyes, and mouth from both, but mouth is the worst.

[trappnman]

I'll get a bleeder occasionally, and that seems like its everyplace, where its usually a pumped big male- but overall, thinkin' on it I really can't say I'm getting bleeding from the head beyond the .22 hole

wonder if I'm using the knife less or more as a reason

[seldom]

Dec 4, 2012 10:24:41 GMT -6 renny1 said:

Both bleeders. ears, eyes, and mouth from both, but mouth is the worst.

That's what I was referring to Renny.

The remodeling of the jib was so that I didn't have to switch/flip the carcass and pelt(pelt down-carcass up to pelt up-carcass down) after pulling the front legs.

[renny1]

I see. Think I am going to flip mine for coyotes also. I do use the knife a lot. I'm too tired to pull that hard.

[seldom]

The "flip" I was doing pre-remodel inorder to keep blood from running down and into/onto the fur. For me the biggest problem with the "flip" other than the dickin around was that the pelt would freeze to my jib arm! like the kid in "The Christmas Story" sticking his tongue to the flagpole. ;D

Pre-flip-


The "flip"-


"Flipped"-

[trappnman]

I guess i'm totally missing the point here-

not the method, but that there would be such a problem a method needed to be developed.

lets look at this from another angle-

you still wash pelts, correct?

[seldom]

Dec 5, 2012 6:56:49 GMT -6 trappnman said:

I guess i'm totally missing the point here-

not the method, but that there would be such a problem a method needed to be developed.

lets look at this from another angle-

you still wash pelts, correct?

I quit washing 4-5 years ago so no, not unless I absolutely am forced too! So yes, the original skinner was built with a single purpose in mind, skinning. Once I used it and loved it, I wanted an easier method for no blood so I remodeled it. As it is now, the coyote can bleed as much as it wants to during skinning of the head but the pelt is and will be blood-free! I purposely use a bloodless dispatch as well.

[aaroncurtis]

Like that setup mike.

[northof50]

Like the head gravity pull system in the last pic.

[cmr2]

So you flipped the gambrel to the anchor Piont and the hide clamps to the winch ?

I think this is what your say'n/done but its understandable after skinning a few of the stinks dogs