8/17/2023 0 Comments Pressure tanning hidesThe skin layer holding the hair needs to be removed.Īfter a full day of scraping I had done roughly 1/5 of the hide. I started on one side and made slow progress. I should have spent more time forging better scrapers. I made a couple hide scrapers real quick to use on the hair side. I laced the hide up with some old nylon string and let it dry for several days. Looking back, I should have made the frame smaller so it would be easier to move around in my garage. Next time I'll use a fleshing knife and see if I like that better. The pressure washer worked OK but I was soaked and I had tiny chunks of fat all over me. There is a membrane layer as well as some fat and meat that need to be removed. After I skinned the buck I used a pressure washer to "flesh" the inside of the hide. I've tanned a fawn hide before but left the hair on it. 47012 (ph 765 647-6314 here to download page story appeared in.I am attempting to turn my buck hide into soft tanned leather or buckskin. Korner, Sr., 6020 Lookout Rd., Brookville, Ind. “If you just want to remove the fat and meat from the hide but not the hair, you won’t need the lye,” he notes.Ĭontact: FARM SHOW Followup, Gregory C. He says his tanning process can also be used on other kinds of hides. The hide is secured to the frame with waterproof poly cords that loop through holes punched in near the hide’s edges. metal furring strips to build a drying frame for the tanned hide. I wanted the hides as black as possible, so I added walnut hulls and ran the mixer for about 24 hrs. “I was refurbishing an early 1900’s doctor’s carriage and wanted to replace the worn-out black leather seats. One time he even added walnut hulls into the mixer when softening the hide. “How long I operate the mixer depends on how soft I want the leather – the longer it tumbles, the softer it will come out,” says Korner. of golf balls in order to help soften the hide as it tumbles. He then puts the hide in the mixer again and adds a mixture of water and alum (The last step is to add a small amount of Neats foot oil and about 5 gal. “Instead, it just ‘peels’ the unwanted material right off and results in a perfectly clean hide.” “The nozzle works like a knife blade, but since the hide is much tougher than the fat and meat and since the nozzle is fan-shaped, it won’t blow a hole through the hide,” says Korner. He lays the hide on a concrete floor and then uses a fan-shaped nozzle with the pressure washer to clean it. By using a pressure washer there’s no mess, and I can completely clean the hide in only about 40 min.” “The old way to clean the hide requires stretching the hide over a board or sawhorse and then hours of scraping work to remove all the fat, meat and membranes. Then he cleans the hide using water under pressure, which he says is the most amazing part of the process. If you don’t get all the lye out it will eventually break the hide down and ruin it.” “When you’re done the water in the mixer should be perfectly clear. “It’s important to make sure the lye is completely washed out,” says Korner. Once all the hair has been removed from the hide, he uses a salt solution in the mixer to flush all the lye out of the hide. opening, forming a seal that keeps the corrosive lye from splashing out. thick rubber roofing material over the lip of the mixer’s 18-in. He uses big hose clamps to fasten 1/16-in. concrete mixer powered by a 1/3 hp electric motor at Harbor Freight for $200. I use a concrete mixer because it provides constant agitation and works much faster.” To de-hair the hide they put it in a garbage can filled with a lye solution and then stir occasionally with a stick. I have access to a large number of deer hides from my brother’s custom slaughter house, but in researching the internet I found that most people still tan hides the old way. “I came up with this system because I wanted something that would work fast. for any of the processes I use to tan hides,” says Korner. “I seldom operate the mixer longer than 24 hrs. The mixer de-hairs the hide and the pressure washer removes the fat and meat. Gregory Korner, Sr., Brookville, Ind., came up with a way to tan deer hides fast, by using an inexpensive Harbor Freight concrete mixer and a 1,000 psi pressure washer.
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