Tanning Unlimited

[Corjack]

I went by and picked up three elk hides I had tanned from Donnie Short, Mr. Short owns the only hair on commercial tannery in the state of Missouri. Here are a few pictures.

Donnie with a rack full of finished product.

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Hides being salted

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Vats of tanning solution full of hides

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Tubling drums for suppling hides

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Hides drying before the go into the tumbling drums

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Donnies son Chad runs a taxidermist service on site

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Racks waiting for Chads attention

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[retrieverman]

Cool thread! I would love a closer look at some of those skull plates.

[mchughcb]

Great post. I'm not sure if we even have one like that in Australia. Beats the hell out of my bucket of chromium sulfate out back.

[Olsen]

Nice to see how they work.....

Looks like a big job with all those hides

[Corjack]

Nice to see how they work.....

Looks like a big job with all those hides

Olsen, you are pretty handy, maybe you should open a Danish tannery.

[Olsen]

Nice to see how they work.....

Looks like a big job with all those hides

Olsen, you are pretty handy, maybe you should open a Danish tannery.

A real handyman

Maybe my slogan would be " I paint your gun, while the hide is drying in the sun "

[retrieverman]

Nice to see how they work.....

Looks like a big job with all those hides

Olsen, you are pretty handy, maybe you should open a Danish tannery.

A real handyman

Maybe my slogan would be " I paint your gun, while the hide is drying in the sun "

...and if the gun painting and hide tanning doesn't work out, you might have a future as a poet.

[Olsen]

I have so many secret talents