This is project 1, from dgarnier, a racoon skiner

Saw a video of something like this last year and after skinning a few last year I can really see this being useful.

I was cleaning up the garage and came across a few scrap peices of 1" 1/16 wall steel tube. I had picked up a few pairs of vise grips at HF, so I pretty much had everything I needed. A chop saw blade in a miter saw while it works takes forever to cut...it went pretty well and even welding the rebar to the vice grips was pretty easy. I just had er70s6 1/16 so that is the filler I used and it seemed to bond ok. I had to do some grinding on the rebar to get a good fit up, but that was the only part that took some time.

Still not sure how I am going to mount it - to the wall/post or a base and will use weight to keep it down


Here is the start of the frame
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Here you can see the first vice grip welded on
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Ran out of time tonight will wrap it up this weekend

Ok got a plan for the mount - there is a steel pole in the garage so I am going to weld 2 uprights along the back. Then I can use a tie down strap to attach it to the pole when needed and remove it when it no longer needed.

Well its seems like 100 degrees out and humidty of about 100% so I kind of rushed this to wrap it up, and didnt clean up the upright too well and tiging with rust didnt go so well. Pretty sure its good enough for its intend use...
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Guessing stick might have been a better option - but what stick should I use for rusty painted 1/16 and 1/18 wall steel tube?

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Originally Posted by dgarnier

Guessing stick might have been a better option - but what stick should I use for rusty painted 1/16 and 1/18 wall steel tube?

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My Airgas catalog suggest E6010 (DCEP) for dirty, rusty,greasy or painted steel - especially in vertical or overhead applications. Probably want a 3/32" rod diameter (good from 35 amps to 100 amps top).

Thurmond

Where does one go coon hunting in Chicago?

If I could trap in the city...I could make a ton of $$$. I access to a few farms, and there is public access to some of the rivers south west of here.

If you were anywhere near Texas you could have all you wanted. I killed about 35 in the last year and a half that were damaging my pecan trees. A friend hit a big female raccoon a week or so back and it really tore up her car.

Thurmond

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Originally Posted by dgarnier

If I could trap in the city...I could make a ton of $$$. I access to a few farms, and there is public access to some of the rivers south west of here.

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Are you selling the skins or the carcass?

skin'em, flesh'em and put the skins up for auction.

What kind of money is in it if you don't mind the question. I might not want to let the buzzards have any more from me.

Thurmond

last year I got 12$ - 24$ for coons, muskrats paid better for the amount of work at 7.50 - 8$ - The thing is these are for prime hides, if you were to get the coons now the fur is pretty much worthless. Let them grow for now, then come fall set the steel to them.

I have several friends that coon hunt; coon hunters tend to be a rare bread. It seems to be more about the dogs finding the coon. They love getting into peoples trash cans, and are quite clever.