I skin my deer in the same manner as you will be doing, I hoist my deer up on a strong tree limb and make all the right cuts in the hide and around the neck and pull the neck hide down about 10”-12” inches and then I take a baseball and roll it up in the neck hide and tie a good strong rope around the baseball and then to the bumper of my pickup and slowly back up and the hide peals off like a banana peal and the carcass is clean and hair free and taking off the hide takes about 30 seconds. Nice video Jeff! 🇺🇸👍
I think I respect the family and lifestyle you've built more than anything else. Thanks for the videos. I have to get the hell out of the city. You're living the dream.
I think you’re right by using concrete instead of wood for the floor being y’all will be washing it all the time it’ll last a lot longer! Definitely my kind of guy👍
best is to pressure wash fast, easy andvery clean , id put guards/metall sleves around the poles into the concrete so they last longer and the slab can be reused after the wood is rotten away also you need to seal the slab, id use concrete sealing epoxy
Jeff I can tell you a way you can take the hide off a deer faster than it takes you to cut around the neck and legs. The way we have our deer shack set up is we use two boat winches set a good piece away from one another. One is to winch the deer up by the neck to make all the cuts. Then the second one you use by pulling down the hide a little bit so you can get a golf ball in it then you wrap the cable from the other winch around that golf ball and hide and start winching. It takes matters of seconds and they don’t have no clothes on no more.
That was a good tip about putting nails in the post so they don't slip in the concrete. I've actually had them slip a few times and couldn't figure out why. Thanks for sharing that.
My wife heard you say that you never throw anything away. She asked me if we were related, I said that we could be, my parents grew up in South Alabama. lol
na my dad and I are the same and we are from central Europe , you keep tools and roofing tiles and stuff because you cna allways use them to build or improvise something like thrown away highway signs out of aluminum are great for the roofing on sheds, you can never have to meny chainsaws, anglegrinder or vise 2 bbq grils and a smoker are sometimes not enough scrap metall shouldnt be thrown away because you often need a piece to bridge a gap while welding or a small cover plate
Howdy, Jeff: You are always making plans for something, and Thank God, you are such a good craftsman, I think you build anything you wanted. Like I said before, you remind me of my Dad, he did a lot of things the old way, and by hand, I am 70 years old, and I started working with my Dad at 9 years old, but He reminds me of You! This is another reason I love your and Hannah's Channels. Stay Well!! God Bless!
Awesome job Jeff. That's gonna be a sweet working rig for all your game processes! I love it brother! How about building yourself a front open face shed adjacent to either side your skinning shed to hold your spare parts, extras, etc. Nothings junk if it can be used down the line. Great job.
Glad to see your channel Hannah is the Perfect advertiser for you. Y'all seem very blessed. We're practically neighbors. Southeast Jackson Co Ms on the Al Ms border ~rad~
Gotta love it when a plan comes together. It's ok if it looks like Sanford and Son. I grew up on a farm and until Red Foxx starred in Sanford and Son as Fred Sanford I thought that's the way thing were supposed to be....oh we still didn't change a thing about the way we lived. Life back then was awesome. Great video. Looking forward to part 2. Keep being you and stay safe.
Seriously I love you and your daughter doing this videos come on now let's do this like I was there you guys are awesome keep this videos going you all
Dang I love this channel. It reminds me of growing up in the country with cows, horses, hunting, fishing, and carrying on. Thanks for doing this, Jeff and goob. I used to call my oldest spider monkey could she wouldn’t stop climbing trees. The next oldest was my hunter, and my son (20) thought that when I went out the door without a suit on it was time to go hunting. Both girls are just like yours in the woods and on the water..they surf and water ski too - blonde hair green eyed youngins’. Hey from South Carolina coast!
Looks cool Jeff. Very creative. On the subject of your vice grip idea; maybe try and find a couple old hoof rasps. Cut peices 3 or 4 inches long and weld them to the jaws of your vice grips. Use the course sides towards each other. Should hold pretty well I'd think. I'd give you some but your a long ways from me. I enjoy your projects very much. Y'all take care.
Hi Jeff, your new skinner shed is looking good. I use a ring bolted to the floor, a rope, & golf ball in the hide to pull the hide off from the animal. Love both you, & Hannah channels. Always learning something new. Thank you for sharing.
There is a deer processor who uses several winches in his cleaning shed and peeling the hide off like a banana is exactly what it does. Looks like a really good setup your building 👍👍
We have a processor that uses a setup wherein he first raises the deer then uses a capstan drive (I grew up hearing it called a cathead) with rope through a single large pulley anchored in floor. Same basic process, with less hard grinding on the winch and able to feather the pull with the capstan.
My 12x24 shed I put up this week is only lacking the tin which will be here next week, I figured I’d throw a tarp over it last night before the rain to keep my untreated rafters dry, well I didn’t know how strong those storms were gonna be, it shredded the hell out of that heavy duty tarp last night. I found out today it don’t hurt untreated lumber to get wet a few times as long as it’s in the air, so I basically learned a valuable lesson last night, I woulda been way better off just leaving the tarp off it.
Jeff, try welding pliers for your hide grippers. They already have flats for the jaws. All you have to do is run a few beads in the jaws for gripping the hide and you’re set.
Great idea Jeff .I hope you and yours are doing great.theirs nothing better to watch than a good shed building construction job .thanks for posting Jeff ..
Jeff, another thing You could do is cut some 1 foot 2bys one on each side. and nail them around the posts near the bottom, this well keep them from uplifting. We always did this on pole barns.
Like your vids a lot Jeff. I never had a skinning shed, however, back in the day when I had a 10 or 12 man camp, it sure would have been welcomed. For the below grade 6 x 6"s, you could drill 9/16" holes and then pound some 1/2" rebar pieces through them, maybe 12 or 14" long. Also, I think instead of a 4' long 1/4" bolt in the bottom of the chain, I would again use a piece of 1/2" rebar. Hope this helps. Thanks for your vids. Rick.
That's a great set up for processing everything up to 1000 lbs. You can even cold smoke the meat on the hook right there during the winter time. Just a thought.
Looks nice Jeff we use a similar system we process deer do over 400 a year we found skinning around the neck down a couple inches the put a chain around its neck and we have a 1/6 in cable with a slip loop on one side we push the hide thru that loop then hook the other end to a hook mounted in the concrete and hit the up button we found when skinning from back to front it’s wants to pull meat with the hide just giving you another option hope all goes well 👍
Pretty sweet rig Jeff! Ought to be a huge time saver! Pulling the hide off like skinning a catfish beats the heck out of slicing off inch by inch with a skinning knife!
My brother has a skin peeling cleaning rack, and he took two pears of those sheet metal welding vice grips, that has like a 3 inch wide plates on them to lock down on and bend sheet metal with, and he took his welder and tacked a bunch of teeth in them so that they grab the hides really good, and they work great.
Comments help the metrics I've heard... so will plop this here too. Fancy! I've been using an old swinging chair frame my Dad made downstate for the riders and garden tractors and not quite so fancy up north since still the post between two trees for processing, though have an old childrens playsets and 100ft of free dock I salvaged for free to get the treated lumber to use eventually since will have the garden tractor or two up there in time. Thanks for sharing!
Looks like some Kudzu invasion going on maybe? Man, that stuff's something else. I guess I don't recall seeing so far west. Surprised how far north is as I had to remove at my old place in Allegan in Michigan. Wondering if came up with working in South Carolina. For those don't know... can make an "A frame" to help pull up the posts as well as prior be sure to get the supports on (at least two if not three) with one nail or bolt so what up... can swing into place to brace hold stood up level before framed up. This is about as close as I can get for now to reminding what I need to do on the farm when I get there. Strange down state with the barn tore down and the ponds all gone to crud plus ours and the neighbors garden doing nothing. Nut trees is all about left and Dad and mine raised bed perennials that survived the test of time around the house.
You said something in one of your other videos when you were fixing to put us on fast forward ,I think you should make it your byline every time you do it...."Fixin' to put y'all on High Speed and Low Drag." ...I'm just a new subscriber to you and Hannah. Y'all are good people.
Glad to have found ya Jeff. You two are great I can only hope that one day Me and my little gal (in my profile picture, she is 5 months old) will end up like you and Hannah. I know I'm gonna show her everything I know and got a whole to learn some more to teach her ha ha. Much love to y'all.
Can't wait to see it in action! You don't have to justify anything. I'd use the Lull also if I wanted to. Working smarter, not harder. Already do plenty of the hard stuff. 😁👍