We had two days of trapping to take care of last night.  A total of 50 rats needed to be skinned, fleshed and stretched.  We worked until nearly 8 and boy was I tired.  I’m the flesher, and I have to bend over the fleshing board to get my job done…believe me 50 rats is a lot of rats.

Brek has been our skinner this year and he seems to love the job…or maybe it’s the pay…I’m not sure.  He does an excellent job and is VERY fast as skinning.  I think he averages around 40 seconds to skin a rat.  And the skinning job is perfect!  I can tell you this about his skinning, I can start a fleshing job, Bob can start a stretching job and Brek can start a skinning job; all three begin at the same time…Brek will be on rat number two before Bob and I are done with our tasks on our rats one.

Here is a picture of Skinner man himself, holding 3 rats.  Is he trying to make his teeth look “buckie”?

If you have never seen a pile of 50 rats, take a look at this.  My camera can only get so much of the pile, so trust me the pile is big.

Well, I’m taking the day off from trapping and we are going down to SLC to see the International Sportsman’s Show.  Taking Front Runner and Trax to get there.  Winemaker, me, Weasel and Hot Spark are all going.  Maybe we will run into something fun!

Bears Butt

March 15, 2012

WOAHHH!!!  Do you see the date on this posting?  What does it tell you?  Hint.  Julius Caesar.  “Et To, Brutae”!  “Beware the Ides of March”!