Using Compressed Air To Aid Skinning??

[Yimmyb60]

Based on this video. Air skinning takes longer

 

[Blacksmith]

I watched a lad in Senigal W. Africa cut a small slit in the lower leg of a goat and blow into it w/his mouth while tapping the legs and belly of the goat w/a small stick. He literally blew the skin loose from the carcass. Later I saw @ Cabelas, they sell an attachment for an air hose to do the same thing.

 

[Glenn]

Go to any slaughter house and you’ll see pneumatic skinning at its finest. When cows are slaughtered that are pregnant, depending on the stage of the fetus the fetus is saved and skinned with a stainless cannula attached to an air hose attachment. Skin is blown off and saved to be tanned for soft leather goods. Those folks are so efficient with it you better not blink or you’ll miss it.

 

[SNIPERBBB]

We buried a hedgepost with an eye bolt attached to it in my buddy's dirt floor implement shop and used an electric hoist on the rafters. We'd loop a leg to the buried post and had modified vice grips attached to the hoist for the skin. It worked great until we got into some cold coyotes and/or deer and the hoist pulled them in half.
I think you're better off skinning warm or at least thawed and haven't really found the gadgetry to be too much more efficient than a decent knife and lots of practice.

Never have had a coyote hide come in two... Had a few carcasses that have. You don't want a big hoist, mine is 440 and that's what is sold or recommended with the skinning machines commercially sold.

Older you get or as many critters as a lot of guys have skinned, those hand cramps get bothersome after a whiel.


Skinning warm is the way to go with any critter generally except beaver. I like them to set a day or two so the blood congeals a bit better. Love being able to skin deer when they're still steaming as the hide comes off like butter, but don't always have that situation.

 

[Bwhana]

This video is long winded, but gives the concept. I’ve been doing it this way with winches, toe hook on truck, etc for 45 years. You can even use a small rock and rope in the field, just be sure to have a small tarp to drop the carcass on and keep it clean if you do it at ground level instead of hanging. Much easier than compressed air, which I have also tried. Over 300 deer done this way and counting…

 

[Jtaylor]

Never have had a coyote hide come in two... Had a few carcasses that have.

Yeah the whole carcass separated. One of the butchers around here swears by a hoist and he is fast but that's all he uses anymore. I guess it's whatever your familiar and comfortable with. I have to quarter and pack out deer frequently where I hunt so it benefits me to stay familiar going that route.

 

[2Sloe]

This video is long winded, but gives the concept. I’ve been doing it this way with winches, toe hook on truck, etc for 45 years. You can even use a small rock and rope in the field, just be sure to have a small tarp to drop the carcass on and keep it clean if you do it at ground level instead of hanging. Much easier than compressed air, which I have also tried. Over 300 deer done this way and counting…

Yep, hang them up by the neck and pull the hide off using a rock, a truck or 4 wheeler. I don’t care how warm or cold it is, your truck can overcome it.

 

[Iron_llama]

I thought pneumatic skinning had to be done prior to gutting, and I always gut ASAP. But a 3' wand made from brake line should be cheap to experiment with. I've seen some youtube vids of the truck and winch method failing.with decapitation and other mishaps.

 

[MIPublic]

I've seen high-volume coyote trappers peel coyotes with the aid of a winch, I bet that would work on deer.

Just bought a house with a pole barn. I’m going to put an I bolt in the floor and try the “golf ball” method with a winch in the ceiling. Worst case scenario we’ll just use the winch for hanging and cutting.

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Same concept but pulling straight up and down.

 

[SNIPERBBB]

Just make sure if your attaching the hoist to a joist or whatever it's solid... I about pulled a 2x4 joist out of the ceiling of my shed pulling a coyote lol. One reason I have a ADC skinning machine now made by AJ Skinning Machines.

You can't power through pulling a hide with anything. Once it's stops, get the knife out, cut above the stress line on the carcass side, then start pulling again.