First here is my winch on the bench. I had to mount it like this due to my garage setup (lots of stuff stored on the walls--I have a small house
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Then I started skinning like normal by slitting the backlegs, and skinning past the tail and stripping the tailbone, as seen in these pictures:
After getting past the back hips, I slipped a golf ball under the hide on the FUR side, then secure the slip knot on another skinning gambrel. I put one ball on each side of the midline, as was suggested in the mentioned article. This skin SHOULD be the toughest hide on the animal right?
Then we started cranking on the winch. It started to peel great. You can see however the angle that was starting to form, and you can probably imagine the stress on each part of the carcass. Here are three sequential pictures:
After getting past the shoulders, we had the worst case scenario happen: BOTH COYOTE HIDES RIPPED IN HALF! So back to the drawing board for me! :pissed:
I have a couple of ideas:
First, xdeano and I thought the pulling needs to be more vertical than how it turned out horizontal. I am thinking of mounting a pulley a few inches off the floor on the leg of my tool bench, under the winch. Then the angle will be different.
Second, perhaps the pressure or force on the hide while pulling is too great on the dorsal side of the coyote. Maybe getting the golfballs on the SIDES of the coyote would be better, spreading the pulling force out more.
Third, maybe there is a better way to attach the coyote to the cable winch gambrel.
If any of you out there have made a similar system, or have any ideas for me, I do appreciate it. Thanks.
Disclaimer: If you want to see more pictures, please go to another website that I frequent and moderate at. I could only upload 5 pictures to a post on coyotehunter, whereas on the other site I can upload 10 pictures, so it gives some other views if you need to see them.