Its 52° here, but cloudy. Chuck came home with another beaver this AM. Took it out of my trap...again! We have until the end of the month to get 5 more beavers. Hopefully, that will be enough. They said it would take 16 to make a coat.
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Ridge ,that sure will be a nice coat,my taxidermy guy is supposed to let me know when he finishes the muskrat coat I got him the rats for..cant wait to see it...HB,misty ,fog,wind for me today ,,storms a moven on through after midnight...big cool down for the weekend...
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63 here at the moment with a 100 % chance of rain got the pony & chickens took care of been sitin here drinkin coffe thinkin about cleanin the inside of my truck up but with all the rain i may just keep thinkin about it lol
Rex, Hope we can get enough beavers this season to get it made. I told Chuck if I liked it, we may have to catch enough to get one made for me. He didn't say "no". I have a coon coat, we had made in the 80's, but I out grew it Back then a friend of my sister's had a red fox coat made and my friend had a coyote coat made. A woman had a coon coat on at the Sportsman's show in Warren this yr. It was a short one, guess our friend wants a longer one made with the beavers. Chuck thought full length, but I don't think 16 beavers would make a full length. My coat took 16 coon and its thigh length. How many muskrats did the guy need for a coat?
Windy and raining here tonight. Suppose to have highs in the low teens over the wkend I'm ready for summer. Except I keep reading articles on how bad the ticks are going to be this yr. Some of my friends are posting on FB that they're finding them on their horses and dogs already!
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I took my guy 48 rats..,he was making a mid thigh length coat..with a beaver collar and beaver cuffs.and a pair of beaver mittens....another day of 30 plus mph wind...
Wind is nasty here today. Pgh has wind advisory posted up to 50 mph. Chuck left the barn shed door open, he said my saddle rack was blown over. I have cordura skirt and fenders on my saddle so it only weighs about 20 lbs, but that's a first.
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i like the ropin & ranch saddles but they are heavy you get a herford or circile y saddle you get into a wad of money i usally just try and find a good used 1 but they still not really cheap
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quote:Originally posted by hillbilly56 i like the ropin & ranch saddles but they are heavy you get a herford or circile y saddle you get into a wad of money i usally just try and find a good used 1 but they still not really cheap
Howdy Chuck,HB I had a Hereford saddle that was my dads & was told it was too heavy & nobody would want it so I gave it to a buddy of mine for his daughter.Reckon I messed up on that one.
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yea those brands of saddles are good built saddles and you pay the price for them unless ya catch somebody that needs money bad then ya get them lot's cheaper
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quote:Originally posted by chuck west Doctor appts. and physical therapy , new eye glasses and running the road has me wore out,,, heck it's everyday . This gettin old sucks ,lol.
But anyway how are all you fine folks doing ?
doin good for a ole man i was gettin worried about chuck thought maybe you got al that money and said the hell with us poor folk's lol
I bought a used Hereford for my son when he was 11. It was just too heavy. I sold it and bought a Wintec. It was a synthetic saddle, too. I bought my first horse saddle in 1974. Its a Simco, but I haven't used it for yrs. I have 2 Arabian bar Big Horns now that I use and probably 3 or 4 more dry rotting and taking up space in my tack shed. I'm kind of a horse tack hoarder.
Nice hearing from u Chuck, I thought maybe u found some gold and was too busy spending it to check in.
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i have a few old leather halters that need tossed and some horse shoes but thats it grazy weather gonna get up to 63 today then get down in the middle 3os with rain snow & sleet buddy call last nite im headed over his place help band a couple calfs and moves his feeders again muddy mess everywhere
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thier calling for 1-3 here but the temps according to them is gonna be in the mid to high 30s think the high for tommoro is gonna be 37 guess we will see my snow buddy called few mins ago wantin me to help him last time i let him drive he crashed us hope he lets me take a truck and he goes in the other 1 if we even have ta go out
03-06-2017 01:13 PM
Back then a friend of my sister's had a red fox coat made and my friend had a coyote coat made. A woman had a coon coat on at the Sportsman's show in Warren this yr. It was a short one, guess our friend wants a longer one made with the beavers. Chuck thought full length, but I don't think 16 beavers would make a full length. My coat took 16 coon and its thigh length. How many muskrats did the guy need for a coat? 
