Beaver Boarding Tip

[trapoholic]

When handling beaver, their pelts have a lot of fat and gristle on them, making them very greasy to board. This grease quickly gets onto the hammer head and nail heads that you will be using. And if using a common carpenters hammer, you will invariably hit your finger resulting in a blue fingernail. You will also have nails going airborne because of the greasy heads. These airborne nails could hit you in the eye or cause damage to something nearby. To avoid all of this, use a serrated face hammer. I purchased this one from Harbor Freight about four years ago for around 13 bucks. Since then, I have not had any finger strikes or airborne nails.

Edited January 22 by trapoholic

[gaberdeen]

Thanks for the tip. I’ll be boarding up my first beavers in the next 2 weeks.

[trapoholic]

2 hours ago, gaberdeen said:

Thanks for the tip. I’ll be boarding up my first beavers in the next 2 weeks.

Let me know if you need any guidance with the handling.

[gaberdeen]

7 hours ago, trapoholic said:

Let me know if you need any guidance with the handling.

Thanks so much . Will do