 Welcome back to the treehouse everybody. I've got a hide tanning home blog for you today Here at the Wreckley roost Let's check on them. Let's see how they're doing ready for this your colonel Some of that. There you go These should be laying eggs any day now Colonel tain him taming him down he's getting those Those claws in the back, whatever you call those Those big Those big raptor nodules won't even play nice. All right, there you go Chickens have been checked All right, so today's video is kind of like a post harvest vlog because it kind of shows What goes on after the hunt so back from deer camp here at the house and I broke down the gear the deer before we get into Doing the hide process just want to say all you guys to comment it On my tradbow harvest video about You hit the argri you hit the argri on my shot. Yes, you are 100 correct There was a lot that that happened in there And I think some of it happened while the deer took off after the shot running around and that thing just Sloshing around in there Not good but the argri shot Got so lucky with that and you guys are 100 correct So it would have taken a very very long time For that deer to expire with just that very back nicked lung So, um, so anyway got lucky and you guys are right Just wanted to point that out I took the quarters to a processor to get burger meat made but back straps heart Um Tindies of course That stuff take that home right away. Cook it up. Fantastic You don't have to have one of these you could literally just use Like a post like if you want to take a log and put it up against a tree Do it that way you can but I went ahead. I had some scrap wood laying around Like I was literally going to throw it out anyways So I just built a little beam This is all it is Looks like an ironing board um put it on a four by four and a old piece of uh It's like a railroad tie like a small railroad tie or something I don't know. It's just something I had laying around Can you basically just lay this on here and you scrape All the meat and fat off the high So it's kind of a tedious process, but it took me about an hour and a half to do that I kept the hide in a cooler basically on ice for you know about Seven days basically and it was fine. So I never even froze it Um got one little spot where the hair was coming off So after we flushed it I strung it up on this old clothes rack I know it doesn't look as cool as a wood frame. I'm definitely going to build one at the lease Have a little program to do this out there And I wasn't going to brain tan this but I'm going to wait to do that at the lease. It's pretty messy So this one I'm just going to do a solution I strung this up wet and Let it dry for 24 hours. I put salt on it. Just let it completely dry out And then I hit this with a wire brush And a skinning knife if you guys aren't familiar with wire brush I'll use these on a lot of wood projects just to clean stuff up and take that and just basically rip down this thing And uh get it to where the hide starts showing that white Like this this feels actually soft to the touch in any place that feels hard like that You know, you can almost hear it. This sounds like it's plastic You hit it with that wire brush and break it up And it seems to make it softer And then I just went through with uh with the knife And just scraped down it I'm basically just trying to get all the oils off the hair right here. Hopefully that'll Turn out better So now that I've cleaned the hair side and the flesh side Uh and rehydrated it We're going to let that drip dry for about 10 minutes Just until it's damp and then I'm going to add this stuff right here. I got this off amazon. This is new tan So again, I was going to use the brains the brain tanning method. You could also use eggs But uh this stuff right here there's uh, there's a lot of directions You know, there's a whole It's a big shebang here salting rehydrating pickling Uh, this is like a week long process. It seems like so I'm kind of skipping a lot of these steps and You know doing it my own way stringing it stringing it up But uh, I like the wire brush technique. I'm very curious to see how soft this thing is going to be after just 24 hours sitting in this Okay, so I'm going to do this in the garage where it's a little cooler I think uh the directions say optimals like in the fifties or sixties You know started the morning off like 80 here thought we're not hunting right now Next cold front though should get the big bucks moving And I'm going to use I'm going to say about eight ounces of this stuff. I think this is 32 ounces So at this point the hide is just damp and uh, I had to go through something that A lot of people don't have to do but if you deer hunt in texas we get cactus thorns in our deer So I had to pick those out so I'm not driving them into my hand right now I'm tanning our deer hide any you know, you told me that you wanted a deer hide And I brought you home All right, it smells really good has like a citrus scent to it This reminds me if you just like were to smash up a banana It's kind of what it feels like Okay, I extensively massage Uh just under a quarter of the bottle on there It's not a very big deer so Didn't need that much now. I'm going to cover it with a tarp Just because I don't want to fold it over on itself. I want to keep it strong up We're going to let that marinate I accomplished my big goal getting the deer with the self though, but as soon as I got home Ah, I just had to start making another one guys. I'm I'm obsessed with it This one's pretty neat because it is the uh essentially the brother of the bow that I got the deer with It's out of the same log same piece of wood, but uh, there wasn't much in the handle section So I decided to make this just a bend through the handle bow I kind of screwed up on the last bow by Not falling the grain as good as I should have so This bow has got a real snakey grain in it makes it kind of neat a lot of character I gotta start tillering it today. So I'm gonna tiller it a little bit and just see uh what it's gonna look like It may not be that great. I don't know but it looks sort of cool And I thought with that little snake right there in the handle that would be a good spot to just Put your arrow right above the wrap be a good little rest It's a pretty stout little bow right now. Okay. That's that's pretty wonky now. It's starting to bend right there All right guys, that is a pretty even bend But it's uh, it's been through the handle. So it's weird. That's braced Quite high, but it's 52 pounds right there at 27 So that's pretty much my draw length The arrow the side the arrow wants to sit on is actually a little opposite of what I wanted But I'm gonna put an arrow in here try to shoot it see what happens Okay, I got a few different spines of arrows So we'll see which one it likes It's quiet It's quiet. I don't know what to think about it This is awesome because I built a set of arrows before I even had a bow Just didn't know what I was doing And uh, I haven't had a bow that likes that arrow yet So this is the first bow that I've had that likes these arrows that took me so long to build We're going to let that hide sit overnight. We'll come back to it in the morning See how it's doing Moment of truth It's time to check and see what we got going on under here under the hood Hitchhiker there. Hmm. I can still smell that orangy zestiness Let's feel it though. This was the fattiest spot right here, man. I can definitely feel That it softened up quite a bit Don't have that same drumming sound that I had before Man, even the rump right there. That's pretty good. Yeah, the tail really didn't soften up too much But I didn't break that down that well. It's pretty darn good It's still still got some moistness in it So this is probably going to stiffen up quite a bit more but Man, I'm impressed like look at that. We're not having like real stiff Hard spots This is good. Okay. I'm gonna stand this up and let this dry out a little more So I've had the hide upright uncovered drying for a few hours and it's still Just a little bit damp Um, it says to let it dry for 48 hours on the instructions And then to sort of work it while it's drying Which totally makes sense to me. So it's already stretched out I think I'm gonna go ahead and cut it and then As it's drying over the next, you know day or so. I'm just gonna work it Um, working on the edges of things and just try to break the skin as as much as possible Okay, that my friends Is a deer rod. Look how supple that is already That is softer than I was expecting it's crinkling Folding up very nice. Look at that. Wow We got one more little cactus thorn in there. I feel it The goal is To get the flesh white for what I understand Means you're breaking apart the fibers OSG has made a fall harvest stew and What have you elected to put in here? Well, it all started with I didn't have russet potatoes. So are your sweet potatoes And then I just went with it sweet potatoes. Yeah, we got peas. No Is that fall harvest? I think that's more of a something sweet potatoes wild rice Of course, you got your tomatoes I put some mushrooms in there It's like a lot of things that you wouldn't expect for stew, but it's actually delicious. Okay And then I topped it off with some pumpkin seeds Okay, and of course we have the back scraps. Yes, of course. How is that? How is the tenderness good? I mean I cooked it all day yesterday And then it sat in the fridge all night and then I pulled it out and feed it again So it's it's called part. This is one of my favorite deer You know deer meat can sometimes get a little dry A little tough Try to never overcook it, but it seems like you can't go wrong when it's in a stew Something juicy. That's just fall apart Oh my gosh, honey That is melting your mouth In addition to the stew OSG has made cinnamon sprinkled fresh apple donuts Little pieces of fresh apple in there A body fine dessert It's gonna go good. Gonna go good with some coffee in the morning. Mmm Thank you lord for sending me that woman These are antlers off the deer by the way pretty cool The hide is feeling awesome guys Really is that uh new tan Apparently that stuff is great. That does it does say on there You know the the hide tanning is only as good as like the work you put it into it So it's kind of a disclaimer on there. So I would say um, you know working Working to break the hide is probably like the most important part to really getting something soft that You know, I'm gonna throw this on the back of my couch chair You know, whatever Stephanie wants to do or that she said she wanted to hide So, uh, I'll give you guys an update on uh on the gram Whatever this thing fully dries out, but um, I can tell you it's it's probably gonna be pretty darn soft So I'm impressed with it do tan stuff and I will definitely be keeping More hides if you guys want to see the brain tan too, I'm gonna try that next So subscribe to the channel next year that I get Uh, we'll be doing a uh a brain tan on that unless it's like a giant white tail And I'm gonna get a shoulder mounted or something but most likely not this year guys. So I'm just uh Trying to do a lot of hunting with the bow um And really just doing everything I can to make the most of all the animals that I get You know use all the resources. So Um, the tendons off of this deer are also going to be used for backing a bow Uh, and I'm using the scraps of raw hide that are left from the cut out I'm shaving the hair off and I'm going to use that as handle material because it's already tan. It's already soft I'll use that as handle material to wrap my next bow. Maybe the bow that I just made So thank you guys for tuning in Uh, stay tuned for more outdoor action right here, and I'll see you guys on the next one