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Community => Taxidermy & Scoring => Topic started by: 6haase6 on January 13, 2023, 07:39:23 AM

Title: Tanning a beef hide
Post by: 6haase6 on January 13, 2023, 07:39:23 AM: What’s the going rate and does anybody no of anybody that does it?
Title: Re: Tanning a beef hide
Post by: LDennis24 on January 13, 2023, 08:09:42 AM: My last one was expensive. I just had one finished and have to go pick it up. Not a large bull and it was $400 down and he said I owe him $650 still. :dunno:
Title: Re: Tanning a beef hide
Post by: boneaddict on January 13, 2023, 08:26:43 AM: Last time I looked out of curiousity it was about a thousand, so that fits pretty well with LDs quote
Title: Re: Tanning a beef hide
Post by: 6haase6 on January 13, 2023, 08:43:10 AM: What was the time frame for getting done?
Title: Re: Tanning a beef hide
Post by: Jpmiller on January 13, 2023, 08:51:47 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on January 13, 2023, 08:26:43 AM
Last time I looked out of curiousity it was about a thousand, so that fits pretty well with LDs quote

This was what I was told when I asked about two years ago
Title: Re: Tanning a beef hide
Post by: LDennis24 on January 13, 2023, 08:52:53 AM: One year, because now your up against all the hides being done for Taxidermy heads and rugs. I dropped mine off at the taxi February 2022 and got a call to come get it last week.
Title: Re: Tanning a beef hide
Post by: LDennis24 on January 13, 2023, 08:56:03 AM: I am about to send in another one next month also. It's a nice wooly black and white Galloway hide.
Title: Re: Tanning a beef hide
Post by: GWP on January 13, 2023, 11:55:31 AM: Had a nice 'chrome tanned' (pricey then!) Bull Elk hide years ago that was so pretty I could not bring myself to use it for anything. My father had no such reservations! Funny story, but it is not cheap to pay for any hide to be done for ya.
Messy and labor intensive. Worth every penny to have someone else do it!
Just had new gutters put up. Same for that!
Title: Re: Tanning a beef hide
Post by: 6haase6 on January 13, 2023, 06:43:01 PM: Thanks guys