This was built by me last month to serve as a hide frame, we had recently killed a goat then, (Some dear friends were moving far away, and couldn't take the goat with them.) and mom was scraping the hide, draping it over the log pile. She was pretty much done by the time I finally got the frame all built, and we couldn't find any twine to tie it with. The hide ended up getting buried in our field. We had neglected to salt it from the very first, and to multiply that mistake, we left it outside that night instead of throwing it in the refrigerator the moment we got home. Sadly, the whole thing was a waste. But hopefully, if we ever try to tan leather again, we will remember what we learned from doing that one, and we will have this frame to stretch and scrape it on.
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