Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
May 24, 2012, 12:19:40 PM

Login with username, password and session length
Search:     Advanced search
1341509 Posts in 139343 Topics by 36709 Members
Latest Member: Scott Mayer
* Home Help Help Search Calendar Login Register
Taxidermy.Net Forum  |  Taxidermy Discussion Categories  |  Skulls and Skeletons  |  Topic: My next project ... (dream on) « previous next »
Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 Print
Author Topic: My next project ... (dream on)  (Read 6575 times)
Sea Wolf
Platinum Member
*****
Location: Taxachusetts
Posts: 6580
« on: February 06, 2009, 10:00:10 PM »
    Don't I wish. This critter was alive yesterday. Expired about an hour after it was discovered. 40+ feet long. 18+ tons. I need a bigger truck to get this home. Smiley




   By the way. This is a juvenile fin whale. It's very underweight and was probably very sick. The fin whale is the second largest whale in the world after the blue whale. Poor thing is very trapped in ice now. Will be a good month before they can think about moving it probably. Going back tomorrow to take more pictures and watch the autopsy if it happens. Smiley

     There is some detail in this that you can see in the larger picture. (right click, view image)
Report to moderator   Logged
Da Greek Yooper
Silver Member
***
Location: Iron River, MI
Posts: 261
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2009, 10:32:46 PM »
Sushi anyone Grin
Report to moderator   Logged
Some people are like Slinkies...

 Not really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
Xtreme Skull Cleaning
Silver Member
***
Location: Cadillac,MI
Posts: 381
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2009, 11:05:58 PM »
very big tank my bugs would love that
Report to moderator   Logged
Sarge
Platinum Member
*****
Location: Bismarck, North Dakota
Posts: 2599


A little too much Lord *hic*


WWW
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2009, 03:31:14 AM »
Dude that would take all of our bugs combined and we will do it at Terri's house she wants it she can have the smell the will come with it.   Grin

Jeff
Report to moderator   Logged
   

Education always costs money even at the School of Hard Knocks!
darkbloodwyvern
Silver Member
***
Location: CA, USA
Posts: 267


We've been sent here to raise hell and cause chaos
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2009, 03:34:15 AM »
WOW!  that would make a neat display!!  you could set it up in the secret subterranian hangar- to the whale skeleton, robin!
Report to moderator   Logged
Into the great wide open. Under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open,A rebel without a clue
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
RockinR
Bronze Member
**
Location: Montana
Posts: 127
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2009, 04:40:17 AM »
How much B.O. do you think it would take to whiten that skull? And would it be easier to use beetles or maceration with that?  But would be great for a collection, if you had room to display it.
Report to moderator   Logged
tariadamar
Silver Member
***
Location: bathurst nsw australia
Posts: 256
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2009, 05:01:11 AM »
hahaha that would be cool. is it every one take a bone and we put it back together when we clean that one bone.
Report to moderator   Logged
craig_cougar03
Silver Member
***
Location: Luther, Michigan
Posts: 471
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2009, 06:15:21 PM »
Quote from: tariadamar on February 07, 2009, 05:01:11 AM
hahaha that would be cool. is it every one take a bone and we put it back together when we clean that one bone.

don't forget to take notes where the bones come from, lol, always hate when ya end up with extra pieces when trying to put a puzzle together
Report to moderator   Logged
They say the mind bends and twists in order to deal with the horrors of life, sometimes it bends so much, it snaps...........
Bugz 2 Bonz .com
Gold Member
****
Location: Columbus Ohio
Posts: 789


Skull Cleaning / Central Ohio


WWW
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2009, 06:52:35 PM »
Just get 7 People on here with Bugz in Chest freezers . Cut the ends off freezers butt them together . Dump it in . Problem solved. HA ha  Grin
Report to moderator   Logged

Bugz 2 Bonz Skull Cleaning                          www.Bugz2Bonz.com
Bonnie ( Allistair )
Platinum Member
*****
Location: New England
Posts: 1239
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2009, 06:54:34 PM »
LOL the picture loaded slow at first, and I thought the back end was the head until it finished downloading. 

I've seen whale skulls.. they don't much resemble anything you'd expect to find inside a whale head.... very confusing alien shape and forms!  Kinda neat though.
Report to moderator   Logged

Whale for LS, anyone?  http://www.taxidermy.net/forum/index.php/topic,131557.0.html
craig_cougar03
Silver Member
***
Location: Luther, Michigan
Posts: 471
« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2009, 06:55:21 PM »
Quote from: Bugz 2 Bonz .com on February 07, 2009, 06:52:35 PM
Just get 7 People on here with Bugz in Chest freezers . Cut the ends off freezers butt them together . Dump it in . Problem solved. HA ha  Grin
don't think the chest freezers would be wide enough though, lol
Report to moderator   Logged
They say the mind bends and twists in order to deal with the horrors of life, sometimes it bends so much, it snaps...........
Sea Wolf
Platinum Member
*****
Location: Taxachusetts
Posts: 6580
« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2009, 07:10:04 PM »
   If you right click on the picture and select "View Image" you'll see why it loads so slow. It's a pretty big photo. A lot of my pictures are actually huge and not very user friendly for dial up.

       At 40 feet long, I think we'd need a whole tractor trailer full of bugs. Then there is the 17 assorted tons of extra flesh that needs to be removed first. Smiley  I have a couple of whale skulls already. Acquired before they became untouchable. One skull is a little over 4 feet long. I actually removed it from a rotten carcass and buried it high in a sand dune. I left it there for a year and it was pretty darn clean when I went back and dug it up later. Smiley
Report to moderator   Logged
craig_cougar03
Silver Member
***
Location: Luther, Michigan
Posts: 471
« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2009, 07:14:47 PM »
that would be awesome to do one though
Report to moderator   Logged
They say the mind bends and twists in order to deal with the horrors of life, sometimes it bends so much, it snaps...........
Bonnie ( Allistair )
Platinum Member
*****
Location: New England
Posts: 1239
« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2009, 07:27:23 PM »
Sea wolf! LOL.. WHAT!  I can't imagine just strolling along the dirty beach in Revere and bumping into a friggin whale carcass!!!   You must have done some travelling at some point?  Pretty dang neat anyway.. what a fantastic find!!
Report to moderator   Logged

Whale for LS, anyone?  http://www.taxidermy.net/forum/index.php/topic,131557.0.html
RD Martin
Platinum Member
*****
Location: NW MONTANA
Posts: 3342



WWW
« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2009, 07:31:36 PM »
but did you poke it with a stick Huh
Report to moderator   Logged




http://facebook.com/RDMARTINSKULLS
Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 Print 
Taxidermy.Net Forum  |  Taxidermy Discussion Categories  |  Skulls and Skeletons  |  Topic: My next project ... (dream on) « previous next »
Jump to:  


Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Contents © 2006-2012 Taxidermy.Net, LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.
Powered by SMF 1.1.16 | SMF © 2005, Simple Machines 		Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!