I am looking at purchasing a bird flesher and have looked in the archives for recommendations. Would like to hear what is the best bird flesher money can buy. I am new to this and have heard about the ripping and tearing some fleshers easily cause.
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I don't know about the best money can buy, but I know that Van Dykes makes a flesher that will do the job. The narrow adjustable model is the one that I have and it works great. If you plan on doing alot of turkeys, you might look for one with more horse power.
even if you did have the best money can buy, if you can't operate right it is still the smae if you had a cheap one.
Van Dykes on the bottom of page 291 in the 2003/2004 catalog thats the best and it's what i have and let me tell you if you don't whatch what you doing look out. Practice,Practice an more practice make perfect.LOL
what your saying about the best only being as good as the operator, I just don't want something that's going to give me mechanical problems along with user error ...LOL! I'll check out that recommendation for Van Dykes ...Thanks!'
Asher
Build your own. I would recommend a variable speed motor so you can control the brush speed as you learn. Commercial machines generally come with single speed motors - Max RPM. High speed combined with holding the skin in one spot too long creates holes. I used an electric drill in a vise for years - worked fine. Good luck