Does anybody have any tips on how to dry salt in high humidity areas?I live on the coast,down in Texas,and it seems to take forever for my hides to dry hard.Our humidity averages 85% to 90% this time of year. Is drying hard really necessary?
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I live in central Tx and I know your frustration.What I did was I went and bought a baseboard heater at home depot.It is about 3.5 ft long and it is in a 100sq.ft room closed off of the rest of the shop and this heater creates a really dry invoronment and dries the capes good.You could also go buy a de-humidifier.That is what I'm going to do for this summer.
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Glen
I too live on the coast in TX. and had the same problem. I just had to bring mine in the house and hand them over my guest room bath tub
they finaly dried. I talked to an A/C supplier about getting a dehumidifier he told me it would be a waste of money because it is going to do the same as an A/C.
I live at the coast of the Netherlands, even below sealevel. Overhere it is sp humid that a salted hide will actually get wetter when salting. Salt is hygroscopic and will draw moisture out of the air when it is humid enough. I bought a auto-tanner and use it as a speed-pickler. It ables me to skip the salting step and go into the pickle at once. Doing it for 2 or 3 years now, havent lost a skin.
Ron (dopey)