Super thick leather

[ArkieNewbie]

https://www.springfieldleather.com/Sole-Bends-Super-Thick

 

Tony may have already directed you here but these may be a good option too. 

[LandonPackard]

On 12/17/2022 at 11:28 AM, Vinces0583 said:

Not looking to become a millionaire. Simply trying to build a better mousetrap based upon an idea I had 20 some odd years ago. What I'm seeking is that animal hide that exceeds the average hide thickness.  Surely there's a "thickest" hide in the animal kingdom.  I know mouse hides are out of the question and T-Rex hides are scarce but surely there's a "thickest" between those two parameters.  But, thanks for the well-wishes.

If you're wanting the thickest hide you can possibly get, then what you're probably going to have to do is, go to a sale barn and buy you the HEALTHIEST LOOKING, OLDEST, and BIGGEST BULL that you can possibly find. A Charolais, Hereford, or Angus will be the ONLY ones you should be lookin out for, and it don't matter if you know NOTHING TO VERY LITTLE about cattle period, and/or the cattle industry in general or even IF you DO think you know everything there is about it. Because if you did, you wouldn't be asking. Im not trying to be a dick either, I just know what I'm talkin about and I also know there's A LOT of dumb people in the world and that's all I'm used to talking to everywhere I go, every store, gas station, it don't matter where, YOU name it even, and I HATE it. That's why I try not to ever go anywhere. To avoid people. Can't stand em. Because, if it doesn't put a burr under my saddle, it's usually a knot in my rope or a kink in the damn chain.Puts a bad taste in my mouth. No matter which the case, it all usually or eventually winds up makin me so God damn F'n mad,........I could run over a skunk on a bicycle in a heartbeat. Hate it all. Well I'll be damned, my nose just started bleedin again as I'm typin this..... But anyhow, enough about me, it's neither,....here nor there. Just trust me on this is all I'm sayin. Ya know what I mean bud? NOW,... the reason why I mentioned healthiest is because, after you buy it, unless you know how and can do it yourself, you're gonna have to at some point, take it to a butcher shop somewhere. Preferably a place that's  what they call a "custom" butcher shop. Custom shops are a bit more lenient because they don't have an inspector there full time and that's mostly walkin around " pullin rank" on everybody because he's a F'n douchebag, which is what most of em more often than not usually are these days. But I'm startin to get off track so please forgive me. (I might as well go ahead and apologize again cuz I'm sure it's going to happen before I finish typing this thing. My minds all messed up has been for several years, I got too many irons in the fire as it is, I got high blood pressure extremely short fuse no patience or tolerance whatsoever, nosebleed like a son of a bitch right now, and I'm just probably a prick in general naturally pretty much everything else despicable that you can imagine.) Whatever you end up buying at the sale barn, ( you could also go a different route, and if I don't forget I'll mention that later) you want it to where no matter what type of shop you take it into, they're not supposed to accept anything that can't walk in off the trailer of its own free will. That doesn't mean you can't find a place that won't, because there's plenty out there, but unless you're a regular customer someplace the majority of shops will probably think it's a test and that you're an undercover inspector trying to get somebody busted like that show on TV where they arrest people that's delivering pizza to underage minors that they're getting ready to try to have sex with  an shit like that. Catch a Predator I think that shows called or somethin hell I don't know. But basically you want it to be able to walk fairly decent, because another thing you got to remember which I almost forgot to say, is whatever you buy you want to make sure it weighs no less than 2,000 lbs I try to find something closer to 2,500 lbs if ya can, which may be kind of hard cuz if you do find one that big most of the time he's going to be crippled or about to die or there's somethin wrong with eem somewhere. Now if you know how to do all this by yourself without having to go through a shop you can totally forget about how healthy the bastard is as long as he's at least 2,000 plus pounds. I'll tell you something else you can do also is, do you know any Farmers that raise a lot of cattle, hit one of them up ask him if they got any great big old in  bulls, something that's really ancient that they're fixin to either haul to the sale barn or slaughter and grind the whole thing into burger. If it's the very latter, ask them if you can have the hide. Or if you buy something like that off of a farmer directly without going through a sale barn and you don't want to take it to a shop or you can't take it to a shop because he's crippled, and also if you do not know how to do it yourself or just don't want to with it because it's kind of a pain in the ass even if you got all the equipment it is still a pain in the ass messing with something that damn big, as long as it ain't running a fever, and if you're willing to pay all the travel expenses to get me from Southeast Kansas to wherever in the hell you are and back to Southeast Kansas, equipment or no equipment, if you pay to have me get shipped out there to you, I can do it all myself for ya. But you better make sure you got a plan already in place ahead of time on where you're going to store the meat, or if you decide to just say piss on the meat and let the coyotes have it because you really like coyote hunting and wish there were more of them, hell it doesn't make a shit to me what you do or don't do,..... just as long as I get paid.Ya know what I mean bud? 

Now let's say you got your fresh beef hide that's a great big old thick heavy son of a bitch that you can't even hardly even drag across a polished wet cement floor even with two people helpin ya pull the bastard,  you need to make sure you either have a little chest freezer that's big enough to store the hide in until you can take it someplace, or you better make sure you have a place fairly close by that will be open where you can drop it off after I get the son of a bitch jerked off the carcass, if you go the route of sending me out to you, that is. But let's say you got your hide in the freezer and you're wondering where in the hell you're going to take the bastard to get it tanned, there's plenty of places I'm not going to go into all that shit right now because surely you can figure that part out yourself cain'tcha bud? I mean hell it ain't brain surgery. Or hell maybe you know how to attend it yourself which,  problem solved, little bit of bark, some lyme, fleshin tool, beam, bit if sodium hydroxide maybe, it's overdone it. Pretty sure there's some other things that I was going to say hell I've already forgot what they are at the moment and I got a bunch of other shit to do so I guess I'm going to have to leave you for now. Hope this helped ya out. And if'n ya  end up decidin ya need me to come out there and jerk the hide off of one of them big ass sons a bitches fer ye, ya may be able reach me on Facebook under the nick name, Landon Cole Packard, and I'm down around Melrose, Kansas way. And can't remember where you said you were from, Philadelphia maybe? If you do need me to come up there but you want to go the cheapest route possible or if you can't afford it a plane ticket or somethin, Ive got a few horses that I suppose I could ride up there to ya an back, that why you wouldn't be out no gas or plane or train tickets or shit like that, but the main thing to keep in mind if you choose that route, it's gonna take me a week or so to get there I'm sure. Idk the mileage off the top of my head but I'm bout 160 some miles straight south of Kansas City. And for me to travel from my house, up around Kansas City , over in Missoura way, it  would probably be about a 4 or 5 days on ride on horseback. That should kind of give ya an example on how long it be before I would get over in your parts if need be. Ya know what I mean bud? 

 

 

P.S.      If'n you end up findin somethin  out at one of them sale barns and  that ends up where everythin works out for ya, and  you wind up gettin your leather padded mouse and rat traps patented, ANNNDDDDD you become filthy stinkin rich,.......if'n at any point along your path  to glory,...... If anybody ever ask you,  "who or what gave you the idea or info on where to  find an animal with a thick enough hide for 20 oz leather?".....You tell em,......... Landon Packard gave it to ya. 

[James1]

Dang!!! That’s impressive