Bootlipkiller wrote: all the mallards I killed today had boners do to my epic calling.
AKPirate wrote:Jason is usually right but sometimes wrong
jarbo03 wrote:I have been looking hard into getting a plucker, curious to what others have to say.
AKPirate wrote:Jason is usually right but sometimes wrong
Flightstopper wrote:Maybe try something bigger or with mesh at the back for air to escape. I could see the air from the feathers being pushed in blowing all the feathers right back at you. Thoughts?
Bootlipkiller wrote: all the mallards I killed today had boners do to my epic calling.
jarbo03 wrote:I have been looking hard into getting a plucker, curious to what others have to say.
Bootlipkiller wrote: all the mallards I killed today had boners do to my epic calling.
Olly wrote: We're still the bastard pirates of the duck forum world.
3legged_lab wrote:jarbo03 wrote:I have been looking hard into getting a plucker, curious to what others have to say.
The way things are going now, you can have this one. Haha!
3legged_lab wrote:Flightstopper wrote:Maybe try something bigger or with mesh at the back for air to escape. I could see the air from the feathers being pushed in blowing all the feathers right back at you. Thoughts?
What do you mean bigger? If you mean the shop vac its a pretty good size one.
When I tried it with zero suction the feathers would go in, go around the drum, and shoot straight back out at me.
Maybe when this thing was new there was some accessory for feather pick up.
AKPirate wrote:Jason is usually right but sometimes wrong
Flightstopper wrote:3legged_lab wrote:Flightstopper wrote:Maybe try something bigger or with mesh at the back for air to escape. I could see the air from the feathers being pushed in blowing all the feathers right back at you. Thoughts?
What do you mean bigger? If you mean the shop vac its a pretty good size one.
When I tried it with zero suction the feathers would go in, go around the drum, and shoot straight back out at me.
Maybe when this thing was new there was some accessory for feather pick up.
A bigger catch drum with somewherr for air to escape. Right now you are pushing feathers into a closed container, trash bag, and you have nowhere to displace the air going in. In return pushing the feathers right back out at you. Granted I am nowhere near an engineer but sounds good in my head!
Bootlipkiller wrote: all the mallards I killed today had boners do to my epic calling.
assateague wrote:Maybe try lightly misting with a hose while you're plucking. And cut the hole for the "exhaust" much bigger. Really, seems like it isn't even necessary- just cut the whole thing out, leaving a rectangle hole under the plucker. Then mist it with the hose. I would expect the feathers and water to just run out into a bucket underneath or something like that.
Bootlipkiller wrote: all the mallards I killed today had boners do to my epic calling.
Tiler_J wrote:We have a different style plucker down at our club, I am going there this weekend, I will try to remember to take a pic of it. Ours is a little bigger, with bigger "fingers" on the plucker. It is mounted to a counter on a kind of cabinet with a space cut out for the plucker. Under the counter the whole face of the cabinet is mesh screen. Most feathers go down into the cabinet but not all. Also geese don't work great in the plucker, we get feathers everywhere. For ducks it works great. Don't know if this helps or not, but it sounds like if it sucks the feathers without the aid of a shop-vac, I would try some type of vented containment for the feathers.
Bootlipkiller wrote: all the mallards I killed today had boners do to my epic calling.
The Duck Hammer wrote:What if you rigged up something with a piece of PVC and your air compressor to form a wind tunnel in the pipe that would draw the feathers out. I don't know how you would catch the feathers but it might keep them off of you.
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sws002 wrote:The Duck Hammer wrote:What if you rigged up something with a piece of PVC and your air compressor to form a wind tunnel in the pipe that would draw the feathers out. I don't know how you would catch the feathers but it might keep them off of you.
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I think this is the best option. Does your ShopVac have a blower option? If somehow you can rig the ShopVac to be blowing air down a PVC pipe attached to the back of the contraption, I would imagine it would create some suction to pull the feathers but not clog your vac. Interested in how this turns out, have been thinking about getting a plucker for a long time myself.
Bootlipkiller wrote: all the mallards I killed today had boners do to my epic calling.
3legged_lab wrote:sws002 wrote:The Duck Hammer wrote:What if you rigged up something with a piece of PVC and your air compressor to form a wind tunnel in the pipe that would draw the feathers out. I don't know how you would catch the feathers but it might keep them off of you.
Sent from my Vox Mortem
I think this is the best option. Does your ShopVac have a blower option? If somehow you can rig the ShopVac to be blowing air down a PVC pipe attached to the back of the contraption, I would imagine it would create some suction to pull the feathers but not clog your vac. Interested in how this turns out, have been thinking about getting a plucker for a long time myself.
Ya, maybe use a Y cleanout for the blower to attach and have it dump into a burlap sack so the air can come out easy but the feathers stay in?
Olly wrote: We're still the bastard pirates of the duck forum world.
Tiler_J wrote:Oh, also, wet birds don't pluck as easy as dry birds.
jarbo03 wrote:I have been looking hard into getting a plucker, curious to what others have to say.
goodkarmarising wrote:jarbo03 wrote:I have been looking hard into getting a plucker, curious to what others have to say.
You need the bird hitch.
goodkarmarising wrote:jarbo03 wrote:I have been looking hard into getting a plucker, curious to what others have to say.
You need the bird hitch.
3legged_lab wrote:This summer somebody gave me an old duck plucker they had lying around. I tried using this evil sonovabitch on last weekends honkers and it was a total failure. I put a garbage bag over what I assumed was the exhaust end and in only a few seconds I was standing in a cloud of down. Next step I have the kid aim the air compressor nozzle into the plucker hoping a draft will push the feathers into the bag - negative. Im even more covered.
So we figure this pos needs suction to work so I clean out my shop vac and hook it up. Start in on a bird and its going great - no more feathers flying. I manage to strip about a 4 X 6 inch area on the first goose when the vacuum has a total loss of suction, take it apart and it completely plugged.
So does anyone have any experience with one of these things where it actually works?
assateague wrote:
AKPirate wrote:Jason is usually right but sometimes wrong
Flightstopper wrote:assateague wrote:
The oils in dick make them water resistant and the oils turn into a slippery mess. The the rubber fingers can't grab the feathers as well. Your videos are all chickens that pluck easier.
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