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Provience said:
certainly many were brutally mistreated.

certainly many were happy with their situation.

why do you think field ******s hated house ******s so much? (and still do)
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I was just shitposting but you make a good point.
 
Welp, it took a bit of doing, but i managed to score a beaver hat from goodwill for cheap (~$20 or something) Most of these go for a good bit more than that if they are in decent shape, even what were originally cheap ones

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4x beaver is about the lowest quality beaver felt hat that stetson puts out. whatever it actually means and whenever it is actually from is beyond me. but i like the color

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if you can tell or not, this one has a deformed brim from years of probably sitting in the corner.


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first things first, lots of tape to take off lots of dust. made a decent pile of tape and it made a substantial difference to the color of the hat

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Apparently there are many ways to reshape a felt hat, never done this before but the general theme was steam/water to relax the felt. Used the iron with as much steam as it could make and worked it around the brim until i got it all flat again. It dries out really quickly from the steam, so doing 1/3 or less at a time was the easiest way.

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being the goober that i am and wanting to play around, i put a gentle rise to both sides and the back and a gentle drop to the front. figure it is easy enough to change in the future :rasta:





how does it fit into this thread? well, real beaver felt (even a low blend such as this) is better than a plastic hat so buy more beaver
 
That’s a damn nice hat. Every man should own a felt hat. You can always change how it looks so play with it until you like it. Wearing a wide brim hat is a game changer. My ears and neck aren’t fried anymore during summer. Cowboys were some smart muffawkers.
 
Stix said:
That’s a damn nice hat. Every man should own a felt hat. You can always change how it looks so play with it until you like it. Wearing a wide brim hat is a game changer. My ears and neck aren’t fried anymore during summer. Cowboys were some smart muffawkers.
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yeah i was surprised how quick and easy it was to manipulate with just the steam from an iron. kept the iron ~1/8-1/4" away from the felt and it did just fine and didn't have to wait or hold position for it to dry out like dunking in water

don't get much sun or wind out here, just trying to keep the rain off my head a bit better :laughing:
 
So X’s in a hat denote the quality, but X’s are not universal for the industry. For example, Stetson may do 1 through 5, but Milano uses 100 through 1000. In the case of a felt hat, the higher the X the more fur content. So a 1x may be a wool felt blend, but. 4x might be beaver blend, but a 5x might be mink.

You did good by steaming it.
 
Most let the use of the hat make its mark. Steam is the correct why to instantly manipulate felt.
 
I got a beaver Stetson with the new house. Too big though. :( There's another tan one hanging off on the left corner that I need to remember to check out.

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[486 said:
;n188276]how would someone even think that animals are skinned alive
it's gotta be much easier when they're not bitey and clawy

like some bullshit my dad gave me the other day about how corn sileage makes cows "sicker and sicker"
and one of his friends told me that "they leave dairy cows on the milking machines 24/7" I just looked at her like she was retarded, couldn't come up with words at the time for how retarded that thought was.
as though someone whose livelihood depends on healthy animals is going to do any sorta shit that would turn dairy cows into steaks well before they're done being dairy cows
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The one that gets me is that "dairy cows are unhappy and mistreated/abused their while life" from someone who has no idea that if dairy cows aren't happy they dont produce anywhere near as much milk as they do when they are happy.
There is a LOT of money spent keeping dairy cows happy and comfortable.

Aaron Z
 
aczlan said:
The one that gets me is that "dairy cows are unhappy and mistreated/abused their while life" from someone who has no idea that if dairy cows aren't happy they dont produce anywhere near as much milk as they do when they are happy.
There is a LOT of money spent keeping dairy cows happy and comfortable.

Aaron Z
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I do got the remains of an ancient tie-stall cow barn in my yard, be easy for the uninformed to draw death camp style conclusions when you see how worn the boards and chains are, lol
Talking a 3/8" chain worn paper thin between links, kinda neat looking when you don't think about how they got worn.
 
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I do got the remains of an ancient tie-stall cow barn in my yard, be easy for the uninformed to draw death camp style conclusions when you see how worn the boards and chains are, lol
Talking a 3/8" chain worn paper thin between links, kinda neat looking when you don't think about how they got worn.
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That takes lots of years, having put cows into those a few times, good luck getting them into the tie stalls without them wanting to go in.
Same with self locking headlocks on a modern barn, they only go in if they want to.
We toured a farm with a big automated milking parlor, the cows can go in any time they want and they get milked 2 or 3 times per day. IIRC they generally go in within 20 minutes of the same time every day (although some will try in between as they get grain while in there while being milked, but the automated milker will only lock them in every 8 or 12 hours. Here is a video of someone taking a tour at the same farm:


They had some interesting custom made trailers for chopping silage when we went through.

Aaron Z
 
bgaidan said:
I got a beaver Stetson with the new house. Too big though. :( There's another tan one hanging off on the left corner that I need to remember to check out.
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what size hats?

i'm still gobsmacked that somebody sold that property the way that you got it.
 
I have nothing to add except I also have A hat...
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My Google foo sucks so I don't know anything about it. But it says beaver and doesn't fit.
 
that's a nice color on that hat, bummer it doesn't fit.

my only other felt hat is a gray color that looks snazzy, but it was an old guy's custom fit and it's a bit small. he died and gave it to my inlaws, they gave it to me because they don't wear hats :laughing:

guess i should try and see if i can steam and stretch it and put a bigger hatband around it.
 
It might fit if I steamed it. It's most likely shrunk and not stored correctly. My dad is and is his step dad that's where the hat came from.
 
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