Comments by "Lillibit Johnson" (@lillibitjohnson7293) on "American Reacts to Is kangaroo the worlds strongest leather?" video.

  1.  @jokervienna6433  green hide is not tanning but salt curing over years . Unprocessed leather
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  2. Australias most strange leather is fish skin leather from Western Australia
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  3. I wonder why whip makers don’t use roo skin. Maybe because they’re smaller so you’d need more skins
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  4. Loved this video, very interesting
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  5. Fun fact about kangaroos If you’re stuck in the outback and need to build shelter. 1 kangaroo tail can make 15 metres of rope if you remove the tendons and tie them together to dry them out Can use to make traps or lash logs together to build
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  6. Same Ian, I hate wasting things lol
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  7. Do you use green hides or tanned?
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  8.  @jokervienna6433  you’re welcome. I have a friend who makes whips and does whip cracking shows. He always uses green hides (cows) he cures with salt. He says that the leather is more durable that way
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  9. Also green has nothing to do with the colour, it’s to do with never being processed with chemicals
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  10.  @jokervienna6433  this mans family have a cattle farm. When they kill an animal he takes the hide into a shed and places it on a pile of other hides. Between each hide is a layer of salt. From memory they stay in the pile for two years or so I guess you’d classify it as rawhide
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  11. He always called it green hide
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  12. Maybe I should start stopping and skinning the roo road kill lol
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  13. FYI if you take the sinews from a kangaroo tale , tie them together , you can make 15metres of very strong rope/ lashing
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