Tool for Ptarmigan feathers
I am harvesting the feathers from five ptarmigans and I felt there had to be a better way to get four feathers than spending 21 (with a knife) or 28 minutes (by hand) to get just four feathers. Two hours (and 200 calories) for four feathers?
How about a tool similar in form to what Will started out with in Wintermute to speed the process up. Basically a shard of sharp metal.
Increases the rate that feathers get harvested from one every 21-28 minutes to four every 21 - 28 minutes. I
It's not four feathers, it's four quantities of down. Five quantities of down is enough to stuff into your homemade wrap for your improvised insulation, so each down bundle is 20% of a insulated wrap, that's a heck of a lot of down in each harvest. Four down bundles is a huge amount of down.
The harvesting of down is already the equivalent of harvesting hides, pelts and guts. Without harvesting skill, depending on your tool, hides take 30-60 minutes, guts take 10-40 minutes each; ptarmigan
