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Vulture Culture Tools

Fellow vultures! I’m compiling information on VC since there doesn’t seem to be much out there. I’d like to know: what tools do you use when working with Dead Things™️?

More specifically:

-What do you use most often in your VC practice?

-What exactly do you use these tools for?

-What sanitary tools and measures do you use?

-Are there things that you dispose of after each use?

-Things that you reuse?

I’d love to hear your input!

Most often, I use my scalpel, disposable scalpel blades, pliars to change blades, buckets/tubs (of all sizes from shot glasses to plastic bins), plastic bags, ziplock bags, a sieve, gloves, a freezer, toothbrushes and a sink with a running tap.

Scalpel and blades are for skinning, changed whenever they get blunt and put in a plastic tub. Then luckily, I can dispose of these at work in a proper contaminated-with-blood-sharps tub that is taken away by a disposal company. I just wash the handle with dish soap and every now and again soak it in boiling water.

Buckets and tubs I just rinse out. They’ll either straight away get used for something dead and rotting, or for a dead in peroxide, so I don’t clean them more than a rinse to get all the previous-dead out. Only throw them away if they leak. Dry shot glasses which I use to hold teeth while the skull cleans, I never wash either.

Plastic bags I use for rotting, keeping it humid for insect activity. I’ll either put a tub inside a bag or just the dead itself. I’ll reuse the bags until they’ve just had it, then they either go in the bin or sent off for incineration. Ziplock bags I use to put animals in for the freezer, and I reuse them if they aren’t bloody. If they are they can get used the same as a plastic bag.

Plastic sieve for sieving both maceration water and peroxide to make sure I don’t lose bits. Don’t clean it more than a rinse or a quick scrub with dish soap.

Gloves used for decay and peroxide handling, go in the bin or for incineration after each use. Freezer for storing bodies, I’ve only defrosted and cleaned it once oop. Sink gets a quick scrub and bleach. Toothbrushes are used for scrubbing dirt or flesh etc from bones and just get a dish soap wash.