Thought it may be helpful to show start to finish again. This elk came in today after being skinned, jaw removed and trimmed a bit 7 days ago. Owner was going to boil but decided to have me do it. So today Oct 20th at 2 pm he entered the hot tub. Grabbed one of my coolers I had forgotten about lol. I'll post a follow up picture on Monday and again when fully cleaned.

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I have used that 4x4 and a larger flat landscape rock to keep them from bobbing to the surface. All this is is a 10 gallon cooler, 10 gallons of water and 3 tank heaters(I suspect one of them is not working well).