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I have often wondered how so much of mankind has managed to survive, much less prosper.
Life's concerns should be about the 120lb pack your trying to get to the top of the mountain, and not the rock in your boot.
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 Can somebody locate and post a video clip of the Simpsons episode, (Lisa, the vegetarian?), with the happy, wide-eyed kid entering the meat packing plant for a tour, and exiting the rear of the plant, white as a sheet and shaking uncontrollably?
 
I almost died laughing.
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“A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.” – Fred Bear
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When the line would go down for any length of time, we would get bored and throw cow body parts at guys working in other stations.
Me and my partner worked on the "side puller", so we'd throw pieces of hooves, tails, fat and whatever else we could get our hands on at the dudes around us.
Nothing like getting smacked in the face with a bloody piece of liver, I'll tell ya......Big Grin
 
Working the "gut table" was bad......
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote RONK Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April/23/2009 at 17:12

 I'm sure that's the episode, Mike!

 Cheaptrick- what exactly does one DO when working the 'gut table", if you would please elaborate?

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Originally posted by RONK RONK wrote:

Cheaptrick- what exactly does one DO when working the 'gut table", if you would please elaborate?

Well Sir, the gutting process is one the last things that took place where I worked.
The animals carcass started out on an assembly line, hanging upside down by two hooks by their Achilles tendon with their belly side toward us. The line moved an average of 300 head through my station.  
They were skinned, beheaded, had their hooves clipped off, before they got to the gut table. They were gutted and then sawed in half at the briskets, and then straight down to the cooler and then on to "fab" where they were cut up. 
 
The gut table was just a big, stainless steel table on a conveyor track that once out, moved the guts to rendering, I assume. I only witnessed (and smelled) the operation from my station.
Now....imagine killing around 2000 animals a day and several stomachs are cut or busted. The smell from over there in 100 degree working conditions is unspeakable.
 
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CT did you guys have what looked like a couple of small hills in the back of the plant that were actually hides piled on top of one another.  Dead






Edited by mike650 - April/23/2009 at 18:13
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Originally posted by mike650 mike650 wrote:

CT did you guys have what looked like a couple of small hills in the back of the plant that were actually hides piled on top of one another.  Dead

 
No, Sir. 
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Originally posted by cheaptrick cheaptrick wrote:

The line moved an average of 300 head through my station.  
 
That's 300 head....an hour. Wink 
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Originally posted by cheaptrick cheaptrick wrote:

Originally posted by mike650 mike650 wrote:

CT did you guys have what looked like a couple of small hills in the back of the plant that were actually hides piled on top of one another.  Dead

 
No, Sir. 



The place I was at in the early '80's had those hills I spoke of. It was a "mom and pop shop" and sounds smaller than the one you worked at. There, as a vendor, you were issued rubber boots before you entered the floor.


Edited by mike650 - April/23/2009 at 19:34
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Mike, there may well have been a pile of hides at Swift in Des Moines, but I never saw them.
I never saw where the cattle were brought in the kill floor at. I saw them while they were in the squeeze chute about 10 seconds away from meeting the Knocker. Whacker 
I once ate a jelly donut and watched the knocker with a new guy I was training standing by me.....He started dry heaving for some reason.....Big Grin
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Big Grin
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Originally posted by Ed Connelly Ed Connelly wrote:




“A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.” – Fred Bear
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If you live in a state where hunting and fishing is not commonly taking place, and you ask someone, especially a youngster where does meat or fish come from? the answer is the STORE!  Loco

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Originally posted by Ed Connelly Ed Connelly wrote:

 
 Excellent Perfect, Ed! Dry heaves...
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 Ok, I found it:
 
 Fast forward about a third of the way thru to the segment with 'Troy McClure' in the cowboy duds. Typical stupid, but I thought it was pretty funny...
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  And they're STILL breeding!
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Originally posted by cheaptrick cheaptrick wrote:

When the line would go down for any length of time, we would get bored and throw cow body parts at guys working in other stations.
Me and my partner worked on the "side puller", so we'd throw pieces of hooves, tails, fat and whatever else we could get our hands on at the dudes around us.
Nothing like getting smacked in the face with a bloody piece of liver, I'll tell ya......Big Grin
 
Working the "gut table" was bad......

ED!!!!!!!!! where is that picture of your psychoanalyst taking notes?????
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Thanks RONK!
 
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