Cutting Day

[woodsman416]

Last Sunday we had a big cut at my house. Seven of us in all but some guys came late and others left early. We processed nine deer. Wound up with 450 hamburgers. That brings our total to 1150 and our goal was 1500 for the year. Also butterflied 16 backstraps and cooked two whole backstraps for lunch. Also made 80 lbs of "357" sausage and 80 lbs of unseasoned ground meat. We cut a bunch of 3/4" thick sirloin steaks as well. It was a long day but very satisfying!

The hanging/skinning room.


We start out here with a couple of guys skinning. Once a deer is skinned I debone it and than the meat goes outside where it's cooler.

[watershedman25]

Very nice!!

[woodsman416]

In the center room of my shop I have a couple of work benches set up for trimming. Usually we have two guys trimming and as they get done two more start mixing and grinding. On big cut days we use my BIG grinder. As batches of burgers or sausage are finished the meat lugs go out into another room where my bikes are usually parked. Here the meat gets pressed into patties or made into one pound packages of sausage or ground meat, wrapped up and boxed for even distribution.

[woodsman416]

Ed (long hair) and Jackie grinding up burger mix.

[woodsman416]

Kurt and Kevin pressing out patties.



My bikes temporarily homeless.



Walt, Ed and Emil standing. Emil's the one that flipped his quad. He's healing up pretty good.
Kurt and Jackie kneeling.
All the victims laying down in front!

[maritimer]

Great pics! I'd love to spend a day like that with friends.

Have a Karma buddy.

[Canadian trapper]

Wow you got this down to a fine art. Nice job and nice pics.
The Canadian Trapper

[acewoodsman]

man u guys have a really nice setup going there ;D

[trapperandhunter]

wicked set up i wish i lived closer ! ;D

[fishleclair]

Very nicely done, Thats what Hunting is about, Bringing friends together for the hunt, Bringing friends together to share the work in providing food for the family! ;D

This is how it was done many many years ago...Cept they didnt have all the fancy tools we have now!

[Admin]

You got some really cool stuff going on there ken. Awesome ;D

[prairiedoggin]

I'm taking notes. That's how it done. Great post

[trappingwolf]

Nice set up! Always nice to spend time with good friends.

[ninedeer]

awsome job guys Im sure a good time was had by all

[adksasquatch]

Nice. Man, does that bring back memories. When I was younger my family had a processing gig. We'd do a couple of hundred deer a season in SW PA. You do get pretty efficient at it.