Home butcher "Shop"

[bluegrasshammer]

As a play on the other thread about home butchering, let's see some pics of your set-up at home. Mines pretty simple right now. Just a gambrel, old table, and some knives. I plan to step it up shortly, though that's all I really need.

I want to build a table, topped with stainless, that folds up against the wall for space reasons. Probaly about 4' deep by 6' wide should do. Probably have some diagrams on the wall about different cuts, along with my grinder, sausage stuffer, knives, etc. all in one area dedicated to the job.

[dirtyd]

Bluegrass - good topic. I wish my setup were picture worthy but it's far from it. Move a bunch of stuff out of the way in the garage, blow off the sawdust, give it a quick wipe down and get after it.

[woodsman416]

I'll start with some photos of what I do outside, than later I'll post some from inside my shop.
I made this hoist out of three pieces of angle stock and three pieces of flat stock. Migged it all together, reinforced the inside of the barn wall and mounted it with 6 1/2" by 12" bolts that i made out of axle rod. Once mounted I installed a large pulley.

Now if you ever tried to raise 100 lbs on a single pulley, you know that's not an easy job. So i picked up a boat trailer winch at Tractor Supply and mounted it to the corner post of my shop building. I made up some cable and added a carabiner as a quick connect to hook to the pulley rope.

After I take a deer I hang it by the head, throughly wash out the body cavity and weigh it.

Than I lower it down and raise it up on a gambrel, skin and quarter it. The rest is done inside my shop. I'll post inside pics later today or tomorrow.

[bluegrasshammer]

Looks awesome so far!

[woodsman416]

Inside I set one of my workbenches up with my grinder. The grinder is a 1 hp that I got from Cabelas. Regular price was $399. When I was in the store there was a pallet of them marked down to $280. I was about to buy one when an employee came up and put a 50% off sign on the pallet. So I paid $140 for it! The cutting board is a commercial board that I got from a friend of mine. He's a manager at the local Shop-Rite. He grabbed this for me when they renovated the butcher shop. I use old refridgerator drawers as meat mixing boxes. For knives I use a buck skinner, a buck clip point, an old Herters drop point and a 9" fillet knife. The meat butchers scale is indispensible when making burger & sausage. I double wrap all my meat. The box at the end is plastic wrap. After that I wrap in the butcher paper on the roll. Paper towles are always on the bench. I love burgers, so the hamburger press in the picture gets a lot of use. That's about it. I do have another cutting borad that I set up on another bench when we're doing more than one deer.

[woodsman416]

And don't laugh at my Barbie dustpan & broom!

[bluegrasshammer]

I can't say I didn't chuckle a bit when I saw that! Cool set-up, looks very functional. Very similar to what I have in mind other than I want a fold up table. damn 2 stall garages... Thanks for posting.

[acewoodsman]

thats a good looking setup woodsman i haven't really set up my shop yet except my meatsaw an grinder everything else is still packed away in the corner we don't get started butchering untill around late jan early feb then the whole shop is in full swing we butcher around 10 hogs an get out all the deer grind meat from the freezer an make alot of different stuff i'll post some pics when we get started ;D

[Admin]

My fur shed has an area set aside for butchering. The main part of the shed has an electric winch mounted in the ceiling. I have replaced this sink with a stainless steel one since this pic was taken.

[samdog]

So woodsman do you use the "shop" as a fur shed also?

[muskrat24]

Those are some nice set ups fellas. ;D

[woodsman416]

Samdog, My shop actually has four rooms. I'll take some more pictures of the outside tomorrow if I'm home in the daylight. The main room in the pictures above is my main workshop. There is a second workbench that you can see in the second indoor picture. That's my archery bench. There is also a welding bench along the opposite wall. That one is movable and I fold it up and bring it outside as I need to (no welding on wooden floors!). Also there is a refridgerator/freezer in this room. As you walk in there is a door to the right, that's my furshed. There's a door to the left, that's my motorcycle shop. Also a door straight back that goes into my greenhouse. Everything is heated with an oil burning furnace that I converted to glycol. Also each room has it's own seperate thermostat, so I can only heat the rooms that I'm using. I've been working on this for about a year and I'm almost done. My winter project is to finish the horse stalls in the big barn. Than next year build a woodshed with a smokehouse attached to the end.

[woodsman416]

Here are front and back pictures of my shop.

[clamup]

N I C E ! Do you ever go up to the house??

[woodsman416]

My wife says I like it way to much out there but she doesn't mind much.

[blueduck]

Some of you guys have some nice setups. I do my cutting on the kitchen counter next to the sink. The wife wraps.......

[dirtyd]

Here's a few pictures from our sausage making last weekend. Ended up making approx. 135 lbs. Summer sausage, brats, Italian and polish. It all turned out pretty well. I'm hoping Santa brings me a stuffer. If so we're definitely going big next year.

[dirtyd]

A few brats..

[dirtyd]

And finally the smoker we had on loan. Next project on my to do list is build a smokehouse. Found some plans online that look perfect. Tongue and groove pine with a turkey fryer burner for heat, looks like something I could put together in an afternoon.

[badger]

Those are some awesome setups guys! Dirtyd, I'll be looking forward to some pics of that smokehouse.

Hey Ken, I didn't even notice the barbie stuff untill you pointed it out!

[Admin]

Looks like a nice set up ;D I see you use LEM products too. Good stuff ;D

[clamup]

Nice stuff,Love the smoker on loan. DirtyD what about that web site on the other smoker your going to build?

[bluegrasshammer]

This is similar to what I'm thinking of building. This what you had in mind, dirtyd?

www.canr.uconn.edu/ansci/ext/build_smokehouse.pdf

[dirtyd]

Bluegrass that's the exact one I was looking at.

[rustytrap]

looks like some nice set ups guys

[clamup]

Thanks for the web. I'm a bricklayer, so I'll be using block for the wallss

[redpig]

Man that looks good!