Skinning cradle

[AER244]

Yalls are gutting them while they hang? Unless whatever of mine has died in bare dust or goat heads, it’s getting gutted where it lays.

 

[2busy]

I gut mine in the woods before I move it very far.

I could not fathom picking up a deer with the guts in it and laying it on the cradle.
After you skin it do you cut all the meat off while on the cradle or pick it back up and move it again?

Lets say you did do a gutless process on the cradle now you still have to pick it up.
Much lighter now though.

If you need pipe and casters I have them and you can have them for free if you use them to make one for yourself.

I'm building this for pigs I am raising not particularly for deer.

 

[AER244]

I'm building this for pigs I am raising not particularly for deer.

What is ideal slaughter weight/age for you?

I see the cradle being most useful for pigs, deer seem pretty long…

 

[2busy]

Yalls are gutting them while they hang? Unless whatever of mine has died in bare dust or goat heads, it’s getting gutted where it lays.

This isn't just for skinning . I can scald and scrape pigs also.

 

[2busy]

What is ideal slaughter weight/age for you?

I see the cradle being most useful for pigs, deer seem pretty long…

Depends on what is in my freezer. I can butcher, cure at any weight. It's about what I want and not what is the norm for paid processing.

 

[2busy]

I gut mine in the woods before I move it very far.

I could not fathom picking up a deer with the guts in it and laying it on the cradle.
After you skin it do you cut all the meat off while on the cradle or pick it back up and move it again?

Lets say you did do a gutless process on the cradle now you still have to pick it up.
Much lighter now though.

If you need pipe and casters I have them and you can have them for free if you use them to make one for yourself.

I'll have a lift system using a winch . Not picking up by myself.

 

[2busy]

What is ideal slaughter weight/age for you?

I see the cradle being most useful for pigs, deer seem pretty long…

Building it big enough for beef too.

 

[2busy]

I'm tired of paying hundreds of dollars for sub par butchers.

 

[AER244]

Depends on what is in my freezer. I can butcher, cure at any weight. It's about what I want and not what is the norm for paid processing.

I figured. I just didn’t know if you had a preferred size or another variable

 

[2busy]

Glad to see Timmy59 lurking