Fall harvest! A different type than usually on here.

Eldo case · Oct 14, 2010

The reason to bale hay! Also tractor related. Our first steer in our new meat house that we call it. Built it for family use. Already worked three bow kill deer in it. Really makes it nice to have cooler and all the equipment to do the job. My son is caring in the rear quarter in the photo. Very good to have help like this.

msb · Oct 14, 2010

Very nice setup.

TimV · Oct 14, 2010

Brings back memories! We'd usually butcher one cow a year from our dairy herd--often a maiden heifer or an older cow that wouldn't breed back but was still in good shape. Fatten them up a bit and tap them on the head come November. Hang them a few days on the chainfalls in the shop and do a quarter every night after chores. Can still see Gramp looking over his little chart of beef cuts and then sharpening up his knife to cut "thin steaks" from the best parts--you could practically use his steaks for window glass, and 30 seconds in a hot skillet would make them melt in your mouth! Slap them between two pieces of fresh home-made bread and no king ever ate better. Made up a lot of hamburger and sausage (ground on a board-mounted grinder powered with the same motor that ran the hay elevator, and fed by us kids out of big bowls by hand--still have all of our fingers, too!), T-bones, and canned beef as well, plus a few roasts and such. Haven't butchered like that in 20 years, though I still help friends with deer, pigs, and such.

ChrisinMO · Oct 14, 2010

Now you're just making me hungry!

A very nice setup indeed. Gets me to thinking about what we could do here.

Christopher

randallk · Oct 14, 2010

Where's the beer? Hey, that's one nice looking table top you've got there. Did you build that? How did you do it?

Stan - Florida · Oct 14, 2010

Bob,

Sort of remeinds me of Young's Packing Co. in Noblesville when I worked there back in '56/'57, only probably a lot cleaner.

Stan

Fawteen · Oct 14, 2010

Nice Setup! If I had something like that to work with, I could save myself 400 miles a year!

The nearest butcher shop that will do anything but deer or chickens is right at 100 miles away, one round trip to drop 'em off, another to pick up the packaged meat.

Not to mention the cost of butchering...

James Howell · Oct 14, 2010

Very nice meat house; really like the "cooler".

Not too many butcher shops still around to "process" your meat any more.

Thanks for sharing your photos with us.

kyplowboy · Oct 14, 2010

Very nice set up!!

We will still do a hog here at the house but not really set up to do beef.

I guess I am one of the lucky ones. There is a little Mennonite butcher shop just off the path between home and my night job. I can drop off a steer or hog on my way to work and pick up meat on the the way home a few days or two weeks later. They do a great job and are really fair on the price. Their sausage is as good as I have had other than fresh out of the grinder here at the house.

Our little local Mennonite shop is really handy, as long as you plan ahead. I scheduled 3 steers for next October back in July and there was not many slots left. They stay booked up for about 6 months on hogs.

Dave

Spook · Oct 14, 2010

Nice setup. Probably lots of pros aren't that clean.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 14, 2010

We used to get beef processed at Young's. (I'm almost 30 years old.) I'm pretty sure I remember getting an orange push-up when we picked up the beef.

TimV · Oct 14, 2010

Golly, gee--I'm sorry! Did I mention making the sausage from 2/3 beef, 1/3 pork and whatever Morton's seasoning we felt like using, usually after copious testing to make sure we were happy with the end result? Only thing better than the fresh sausage was the same sausage for breakfast the next morning when it had had a night to flavor through setting in 30-lb batches! How about taking a handful of the pork cubes that were headed for the sausage grinder and throwing them in a cast iron frying pan on the wood stove to keep starvation at bay while we were cutting up the rest? Dangit, now I'm making MYSELF hungry!

Eldo Case does have a very nice setup, and it's comforting to know that this way you're getting your own (and ALL your own) meat back, which doesn't always happen at a butcher shop.

larry@stinescorner · Oct 14, 2010

thats a nice setup really nice pictures thanks for posting them , Do you have a band saw?

Stan - Florida · Oct 14, 2010

Wow, you got real good treatment. In the '50s, I got a dollar an hour and all I could drink on killing day.

Just kidding...Bob and Mary Katherine were great folks to work for. Their son, Bobby, might have been running the operation when you were a kid, eh?

I grew up southeast of Noblesville, on what is now known as 131st St. The address is now 10870 E. 131st St., where the new fire station is located, about 1/8 mile west of Promise Road.

Stan Huff

larry@stinescorner · Oct 15, 2010

would you mind sending some pictures when you are cutting up the beef? That would be interesting also., thanks larry

Eldo case · Oct 15, 2010

I will try to get pictures when we work it. Yes I have a band saw,grinder,tenderizer and slicer. The table top I purchased from Grizzly. It has a food grade finish on it from factory. Not cheap! We just got tired of not getting our meat cut and packaged the way we asked. Also the price to have to pay to get one done. My son started this sort of. He is a bow hunter and gun. I found the grinder and saw at a neighbors who wasn't using it any more for a very cheap price. We were tired of hand grinding 4 or 5 deer. Then he found this cooler. It was in a restaurant that went under and only was in use for around a year. It is a 2000 year model and I have less than a new refrigerator invested in it. I just picked up stuff hear and their. Then had to build a building for it all. It would be nice to have a larger building but cost and keep it warm in the winter made me stop with what we built. Thanks for all the positive comments. We like it so far and not sorry that we built it.

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