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Yes i know what stays on for skin. Im a butcher and slaughterman. Leaving the skin on these days is mostly a gimmick to get the costomer to pay more for hanging weight. Unless you are doing a roaster there really is no point. As a butcher i love it when a customer wants me to scald. I make way...

I love welding! Its easy! Nothing cooler than holding the power of the sun in your hand! Couldnt live on the farm without one. If you were closer i would grab some pipe from the scrap pile, zap it and probably charge you nothing. Oh and its common for be to have to file little burs off my...

Seams like your math was done by hanging weight. Hanging weight and what you get back for actual meat are not the same. I do all my math by the actual meat i get to eat.

Why would you lrave the skin on? They then hang the pig with skin and you pay to cut and wrap it while 95 percent of it ends up in the gut pile.

Why not just get a small piece of 3/4 pipe and weld it on to the gate?

Those are good knives. I've used them. More of kitchen knives than butcher knives but work well. The bottom one on bee's pic works very well for chickens. I didn't like any of them for deboning, skining, or general breaking down of the carcass on pigs. Not flexible enough for my liking. The very...

The mason jars are my half of this years maple syrup run. And the other pic is my syrup arch. We got a late start this year so thats all the homemade syrup i got. Realizing now just how spoiled i am with being able to do that. God i love new England! hate hate hate the taxes but love this place...

Bacon cure for me is 1 gallon maple syrup, 2 pounds fine sea salt, 2 pounds brown sugar, 2 tbs pepper. Then add water till bacon is covered. This is a great bacon cure. I go minimum 5 days soak. Then a good hot smoke. Works good on ham too but isn't the best. Does make the best bacon in my...

Ya i love their knives! I forgot how much i paid but it wasn't too expensive.

It is sharp on both edges. No that is factory. It is an actual old hickory sticking knife. Made for just what it does, and it works very well. Having both sides sharp means i dont have to flip it to go the other way, witch is handy when sticking a full grown critter.

Ya thats about right on butcher cost. You do your own cures, nice! Do you have a chamber? Thats a good deal on feed. We are 50 bucks for 350 pounds of grain, thats like 7 dollars and change per 50 pounds. Im still betting when you get all your meat back you will be 3 bucks a pound all said and...

As a butcher i charge 50cents a pound cut and wrap (hanging weight) then 1.50 a pound for smoking. Almost every pig cost the customer about 300bucks for butchering. We get a very good deal on feed and it usually cost us about 300 bucks to feed them to butcher weight. Im very curious to see if...

Thats my luck too. If it can just break a little or completely grenade, it will grenade on me...

Wow that grenaded!

All diesels do have glow plugs. And an engine that is known to have problems is going to have them. As i said before they are more expensive just not extremely. Bit then again a Detroit can be rebuilt for 125 a cylinder. Thats cheap, even cheaper than most gas jobs. An engine is an engine. Gas...

Diesel is more expensive but its not extremely expensive like stated about. They last longer with less major repairs. Yes those are really nice trucks! 2500 makes me wonder though.

Trailer brakes are ridiculously easy and cheap to fix. They are simple to adjust as well. Have never seen or had them fail on a well maintained trailer and I've worked on tons of them. Not having them isn't the end of the world but i personally wouldn't haul with out them. Remember one thing if...

Most all horse trailers have electric brakes. Make sure your rig has a brake controller.

Ya i grew up western, not much slow about it. And no side saddle? My sisters both were champion ISO riders. My one sister was 3 time international champion before the age of 18.

Well now that i think about it fjords are about a 1000lbs and a trailer is about 2500lbs then your gear and passengers is about lets say a 1000lbs. So you are at 5500lbs. Should be good. Would want a v8 in it though and transmission cooler. Dodge is known for weak transmissions so a cooler in my...