Did you know that my cordless recip saw makes a wonderful meat saw for cutting up deer?
I ended up being camp butcher this year and the bone saw one of the guys brought was a real piece of junk to say the least, and I was in a hurry so I saw the reciprocating saw sitting there and sais hmmmm. Slickest thing ever. Works great for removing antlers, cutting the lower legs off, quartering, whatever.
Also don’t waste your money on expensive knives for skinning your deer. I skinned 4 deer with one $0.99 snap blade utility knife. I sharpened it as needed because I am cheap and wanted to know just how long it would last. I know the tips snap off and make it sharp again. I still have 3 or 4 segments left.
Do any of you have unique uses for various tools?
Ebe
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I bandsaw cow hooves and pigs ears and rawhide chewies for the dogs on my woodworking saw, cleaning it is kinda nasty, but it's not a frequent chore.
With the new Dewalt recip saw and it's sideways blade orientation you can rivet tooth brush size wire brushes, and sanding pads to old dull blades, and make all sorts of clean up tools.
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Bandsaws are nasty to clean after sawing meat. There was a guy down here that killed two Morman missionaries, cut'em up on a bandsaw, and fed'em to the hogs.
The law caught him after they found human blood, their watches, wallets, and bikes out in his shed.
Never did figure out who bought the sausage though...
good idea about altering old blades..I will have to log that one into the old memory bank.
Ebe
My buddy used his cordless recip saw 2 years ago for the same butchering process.
Very effecient.
Hammerdrill for putting in ground rods and roto hammer for running conduit under sidewalks is all i can think of now.
how do you chuck up the conduit into the rotohammer? any tips?
Re. connecting to conduit.
either use pipe fittings to reduce down to size that you can connect chuck to and the electric companies make adapters as well.
Me and my dad used mine to split a submarine sandwich once.
For bread I recommend a course blade.
Family.....They're always there when they need you.
Maybe we are on to an entire new line of equipment and accesories.
When I worked road construction I learned to cook on the equipment... heat sandwiches on manifolds, wrap food like sweet corn in foil and place in hot mix (Black top....or "tar" to those that don't know the difference). Today it was raining out so I warmed my sandwiches on the defroster in the cab of the truck as I went down the road. It was already pre cooked .... so don't call the food police yet.
One of my favorite sayings: If you use what you have, then you have what you need. Read it in a business book.
Bet you could scramble the hell out of an egg with the Fein MM.
That tool does everything.
Family.....They're always there when they need you.
I didn't think of that either...good one.
I have heard of shaking a can of paint on an inverted palm sander before though. Takes a little while though.
Actually, the best way to mix Corian seam fill is clamp it in an orbital sander's paper clamp ( if any one still has one) and vibe it for exactly 45 seconds.
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You do that? or "THEM"?
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BRING BACK SPLINTY.
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Damm, i wasted a perfectly good tirade.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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Yum; this is the best breakfast thread ever.Scott.Always remember those first immortal words that Adam said to Eve, “You’d better stand back, I don’t know how big this thing’s going to get.”
Damm, i wasted a perfectly good tirade.
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I was just working on my x-mas list and thinking about asking for an electric fillet knife. Now I can up the anty and double down with the MM.
Thanks.
Ebe
wrap food like sweet corn in foil and place in hot mix
Are you saying that you drop the foil wrapped corn down into the hot mix? Sure hope the foil is sealed perfectly. Gives a whole new meaning to blackened fish."Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
Double wrapped the foil, we only used clean gravel in our asphalt. You gotta die from something and I would sooner die from that then lots of other ways.
I hope you are not one of those people that washes their hands every time they turn around. Just kidding. Now that would kill me. Don't get me wrong I believe in hygene and am quite clean....just love to get dirty. Makes it look like you did something when you come home.
Ebe
I hope you are not one of those people ...
Before eating, I sterilize my hands by wiping them on the cleanest part of my jeans."Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
your my kind of people. Once when working on the road, dropped my sandwich on the ground, picked it up, brushed it off and ate it. guy next to me said it was dirty....I said "nah it was clean dirt"
Life is a matter of perspective.
Ebe
You will like this story from my Grand-dad. He was a mechanic all his life. He had a good sense of humour too.One day at the shop they were all eating lunch, brown bag style. He liked sandwiches made with a lunch meat called olive loaf sometimes. Kind of a baloney with bits of black olive in it.So he has a couple bites, and one of the other guys says, "Hey Norm, something black on your sandwich - is it grease?"He rears back and takes a good look, like he is trying to focus to be sure, then says, "naw, just a fly" as he gulps it down. I guess the other guy about puked at the thought, LOL
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I beat that.
DW and I were out in the dog pen shovelling the poo outta the wood chip bedding. There was s glob of great stuff foam from some excess I had trimmed earlier, it had weathered in place on the house to a nice golden brown.
She looked at my area and pointed "You missed one" , and I picked it up bare handed and bit a chunk off.."Yup, I did. Not bad"
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Yeah, easier to get them wimins with one like that.
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I am so going to use that on my kids.
good one.
Ebe
I love olive loaf, also pickle and pimento loaf.
dropped my sandwich on the ground, picked it up, brushed it off and ate it. guy next to me said it was dirty....I said "nah it was clean dirt"
Way back at a Boy Scout Jamoree, we were getting graded on our cooking by a Scoutmaster that was fromna different troop in a different state.
Picked up some food with fingers vs. tongs while cooking - the guy asked another scout, Larry A., if he thought that was unsanitary or some such - Larry (not of BT fame, but whom I'd known since kindergarten) responded " After all the cr_ap we done together, figure we got the same germs, dont bother me none"
I've seen my Dad, when he was eating outside, see an ant on his food. He'd always say "I'll help you down but if you want back you'll have to walk." Then he'd proceed to eat the food, ants and all.
You haven't lived until you've shaved with a power planer. Set to 1/64th of course ...
Jeff
don't knock ants til you try 'em. They aren't half bad......kinda sweet.
Ebe
When I was dating the ex, she had four kids from the previous marriage, I poured a bowl of cereal, put the milk on it and sat down with the girls, (9, 7, and 5), to eat it.
I had the third spoonfull in my mouth when the oldest pointed out that there were tiny ants all over it. I said, " Free protein", and proceeded to eat the rest of the bowl. The girls were pretty sure I was some kind of animal for the next year.
Actually, I've followed in my Dad's footsteps and your right-- they ain't half bad. :)
Me and my kid used an old jig saw and a cordless drill with hole saw to carve a pumpkin a couple of years ago.
I wonder if I could attach my hammer drill to the end of the meat grinder so I don't have to crank it by hand...but then again I have children...so why am I doing it?
Ebe
a friend of mine once decided to cut a ham off from his hanging frozen venison for his wife to cook for thankgiving dinner
with a chain saw.
He threw the carcass on the kitchen table and went at it. I was concerned about the fumes in the house so he hollered so open the door.
What neither one of us considered was the venison chips as sawdust. They were flung around the room onto the hutch and glass doors there, on the ceiling, to the rungs of all the chairs within five or six feet. Even some over into the dining area with his wonderful avacado green shag carpet.
of course, the heat of the chainsaw had thawed all those chips of meat, so they stuck well, plastered to everything they hit.
I think he saved twenty minutes with a hand driven meat saw, but we spent three hours cleaning up while his wife giggled and cooked venison ham.
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Geez.
And I only thought us idiots from Texas did that kind of shid....
close. He was from Oklahoma.
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My dad lost a cow to old age about 20 years ago b/4 he had a tractor. Hand dug grave, adjust carcass to fit.
With a chainsaw!!!
Not too messy when cow is frozen solid.The best reward for a job well done is the opportunity to do another.
Cold up on the mountain, ain't it !.
Good tell, your friends name isn't Jason or Freddie is it?
An Old timer once showed me how to rip long pieces of valley tin with just a long 2x4, a screw and long piece of wire and a start with a snips. Great way to avoid multiple cuts on hands.
Ebe
His friends all called him Archie.his wife had a handful of different names for him, depending on her mood and his behaviour. She was half Cherokee.
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cut my toenails with a router, got a nice ogee profile on them
sounds like another great lead into a unique tool. Just what the world needs. I had a girl friend that should have done that......
Ebe
cut my toenails with a router
Wow, give us a youtube link please - U B 1 gut C fella.
A few days ago, my FIL wanted some oysters and I opened them with a hammer and screwdriver.
"A few days ago, my FIL wanted some oysters and I opened them with a hammer and screwdriver."
So, why'd ya need the hammer, girly man? ;-)
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So, why'd ya need the hammer, girly man? ;-)
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"You just gotta know where to tickle 'em to make 'em laugh."
Good point -- they're already smilin' all the time, so it should be easy. ;-)
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I just sing to them and they laugh out loud
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Why do you need a screw driver?
Well, the OJ is pretty healthy for a person . . . <g>Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
I've been using a folding tree saw for sheetrock for years - one of these years, I'll be done!
Also used to use a cordless drill to make hole if frozen pasture for portable electric fence - but I don't have to do that any more...
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When we were first married, we had an older couple over for dinner one night. They were quite well off financially speaking, and for some reason they had taken a liking to us. (We didn't have two cents to rub together.) Anyway for dessert my wife had made something that required whipped cream. We didn't own an electric mixer or a hand eggbeater for that matter. I had always just chucked a whisk in my 3/8" all metal commercial/industrial Black & Decker drill (that weighed about ten pounds) and whipped the heavy cream in about a minute. That was in the days before cordless drills. When I broke out the drill the lady was positively mortified at the thought of whipping cream with an electric drill. Anyway to make a long story short, about a week later a package arrived for us. They had sent us a belated wedding present of a very nice Kitchen-Aid mixer which we still use to this day.
That is priceless. Great story!!!
I know of the drill you were speaking of and yes they are heavy.
Thanks for sharing.
Ebe
dang, those Kitchen-Aide mixers weigh in at ten or eleven pounds themselves, don't they?
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I can skin a deer in 90 seconds with a golf ball, some rope, and a pick-up.
+1 on the sawsall
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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I am very impressed, my boss would hire in a minute. He is a "faster the better" kind of guy. Your concept would also be a great substitute for tarps that are missing grommets.
If I were to use your method I would opt for pulling out the 12v 3000# electric winch. Shop isn't long enough for your method.
Great idea.
Ebe
I post some pics when I finally send an arrow through one (been a tough season so far)..........
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I've been using a cordless sawzall for carcass cut up for years, but I've mostly stopped doing it and now usually bone out the carcass when it drops in the field, depending on the size of the animal.
Once you get the hang of it, it is fast and easy. The State of Colorado sells a field boning dvd on their DOW website that clearly spells out the steps.
I'll admit that this year I just picked up my little pronghorn and threw it on the tailgate to dress it, but for something such as a large buck or any elk it's easier to bone it in place. If you haven't tried it, you'll be amazed.
How do you hang boned meat to cure?
In a game bag.
How long do you let it hang?
Do you use a processor or process it yourself?
I don't like mine to hang at all.
I process mine as soon as I get home.Russell
The hanging time depends on the temperature. Anywhere from two days, when it is forty-five out, to a week or two as it drop towards freezing.
Well aged beef is two weeks, at 45-degrees.
I always process my own game meats, as most butchers try to process it like it is beef. The fats in game meets don't generally mellow with aging like beef, and get rancid instead, even when frozen. Part of why many people don't like game meat because of the "gamey" taste.
I leaned how to butcher, cure and cut beef the summer I was the cook's helper on a ranch. We were feeding 35 to 40 guys, and an extra 10 or 12 when the hay crew was on the ranch, so we butchered once or twice a week.
Thanks J&F.
Always wondered why people liked to let them hang.
I still like to process mine as soon as possible.Russell
This exchange is rife with opportunity for double entendre` guys.;)The best beef I ever ate was served up to me by a guy who used to have his own high end restaurant. It was a dinner made in the new kitchen I had built for him at his home.He explained the process. He would choose grain fed beeves, and hang them whole at exactly 34° for thirty days. said that way, the enzymes would break some things down to sort of pre-digest the meat, while not allowing bacteria to run rampant. Then it got cut up and processed. Whether served immediately or flash frozen made no diff in the taste after that.said that if it got to 40°F or warmer, it had to be processed right away before the bacteria could start to spoil the meat.Game harvested venison hung in the barn or under a tree can't have controlled temps like that, so it should be processed pretty soon. I lost one once cause I was sick, the kids were sick, the wife was gone out of town... Always hated to have lost that meat. Especially after I'd hunted so hard for it.
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I was thinking the same thing when I wrote it Piffin.
But I knew as prim and proper as we all are here no one would notice. :)Russell
Russ, the purpose of hanging the meat is to let the enzymes that are in it have a chance to break it down and tenerize it. Natural teneder cuts, such as the back strap, or tenderloins don't need it. The large muscle masses, such as the hams, and others from the legs, do.
I just ran across a DVD on the internet for totally "filleting" a deer. We don't have much if any chronic wasting in deer here but would be cool to see how he does it. May spend the $10 just for curiousity. Advertised as getting all the meat without gutting the deer.
Ebe
If you get it let me know how he gets the tenderloins out.
They're inside the rib cavity, and run on the top just on the opposite side of the ribs from the back strap. Not sure how you get to them without removing the innards.
That's sort of what we do. I'm sure you can see how the front legs and hind quarters can come off without doing any gutting and then the rib meat and back strap can come off, too. The only trick is that you have to get some access to the gut cavity to pull out the tenderloins.If you hunt where you can drive right up to the kill site I don't think it makes much difference. If you have to carry the carcass by hand it's a big plus to bone it out.We never had a CWD case in deer or elk in our area, but it's rampant in other parts of Colorado.Do you do your own cut and wrap?
Dad used the band saw to cut a Turkey in half!!!!!
was the bird dead?;)
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lengthwise or crosswise? Was it still frozen?
Ebe
Yup still frozen
and I do believe it was neck to butt.
here in central alaska there are quite a few car vs. moose accidents and most of the time the moose loses...the food bank claims all of the slain moose for helping out the needy and what not..to butcher said moose they use a chainsaw with vegetable oil instead of bar and chain oil...seems to work pretty well but it's kinda freaky driving up on the scene....some bundled up grizzly adams wielding a bloody chainsaw...
All I ever wanted in life was an unfair advantage...
smart move to use the vege oil. may come in handy some day.
will log that into ol' memory bank....never know when something like that might come in handy.
Ebe
My grandfather was a lifelong mechanic and would always be looking for new ways to do something that would save time, money or effort. He figured that hand churning his homemade ice cream (his favorite dessert) was too much work. By jacking up the back wheels of the truck, he could tie a short length of rope to the churn handle and to the open rim of the rear wheel. Then, he would have someone stand on the churn for ballast and slowly let out the clutch to get the churn going.
It was a delicate balance that at least once resulted in a thrown churn-stander and ice cream mix on the walls! We always joked that their ice cream was so good because of the subtle exhaust flavor.