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From: MSN Nicknamec.gifsquirrel728  (Original Message)Sent: 10/14/2008 10:40 PM

Hello everyone! Thought I'd check out this club and see whats all here. I've been a meatcutter for about 38 yrs now. Work in Santa Claus, Ind. Holiday Foods.

And yes, I see Santa several times during the year. I really enjoy my work, especially

serving the customers and taking care of their needs. I was brought up on the swinging beef. Getting in 10 to 15 sides a week and breaking it all down. ( the good ol days ) I keep hearing that meatcutters are a dying breed. True or not true?

We have several big campgrounds nearby as well as a large amusement park, and we always have a number of campers come in during the spring, summer, and fall and sometimes they stop by the meat dept and watch me while I cut meat. They point and ask " what is that". Thats what I like. To explain to them the different cuts that I do  how to cook it. I'll turn 51 in late Oct and I hope I'll  have a lot more years in me to continue to do what I do best.  By the way 29 stitches and counting. Ha!



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From: MSN Nicknamec.gifapcowboySent: 10/15/2008 4:59 AM

Hi Squirrel,

GLAD TO HAVE YOU IN THE HOUSE !!! emteeth.gif

Sounds like you work in a interesting place !!

I've been one of the lucky ones, in all my years I only had 17 stitches BUT  10 of them was when I hung my self on a wall meat hook in the shoulder, LOL ,but that is a long story lol

 

LEON, the apcowboy



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From: MSN Nicknamec.giffdarnSent: 10/15/2008 8:07 AM


uh. cowboy  whats that all about?  What were you doing on a meat hook?  I got 8 stitches in my middle finger and 6 in the finger next to it in a horrifying band saw accident when the shortloin flipped over suddenly and threw my hand into the blade.  it was an old saw, dull blade, with missing guards, the company got in big trouble for that one.  i also slashed my left wrist one time when i was cutting open a box with my boning knife. the knife got stuck i pulled too hard and it whipped out and hit my other wrist.   that was all a long time ago i haven't had a single accident in 10 years now just an occasional band aid. 




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From: MSN Nicknamec.gifbikeshooterSent: 10/19/2008 8:03 PM

Hi squirrel and welcome,

Sounds like we started 'bout the same time @38 years exp and counting. Yeah, those were the good old days too. Wooden blocks, saw dust and hanging 1/4s. Cookin' bacon o;n the hand wrapper hot plate. Salt from salted backs getting in any little scratch. Market sliced bologna. Ice pack whole birds. Cuttin' chicken parts.

Yeah, we are a dying breed sad to say. Processing has gotten so centralized at the packing houses.

Stitches? Lost count long ago. At one E.R. they knew me on a first name basis though. Then there was the new steak knife I jabbed into my right thigh but that's another story - lol sort of.

Hey cowboy - how in the world did you end up on a rolling hook?


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From: MSN Nicknamec.gifapcowboySent: 10/21/2008 8:38 PM

I was 18 working for A&P in Mobile, Al.   fast as lighting, we were breaking beef down and hanging it in the cooler, every time I went into the cooler I had to side step a slab bacon box. I had the last beef loin going in to hang it, this time I didn't side step the bacon box far enough, I trip on the edge of it just as I was fixing to throw the loin,  the loin went one way, I took the hook into my left shoulder, hung just like a beef loin emembarrassed.gif  had 10 stitches inside, 7 on the outside.

 

there is still more to this story at the Doctors office with a young nurse while the Doctor was sewing me up, I was a bad boy with her holding my hand and arm to keep me from moving it and my finger tips touching her BUT I'll get to it next time !!



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From: MSN Nicknamec.gifapcowboySent: 10/21/2008 8:41 PM

fdarn,  dull blade hurts more than a sharp one !!!  dull knife to  lol



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From: MSN Nicknamec.gifCarniceroLarrySent: 10/23/2008 9:03 AM


I've been very lucky (so far). Don't want to jinx myself, I'm superstitious that way, but up to this point (30 years) no stitches yet. I do have several small visible scars from knife cuts. Badges of honor. A souvenir from each market I've worked at for a long period of time.  I can understand the meat hook thing. We have trees in our small cooler. Often we have to carry something heavy between the trees and I always thought there was a small chance someone will fall backwards onto a tree and get hung up there.

I did get hit on the forehead once with a hook. There was a bad section of a rail, where it can change tracks and a hindquarter came off that part of the rail. On the way down, the hook just grazed me a little. Enough to cut me and blacken both eyes, but not enough to knock me out.




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damn here is a old one  lol



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lol put that one in ur archives..lol


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