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From: MSN Nicknamec.gifLeon_the_old_silverfox  (Original Message)Sent: 8/24/2007 6:28 AM

How many of you ever recieve meat to your market off a meat truck like this, and even help unload it !!! emsmileo.gif

I have MANY timesemwink.gif
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From: MSN Nicknamec.gifCarniceroLarrySent: 8/24/2007 10:59 AM

Hundreds of times. I never really carried the quarters. I'd just hold the hooks and let the driver lift and carry. I'm not really strong enough to do the real work. I can lift one, but only with great effort and then I wouldn't be able to carry it very far. Some markets have a nice set up where their rails closely meet the truck rails. Sometimes the quarter has to be carried a long distance on someone's shoulder. I have to admit, I just can't do that. Not real safe, even for a strong person. They should have carcass carrying on that TV show on ESPN2. You know, "Worlds Strongest Man".



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From: MSN Nicknamec.gifapcowboySent: 8/25/2007 12:05 AM

Larry in those days I was lucky, REAL LUCKY, I could handle it and the " fool "  I was back then, I just had to " show " off some times. I found I could get between two hinds on a double meat hook, hook my fingers into the loin eye and come up with them both and walk about 50 feet to the cooler and hook each on the wall hooks. It's a wonder I didn't mess up my back or knees back then. Guess " God " does look out for " fools " sometimes !!

When I started in the business, hinds ran about 150 to 180, fronts about 200 to 230.  It was " hell " if you drop one and didn't have some one to help you get it up !!

Guess you could have call me " the stupid cowboy " back thenemembarrassed.gif



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From: hunter092363Sent: 8/25/2007 8:17 AM

hi guys , im still dealing with that , hang beef is a pain i have to left the hind off the trucks and the drivers hooks them , the fronts i hold the hooks , but taking them off the hooks is tricky , and putting on the saw is hard , even if some of them wieght in at 250 lbs , the hind we break down you take the the loins off , we do have some box beef but most of that is angus and strips ,



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From: MSN Nicknamec.gifluvsflowersSent: 8/26/2007 8:38 AM

Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!

         That's me runnin' from the Johnson Packers truck. The shop I trained at bought all the 4H beef,lamb, and pork. It came just like that!



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From: MSN Nicknamec.gifCarniceroLarrySent: 8/26/2007 10:55 AM

Has anyone here ever received carcass beef, lamb, or pork that's so freshly killed that muscles are still quivering? From 1978-1980, I worked at a market that as part of our business would cut & wrap home grown animals. 25 cents per pound was the charge. Lots of people had 2 acre lots with one steer, or a few lamb or pigs. They would be brought in less than one hour dead sometimes. Hot, dripping and quivering. They have these tiny muscle movement for quite a while. By muscle movement, I don't mean they move legs or open & close their mouth. The still body has quivering muscles.



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From: MSN Nicknamec.gifapcowboySent: 8/26/2007 12:29 PM

No Larry can't say I have.



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going back over some old post, there was some good ones on the old site !!!!!

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I thought I would bump this one up so the young bloods could see what that stuff looks like in quarters, and by the way it weigh a lot more than box and didn't have handles on it lol

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Thought I would bump this one up again lol

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when i first started at iga they came kinda like that......but at that time i only cut chicken didnt have to deal with it lol...

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Oh yeah!! I remember the good ol days. We used to get about 6 to 8 sides a week from Emge Packing in Ft Branch, Ind. The truck would back up to the back door, and we would have to lift and carry them and hang in the meat cooler. Then, turn around and carry then out to the butcher blocks where we'd break them down. Full service meat case with the white butcher paper for wrapping. Best days! My younger brother worked with me for a while and was carrying a hind a and some how he tripped and landed with the hind on top of him. he laughed about it till he found out he got his first hernia.

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One of the things I miss from those days was the mutual respect one cutter gave another and if one wasn't cutting something just right a older head would step in and say, let me show you a easier way. NEVER heard anything like " you doing that wrong or you need to find another kind of work.

twice in my life then, I came arcoss two meat wrappers that help to unload meat trucks, they could carry a hind or front like a man lol those were two I never ask out for a cup of coffee lol

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i remember when i was learning the older guys would laugh and ridicule more than help.....kinda made u scared to screw up ...lol

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If we screwed up we got dunked head first in the bone barrel. I never got dunked. I look at like I never screwed up...but really it's cuz I could run faster that the older cutter and they could never catch me!

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SO you saying you could run a 2 min mile in your younger days LOL

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No but me and a buddy used to do mobile slaughter, don't miss that!

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It's funny if we do that kind of stuff today we get in trouble, back then it was a right of passage!

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I gave a guy the, "Hey smell this" trick and he runs to the store manager? It ain't what it used to be!

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