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Mainemeatman asked a good question on our Facebook butchers & meat cutters group.

 

Maine Meatman
Maine Meatman10:49am Nov 23
Does anyone split frozen turkeys anymore on the saw?? (if a customer asks?)
this was commonplace years ago (this time of yr) and how many hit a metal clip (around drumsticks) assuming it was plastic??


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Yes I did if they wanted it but watch out for the metal clip It can rip the bandsaw blade Al

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I still did it on my last year. If it had the steel ring i would stop at that point and back it out.

 

i don't remember hitting the ring, but I do remember having nightmares about it.  I have had the turkeys flip Lots of times.  To do this safetly you need a powerful saw, at least 3HP , but a lot of independents run on weaker saws.  So it was scary Sometimes.  

For the inexperienced cutters I would recommend not doing this until you watched a seasoned cutter do it a few times.



-- Edited by fdarn on Sunday 23rd of November 2014 12:54:32 PM

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haven't done it in a few years, but we'd would do it if someone asked. Of course some stores make you sign a book full of rules, one of them saying you'll totally take apart,  clean and sanitatize the saw between species. So if you follow the rules correctly, you might have to clean the saw twice to do that job. 



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The last 15 years of my meat career I advertised on the Turkey counter" half 10 to 12 lb turkeys. " I got 50 cents more a lb for them, I was going for the family of two or three. I would swipe down the saw with Sani-512 Sanitizer and run blade through some beef fat, never had a problem. I didn't mindsplitting them, I never turned a customer away for it. The cheap one had the wire, cut down close to it and a twist with a steel and it came out. you don't have to hit but one wire you learn to know the ones with it lol



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We have to split, we can't turn them down. our ass if anyone complain about our customer service 



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We split for any that ask, no problem, customer service



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we split



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apcowboy wrote:

The last 15 years of my meat career I advertised on the Turkey counter" half 10 to 12 lb turkeys. " I got 50 cents more a lb for them, I was going for the family of two or three. I would swipe down the saw with Sani-512 Sanitizer and run blade through some beef fat, never had a problem. I didn't mindsplitting them, I never turned a customer away for it. The cheap one had the wire, cut down close to it and a twist with a steel and it came out. you don't have to hit but one wire you learn to know the ones with it lol

 We used to do something that I now think is one of the worst things you can do to meat on a band saw. We used to slice bone in hams. Then we'd tie em and sell them whole. I mean in the middle of the day after who knows what was already cut. Maybe turkeys, maybe not. Maybe frozen liver, pork lions & butts, beef, etc. Just wipe off the table part. Maybe if you're really feeling like a hero, you can turn the upper wheel backwards as you wipe the blade with hot wet towel. But of course thats a waste of valuable time. Even if you do that, it's still not safe IMO. We also sold center cut slices and the ends as "ham hocks". All on the dirty saw.

The problem with the whole sliced ham of course is that you're not really going to cook it to a temperature that will kill any of the bacteria that surely is spread across the face of both sides of every slice.  Can't believe we used to do that. 

After Thanksgiving an the December holidays, we were often stuck with a few pallets of turkeys. Over the next few months,  we'd thaw and cut maybe 6 every day. Sometimes more. I always cut em with a knife, but some people used the saw. 



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