Just for the hell of it, HOW many here remember the days when we use to have to take 180 lb Hinds and 220 lb fronts from the tail gate to the cooler and hand it by your selflol
my dad worked for a local packer. i road on the truck with him as a kid,. at 14 i told him i wanted to learn to cut meat so he said first step is learning to carry it LOL started me on hinds. taught me the trick of positioning and balance on shoulder said the rest is just walking ...
Oh boy do I remember! The truck would back up at the rear door and the beef would be stacked like cord-wood on the floor of the truck laying on peach-paper. We then would carry the hinds or fronts up the ramp into the cutting room. Reflecting back on those days; "and nobody died of e-coli 0-157!"
Had to handle prime h.q. for Big Star (Atlanta) in late 80's. Laying on it's side on a pallet when delivered. If you didn't have help you just wiggled that f****r onto the hook in cooler the best you could. Probably why I hurt to this day.
Yup, sure do remember those days. And always hated it when one was not hung properly in the cooler and would come loose from the hook. Seems like that only happend when I was alone in the shop. 140lb man wrestling a 220lb front up off the floor. Those days I whispered a lot of sweet nothings into the air!
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I'm not a vegetarian, but have eaten many animals that were.
O yes , I carried a many hinds and fronts from the bed of a trailer to the hanging scale then to the rail to push in the cooler . we were not lucky enough to have the scale hooked to the rail . I guess you could call that the good old days or just the old days . but it was fun at the time because we knew no other way . I still love to talk to the young cutters on how to break beef , where the muscles come from and what they do . they listen and love it . those are our cutters of the future . I wish everyone a great year . RLRW3
Always on the floor of the truck, always had to weigh, not on a rail scale but a platform. If we had to break it to weigh it, we did. When I first started, I used to think my dad was cheap or something but we caught bad weights most of the time. 3 per cent is what I recall as the " acceptable" difference. A lot of times no one was around to hold the hook, you had to 1hand it. My back still hurts today. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, I had to walk a mile to school! In the snow,rain,heat and so on. 3 times I can remember getting a ride, that's it.
