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pig de-hairing machines

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jim on van isle

03-03-2005 02:05:04




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could anyone tell me if there is such a thing as a pig de-hairing machine & how it works? thanks jim s




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Jim in NC

03-05-2005 06:00:25




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 Re: pig de-hairing machines in reply to jim on van isle, 03-03-2005 02:05:04  
We Scaulded our hogs in the past ,but it always took a long time to get the water heated. This was the slowest step in the process for us. The last few years we have used heavy duty clippers and simply gave the critters a good close haircut. We wash them with a hose or pressure washer. It has worked well for us.



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sunshine

03-03-2005 18:02:24




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 Re: pig de-hairing machines in reply to jim on van isle, 03-03-2005 02:05:04  
We have a cast iron scolding kettle if anyone just have to have one.



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ShepFL

03-03-2005 11:34:04




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 Re: pig de-hairing machines in reply to jim on van isle, 03-03-2005 02:05:04  
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This is what I use on theM piney woods rooters I hunt. Skin it just like you would a big ol' fat doe or cow elk. Lot less work etc.
FWIW
ShepFL



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Butcher

03-03-2005 18:42:50




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 Re: pig de-hairing machines in reply to ShepFL, 03-03-2005 11:34:04  
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Here's my favorites. Made by Weck &Muller- Soligen Germany. Both are over 30 years old and I have skinned 1000's of hogs and beef with them. I wish I could find new ones from the same mfg. That old German steel sure does hold an edge.

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JMS/MN

03-03-2005 10:01:30




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 Re: pig de-hairing machines in reply to jim on van isle, 03-03-2005 02:05:04  
Our local butcher shop has one. Never paid much attention to it, but did notice it in January when I brought a pig in. The scalding tank has a curved basket that raises the carcass out after scalding, and I seem to remember a horizontal shaft with some flaps on it- maybe canvas or leather, and I assumed that it rotated under power and whipped the hair off. Sort of like a chicken plucker that has rubber fingers on a rotating drum.

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Kevin Bismark

03-03-2005 18:23:37




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 Re: pig de-hairing machines in reply to JMS/MN, 03-03-2005 10:01:30  
Spent the last couple day"s wiring up equipment in a slaughter house, this guy is on the money, in this place they have a big scalding tank, then they pull up on a couple leavers and the basket rolls in into a machine along side of it that had 4 rows of blunt teeth with rubber pads on it that are rotated by an electric motor, the hide comes off and the chain hoist putts them up on the rail to get split

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Jim@concordfarms.

03-03-2005 09:07:10




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 Re: pig de-hairing machines in reply to jim on van isle, 03-03-2005 02:05:04  
There has to be such a thing. Right after I got out of high school I worked at a hog slaughtering plant. I was lucky enough not to have to work on the killing floor, but when they came into the cutting room they had their skin but all the hair was gone. I can't imagine scalding and scraping 5000 hogs per day by hand. Must be some kind of big, mechanical machine that gently rubs the hair off between textured rollers. Jim.

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Jim@concordfarms.

03-03-2005 09:02:39




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 Re: pig de-hairing machines in reply to jim on van isle, 03-03-2005 02:05:04  
There has to be such a thing. Right after I got out of high school I worked at a hog slaughtering plant. I was lucky enough not to have to work on the killing floor, but when they came into the cutting room they had their skin but all the hair was gone. I can't imagine scalding and scraping 5000 hogs per day by hand. Must be some kind of big, mechanical machine that gently rubs the hair off between textured rollers. Jim.

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Allan in NE

03-03-2005 16:16:13




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 Re: pig de-hairing machines in reply to Jim@concordfarms., 03-03-2005 09:02:39  
Hi Jim,

Don't know how they do in nowadays, but the oldtimes scalded 'em in a boiling lye solution.

Off shoot was to make soap outta the left-overs somehow. I was too young at the time, but kinda remember my dad doing it.

Allan



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Bill WI

03-03-2005 08:30:50




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 Re: pig de-hairing machines in reply to jim on van isle, 03-03-2005 02:05:04  
We used to scald and scrape them with scrapers, but I've heard of a lot of guys skinning them now. NEVER done it and would suggest seeing someone do it as otherwise may be grease up to the elbows. lol



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Dave H (MI)

03-03-2005 07:09:01




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 Re: pig de-hairing machines in reply to jim on van isle, 03-03-2005 02:05:04  
If there IS such a thing I'd like to see it. Then I could relax knowing I had seen it all.
Someone who butchers pigs can correct me, but isn't that what all the big kettles at the auctions were used for?



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Steve (Magnolia, TX)

03-03-2005 08:58:46




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 Re: pig de-hairing machines in reply to Dave H (MI), 03-03-2005 07:09:01  
That was kinda my thoughts on it, too. I thought that I had heard about some folks searing the hairs off (either with a torch or over an open fire)...

Both options sound like "hot time" to me....

Steve



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jhill

03-03-2005 10:21:46




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 Re: pig de-hairing machines in reply to Steve (Magnolia, TX), 03-03-2005 08:58:46  
They used to scold the pigs in those big couldrons and then scrape them woit a hog scraper. They are a handle with a circular knife attached perpendicular to the end.



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Gary The Rookie Farmer

03-04-2005 18:55:59




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 Bad little piggy! in reply to jhill, 03-03-2005 10:21:46  
"They used to scold the pigs"



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