The Appalachian
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Decided to go even further off grid with the grocery shopping and will be going back to raising a hog and a calf to kill each year.
Instead of sinking even more money into processing like in the past, my adult kids and I will do all the processing as we do with the whitetails we kill each year.
We usually bone out the deer but will definitely want to keep bone in on some cuts with the pork and beef, especially the pork. Nothing better than a bone in pork chop, nothing worse than a boneless one, in my opinion.
For a year old hog, a two year old steer, and half a dozen or eight deer that we bone out anyway each year I can't justify a meat band saw, and my cutting room doesn't have spare space for one anyway. So, it's a hand butcher saw. Probably can do fine with a 16 inch.
I've hacked critters apart before with a hacksaw, a carpenters saw, and a Sawzall, but this time I want a legit stainless steel butcher's saw.
Can get one from a dozen different sources, and pay a dozen different prices. Any first hand recommendations here before I take a stab in the dark with it?
Instead of sinking even more money into processing like in the past, my adult kids and I will do all the processing as we do with the whitetails we kill each year.
We usually bone out the deer but will definitely want to keep bone in on some cuts with the pork and beef, especially the pork. Nothing better than a bone in pork chop, nothing worse than a boneless one, in my opinion.
For a year old hog, a two year old steer, and half a dozen or eight deer that we bone out anyway each year I can't justify a meat band saw, and my cutting room doesn't have spare space for one anyway. So, it's a hand butcher saw. Probably can do fine with a 16 inch.
I've hacked critters apart before with a hacksaw, a carpenters saw, and a Sawzall, but this time I want a legit stainless steel butcher's saw.
Can get one from a dozen different sources, and pay a dozen different prices. Any first hand recommendations here before I take a stab in the dark with it?