For a bunch of trappers and outdoorsman there seems to be a dearth of butcher know how. It ain’t hard. There’s no wrong way to do it, other than uncleanliness. Fire up the chainsaw, grab a meat saw, plug in the band saw. Whet yer knives and start the grill.

Gotta take live delivery from the farm though, huh? That might be a hindrance for some folks. Not everyone has a trailer capable of containing a 200-300 pound hog.

Man that is a lost art . When I was young the men in the community would have a hog killing. First COLD day in winter. Start boiling big tubs of water to scald them so the hair would come off. Then spend hours rendering off the lard and processing them. 5- 10 people would participate so every family had at least one hog to kill. Make the cracklings from the left overs. Put the crackling in corn bread.. MMMMM those were the days.

Transportation problem solved

Processing meat is a lot like wood working and metal working. Yea anyone can do it but those with the proper tools and experience our going to do a better job than someone with a skinning knife and a hand crank grinder

That's about what I picture every time coonman asks a question about his vechicle.

LMAO sounds about right

I seen a guy with a small flat bed trailer last friday going down the road. He was using cattle panels cut to box in his trailer. He had 5 or 6 in a 5 ft by 10 ft trailer. They looked to be going down the road good.Now these were big hogs, close to 300 lbs

I bought a hog that weighed around 280 , they killed , skinned , cut in half and hung in the cooler $85

Jeez, wish I could find a deal like that around here.

If you have a front tractor bucket, shoot them, hang from bucket,, gut out, skin just like a deer, . Hang from a beam or limb', until they cool out. Cut them up to suit yourself. If you have a grinder, Make ground pork, I just add spices to ground pork and make patties, same as sausage , no casing. . Did my own at home, lots of times.. old243

I've got access to all of that, and plenty of time on my hands. Just no $25 hogs for sale.

The butchering part isn't much different than say a deer. The biggest problem is most people have no way to cool down the carcass before you cut it up. Very few people have a walk in cooler and that's why most who do their own butchering do it in the fall.

Hogs are pretty easy, especially if you skin them, and an ice slushy bath would get them cooled fast. Even if the cuts come out a little odd looking, you should see them after it runs through you....so it's all good! unfortunately theres no hog farms in my area or I'd get to work....

Plenty of desire, but no big hog operations around here offloading hogs. $1.80 to $2.50/lb hanging weight seems to be the going rate.

Maybe you cant wait them out and they will come around- that or come visit cousin Marlin

True enough. We have a tractor and loader, and sawzalls. Got several chainsaws too but none I would put to work sawing you a hog. I think of one of these guys selling hogs were closer I would definitely atleast try it. I wouldn’t be out much, but closest I have found so far is 7 1/2 hours away. But it’s still tempting!

Throw in a couple bales of straw and you have very little clean up. Sweep it out on the ground and burn it and trailer is pretty clean.