Nice job. Really enjoyed it. If you ever get names of the people. Who was the guy in bib overalls and red shirt?? That man had some guns on him. He was caring a whole hog on his shoulders. Good Lord

I had to do a double take on this fella

Well y'all something cool just happened. Just saw my uncle at work and I mentioned this to him . Showed him the post and the pictures and y'all, the look on his face, man pure joy. My cousin Mark was with him and he's actually the family historian so imma bring it over to them and where gonna see what we can do

We always did our own very much the same. Usually about 4-5 of us and wives would cut and wrap and also stuff the sausage casings etc. I always butcher my own deer also cant see paying for that. We did our beef also in cold weather and hung them in the barn to age before cutting up.

Thanks for the Photo's Wolfdog, it really brings to mind how much we are changing in a short time. Hopefully the next generation that's very concerned about "locally produced" will want to learn some of this (or relearn)!

Found this while looking for something else guess I'll bump it

Thanks for bringing this up. I didn't see it the first time around. I butcher my own hogs part of the time. Corral my boy to help. He's about your age, born in '98. We also do our own deer, and a couple dozen chickens every year.

You otta get your kinfolk together and have a hog killen again. Way things are going you might have to just to eat. Looks like everyone had a good time. Nice pictures

Enjoyed those pictures Wolfdog. I kill a couple hogs, but am a one man show so I don’t do the scald and scrape. That looks like it would be a mighty fun and community building day. I took my second to last slab of bacon out of the smoker this evening so hog killing time will be coming soon as it gets cold enough at our house

I did a few hogs years ago, scald,scrape and cut but I WAS the hog killing party, lol

Sure would go fast with a bunch of folks....

oh, and liked the story!

Great pics, we still butcher 5-6 every year. We have the locker kill and scald them though. We then get together at my brother in laws house and work them up, make liver sausage and cook down the lard.

Too awesome ! Miss it.

Never did hogs that way, but those pictures reminded me of the days at my great grandpa's and everyone came over to make molasses

We made cane syrup too! When I was way younger, only have extremely faint memories though. We had the whole shabang too. Cane crusher , bricked up cooking shack, really we had a whole shed type deal just for it