different but deadly

[EdS]

While clearing the office junk we came across this little beauty:



Abattoir killing axe.

No idea of the age but the pick axe handle it goes on is stamped the the initials of a one of small councils that disappeared in 1974.

 

[ozzy1977]

I have not seen a pole axe for years, hope your going to re hang it

 

[Harvestman]

Oddly, I took a picture of a pole axe at a local museum today

 

[EdS]

got the shaft for it to.

The edge needs a bit of TLC but in pretty good condition.

Not sure what I'm going to do with it really

 

[santaman2000]

got the shaft for it to.

The edge needs a bit of TLC but in pretty good condition.

Not sure what I'm going to do with it really

Well it's almost cold enough for a hog killing?

 

[FGYT]

Well it's almost cold enough for a hog killing?

yep i've got 3 nearly ready

but UK laws make it easier and cheaper to sent it to an Abattoir lot less hassle to with pigs

 

[ozzy1977]

Years ago when I worked at a bacon factory we had a house that my department used for storing documents, I was in the tech/quality department. One day I got sent over to shred a load of stuff opened up the old airing cupboard and it was full of those things, must have been 60 or 70 of them dating back to when we slaughtered and those brought over from another site that we had closed a few years earlier, some were very old as the factory started around 1910. I still regret not taking a couple when offered

 

[Chiseller]

Nice

If Woden Wills It , then it will be so

 

[santaman2000]

yep i've got 3 nearly ready

but UK laws make it easier and cheaper to sent it to an Abattoir lot less hassle to with pigs

LOL. It's easier here too. Not so much so regarding cheaper though.

 

[FGYT]

LOL. It's easier here too. Not so much so regarding cheaper though.

unfortunately you can only dispose of the insides you don't want in a official legal manner (no burying or burning ) and that costs almost as much as the abattoir fee to the small holder with an individual animal
plus pigs is easier if you have the big hot tank to scrape the skin off (gotta get it right i Love Cracklin and want to develop chocolate coated Pork Scratchings the Food of the gods )
and you cant sell the meat if you home kill (pole axe might not be legal here any more )

hey you can shoot a deer dump the guts in the bushes where it was shot tho

 

[Toddy]

I thought that was because the deer has only been eating what was in those bushes though ?

My Grandpa had an axe the twin of that one EdS; he used it to crack open the sheep's heid once he'd singed it. He ate the brains with a horn spoon. He lived to be nearly 97 and was sharp as a tack to the end, so it didn't do him any harm. Don't think many would try it nowadays though.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[EdS]

Sheep brain curry is a specialty dish around here.

Must of been a small spoon for eating sheeps brains.

 

[ozzy1977]

When working in the bacon factory we had one chap working on the head boning line who used to eat the brains, raw straight off the machine, Someone had told him that they would make him trip out

 

[Toddy]

Sheep brain curry is a specialty dish around here.

Must of been a small spoon for eating sheeps brains.

He ate his boiled eggs with the same spoon, so it wasn't exactly huge, iimmc

M

 

[santaman2000]

unfortunately you can only dispose of the insides you don't want in a official legal manner (no burying or burning ) and that costs almost as much as the abattoir fee to the small holder with an individual animal
plus pigs is easier if you have the big hot tank to scrape the skin off (gotta get it right i Love Cracklin and want to develop chocolate coated Pork Scratchings the Food of the gods )
and you cant sell the meat if you home kill (pole axe might not be legal here any more )

hey you can shoot a deer dump the guts in the bushes where it was shot tho

I don't know of any states here that prohibit burning or burying the guts (at least not out in the country) That said, I also don't know of anybody who does that; most feed the waste back to the next batch of hogs.

Yep, you definitely have to scald them before scraping (hence my agreement about it being easier to just pay a professional)

I'm not sure of the legality of a pole axe here now either but TBH I think most people just use a 22LR when slaughtering at home. I know that's what the pros use (the ones who travel to your site with a stainless butchering trailer, not the ones in static slaughter houses)

 

[santaman2000]

Daddy used to eat hog brains scrambled with eggs. You can still buy then here; both fresh and canned. But they're not really common anymore.

 

[HHazeldean]

Thats a pretty neat find, haven't seen an axe like that before, what was the benefit of that kind of shape for slaughtering?

 

[EdS]

basically you hit the beast on the forehead with the tube. Due to its shape it pierces the skull and take a core out of the brain.