|
Forums46
Topics538,096
Posts9,732,978
Members87,066
| |
Most Online25,604
Feb 12th, 2024
|
|
|
 Hog Cleaning
#826229
08/03/09 06:56 AM
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 5,306
DLALLDER
OP
THF Trophy Hunter
|
|
OP
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 5,306 |
Okay, I need some help. I have killed and cleaned several hogs in the last 2-3 years but I have always had a nice cleaning shed to hang em from. I am going hunting where that will not be possible so what is the best way to take the hams, loins and maybe front shoulders with it laying on the ground. I ain't no spring chicken so I need the easiest way possible.
|
|
|
|
Re: Hog Cleaning
[Re: DLALLDER]
#826230
08/03/09 07:17 AM
|
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 87
chouse
Outdoorsman
|
|
Outdoorsman
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 87 |
Do it just like you would any big game animal. Gut it and then work one side at a time. I take the tenderloins first, after i gut the animal then lay it on its side. Use the skin like a blanket to keep the meat off the ground. Get the backstrap then the ham and the front shoulder from the first side. Then roll him over and do the same thing. Good luck.
|
|
|
|
Re: Hog Cleaning
[Re: chouse]
#826231
08/03/09 07:19 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 12,922
cable
THF Celebrity
|
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 12,922 |
Shoot it. Take a pic. Leave it. Repeat
|
|
|
|
Re: Hog Cleaning
[Re: cable]
#826232
08/03/09 07:20 AM
|
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 1,777
mightyp
Pro Tracker
|
|
Pro Tracker
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 1,777 |
Quote:
Shoot it. Take a pic. Leave it. Repeat
lol...true story.
It's still "we the people", right?
"If it bleeds, we can kill it."
|
|
|
|
Re: Hog Cleaning
[Re: mightyp]
#826233
08/03/09 07:21 AM
|
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 2,257
ouixch
Veteran Tracker
|
|
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 2,257 |
go get yourself a crank winch at tractor supply and some rope and hang it from a tree
|
|
|
|
Re: Hog Cleaning
[Re: DLALLDER]
#826234
08/03/09 07:32 AM
|
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 558
jodster
Tracker
|
|
Tracker
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 558 |
I'd still hang them in a tree from there hind legs (spread). Take a cummalong if you have to do it by your self. I usually gut them after they fall (Yankee habit)
While hanging head down Skin them, remove front quarters, back strap, neck, other usable meat and fat(meat and fat on ribs and belly) anything worth making sausage, tenderloins, cut back bone at hind quarters and carcass falls, carefully split hind quarters (this is when your meat has the best chance to fall in the dirt) and remove rear feet while hind quarters laying in cooler , remove liver and heart from gut pile. My brothers FIL uses heart, kidney and liver for sausage. I love deer liver fried in mushrooms onion butter.
PS I use Quarters and neck for roast, left over roast is cut up in to stew. back stap and tender loins maybe steaks or something special. other meat buger-lean sausage-fatty. Big hogs all sausage.
|
|
|
|
Re: Hog Cleaning
[Re: jodster]
#826235
08/03/09 08:03 AM
|
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 17,104
Closed Traverse
THF Celebrity
|
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 17,104 |
i like the leave it idea for hogs lol, but other than that, id find me a good come along (hand crank winch) and hang that bastage from a tree. ive never had a nice cleaning shed, i typically hang em from a tree, or from a tractor bucket... the tracto is my fav since i can raise and lower it lol!
|
|
|
|
Re: Hog Cleaning
[Re: Closed Traverse]
#826236
08/03/09 08:13 AM
|
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 558
jodster
Tracker
|
|
Tracker
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 558 |
I can't beleive how may people leave them lying. Wild porkers ar sum darn nice eaten yall!!!!!
|
|
|
|
Re: Hog Cleaning
[Re: jodster]
#826237
08/03/09 08:26 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 12,922
cable
THF Celebrity
|
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 12,922 |
They are good. I love to eat them, but if you kill a lot of them every week (which I don't- but there are AT LEAST 5 killed every week at my buddies' ranch) then what the heck are you going to do with 250 hogs a year? We shoot them and leave them and if someone wants one then it gets cleaned. Otherwise we are just trying to control a problem.
|
|
|
|
Re: Hog Cleaning
[Re: cable]
#826238
08/03/09 08:46 AM
|
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 11,681
DSST_Construction
THF Celebrity
|
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 11,681 |
Quote:
They are good. I love to eat them, but if you kill a lot of them every week (which I don't- but there are AT LEAST 5 killed every week at my buddies' ranch) then what the heck are you going to do with 250 hogs a year? We shoot them and leave them and if someone wants one then it gets cleaned. Otherwise we are just trying to control a problem.
find someone that will eat them and use the meat
We work anything an everything masonry,we have been in this trade for over 40+ years of experience.
We fix/repair/build anything masonry
DSST Construction Services
Deputy (713) 826-4451
Office (713) 417-7167
Email k5blaser88@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Re: Hog Cleaning
[Re: DSST_Construction]
#826239
08/03/09 10:21 AM
|
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 7,992
B-swit
THF Trophy Hunter
|
|
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 7,992 |
just leave them in this heat. i cleaned two a couple weeks ago and ive already told myself if anymore get killed this summer there going straight to our bone pile. no more hog cleaning in this heat for me.
|
|
|
|
Re: Hog Cleaning
[Re: B-swit]
#826240
08/03/09 07:21 PM
|
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 8,519
SpoonPlatoon
THF Trophy Hunter
|
|
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 8,519 |
When we just want the hams and loins we string em up by the nearest tree then skin the back quarters. After skinning them we make two cuts, one one each side of the backbone from where you stopped on the hams to the base of the neck. Then skin from their back towards their sides and cut the loins out. After that pop the ball sockets outta place on the back hams and you have a pig that you didnt have to gut, and lotsa good meat!
|
|
|
|
Re: Hog Cleaning
[Re: B-swit]
#826241
08/03/09 09:15 PM
|
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 7,992
B-swit
THF Trophy Hunter
|
|
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 7,992 |
Quote:
just leave them in this heat. i cleaned two a couple weeks ago and ive already told myself if anymore get killed this summer there going straight to our bone pile. no more hog cleaning in this heat for me.
not to mention i spent over 20 bucks last week buying atleast three bags of ice a day trying to keep it iced down in this heat until i could get it to the processor.
|
|
|
|
Re: Hog Cleaning
[Re: B-swit]
#826242
08/04/09 05:30 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 3,787
scattergun
Extreme Tracker
|
|
Extreme Tracker
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 3,787 |
Quote:
Quote:
just leave them in this heat. i cleaned two a couple weeks ago and ive already told myself if anymore get killed this summer there going straight to our bone pile. no more hog cleaning in this heat for me.
not to mention i spent over 20 bucks last week buying atleast three bags of ice a day trying to keep it iced down in this heat until i could get it to the processor.
Not sure I would have told that story. 
|
|
|
|
Re: Hog Cleaning
[Re: scattergun]
#826243
08/04/09 05:57 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 2,328
billy gordon
Veteran Tracker
|
|
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 2,328 |
bigdaddy590,Thats about the easyiest way i know also. 
Billy Gordon
|
|
|
|
Re: Hog Cleaning
[Re: billy gordon]
#826244
08/04/09 06:50 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 523
pig out
Tracker
|
|
Tracker
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 523 |
there is a pulley at academy for like 20 bucks that i use to clean all my big game
|
|
|
Moderated by bigbob_ftw, CCBIRDDOGMAN, Chickenman, Derek, DeRico, Duck_Hunter, hetman, jeh7mmmag, JustWingem, kmon11, kry226, kwrhuntinglab, Payne, pertnear, rifleman, sig226fan (Rguns.com), Superduty, TreeBass, txcornhusker
|
![[Linked Image]](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s153/bigdaddy590/Mobile%20Uploads/89d6e320-897b-4497-9cb1-6388515cdb70_zps3c95efe7.jpg)