[higgmeister]

When we slaughtered the hogs our neighbor salted down the pork. He had his own hogs and he used wooden boxes he kept on their porch. It was really exciting seeing those hogs dropped down into a 55 gallon drum of boiling water so dad and Mr McKinnon could scrape the bristles off. Then later we had home made cracklings. Good memories. I don't envy you having to hall that water but doing it for bison must have been a real experience!

[Bob434]

[[dad and Mr McKinnon could scrape the bristles off.]]

That was a rough job, I ‘helped’ a butcher/processor do this once- Maybe I was too young, but it seemed like a hard job to get the bristle off-

[[I don’t envy you having to hall that water but doing it for bison must have been a real experience!]]

Lol it wasn’t that bad, only when I’d slip- I was in pretty good shape then and could sometimes even take 4 five gallon pails at a time (We’d put in about 4 gallons in a pail to keep down on the sloshing)- so it cut down on the time to water them-

I can still smell the scalding chickens- that is a smell you can’t soon forget- Many was the day we plucked chickens- Wish more poepel had that experience lol-