Air compressor to assist skinning

[Phil fox man]

I've seen someone skin one with a golfball and a quad bike, it worked quite well.

hi.
I tried this once and didn't end well.
it's really hard picking stones and dirt off two halves of a fallow carcass .
phil.

 

[csl]

Re CO2.. I suspect exposure to CO2 would not affect the meat. I think CO2 is using in food packaging and pigs are often killed using CO2 with no adverse effects (...to the resultant pork. Obviously the pigs would have a different perspective on the benefits of the process.) I am not sure that the CO2 would be absorbed by the meat. And if it was I think it would be quickly re-released.

The CO2 in food packing, I think, is only about 25%. The main gas is Oxygen to give it the ‘healthy’ pink colour!

Using CO2 to kill the pigs (which is cruel in my opinion because CO2 causes a panic response whereas noble gases, like Helium, won’t) but anyway… it’s only in high concentration for 10 mins or so.

That said, I don’t have a clue wether or not you’d taste it… I had a little too much cider…

Surely that would make it more fancy, like sparkling Perrier

Give it a spell inside a high pressure vessel full of pure CO2 and bob’s your uncle!

 

[J@son]

I might be wrong but I think the main gas used in packaging is Nitrogen rather than Oxygen. As I understand it Oxygen is the thing that's being excluded in order to suppress bacteria. Mind you if everyone drank more cider I think these distinctions wouldn't really matter so I think you are adopting by far the most sensible approach.

 

[jb1]

As a lad in the slaughterhouse calves were always "blown up" before skinning. It was standard practice. As far as I know, no one died from rust poisoning from eating veal!

Beasts had air pumped around their heels via a stirrup pump to ease skinning, when i was a kid i used to pump them up.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Doesn’t the air leak from the exit wound or is this for head shot beasts only?

I’ll get my coat!

K

 

[south-nofolk-stalker]

Does anyone have experience of using a compressor to pump air under the skin in order to make skinning easier? Seen a couple of videos online (mostly sheep) which suggest this really does speed up skinning and produces a nice and tidy carcass. I am sure someone on SD must have tried it but I suspect if using compressed air to lift the skin away from the carcass made much of a difference people would refer to it here more often.... and no one seems to. Anyway, i would be interested to hear from anyone who does use / has tried using a compressor.

Tried it on muntjac searching for the holy grail of techniques , but alas as much use as a steel toe in the Horlicks

 

[Tim.243]

Doesn’t the air leak from the exit wound or is this for head shot beasts only?

I’ll get my coat!

K

A GD shot K?

 

[AGR]

I think someone told me that compressors are used to skin kangaroos. Anyone on here know anyone might know??

 

[rem284]

I used to use a compressor to help me with mink skins. Obviously not eating the meat

 

[Cheviot]

As a lad in the slaughterhouse calves were always "blown up" before skinning. It was standard practice. As far as I know, no one died from rust poisoning from eating veal!

I was working in a slaughterhouse in the 90tis we did about 50 calves day a with the "blow up method" made it a lot easier