My Hog Hoist

HawkinsHollow · Sep 28, 2021

Good friend of mine killed an ABSOLUTE HOGZILLA this weekend in the Tennessee mountains. 11 yard shot with a bow. I helped with the extraction and processing of the boar that weighed in about 330 lbs. Thank goodness for the Branson to get this thing up in the air for processing.
Got it quartered and in a meat locker to chill for a couple days then it is onto the freezing and sausage making!! Oh yeah, and eating, my favorite part.

arizona98tj · Oct 1, 2021

Indeed, a tractor with a front-end loader is very handy for all kinds of things. Enjoy the sausage.....I know I would.

workinonit · Oct 1, 2021

A boar hog? Sometimes they are not edible. It's hit and miss and you don't know until it goes in the frying pan.

workinonit · Oct 1, 2021

You can't beat a FEL for handling hogs.

HawkinsHollow · Oct 2, 2021

workinonit said:
A boar hog? Sometimes they are not edible. It's hit and miss and you don't know until it goes in the frying pan.

Yep! Big ol boar! Oh he is FINE eatin' already had plenty!!

Diggin It · Oct 2, 2021

Did it squeal like a stuck pig?

Wyobuckaroo · Oct 2, 2021

A boar hog? Sometimes they are not edible. It's hit and miss and you don't know until it goes in the frying pan.
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It can be that way up here with black bear some times... Neighbor got one once that had lived on frogs, crawfish, ducks, musk rats in the swamp between our places..

His dogs would not eat it no matter what they did with it..

Frankenkubota · Oct 3, 2021

I met a guy who hunts hogs at nite in central florida. he says they get as many as they want.

I asked what do they do with the meat....the bodies?

He told me the only meat they saved was from young females and that a big male was nasty. He said that, not me!

What surprised me was no one wants the meat so they just leave the carcus. That's gotta help the coyote population but he hunts them at nite also.

Richard · Oct 3, 2021

Good for you but when I see that picture, I get horrified that it appears you are standing under the loader.

I don't know how much yours weighs but we know at least 330 pounds since it's hanging a boar on it. My loader bucket alone is 1,500 pounds (if I recall correctly) and I get nervous if it's way up like that and I'm within a five foot arc of its falling path.

The only thing holding that above you is a hose. Having blown a hose on my backhoe, I discovered (and was astounded) at just how quick it can fall. There's no warning, no bleed down, just WHUMP.

Don't let the boar get the last laugh on you!

workinonit · Oct 3, 2021

From time to time I get pork from the grocery store that's from a boar. You can't stay in the house once it starts cooking if it's bad. If it's mild I can smell it immediately and my hunger for pork has gone. I think some people are oblivious to the smell. I grew up butchering our own pork and the only boar that got the knife was a cut boar which isn't a boar any more. I can smell that one from here.