My Hog Hoist

[HawkinsHollow]

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]

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

 

[workinonit]

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]

You can't beat a FEL for handling hogs.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

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]

Did it squeal like a stuck pig?

 

[Wyobuckaroo]

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]

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]

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]

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.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I saw a Duroc boar at the stockyards...or I should say I smelled him a mile away. He probably weighed 750 pounds; biggest one I have ever seen. The stench was overpowering. I don't know how t hat translates to butchered meat, but it didn't do much for my appetite.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

ZERO smell, tastes SOOOOO GOOD, nice and tender. It is our first wild hog, not a ton of them up here, yet. I guess we got lucky. The guy had cojones(balls) the size of jumbo baked potatoes.

 

[N80]

We have lots of wild pigs where I am. They are a nuisance and very destructive. I shoot them whenever I can. The 100 pound or less feral looking sows are fantastic eating. White meat. No gaminess at all. No fat so you have to consider that when cooking them. I seek them out. We grill the tender loins and back strap. Grind pretty much everything else.

The big black boars (Russian stock) are inedible as far as I am concerned and I leave them where they fall. Can't even give one away to the local folks. They have an awful musky smell that even permeates the meat. Smell lingers even after you drag one off.

I usually fetch the ones I keep with the tractor bucket but hang them from a rafter in the tractor shed for butchering.