"Lift-All" For Slaughtered Animals LIVESTOCK Miscellaneous 27-2-8 Norm Waters and Alvin Nicolay, Innisfail, Alberta, recently sent FARM SHOW photos of a mobile animal butchering rig they built for Frank Hengstler, who has a custom slaughtering business traveling from farm to farm. The trailer is used to prepare animals for butchering and then bring them back to a meat locker plant. The 16-ft. long trailer is equipped with an overhead trolley beam that can be raised to a height of 14 ft. A pair of independently-operated, remote control winches roll back and forth on the beam. A 9-ft. long stainless steel tub mounts on the trailer floor. The animal is killed and cut in half. Then the winches are used to lift the two halves of the carcass into the tub for transport back to a locker plant. The frame folds down to a transport height of 7 ft. There are a pair of toolboxes on front of the trailer. One toolbox contains a small generator that's used to operate a sawzall that's used to butcher animals. The other toolbox contains a 12-volt battery connected to an electric/hydraulic power pack that's used to operate the winches and cylinder. According to Waters, new regulations in Alberta prohibit leaving the hide on the animal during transport back to the locker plant, and require that a skinned animal has to be transported in a stainless steel tank. "The trolley beam has a 6-ft. overhang on back so you can work on an animal at a convenient height. Once the animal is lifted off the ground it never touches the ground again," says Waters. "One man can do all the work himself without any other equipment." The trailer can be custom built for about $20,000 (Canadian). Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Norm Waters, Laden Steel, Box 6239, 4017 60th Ave., Innisfail, Alberta, Canada T4G 1S9 (ph 800 661-3747; fax 403 227-4073; E-mail: normwaters@laden.ca; Website: www.laden.ca).

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