This will put you off. A good day.

[Phil Spencer]

My first call today was to an abattoir in Dandenong. I had to look at a problem in the slaughter house whilst I was there they were processing lambs I was able to watch them being fed up the race and get the bolt in the head and then skinned.

I had to wade my way through the blood and guts to the blood pit, also the air stunk of a mixture of blood and urine I haven't been able to get the smell out of my nose yet. I have a piece of Huon Pine that I am sniffing to clear the smell. When I got home the cat zeroed in on my boots and started to lick them clean.

[ozwinner]

Ahhhh, a good day in the blood pit then...

Al :eek:

[Auld Bassoon]

Uurk!

Huon pine? I'd have a lump of camphor laurel in each nostril - one probably all other amenable (!) orifices...

[ozwinner]

Funny how you get a smell that you just cant get rid of isnt it?

Al :eek:

[Tikki]

Gimme sheep blood and guts any day! ... went on a fox shoot last week ... got a nice little guy with really dark fur, so decided I wanted the skin tanned for collar and cuffs on a jacket and the tail for my ariel I got out of the skinning job ... conned a friend into that but the next day when I helped clean up his garden, what was I given to put the leaves in? ... the bag he skinned the flamin' fox on! VILE!!!!

Cheers
Tikki

[ozwinner]

I got out of the skinning job ...

Was wrong wid ya girl, foxes are easy to skin compared to possums.

Al

[Tikki]

I was avoiding the stench

[ozwinner]

I was avoiding the stench

Kerro.
Kero is all you need to get rid of the smell, just wash up in kerro, then soap.
Not that I have been shooting, being nonPc and all that.

Al

[Gra]

I wanted the skin tanned for collar and cuffs

So tikki I guess the collar and cuffs match then

[scooter]

[pau1]

Ha funny stuff. I grew up on a dairy farm, in Scouts one of our little field trips was a tour of the local abattoir. They processed the sheep by electrocuting them to stun them and then slitting the thoats, cattle were done with the bolt gun. All the blood was collected in big milk vats under the slaughter house. It's amazing how quickly a live animal can walk in one end and then 5min later be pushed into the cool room as 2 halves of a completely gutted and skinned carcase. They are actually very clean places and the smells not that bad....I suppose I was already used to all the other "farm" smells though.

[Tikki]

So tikki I guess the collar and cuffs match then

Hmmmm, WOULD have matched if he hadn't ripped the hide getting all the sinew'n'stuff off it the next day Oh well, the tail survived

Cheers
Tikki