7 Simple Tools Every DIY Butcher Needs

Learn what butchering equipment you need to butcher your own deer, pigs, goat, sheep, or any other farm animal at home!
In PART 4 of our series A Butcher Demonstrates How To Properly Butcher a Deer, Jason Tarzia of Tarzia Meat Packing ( / tarzia-meat-packing-32... )
lists 7 tools you will need to butcher your own farm animals at home.
Boning Hook - amzn.to/2BVpjfD This will save your finger and hands from being cut (and even being cut off... YIKES). The boning hook not only saves you from getting hurt, but it will make you a more accurate butcher. A few dollars to improve your product and save your fingers is well work it!
Breaking Knife - amzn.to/2GVFSOf You don't need a huge knife... Buying a huge knife is a beginner mistake! A 9 or 10 inch breaking knife is fine!
5 Inch Boning Knife - amzn.to/2VsiR8U A smaller, stiff blade knife, the boning knife is a very important knife for the DIY butcher!
Steel - amzn.to/2VsiUBC If you have not used a steel in the past, use a medium corse, not a polished steel. If you are a beginner using a polished steel will ruin your knife!
Gambrel - amzn.to/2NYKgMl A gambrel, while lightweight, can hold hundreds of pound up in the air, making it easier for you to work on the animal at a comfortable height. The Gambrel also will spread the animals legs apart and keep them apart, making it easier to gut, clean and cut. (In addition to the Gambrel a Block and Tackle will aid you in lifting the animal off the ground to work on.)
Meat Saw - amzn.to/2LPn2HB Get a 25 inch meat saw. Smaller saws will not work right, and larger saws, like 30 inch and bigger are unnecessary and will just make your arm sore at the end of the day! A good meat saw will help you take the animal and break it into primals, and that makes it easier to work on the carcass, breaking down larger muscle groups into steaks and roasts.
Cutting Boards - You will find all sorts of cutting surfaces in a butcher shop. Stainless steel, wooden blocks, and plastic boards. DON'T cut on a stainless steel table or surface. You will ruin your knives quickly on a stainless steel table top. Wood butcher blocks are the best to use, but can be expensive. Sometimes you can find grocery stores getting rid of their plastic butcher boards, (some states require in the health code groceries to update them after so long) you can get those for free or cheaper than buying them at the store!
In addition you may want to purchase yourself a Meat Grinder to make delicious hamburger, sausage, and other yummy dishes! For the DIY at home butcher 1 HP or even a half horsepower grinder is enough power to do all the grinding you need in a reasonable amount of time.
(Like the LEM Grinders www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=... Grinder&index=aps&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=xm2&linkId=a9de548b469e1759dd7490c36e7c72bd)
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[@rbbrbb4715]

I gave up using a hand meat saw years ago. I have a dedicated electric saws-all for butchering, so much easier.

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I love to learn and learning to butcher are own meat is a life changing thing for the better it lowers the price of your food down drastically well worth the time and learning the trade. I think it is worth the investment time labor and tools.

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Nella makes a good knife

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Once again a great video. Just wanted tonpoin out that one of your links was broken above...

[@DonnaLane-pw4rg]

Soon we will be raising our own beef pork chickens etc on our farm I wanted to know what equipment we needed for our butchering shop and the only other question I have is how big should the shop be?

[@AW-hg3pc]

what about old school broad tipped butcher knives? i own a couple from Ontario but iam only just now getting into actual butchering, mostly been using the big 35cm one as a light cleaver for chopping big cuts(deboned already) into cubes and such. Would that do as a breaking knife of do i need the pointy curved kind?

[@AldoSchmedack]

Butcher's knife is great for cutting roasts and steaks. Cimitar or breaking for bulk primal and subprimal. A boning knife in the kitchen. If you do your own one of each! One time investment unless you are in the business. A good diamond stone is a must too, and not and a small one but like DMT's largest. Red Green combo. A piece of leather and some toothpaste for a strop. Those do wear out. Key is a sharp knife and good sharpening. Many don't bother or use a gimmick to sharpen and that is wrong. A SS gambrel is a must too.

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I want that meat cutting machin or band saw

[@vitoscatigno4207]

Does anyone ever pick up a meat hand saw and talk about which way to face the teeth on the blade, they always seem to miss that part.

[@Livingthedream1225]

How about the rounded edge skinning knife?

[@AldoSchmedack]

To skin only yes. Not much use otherwise. Cimitar/breaker for primals and boning for smaller is mostly what you use.

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I built a wood frame for my poly board but I kilts all the wood

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[@chucknelson4943]

The steel rod he is referring to is called a honing rod.

[@AldoSchmedack]

In the butcher trade they simply call em steels too

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