[SEL] Cutting Up Grandmother's Bones

[Charles R Bryant]

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From: "Rob Skinner" <rskinner at rustyiron.com>
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Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 2:03 PM
Subject: RE: [SEL] Cutting Up Grandmother's Bones


>
> Hi Charlie,
> You mentioned drying your bones.  Is there a reason for going through the
extra
> trouble?

Rob,

Yea the reason is like you mentioned. They don't stink as much. When I get
my
two bone vcutters out this  summer I will try some raw bones. If the bears
get
to messing around here again this summer I will be trying some bear bones.
I am not going to do like my father did when he was a lad.He put on a bear
skin with
the head on it one night and went knocking on the neighbors door. If he
hadn't
out run the blast of a double barrel shot gun I probably wouldn't of been
here today.

Charlie

.
>
> Since we have a "green bone cutter," I've always used raw bones straight
from
> the butcher shop.  There's always the marrow and some sinewy parts still
> attached, but they go through the machine just fine.  The downside is that
by
> the end of a warm day at a show, we have a pile of ground up dismembered
animals
> and our display area is starting to smell like McDonalds.  I'll leave to
your
> imagination the type of spectators that we begin to attract.
>
> I've been reluctant to use dried-out bones, as they seem harder and they
make
> scary noises in the bone cutter.  The last thing I want to do is break
> something.  I've never sharpened the blades, so maybe that would help in
using
> dried bones.
>
> Any tips?
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
>
>
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> La Habra, California
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