Reply #12: My dad's neighbor butchers his buffalo in his driveway. [View All]

[Xithras]

Hanging the carcass from a tree may work with deer and elk, but when you're butchering larger animals like buffalo and cattle, a level driveway and an engine hoist are often a better option.

My dad doesn't butcher his own cattle at all (he usually has three of them wandering around his few acres of land). He calls a mobile butcher who comes out, puts it down, and cleans the entire thing in a big mobile butcher shop in a trailer. It doesn't cost my dad a thing...they split the beef 50/50 (he could pay the guy if he wanted to keep it all, but it's just my dad and stepmom at this point, and they don't really need all that much meat).