When the robot holocaust comes, these are the tools they'll be wielding.

April 19, 2006 10:28 AM

Carcass Cutting Tools: three words you've been waiting to read. Here's three more: Pneumatic Bung Dropper (with action shot!) Still not satisfied? Try Automatic Carcass Splitter. Terrifying, and yet strangely arousing.
posted by Gamblor (40 comments total)

I'd meant to post this a while ago, but then I forgot all about the subject, until the recent posts on swine penis and tree shredders jogged my memory.
posted by Gamblor at 10:29 AM on April 19, 2006

[this is strangely amusing]
posted by Bugbread at 10:33 AM on April 19, 2006

You want me to bring out my porta-screed? Keep it up!
posted by Kirth Gerson at 10:36 AM on April 19, 2006

At first I thought it was a human corpse in the action shot linked above. That was very disturbing. (I don't know if it's because I'm color blind.)
posted by OmieWise at 10:45 AM on April 19, 2006

Amazingly (or maybe not-so-amazingly), we've seen at least one of these before.
posted by MrMoonPie at 10:47 AM on April 19, 2006

Just think, htere are people who's title is "Lung Gunner" or "Bung Dropper" or "Chicken Debeaker"... I just can't imagine doing that eight hours a day. I know there are worse jobs, but that's gotta be near the bottom.
posted by webnrrd2k at 10:47 AM on April 19, 2006

Bung cleaner
posted by bigmusic at 10:47 AM on April 19, 2006

Amazingly (or maybe not-so-amazingly), we've seen at least one of these before.

Get out of town. I actually did a search before posting, but I used "sow bung" instead of "hog bung". Consider me schooled.
posted by Gamblor at 10:52 AM on April 19, 2006

From the bung cleaner link:

Spinal Cord Removal System 80 gal 303 L

Man, my knowledge of anatomy sucks.
posted by Bugbread at 10:53 AM on April 19, 2006

Well, it was before your time, Gamblor. The only reason I remembered it is, well, how could I forget?
posted by MrMoonPie at 10:54 AM on April 19, 2006

That must be from back in that Golden Age of MetaFilter I keep reading about in MeTa.
posted by Gamblor at 10:57 AM on April 19, 2006

bung lol
posted by keswick at 11:01 AM on April 19, 2006

And they're fast! "A single operator can bung up to 1200 hogs/hour". That's 3 seconds per bung, people!

Just imagine it:

Randy: Hey, Pete!
<BUNG!>
Pete: Yeah, Randy?
<BUNG!>
Randy: Ya'll wanna get some <BUNG!> beers and watch the <BUNG!> game after this shift? <BUNG!>
Pete: You betcha! I'm <BUNG!> rootin' for <BUNG!> the <BUNG!> ... <BUNG!> ... <BUNG!> ... dammit, this one's stuck!
posted by 5MeoCMP at 11:05 AM on April 19, 2006

Don't forget the Beef Stimulator; it helps hot boning.
posted by lowlife at 11:22 AM on April 19, 2006

Oh, I don't think so...

(NSFW?)
posted by darkstar at 11:36 AM on April 19, 2006

Jarvis: Snipping neat little flesh donuts around pig assholes since 1906!
posted by quite unimportant at 11:37 AM on April 19, 2006

Dangit...I missed that you'd linked to that pic already.

Mea culpa!
posted by darkstar at 11:38 AM on April 19, 2006

This reminds me of a weekend I spent working on a friend's emu ranch outside of Dallas about eight years ago.

When we were finished butchering the emus, there were a half-dozen of these "donuts" lying around. It's odd how some things strike you as both hilarious and horrifying at the same time, you know?
posted by darkstar at 11:41 AM on April 19, 2006

That's ok, darkstar. Here, have a bung plug.
posted by Gamblor at 11:41 AM on April 19, 2006

Filthy chicken pluckers!
posted by Pollomacho at 11:57 AM on April 19, 2006

Pneumatic Bung Dropper == best heavy-metal band name in a while.

And sadly, I didn't need to click the link to figure out what it does, and how it does it.
posted by davejay at 12:04 PM on April 19, 2006

This post may have single-handedly been the catharsis for me to return to full time vegetarianism. Seriously.
posted by glenwood at 12:07 PM on April 19, 2006

Yeah, I hear you, Glenwood. Makes me glad I eat only bung-less foods ...
posted by bcveen at 12:27 PM on April 19, 2006

"Bung-Less Foods" -- where you always get bungs...for less!
posted by davejay at 12:29 PM on April 19, 2006

I get a nice catharsis after I bung a hog myself.
posted by Pollomacho at 12:46 PM on April 19, 2006

OH, Pollomacho. You haven't lived until you've drug a freshly decapitated, bled, and scalded chicken carcass across one of those puppies.
posted by quite unimportant at 12:48 PM on April 19, 2006

To paraphrase Phoebe Buffay, "No food with a bung!"
posted by frogan at 12:51 PM on April 19, 2006

Ditto Glenwood: I'm a happy meat eater but something about that post gave me a deeply bad feeling. Possibly enough to make me pass the bacon permanently.
posted by brautigan at 12:53 PM on April 19, 2006

bung hole removal is thirsty work. so stop by www.bungholeliquors.com/shirts.html on the way home.
posted by Gungho at 1:08 PM on April 19, 2006

Reminds me of a neighbor who works for GE on their huge 737 jet-engine size carcass de-boner whatevers. Its huge, its loud, and its measured in CPH (Cows Per Hour)
posted by hal9k at 1:18 PM on April 19, 2006

Important tools. Balony and hot dogs don't just make themselves.
posted by kjs3 at 1:50 PM on April 19, 2006

Metafilter: a single operator can bung up to 1200 hogs / hour.
posted by stenseng at 2:46 PM on April 19, 2006

I'll have a Coffee Coolatta and a half-dozen of the chocolate glazed bungs with sprinkles, please.
posted by Mo Nickels at 4:09 PM on April 19, 2006

After 3 years of checking out the MetaFilter, I'm both sorry and perverely proud that THIS is the link and thread that finally got me to pony up and register (lazy bastard that I am). Thank you Gamblor, in all your neon clawed glory.
posted by Gaius Gracchus at 4:52 PM on April 19, 2006

B.S.
All MY meat is grown right in the final cellopak.
posted by HTuttle at 5:20 PM on April 19, 2006

I think this might be a doublepost. Much of the finer points of the Jarvis catalog was making the rounds a few years ago.

But I'm not complaining, no sir! One can never have enough bung or lung guns around the house. Why, just last week a whole herd of pre-stunned cattle just fell right from the sky into our yard. Thank goodness I had enough bung guns to go around, or we'd still be drowning chin-deep in assholes.
posted by loquacious at 6:35 PM on April 19, 2006

>people who's title is "Lung Gunner" or "Bung Dropper" or "Chicken Debeaker"... posted by webnrrd2k at 10:47 AM PST on April 19 [!]
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A "third legger" I read recently reported that often the cows he was cutting the third leg off of were still alive.
posted by chance at 9:09 PM on April 19, 2006

"The connection has timed out. The server at www.technex.pl is taking too long to respond."

Looks like the arse has fallen out of it...
posted by Pinback at 3:39 AM on April 20, 2006

This thread has given me the jibblie jibblies.
posted by pithy comment at 6:29 AM on April 20, 2006

"FDA approved material which breakdown into minute inert particles during the rendering process."

Mmmmm. Minute inert particles!
posted by flabdablet at 6:41 AM on April 20, 2006