USED BUTCHER EQUIPMENT : USED BUTCHER

equipment

The necessary items for a particular purpose
A tool is a device that can be used to produce or achieve something, but that is not consumed in the process. Colloquially a tool can also be a procedure or process used for a specific purpose.
The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition; Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc.
an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service
The process of supplying someone or something with such necessary items
Mental resources

butcher

A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop
A person who kills or has people killed indiscriminately or brutally
a retailer of meat
kill (animals) usually for food consumption; “They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter”
A person who slaughters and cuts up animals for food
a brutal indiscriminate murderer

used butcher equipment – Kitchen Electric

Kitchen Electric Slicer Food Meat Butcher Equipment

CE approved. Fashion Tilted Design for fast and labor-saving slicing. Heavy-duty 210 Watts Motor for commercial applications. 8″ stainless steel Blade for slicing food. High efficiency and durable. Much safer! Blade Cover to avoid wounds to your hands due to touch the blade carelessly. Built-in Dual Whetstones for sharpening blade safely and conveniently. Sharpening Control Buttons for controlling the whetstones to sharpen two sides of the blade easily. Convenient to adjust the precise thickness of meat from 0 to 13mm with the numerical scale knob. Numerical Scale Knob makes the adjustable plate to move back and forth and adjust the thickness of meat. The Adjustable Plate Fixed Knob for fixing the adjustable plate. Stainless Steel Baffle Plate and Transparent Plastic Plate avoid meat falling off when slicing thicker meat. Two Baffle Plates and the stainless steel Fixed Device with steel nails for fixing meat to slice. Fixed Device Handle for pushing the fixed meat to slice. Moving Knob and the fixed device handle compose of a propulsion system to slice meat effortlessly. Big Sliced Meat Exit behind the machine for sliced meat sliding out quickly. ON-OFF Switch with waterproof cover for easy use. Heat Output Holes under the meat slicer to disperse heat. Skidproof Rubber Feet for table use. Easy to clean and maintenance. Low noise level. Please read the instruction before using. Brand new in retail packing and ready to ship. Specification: Power: 210W 1/4HP (0.28HP), 110v w/ US Standard Blade Diameter: 8″ Material:Durable Stainless Steel Blade & Fixed Device Overall Dimension: 16-1/2″ x 16″ x 14-1/2″ Approximate Maximum Slicing Thickness: 1/2″ (13 mm) Package Includes: 1x Meat Slicer Machine with Dual Whetstones 1x Whetstone for Spare 1x Instruction Manual

Gone

Pictured is the former location of the Eastman Kodak warehouse on West 2nd in Vancouver, now razed to the ground like so much of the Great Yellow Father’s infrastructure.

This history was related to me 20 or so years ago so, I may have some of the details wrong. Please let me know if I do!

As I was told, Eastman Kodak had it’s west coast warehouse here, apparently from the at least the 1930’s on but, as a result of anti-trust action in the early 70’s (Kodak used to be all-encompassing), they were forced to sell off their distribution arm in Canada.

So, Eastman Kodak became Trek Photographic which eventually got bought out by Hall Photographic to become Treck Hall in the late 80’s. Treck Hall moved to Richmond in the mid-90’s and eventually merged with Mondrian to become Mondrian Hall which has now been subsumed by paper giant Unisource.

The relevance of this warehouse to your narrator is much more important than corporate mergers and the decline of an industrial icon though for, it is within the walls of the building that stood on this spot until a few weeks ago that he was fortunate enough to meet his lovely wife way almost exactly 20 years ago when he took a job in the shipping department.

Treck Hall at the time was the primary wholesaler of Kodak and Polaroid products. The volumes we shipped out of this warehouse were simply spectacular by today’s standards:

• A full 18 wheel truck trailer per week of Polaroid film, mostly to hospitals and Universities.

• Two 18 wheeler’s per week of Kodak paper, chemistry and film. The walk-in freezer for pro emulsions would put most butcher shops and slaughter houses to shame. We would run through about a full pallette per week of just Kodak Gold negative films!

• Enough Kreonite Processors that we would actually have the 20" machines in stock, ready to ship at a moment’s notice.

• Some of the earliest digital backs available commercially. A phase one scanning back for 4×5 that would produce a stunning 100mb+ image in only 10 minutes! This was before Power PC and Pentium computer chips even shipped and, a really big hard drive was 200mb! Just enough room to store one full resolution image per hard drive. And, all for the low, low price of some $25,000! We actually sold a couple too. I remember we had a special application that would split the image into three parts so it could be stored over 3 44mb SyQuest disks, the predecessor to the Zip Disk. The SyQuest disks cost about $100 a piece at the time!

Of course, one of my favourite parts was the demonstration darkroom that I could use on weekends and evenings, fitted with 3 5×7 Durst Laborator enlargers on train tracks along with the whole phalanx of condensers to print every format from disc(!) to 5×7. While I never actually made any, it was equipped to make prints 5 feet wide!

The buildings across West 2nd remain for the moment but, aside from that, there is almost no clue remaining of the bustling light industry that occupied this part of town for over 100 years but, I think fondly of the place first thing every morning when I lay eyes on my beautiful wife.

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A stunning instrument used to incapacitate farm animals with a strong electrical shock prior to slaughter.

used butcher equipment

SAVE BIG BUCKS by processing your deer right at home with this Professional Meat Cutting Band Saw with Built – in Grinder. Sam the Butcher will miss you, but you’ll see him at the bowling alley, so it’s OK. This powerful Band Saw cuts through meat and bone with ease. And with a built-in grinder, you can cut and grind at the same time. It’s the fast, easy way to get your deer from field to freezer. Details: 18 1/2 x 23 1/2″ sliding stainless steel cutting table with 2 adjustable fences; 110V / 60 Hz 3/4-hp motor generates 1,750 rpm… cuts through bone like butter; Front access panel for easy cleanup; Cutting capacity: 9 1/2 x 9 1/2″h. Sturdy 17 x 17″ base. 58″h., weighs 110 lbs. Blade included. For the true do-it-yourselfer, there’s no other way! Order Yours Today! Professional Meat Cutting Band Saw with Built-in Grinder