I got the dolly and moved the new plucker to the back where I do the chicken butchering. I spent an hour or so removing the rest of the plastic sheeting that was protecting the stainless steel. It came off rather hard but I kept at it on and off until it was all off.
Bent legs
I had to put the wheels on but when I went to do that I found two of the legs were a bit bent so I got a big pipe to go over the legs and bent them back below.
Loose grease fittings
While I I had the unit tipped over I spotted two grease fittings so I thought it prudent to grease them up.
Well I found both grease fittings loose, one was almost ready to fall out. I tightened them both up and found a grease gun to grease them up.
Good thing it’s pop riveted
While I was doing that I found all the sheet metal screws were stripped out or maybe they were just the wrong size screws. There were only a few of them holding on an inspection cover over the motor so no worry. The rest of the unit was pop riveted so all was good. The unit appeared to be made out of good materials but the workmanship was a bit shabby.
But hey, it’s just a chicken plucker and I think it will do a good job.
Ready for some chickens
I finally got all the plastic protective sheeting off and the wheels on it now it’s ready to go, I think.
I still need to get some more of the killing cones mounted and then I think I’m ready to go.
Other than that I didn’t get much done today, some watering and some chair hopping and the day was about done. I’m not really sure what happened to the day, sometimes they just go, eh.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
