Today we need to replace the sink for the mobile slaughter unit. The reason why we are replacing the sink on the mobile unit is, because we had to replace the floor. There was little bit of rot that had occurred underneath our division wall that separates between the back half of the unit where all the slaughtering is done and the front part where all of our meat processing happens.
The front half of the mobile unit didn't really have that much rot on the floor as the back half which is understandable. The back half is where the skinning and gutting of all the calves, pigs, and goats so naturally it gets the soaking day after day washing out all the gunk. The front stays relatively clean where just the final cuts of steaks, chops, are produced and everything is packaged up. So last year, we replaced the floor in the back half and so glad we did with all the mobile slaughtering we did. This year was the front half's turn to get replaced.
We took last week off due to the weather and had to do some rescheduling. Now we have about 3 weeks of catching up. So we're going to be on the road a lot in the next 3 weeks with cows, pigs, and I think we even have a few sheep scheduled on the books. We need to get this sink back in so we can get the unit back in working condition.
During this latest maintenance break down, there was one improvement that I'm so happy that we got done. That was rerouting the trailing in the inside of the unit instead of under the trailer frame. We were continuing having an issue with tearing out the wires because the wires ran underneath the trailer. Every weekend, I was repairing those darn trailer lights. It is exciting to think that now this issues should be repaired for good.
The final thing we need to do before we are ready to roll is to fill the water tanks that had to be reinstalled after the floor upgrade. Our mobile slaughter unit is fully self-sufficient with everything we need to roll up on location and get right to work slaughtering and processing livestock all over the state of Texas. She is all put back together now and we're going to hit the ground running. There is hard week of work in front of us, but we're looking forward to it.
