Sheep Processing Systems

• V.I.P Shoulder Puller
• Inverted Dressing Solo Rigs
• Sheep Processing Systems

Restrainer Conveyors:

UHMWPE slatted V-type conveyor for ease of handling of live ovine carcasses during the stunning process.  The Restrainer Conveyor design incorporates state of the art technology that eliminates all pinch points ensuring a safe working system for both the operator and animal welfare.

Hydraulic Nose Roller

Improve your profit margin with new technology.

• Save the need for one and often two labour units in your scalping operation.
• Full season availability (2000 hours) between maintenance checks – no ‘consumable’ components to change.
• Productivity – up to 15 sheep per minute.
• Built to AQIS, USDA & EU hygiene standards.
  

Features:

• Hydraulically operated.
• High speed positive action.
• Low maintenance.
• Designed to keep any downtime to an absolute minimum.
• Easy to operate.
• High quality componentry.
• Fully adjustable for process flexibility.
• No friction components creating dust to generate regular maintenance work and put hygiene standards at risk.
• 'Right' and 'left' hand machines supplied to suit both inverted carcass orientations.

Brisket Roller

The Brisket Roller enhances and assists the brisket work-up area to prevent wool roll and cross contamination. This unit is fitted with pneumatic controls and a 3 position switch for varying stock sizes.

Auto Hind Leg Hock Saws:

The Auto Hind Leg Hock Saw system is designed to suit today’s processing requirements and needs.  The Hock Saw is a simple and reliable unit to automatically remove hind hocks as the last operation on the hindleg conveyor.  With full hock removal, the pelt is then removed more easily down over the hind legs.

Features:

• Removes hocks as last operation on hindleg conveyor.
• Compact unit.
• Simple and reliable saw system.
• Low pressure water spray with contained drainage system.
• Easily swung out from cutting position.
• Pneumatic cushion mounting.
• Simple specialist key lock out system.
• Standard 2.2 kW electric drive for saw.
• Tungsten Carbide Tip saw blade.
• Able to handle a wide range of stock up to 10.5 cc/minute.
• Extensive trialling.
• Designed for client installation.
• Knock outs for hocks available for standard attachment styles.

Benefits:

• Avoids need for sock ringing and allows for cleaner pelt removal at final puller with reduced carcass movement.
• Able to be integrated easily into conveyor systems.
• Provides consistent hock cutting.
• Controls dust and removes bone fragments and wool.
• Allows quick and safe servicing with production continuing if required.
• Absorbs jam situations and avoids damage to saw or conveyor system.
• Provides for assured safety for servicing.
• Simple to connect and maintain and avoids use of hydraulics.
• Blade readily available and able to be re-sharpened.
• Suited for all sheep and small stock plants.
• Certainty of operation.
• Able to be quickly installed.
• Able to either provide standard systems or provide specialist design.

Flanking Tools:

The Flanking Tool system aids and assists operators prior to shoulder pulling, enhancing carcass quality and ensuring correct dressing procedures for loading of the shoulder puller. These tools are of pneumatic and stainless steel construction. The operating mechanism has been designed for ease of operation and product quality.

Soft Pull Shoulder Pullers:

• Clears the pelt from the shoulder and back.
• Latest technology in the control system, which reduces power consumption and increases pelt and carcass quality.
• Semi-automatic machine.
• Latest hydraulically operated technology.
• Saves two labour units.
• Up to 10 sheep per minute.

Variable Independent Path (VIP) Automatic Shoulder Puller

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Final Pullers:

Features:

• Smoother pull resulting in greater return for pelts.
• Better carcass presentation.
• Completely contained unit with the power pack on the machine or remotely located.
• Smaller motor.
• Reduced installation costs.
• High speed operation.
• Clears the pelt from the rump and back legs.
• New DBC control system which reduces power consumption and increases pelt and carcass quality.
• Saves two labour units.
• Up to 10 sheep per minute. 

Foreleg Twin Auto Hockcutters:

The Foreleg Twin Auto Hockcutters are capable of handling up to 10 carcasses per minute.  The forelegs are cut after the gambrel up operation while still in the foreleg attachment.  A trotter eject device is mounted to the conveyor to eject the cut trotters from the attachments.  Overall control is managed by a dedicated Program Logic Control (PLC) which is mounted in a Stainless Steel Control Cabinet supplied with the machine.

Evisceration / Offal Transport Systems:

Evisceration products conveying choices from table pan conveyor (with or without dividers), or our overhead pan conveying system assuring content separation.

Overhead Pan Transport System for Processing Sheep Offal:

Our unique offal products pan conveying system with positive product separation supports the one touch harvesting of offal and auto process station deposits of product.

Features:

• Provides simple positive transport of individual offals in individual pans.
• Delivers and unloads offals at each individual station for further processing.
• Minimises handling or damage to offals.
• Pans are automatically cleaned.

Design:

All systems are built from stainless steel and incorporate:

• Integral cleaning systems.
• Operator hygiene facilities.
• Operator walkway (if required). 

Queuing Conveyor Detain / Retain System

Our Queuing Conveyor Detain / Retain Systems assure proper carcass spacing and timing to avoid cross contamination and aid the handling of poor stock whilst maintaining production without process interruptions.