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From: obrien@aero2.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: How do you kill three chickens a second without jamming?
Message-ID: <284@aero2.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 11-May-87 16:07:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 11 16:07:24 1987
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Reply-To: obrien@aero2.UUCP (Michael O'Brien)
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Well, my uncle once owned part-interest in a (manual) chicken-processing
plant.  It didn't process anything like 3/sec, but they did move right
through.  The secret (if you want to call it that) is that the chickens
don't go through right-side-up.  Their feet are tied to an overhead belt.
How they deal with the killing part is a question, true; in my uncle's
plant there was a human with a BIG knife.  By the time the little beggars
made it to the de-feathering bath they weren't any problem.
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Mike O'Brien
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