Switched from a bandsaw to a hand saw for breaking down primals

Used to rely on my bandsaw for everything, breaking down whole carcasses into primals. Felt faster but I was always losing meat to bone dust and the blade would wander on bigger cuts. Last month a buddy at the shop in Denver showed me how to use a 12-inch hand saw for the same job, and damn I was losing way less weight. The trick is letting the saw do the work instead of forcing it, and my yield jumped almost 3 percent. Anyone else tried swapping power tools for manual on certain cuts?

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derek_burns19d ago

Read a breakdown on r/butchery about this exact thing, the dust loss adds up way more than people think on big runs. 3% is huge over a year of breaking down primals, might have to give the hand saw a shot myself.