It's on the corner with the side windows facing our small street and the front facing the main street ours dead ends into. It's small, but they seem to do a generous amount of business. They hang large hooks - that are large enough they look like they could be used to fish for sharks - attached to chains from an overhead metal bar outside the door of the shop.
This is very convenient for them and very inconvenient for pedestrians. This is because the front of their shop is also the sidewalk. The walkway is often bloody right there and squeezing by another person makes for a fun game of avoid-the-hanging-carcasses. In addition, turning the corner brings one face-to-face with one half of a skinned cow carcass, or a goat, or some other dangling body pieces. It took a little bit of getting used to, but it's second nature now avoiding them at the end of the street. I still tend to think of the potentials as being disastrous though.
The chopping block is set up outside the shop at the end of our small street. It is literally a tree stump nailed to three pieces of 2x4's forming a tri-pod structure about three feet in height. Those vertical 2x4's (i.e. the legs) are in turn reinforced by three horizontal 2x4 pieces acting as spacing and stability. The end result resembles a bar stool. They chop up cow heads and feet on it with an axe, or a large knife. I was struck the other day by cow feet shrapnel as I was walking by. The butcher didn't even notice; he was talking with two others as he was chopping away.
This is very convenient for them and very inconvenient for pedestrians. This is because the front of their shop is also the sidewalk. The walkway is often bloody right there and squeezing by another person makes for a fun game of avoid-the-hanging-carcasses. In addition, turning the corner brings one face-to-face with one half of a skinned cow carcass, or a goat, or some other dangling body pieces. It took a little bit of getting used to, but it's second nature now avoiding them at the end of the street. I still tend to think of the potentials as being disastrous though.
The chopping block is set up outside the shop at the end of our small street. It is literally a tree stump nailed to three pieces of 2x4's forming a tri-pod structure about three feet in height. Those vertical 2x4's (i.e. the legs) are in turn reinforced by three horizontal 2x4 pieces acting as spacing and stability. The end result resembles a bar stool. They chop up cow heads and feet on it with an axe, or a large knife. I was struck the other day by cow feet shrapnel as I was walking by. The butcher didn't even notice; he was talking with two others as he was chopping away.
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