Translation 2783

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The Pe -,-tly-stripped whale carcass is then turned over on its
A strap from the lower flipper is connected through a derrick to
a roPe from a wincb on the starboard side (if the carcass was lying with
its ventral surface towards the port side of the ship )
of -Lie stern
superst ,-ucture; a rope from a winch on the port side is first passe •
the carcass; and then joined to a strap attached to the upper under
flipper. With simultneous operation of the two winches the whale is
turned over, and then the second blubber layer and the second row of
baleen are removed.
Only in rare cases is the head separated on the stern deck.
When the grappling-hooks have been taken off, the whaleT,s carcass
is hauled to the central cutting-up deck through the transport
corridor in the central superstructure; by means of a 20-ton winch in
the bow superstructure.
Cuttin ,r up a - baleen whale on the central deck (Fig. 85). First
the head is cut off. To do that a strap is fastened to the tip of the
snout with a slit-knot and connected to a rope from a winch located in
the central superstructure.
At the same time the cutting operator cuts
through the muscle tissue in the region where the occipital condyle
articulates with the cervical vertebrae, and completely severs the head
from the body (to the ventral side; less often to the dorsal side).
The dorsal flesh layer is removed by means of a winch on the
stardeck (bow - superstructure. A rope from it is pulled up t6 the head
and fastened with a slip-knot to a part of the flesh layer that has
already been separated from the spine. A deep cut has previously been
made with a flensing knife from the tail to the head, along the spinous
trocesses, While the rope from the winch is being pulled in, the flesh
is cut underneath and separated completely from the seine.
Simultaneously with that operation, ropes-from winches in the
central and spardeck superstructures are being tied- to the upper flipper.
The former of these enables the cutter to separate the first ribs with
a flensing knife. At the same time the ventral flesh layer is - cut along
the lateral processes of the saine from the tail to the head.
When the.theracic part of the layer has been separated, the
second winch comes into operation -- it makes possible complete semara- .
tton of .thc upor ventral part of the flesh from the carca'Ss. The cutter 227
nssists in the sellaration of flesh from the spine by us‘inE his knife.