Butcher arranges sheep carcasses in the Drip Cooler of a Mobile Harvest Unit.

Equipment

Meat Harvest Units

For producers and processors who want to gain control over their meat processing operations, Friesla’s USDA-compliant Meat Harvest Units are self-contained slaughterhouses—in a mobile or modular format—that can be transported to your farm or ranch to harvest animals onsite. Our Meat Harvest Units, formerly known as Mobile Slaughter Units or MSUs, are proudly built in the USA at TriVan.

  • A front view of a white, 38-foot-long Friesla Mobile Meat Harvest Unit used for on-site meat processing.
    A front view of a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit.
  • A rear view of a white, 38-foot-long Friesla Mobile Meat Harvest Unit used for on-site meat processing.
    A rear view of a Friesla Mobile Meat Harvest Unit with opened rear entry door, ramp step, and side cooler unloading door.
  • A rear view of a white, 38-foot-long Friesla Mobile Meat Harvest Unit used for on-site meat processing.
    A rear view of a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit with opened rear entry door, ramp step, and side cooler unloading door.
  • A rear view of the Harvest Room in a Friesla Mobile Meat Harvest Unit.
    A rear view into the Harvest Room of a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit.
  • A rear view of a white, 38-foot-long Friesla Mobile Meat Harvest Unit used for on-site meat processing.
    A rear view of a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit with opened rear entry door, ramp step, and offal and hide offload doors.
  • An interior view from the rear door into the Harvest Room of a Friesla Mobile Meat Harvest Unit.
    An interior view of the Harvest Room in a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit.
  • An interior view from the rear door into the Harvest Room of a Friesla Mobile Meat Harvest Unit.
    An interior view of the Harvest Room in a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit with open doors into the Carcass Drawdown Cooler Room.
  • A view from the Harvest Room into the Drawdown Cooler of a Friesla Mobile Meat Harvest Unit.
    A view from the Harvest Room into the Carcass Drawdown Cooler Room of a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit with an open side unloading door.
  • Front quarter view of Drawdown Cooler and Harvest Room in Mobile Meat Harvest Unit.
    A front interior view of the Carcass Drawdown Cooler and Harvest Room in a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit.
  • A view from the cooler room into the harvest room of a Friesla Mobile Meat Harvest Unit.
    A front interior view of the Harvest Room in a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit with closed rear doors.
  • The knee-operated sink, knife sterilizer, and removable inspection trays inside the Harvest Room of a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit.
    A knee-operated sink, knife sterilizer, and inspection trays inside the Harvest Room of a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit.
  • Light switches and water mixing valves inside a Mobile Meat Harvest Unit.
    Light switches and water mixing valves inside the harvest room of a Mobile Harvest Unit.
  • Opened offal door on a Friesla Mobile Meat Harvest Unit.
    Offal door with inside kick latch and hold-open lock on a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit.

Mobile Meat Harvest Unit

Built with a heavy duty steel frame and rugged aluminum body construction, the Friesla Mobile Meat Harvest Unit is built to be pulled down the road. Over the past 15 years, this USDA-compliant unit—now in its fifth generation of design—has been used to process meat on farms and ranches in the USA, Canada, South America, and Africa.

The Mobile Meat Harvest Unit’s dimensions are typically 38 feet long, 10 feet high (floor to meat rail), and 8.5 feet wide. Two alternate 45- and 53-foot-long versions provide room for further processing. Our team of meat industry and regulatory experts designs and helps you deploy the unit to maximize efficiency in your operations. For use, tow the trailer to your site, start the generator or plug in to shore power, and begin harvesting.

  • Butchers cleaning the floor around the Mobile Meat Harvest Unit, while two more butchers work on the beef carcass inside.
  • Butcher team uses a spreader bar, skinning cradle and well saw to split a beef carcass in a Friesla Mobile Meat Harvest Trailer.
  • Smiling butcher trims fat off beef carcass hanging from spreader bar.
  • Butcher splitting a beef carcass with a wellsaw in a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit.
  • Butcher splitting a beef carcass with a reciprocating saw in a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit.
  • Butcher stands on platform to attach meat rail trolley hooks to the beef carcass halves.
  • Butcher uses hook and knife to trim a hanging beef carcass.
  • Butcher spraying down hanging beef carcasses after skinning and evisceration in a Mobile Harvest Trailer.
  • Butcher transferring half beef carcass on the meat rail into Drip Cooler room of a Friesla Mobile Slaughter
  • Butchers bring beef quarters into The Meating Place Butcher Shop cooler from their Friesla Mobile Meat Harvest Unit.
  • Butchers transfer quartered beef carcasses from a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit into The Meating Place Butcher Shop.

Each self-contained mobile unit includes a meat rail hanging system, skinning cradle or optional hide puller, diesel generator, water storage, on-demand water heater, plumbing, drainage, refrigeration, waterproofed electrical, and all other installed equipment required for operation under USDA or state inspection. The interior’s non-porous surfaces and coved edges enable easy cleaning to help prevent bacterial growth.

Connect with us to learn more about pricing, processing capability, and manufacturing lead time.

  • An interior view of the guillotine door, blood tank, skinning cradle, sanitization system, and other harvest equipment in the Harvest Room in a Friesla Harvest Module.
    An interior view of the Harvest Room inside a Friesla Harvest Module, including a guillotine door, blood collection tank, skinning cradle, sanitization system, and other harvest equipment.
  • An interior view of the guillotine door, meat trolley storage, head wash station, saw sterilizer, and blood collection tank in a Friesla Harvest Module’s Harvest Room.
    An interior view of the Harvest Room inside a Friesla Harvest Module, including a guillotine door, meat trolley storage, working hose, head wash station, saw sterilizer, and blood collection tank.
  • An interior view of the Harvest Room in a Friesla Harvest Module.
    An interior view of a Friesla Harvest Module from the Harvest Room and leading into its Carcass Drawdown Cooler Room. After stunning and bleeding, the Harvest Module enables hide removal, evisceration, splitting, weighing, and washdown. Following inspection, hot carcasses are moved into the Harvest Module's next room—the Carcass Drawdown Cooler—for quick chilling.
  • Offal inspection and gut cart sitting beside the offal door in the Friesla Harvest Module’s Harvest Room.
    A paunch truck (or gut cart) and offal door inside a Friesla Harvest Module's Harvest Room enable evisceration, organ inspection, and offal disposal.
  • Two ceiling-mounted electric hoists in a Friesla Harvest Module’s Harvest Room.
    Ceiling-mounted electric hoists in a Friesla Harvest Module's Harvest Room enable the safe, efficient transfer of carcasses onto the meat rail system.
  • Two cable-actuated trolley stops for spreading carcasses on a meat rail in a Friesla Harvest Module’s Harvest Room.
    Cable-actuated trolley stops mounted on the meat rail system in a Friesla Harvest Module's Harvest Room allow for easy carcass spreading prior to splitting.
  • Twin Rinnai water heaters above a knee-operated hand wash sink, washdown hose reel, and a knife and saw sterilizer in a Friesla Harvest Module.
    Twin water heaters provide on-demand hot water to a knee-operated hand wash sink, washdown hose, and a knife and saw sterilizer inside a Friesla Harvest Module's Harvest Room.
  • Lafferty sanitization cart located in the Harvest Room of a Friesla Harvest Module.
    The sanitization system included in a Friesla Harvest Module—available in both cart and wall-mounted options—enables an efficient washdown and sanitization process following daily operations.
  • A meat rail system, circulating fans, aluminum lined walls, and evaporators in a Friesla Carcass Drawdown Cooler Room..
    An interior view of the Carcass Drawdown Cooler Room inside a Friesla Harvest Module, where the temperature of hot, freshly-harvested animal carcasses is reduced through quick cooling. After rapid chilling, carcasses are then moved into the attached Carcass Aging Cooler for dry aging and extended cooling.
  • The evaporators used to regulate temperature in a Friesla Carcass Drawdown Room.
    An interior view of the Carcass Drawdown Cooler Room inside a Friesla Harvest Module, where the temperature of hot, freshly-harvested animal carcasses is reduced through quick cooling. After rapid chilling, carcasses are then moved into the attached Carcass Aging Cooler for dry aging and extended cooling.

Modular Meat Harvest Unit

Built with a heavy duty steel frame and rugged aluminum body construction, the Friesla Meat Harvest Module is built to be transported to your site and set on a concrete pad, footings, or compacted gravel. Over the past decade, this USDA-compliant unit—now in its fifth generation of design—has been used to process meat on farms and ranches in the USA, Canada, and South America.

The Modular Meat Harvest Unit’s dimensions are typically 50-58 feet long, 12 feet high (10′ rail height), and 12 feet wide. Our team of meat industry and regulatory experts design and help you deploy it to maximize efficiency in your operations. Once the unit is delivered to your location, connect it to onsite water and power to begin harvesting.

  • Butcher skinning beef carcass in Friesla Modular Harvest unit.
  • Butcher moves beef carcass along meat rail in Friesla Modular Harvest unit.
  • Butcher using hide puller to remove carcass hide in the Harvest Module.
  • Butcher skinning Beef carcass in Friesla Meat Processing System.
  • Butcher performing zero tolerance trimming in a Friesla Harvest Module.
  • Butcher performing zero tolerance trimming in a Friesla Harvest Module.
  • Butcher spraying a beef carcass half with a hose for washdown.
  • Beef carcasses hanging in the Drawdown Cooler Room of a Harvest Module.

Each self-contained modular unit includes a restrainer or knock box, blood collection tank, heavy duty hoist and meat rail hanging system, skinning cradle or optional hide puller, water storage, on-demand electric water heater, plumbing, drainage, refrigeration, waterproofed electrical, and all other installed equipment required for operation under USDA inspection. The interior’s non-porous surfaces and coved edges enable easy cleaning to help prevent bacterial growth.

Connect with us to learn more about pricing, processing capability, and manufacturing lead time.