My buddy Dave took a similar class a few years back, not on hogs but on breaking down lamb. He told me the instructor made them feel for the "natural seams" too, just like you said. Before that, Dave said he always just hacked through the meat and ended up with a lot of scrap and uneven cuts. After that class, he said his lamb stew meat and chops looked way more professional. He still does it that way, and I can tell the difference when he brings some over to grill. So I think those classes really do open your eyes to a better way of working with an animal.

I mean it's a bus station in Nashville not a survival challenge, just throw some stuff in a bag and go.

I gotta say, I don't see the problem. If Bob has the money and he likes the look of the bagged stuff, let him spend it. My wife tried the free wood chips once and we ended up with termites in the garage door frame. Sometimes paying a little more saves you a bigger headache down the road.

Respectfully, I gotta push back on bleeding the brakes every 500 hours being the fix here lol. Those swing brake seals are a known weak point on the RT540Es, sure, but bleeding lines that often can actually introduce air back into the system if you're not real careful. I've seen guys do more harm than good chasing that, especially if the seals are already on the way out. Checking for metal flakes in the fluid is solid advice though, that's usually the real sign you need a teardown not just a bleed. Plenty of times a drift like that is just the valve getting sticky from crap in the oil, not the brake itself locking up.

I read a piece in Aviation Safety magazine last year that said over 60 percent of wiring errors in older aircraft trace back to bad labeling or no labeling at all. The guy who wrote it used to work for a major overhaul shop and said they spent more time chasing unmarked wires than actually fixing anything. Sounds like that King Air is a perfect example of why that stat exists.