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| Joe Katzburg, former president of UHC, standing in cattle sales yard which is next to UHC Processing Plant. | Employee is removing hides from brine water raceways onto bushman conveyor belt to take hides up to the fleshing machine to be fleshed. |
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| View of brine curing raceways where hides are soaked for a period of 12 hours. | Hide ringer, where hides pass through coming out of raceways to remove excess brine from hides. |
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| Hide coming out from raceway onto bushman, ready to pass through the hide ringer. | Hides hanging on bushman conveyor going to flesher to be fleshed. Two men are positioning the hide to be put into the flesher. |
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Hides have been fleshed and then dropped down onto grading table where hides are graded, trimmed, and folded for the different selections that are to be sold. |
Hides on grading table being observed by quality control supervisor checking to see that all grading standards and quality, meets with our standards of high quality products. |
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| Joe Katzburg, former president of UHC, standing in area where hides are selected and put onto pallets, flesher, and grading table in the background. | Hides are graded then weighed before being put onto selected pallets. |
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| Forklift in hide cooler storage room where palletized hides are kept till they are shipped. | Forklift shown putting pallet of hides into the hide compressor. |
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| Hide compressor powered by hydraulics compressing and "squaring" the pallet of hides. | Hides stacked and stored in cooler room. |
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| Hides stacked in rows in cooler room, all pallets are given IDs, pressed for excess liquid weight, and stacked per selection. | Cooling system in hide storage cooler. A thermometer is on the wall to be sure temperature is kept at 40°F. |
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| Joe Katzburg, former president of UHC, in the Modesto processing plant. | Overview of raceways and where hides are graded and palletized. |
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| Joe Katzburg, former president of UHC, standing in front of Waste-Water Treatment Area, where used brine is cleaned and treated to be reused. |