Woodcutter, I totally suck at tying meat back up like you did, is it necessary to get the bone out?
The friend I used to help scald and scrape hogs with had an old cast iron bathtub in his lot. We would build a fire under it and lower the hog into it, let it heat a bit, and pull it out to scrape some. Continue till cleaned up. When he was happy with the scraping he would take a small torch to the stubble.
I was thinking of heating a 55 gal barrel of water with my turkey cooker or weed burner and dunking it with the tractor loader. Actually I'm leaning more and more to just skinning it.