I know what this is as the old guy told me what it was, I could not pass it up as one never knows when it could come in handy, Cost me 5 bucks but it was worth it, Any guesses???.
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A worn-out post hole digger?
Post puller.
Cattle dehorner?
Still lurking after all these years.
Yep boy i really did not think anyone would know this one!!!!. It must take a pair to use that thing!!!
The nose clamps to hold their head still are even scarier and they take all the fight out of them ( sometimes ). And the little rubber bands don't look scary but still make me cringe. Boss had a picture a couple weeks ago of the band applicator.
Still lurking after all these years.
Oyster shucker, or crab cracker?
Wow, only took three answers. Good job, Lefty. I well remember the sight of blood shooting ten or twelve feet for a few seconds. We had a sulfa powder that we sprinkled on, and the bleeding would stop right away.Oh, the good old days !Greg
Now, how are us New Yorkers supposed to know that one?
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Hey when the guy told this Jersey boy i did not know if it wuz a joke!!!
Yep, not a sight for the weak constitution. I was glad when we got the last of the horned Herefords culled out and no more calves with horns growing. Its bad enough dealing with hornless cattle trying to get their nose in the feed bucket without having to dodge those pointed spears too. They weren't mean just hungry.
Still lurking after all these years.
We had those, with everything you decribe, but we used pine tar to smear on the stump., we used to raise hamburger steers----Holstein/hereford, gurnsey/angus crosses whatever the neighbor hood bull was at the time that we could use for breeding our milk cows for free. But they all were dehorned when they were calfs,
We also had the quillotine type for more mature beasts now that was not a pretty sight dehorning a mature bull or cow with thoses things.
Holyyyyyyyyyyy smokes... I thought you guys were shining me on. That's REALLY what those are and how it's done? Eeeeeeeeeeessshhhhhhhhhhhhh...PaulB
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In the dairy business, we would corral up the young heifers, usually around 250 to 300 lbs., and use a round electrical dehorning tool that was a lot like an old rod-type soldering iron, except the business end was a circle about the size of a 50 cent piece.
Held it around the horn bud for a count of 13, burnt hair, smoke, and a bellering calf, but in about two weeks, the horn bud would fall off and she'd be polled forevermore.
Now let's talk about castration.
;^)
Greg
Ahh the good old days.
Covered in mud, blood, manure fresh and aged. The smell of burning hair and priarie oysters.
Usually slept hard that night, lots of work.Yup them city folks don't have much idea what it takes to feed the nation.
Yeah, my folks had a castration knife they kept in an ashtray in the living room. I'm not sure either one of them knew what it was, but it was old and they had a lot of old junk, er, antiques laying around.
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
Ha ! I'm sure most of us here carry a pocket knife. Sometimes when I pull mine out ( and it's a fairly large knife ) some gal will say, Oh, is that clean ? I always say, sure is, that's my castrating knife, I have to keep it clean . . . as I peel the apple. I always enjoy their reaction.
I read a biography of Mr. J. C. Penney one time. When he interviewed a prospective employee, he would ask to see their pocket knife. If they didn't carry one, that was a mark against the man. He had concluded that it was a certain kind of person that carries a pocket knife on a regular basis. I'm always patting my pocket - never leave home without it.
Greg
Edited 7/2/2009 11:09 am ET by GregGibson
Yeah, it's a shame that kids can't carry pocket knives anymore.
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
What do you mean, kids. I'm a farm boy from way back, always had a pocket knife at work until recently. Its now a safety violation to use anything except a safety blade utility knife in the plant. When I found myself cleaning my fingernails during a safety meeting with all the bigs in attendance, I decided to leave it on the dresser at home from then on. Its still with me everywhere else but not at the plant.
Willful violations of safety rules is grounds for termination and my dirty fingernails can wait till I get home, I guess. <g> It doesn't have to makes sense, its just the policy.Still lurking after all these years.
Is that why people call you Lefty?
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
Growing up in So. Fla. in the late 40's when my old man got out his pocketknife to peel,slice etc. anything, we learned to ask him "What did you cut last". He might have castrated a boar hog, a stud horse or a bull (he never castrated cows) BTW, he called what he did "Removing the critter's social standing". Worse than that was when he would cut out screw worms from some animal before the State of Fla. eradicated screw worms by sterilizing the male screw worm flies and air dropping them all over the state. Female screw worm flies only mated once in their life span and mating with the sterile males would stop that particular chain of flies. They sterilized them with radiation. File this post under "Things I never needed to know". :)
Gotcha. We still have a boll weevil eradication program in Georgia, for the cotton crop. All over the rural counties, you can see bright yellow boll weevil traps, baited with some kind of pheremone. We have cotton "scouts" that ride 4 wheelers all over the fields and fence rows, checking the traps.
They hardly ever find one any more - maybe some day the program won't be needed any more. Now we have new invasive weeds showing up - aquarium grasses and such.
Greg
Around here (Land of 10,000 Lakes) it's zebra mussels.
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
Its pretty dull i hope they sharpened it a bit first!!!!
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Edited 7/2/2009 9:03 am by IMERC
Looks to me like it is an old cattle dehorner.
Why would you want to dehorn old cattle? Why not get them when they're young?
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
It is an old tool for dehorning cattle.
Are those Zebras getting bad? Are they affecting the fishing? Been in that area years ago. Nice place.
We have channel cats migrating from the Red River May not me a bad thing? no one seemes to care. We now have Lyme's up here. My DW got it last year and I insisted she see the doc and she tested positive. Even though the experts said it was not here.
I don't know that the zebras have caused any serious problems in any of the lakes yet, but they're slowly being migrated from one lake to the next, in the bottoms/live wells of boats that people don't properly drain and clean. There are some lake weeds that are causing more immediate problems, but the zebras are a bigger long-term concern.
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz