| ballpark Frank - 8/31/2024 23:33
One of my best friends dad had his skull crushed in by a cow kick as he was getting knocked down. Coroner said he was probably gone when he hit the ground.
Yup cows can knock a person's lights out mighty quick. Seen some hand injuries where we were using portable hydraulic chutes. Cow could get a front leg up and between bars toward front and kick you if you weren't watching.
We were working cows and used a corral with customized touches to pens and tub and alley ways. The tub has an elevated platform where you can walk around it to reach stubborn cows that jam up or whatever. The weather was hotter than hot plus high humidity. Cows get mad easily just like people in the heat. Had a group in the tub that refused to go down the alley to the chute. Jammed up. managed to get a few of them to move to the chute. But three or four wouldn't budge. An especially big cow turned her rear to me where I was up on the platform. I used a sorting stick to reach towards her and gently tap to get her turned. She wasn't having any of it. I knew she was trying to line up the distance in her hindsight to nail me with a hind leg. Thankfully there was just enough protection from the platform so that when she kicked she couldn't connect with a leg or flesh. Sounded like a big tuning fork after the hard kick made the steel vibrate. I could see how in such a situation a person could easily fall into the tub with a stubborn cow positioned in such a way. |
Bull Killed My Uncles Brother in 1925
