Today's Funny

jon f mn

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• Oct 25, 2019

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Larry EC-OH

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• Oct 25, 2019

• #1

Yep

Actually to both.

 

chuck machinist

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• Oct 25, 2019

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Worse than a cat o'nine tails!.CM

 

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r.w.b.

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• Oct 25, 2019

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When its cold cockleburrs and frozen urine in cows tail OUCHIE attached bungee cords on pipes on stalls,dont take much to restrain tails but if you forget to let tail loose when opening to let em out tail comes free easy.
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Glorys of milking

 

db4600

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• Oct 25, 2019

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Milked in a 4-stall parlor. Had a 1st time heifer come through. She had a right foot that was quicker than Sugar Ray Leonard. I woke up on the floor about 40 seconds later.

 

db4600

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• Oct 25, 2019

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Old friend told a story of visiting the neighbors farm where he found the patriarch milking. It was common to have the barn radio tuned to the local Polka station which played ?the Fatima Rosary? at 5:30 daily. As he turned the corner and the neighbor came into sight the cow swatted him with her wet tail and the typical refrain of the rosary was interjected with @&$ %#*?!, @&$ %#*?!, @&$ %#?!.

 

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chcase

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• Oct 25, 2019

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Any farm kid who helped milk cattle had that happen at least once.I was lucky that I always had glasses on.Tho I ended picking them up a few times and having to go to the milk house and clean them and my face.Those were the days.

 

Tony in SD

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• Oct 25, 2019

• #1

Yes for me.
When I was too little to milk by my self, dad was in the hospital and couldn?t milk for a week or so. My uncle came over and milked for dad. I was there to help as much as I could. I was too young to know all the details but after a cow whipped my uncle with her tail, he gave her tail a generous hair cut.

 

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HuskerLyn

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• Oct 25, 2019

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Try collecting a stallion with a braided tail, it even snaps like a whip

 

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Brown Swiss

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• Oct 25, 2019

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Best when the cow had her tail in the gutter and wet from urine, talk about burning in your eye! Milked in a stall barn for 20 years.

 

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Russ from MN

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Location

Bemidji MN

• Oct 25, 2019

• #1

We had a bale twine hanging from a rafter with a big alligator clip on the end!

 

formerly ny bill

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• Oct 25, 2019

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BTDT

 

Bruce from Can.

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Location

Woodville, Ontario, Canada

• Oct 25, 2019

• #1

Guess I have been very lucky, as I have very little experience with heart break, but I have extensive experience with cows tails. I wear safety glasses now days

 

wjytexas

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• Oct 25, 2019

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or a horse tail while tacking on a hind shoe?

 

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pms

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• Oct 25, 2019

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As one who spent lots of time on a dairy that hit home.Or how about getting whipped by a tail covered in $hit.
Paul

 

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pcsaw

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• Oct 25, 2019

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Or had a tree limb come off the muffler of a tractor just as you get done looking back and turn around and the limb hits you right in the nose in the dead of winter that will bring some tears to your eyes

 

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jeffcat

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• Oct 25, 2019

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All of these are so true but till you get connected with a Widow Maker you havent lived. You actually have a hoof shaped black and blue mark the next morning.

 

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aFORDable

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• Oct 25, 2019

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AMEN! btdt

 

Gary Mitchell

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• Oct 25, 2019

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Must have been a common set-up in the day. Same here to both as well. gm

 

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JMS/.MN

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• Oct 25, 2019

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KASM out of Albany, MN? Sleepyhead Cliff, etal.

 

db4600

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• Oct 25, 2019

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Was on a farm near you this took place. Jimmy Theis told the story.

 

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jeffcat

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• Oct 25, 2019

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Just think....you were ahead of the learning curve!! Today they use that in your Diesel truck. Called DEF.

 

Larry EC-OH

Member

• Oct 25, 2019

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You had to mention that one. I still see stars! It's a wonder I didn't get knocked out.

 

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Rollie NE PA

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• Oct 25, 2019

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Brings back the memories of having my toes stepped on while milking along with the wet tail first thing in the morning.

 

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Doug Wi

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• Oct 25, 2019

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The people that got all hyper about tail docking and got it banned [at least in Wis] Sure as heck never experienced that. Docking the tails was the single best management practice we ever used. In the summer we kept the cows in during the day and out at night. Had to go thru the barn several times a day and add straw to places in the gutter before we started docking.

 

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Batel

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• Oct 26, 2019

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Jon f mn wrote: Or had a tree limb come off the muffler of a tractor just as you get done looking back and turn around and the limb hits you right in the nose in the dead of winter that will bring some tears to your eyes

A retired farmer working for me said he had that happen when he was mowing a fence row, but it was a locust tree. Thorn broke off in his eye. Said he knew the eye was gone so he finished the row, went to the house where his wife took one look and passed out in the floor. He drove himself to the doctor and miraculously they ended up doing eye surgery and since it went in the white part he didn't lose his sight. Tough guy, flew transports in WW2. They offered him a job at TWA after the war and he said "Naw, I'm done with flying, I'm going home to farm."

 

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David Snipes

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• Oct 26, 2019

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Done both, but we learned to tie our cow's tails prior to milking, afterwards a pull of a string set the tails free. We wouldn't dock the tails because they use them to keep the flies away from their rear ends. No cure for the broken heart.