Cow rides in back of Pickup

Geo-TH,In · Oct 6, 2018

This caught my eye, thought I would share.
Perhaps someone can find video of cow sticking head out window and post it. I don't do facebook.

As a kid, I was driving a pickup in feedlot, brother was throwing hay out of truck to feed the cows when the pickup bottomed out on rear springs. My brother came flying over the cab of truck. Our bull wanted to go for a ride or get to the hay first.

Sorry to disappoint some, no mention of A TRACTOR!
Well we did use a tractor to spread what the bull left behind.
Is everyone happy now?
cow riding in truck

flembo · Oct 6, 2018

While working in Puerto Rico I saw one in the trunk of a mid 60s chevy car. I guess you do whatever it takes. I once hauled 3 sheep 10 miles to a friends farm to have them sheared in the back of a Jeep Commando they rode just fine.

rdandersom · Oct 6, 2018

We had a Chevy Cavalier wagon that was used as a lighter pickup. I unexpectedly bought a calf at a sale 50 miles from home and brought her home in the back on a plastic sheet.I told the very pregnant Mrs that I would have to sit in the back to tend the calf while she drove.It was her first lesson in how to drive a standard transmission.That little station wagon hauled week old calves other times between farms crates of poultry to the butcher 2 or 3 bags of feed at a time or the dog to the vet.

farmerjohn · Oct 6, 2018

In the article ?rescued from a factory farm ? rubbed me the wrong way. Indicates the mindset of the people who make a big deal about this kind of thing.
I would think a cow could be like any other animal, that if pampered and spoiled it could live in the house, ride in the car, whatever.
I once raised a heifer so tame that she ran to greet me in the pasture, and I could lead her anywhere by the ear with two fingers. But when she came fresh she was the meanest kicker I ever tried to milk. Never figured that out.

SDE · Oct 6, 2018

In the movie The Rounders, Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda hauled their horse in the back of their truck.

Southern Ray · Oct 6, 2018

I remember back as a young five year old dad bringing home two calves in our '49 Chevrolet.

on a lighter note, saw this in a comic book.

grins,

Ray

Elmo · Oct 6, 2018

back In the 50s and early 60s many pickups were used to haul cattle. They had removable panels to haul cattle.
Elmo

oldsarge · Oct 6, 2018

I cracked up watching that video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!a real LOL

Ken Macfarlane · Oct 6, 2018

Up into the 90?s around here. Still have the panels the
neighbours used on their 1994 F150 for hauling cattle.

fixerupper · Oct 6, 2018

Two stock cows in the back of a 3/4 ton pickup with a stock rack was all the pickup wanted for weight but they were sandwiched in so tight they couldn't make the pickup rock and roll like a single cow would. It made a bit of a racket when their feet would sometimes slip off the wheel wells. Sometimes getting them to back out was a challenge. Dad got kicked in the groin area hard enough to knock him backward once when he was opening the slide gate to unload a couple cows from a pickup. The hoof missed the important area but he was doubled over for a few days.

jeffcat · Oct 6, 2018

Wellll. Now I am ready. Funny!

IA Roy · Oct 6, 2018

I saw on a tv show a camel riding in the back of a Japanese pickup. Laying down, no sideboards.
Somewhere in Middle East.

IA Roy · Oct 6, 2018

I also remember hauling 4 4H 1000# steers to the County fair. We led 3 in and tied them to the rack front. The 4th one went in crossways in the back. 1970 Ford F250

DoubleO7 · Oct 6, 2018

My wife, back in the early 80's when she was young, dumb and hooked on horses and ponies used a 1970 something four door Caddy to haul ponies and hay.
She took out the back seat and removed the trunk lid.
Pony in the back seat area and hay in the trunk.

4xMF · Oct 6, 2018

Best laugh I ever had from a TV programme was an old fellow telling about the old days when his little car was the only vehicle he owned and he used to haul his pigs to the market in it. It worked very well with the pigs staying in the back seat until the day it was a big sow he had to sell. On the way to the market she stuck her nose under the dashboard and lifted it right up. What a mess it must have been. I can’t even imagine how he got the sow into that little 2 door German DKW in the first place.

K Effective · Oct 6, 2018

When the neighbors were still milking, they spent some top money for breeding stock. When the calf was born, something was clearly wrong, and the local vet suggested they haul the calf to MSU. Pulled the back seat out of the Lincoln Town Car, tossed in a tarp and blankets and headed out for Lansing, about 3 hours away. I was still a pre-teen, so I don't remember what was wrong or the outcome, just remember Grandpa retelling that story a thousand times. I only wish he was here to tell me one more time.

fixerupper · Oct 6, 2018

Back in the 60's sometime an old local livestock scalper traded his car in for a brand new Mercury on a Saturday morning. He drove the Mercury to the sale barn, bought two calves, threw them in the back seat and took them home. It probably wasn't the last time he had livestock in the back seat.

jeffcat · Oct 6, 2018

Well you broght this one up. Just silly.

RedMF40 · Oct 6, 2018

We had one pet sheep as a kid, would stuff her in the back of the family's '66 Beetle for the drive to the sheep farm to get her sheared. Removed the seat as I recall. Why we didn't just buy a set of shears is beyond me.

hd6gtom · Oct 6, 2018

I used to haul fuel for a living. Stopped at this 1 old boys farm early 1 morning. Ha said, help me get this trunk open. I bought a baby calf last night, now I can't get the trunk open. I got the trunk open, the calf had the scours. Old boy had 1 heck of a mess to clean up. Calf was OK.

tomturkey · Oct 6, 2018

nice tribute to your Grandpa gobble

shinnery · Oct 7, 2018

That appears to be three different camel/Toyota combinations.

SVcummins · Oct 7, 2018

Just another msn story to make cows look like pets I bet if you read the comments people will be saying how awful it is cows are eaten .

Geo-TH,In · Oct 7, 2018

PETA will have a hard time prying a T bone from my cold dead hands.
I grew up on a dairy and we sent an old cow to butcher shop and make hamburger out of the old tough girl.

sammydwm · Oct 7, 2018

back in the day before we had a truck and trailer, we had a little Chevy tracker and went to an auction. They had some pretty fresh little calves there but not having any luck getting them for the price I was willing to pay. Ended up getting a 4 month old heifer and then the wife bid on and won the very last little calf, a little ho/jo. Well the 4 month old calf was so big we couldn't get her in the Tracker by ourselves, had to ask an Amish guy walking by to help us lift her in...he looked a little surprised. Go them both in there though. Got more than a few looks from the rest of the folks.

sammydwm · Oct 7, 2018

(quoted from post at 00:25:10 10/07/18) Back in the 60's sometime an old local livestock scalper traded his car in for a brand new Mercury on a Saturday morning. He drove the Mercury to the sale barn, bought two calves, threw them in the back seat and took them home. It probably wasn't the last time he had livestock in the back seat.

Remember mom dragging home some little jersey bull in a box in the backseat. Course back then you really had some room back there....

SVcummins · Oct 7, 2018

They won?t take my steak 🥩 from me either . If those clowns are so concerned about cows they can start buying them and then they keep em for pets

spacechem · Oct 8, 2018

IA Roy- Pick your response:

A. I had a steer like that... once.
B. Yeah. Let me know when the story gets to six.
C. The folks at that fairgrounds need to get their scale fixed..

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