View Full Version : Need to Castrate Anything?
If so, here's your tool:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Elastrator-Castrator-Farm-Tool_W0QQitemZ290365423400QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_De faultDomain_0?hash=item439b20bf28
I can't tell how it works from looking at it, but it does make me cross my legs.
kiall1987
11-04-2009, 05:57 PM
rubber band fitter
rubber band fitter
That doesn't really explain it to me, but maybe I don't need it to be explained...:lol_hitti
eborcim
11-04-2009, 06:04 PM
It uses little rubber bands about the dimension of a Cheerio maybe a little bigger. You fit the rubber cheeri-O and squeeze the handles it opens the cheerio up to fit around the offending body part, cutting off circulation and causing the offender to necrose and die and eventually fall off. Works on lamb tails too.
Wow. So the balls just turn black, crusty, and shriveled and then fall off?
Gross.
Moose-LandTran
11-04-2009, 06:05 PM
I think i should buy it and make sure everyone at work knows i have it. ;)
frankreno
11-04-2009, 06:26 PM
If you have a young daughter it is a must have to keep by the front door!!
Zrexxer
11-04-2009, 06:26 PM
Need to Castrate Anything?Like a BULL, for instance?:shocking:
ImportTuner
11-04-2009, 06:41 PM
It uses little rubber bands about the dimension of a Cheerio maybe a little bigger. You fit the rubber cheeri-O and squeeze the handles it opens the cheerio up to fit around the offending body part, cutting off circulation and causing the offender to necrose and die and eventually fall off. Works on lamb tails too.
That sounds sooooo wrong .. ouch
krusty the clown
11-04-2009, 06:53 PM
Wow. So the balls just turn black, krusty, and shriveled and then fall off?
Gross.
hey now :lol_hitti
Nolan
11-04-2009, 07:03 PM
That sounds sooooo wrong .. ouch
It looks like they still make them and a new one is a little more than ten bucks.
http://www.enasco.com/product/C00232(X)N
I like the "clinical" description:
The specially compounded rubber ring is easily put in place with the Elastrator, and left there. The circulation is shut off, and any sensation of discomfort passes quickly as the part becomes numb, and eventually falls off. Opens up to 2" in diameter. 9-1/2" L. 2" opening.
Discomfort passes quickly, huh?
They make an entire line of these things including a "tri-band" that looks pretty scary.
Anyone care to mail one to an elected official?
walrus
11-04-2009, 07:09 PM
Wow. So the balls just turn black, crusty, and shriveled and then fall off?
Gross.
Thats what happens, seen it many times. Got one down in the barn
Moose-LandTran
11-04-2009, 07:14 PM
Thats what happens, seen it many times. Got one down in the barn
The castrator or the balls?
I still think that is better than how Mike Rowe did it on dirty jobs! :shocking:
walrus
11-04-2009, 07:48 PM
The castrator or the balls?
In the old days, both, now just the castrator. No critters except the dog and the vet took his balls
krusty the clown
11-04-2009, 07:55 PM
In the old days, both, now just the castrator. No critters except the dog and the vet took his balls
poor feller......what does he lick now:headscrat
walrus
11-04-2009, 08:23 PM
poor feller......what does he lick now:headscrat
His butt:lol_hitti
BigDawgDavao
11-04-2009, 09:08 PM
You want scary?
http://i607.photobucket.com/albums/tt155/alysay_93harley/Burdizzo-1.jpg
http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Burdizzo
dankeenan
11-04-2009, 09:15 PM
Easier than the alternative meathod with a pocket knife and iodine. We used them on calfs, lambs, etc. growing up on the farm.
The "old timers" used a pocket knife, and cooked the balls over the branding fire for a quick snack. I never tried them, I figured it just added insult to injury for the calf.
Nolan
11-04-2009, 09:34 PM
You want scary?
Even more scary is that there's whole groups of people out there that use this tool on themselves:
http://eunuchinfo.com/results.html
Pretty darn twisted if you ask me.
Even more scary is that there's whole groups of people out there that use this tool on themselves:
http://eunuchinfo.com/results.html
Pretty darn twisted if you ask me.
1. Holy shit...I am not even going to click on that link.
2. Holy shit! :eyecrazy:
JohnK007
11-04-2009, 10:08 PM
That kind of looks like what my Doc used when I got my vasectomy. He hit a nerve or something while he was doing it and I thought he shoved a live primary from the electric pole in my groin :shocking: :shocking:
alex71
11-04-2009, 10:16 PM
This thread has gone as horribly wrong as a thread can.
This thread has gone as horribly wrong as a thread can.
I'm not sure a thread that I started about a vintage castration tool could go in a much different direction than it has.
Really though, I had no idea how that tool worked and I wanted to know. I live on an old farm, but I'm not a farmer, so some of these down-and-dirty processes are completely alien to me (which is ok!)
porschedude996TT
11-04-2009, 10:20 PM
My AG Science instructor used his teeth to casterate lambs and pigs. Yuk, I could never do it...
alex71
11-04-2009, 10:22 PM
1. Holy shit...I am not even going to click on that link.
2. Holy shit! :eyecrazy:
do it. i dare you. i bet you have nightmares. :eek:
do it. i dare you. i bet you have nightmares. :eek:
Did you click on it, for real? What's in there?! :willy_nil:willy_nil
Treeman
11-04-2009, 10:54 PM
You city slickers might be surprised what goes on in animal husbandry (farming). Life for those that make it past the castrators isn't as much fun as it should be either. Imagine taking your 8 year old 4 H child to an ag. show and having to explain this to them:
Disposable artificial equine vagina
http://www.enasco.com/prod/images/products/24/AC022866.jpg
Blow up doll extrordinaire
http://pubwiki.extension.org/mediawiki/files/b/b9/Stallioncollection400.jpg
Snappy
11-04-2009, 11:03 PM
WTF ? ^^^^^ :wtf:
That pic isn't as bad as when Mike Rowe was shoulder-deep in a mare's bajango....
sk farmer
11-04-2009, 11:10 PM
i have used and will use the elastrator on young calves. it is about as easy, safe and humane as you can get. taking a 500 pounder to the vet to get fixed is not real fun. that stuff treeman posted is for real. a trip to the stockyard in early spring usually has a vet with many layers of clothes except for one arm. for some reason that one arm does not get cold??????
JohnMcD348
11-05-2009, 12:09 AM
You city slickers might be surprised what goes on in animal husbandry (farming). Life for those that make it past the castrators isn't as much fun as it should be either. Imagine taking your 8 year old 4 H child to an ag. show and having to explain this to them:
Disposable artificial equine vagina
http://www.enasco.com/prod/images/products/24/AC022866.jpg
Blow up doll extrordinaire
http://pubwiki.extension.org/mediawiki/files/b/b9/Stallioncollection400.jpg
Hey, At least he's getting his.......... And as a guy, isn't that the most important part?:bounce:
When I was younger I helped my uncle and cousin on their farm a few times when it came time for the fixins.... The first time I was there, I got to hold the bulls down while he used his old Buck knife. The next year he had one of those banding devices. I thought it was definitely easier with that than with the knife. they kicked around a little for a few minutes then after awhile, they seemed to not even know they were there.
Snappy
11-05-2009, 12:47 AM
This thread makes me cringe :yikes: :scared: Vasectomy was bad enough !!
nissan_crawler
11-05-2009, 02:21 AM
I'm not sure a thread that I started about a vintage castration tool could go in a much different direction than it has.
Really though, I had no idea how that tool worked and I wanted to know. I live on an old farm, but I'm not a farmer, so some of these down-and-dirty processes are completely alien to me (which is ok!)
Real farmers use their teeth.
WTF ? ^^^^^ :wtf:
Hey, that's better than the other way. I always felt bad when we did semen samples on bulls (I worked at a vet clinic). Nothing like shoving an electrified probe up the bung and cranking up the voltage until their pencil gets some lead in it. :wtf:
speed bump
11-05-2009, 02:36 AM
These pliers are easy to use but it sure takes those little steers to be a long time to become friendly again after you do it to them. I mean cmon all I did was throw what basically an O-ring around your balls, tattoo you and throw a tag in your ear you don't have to be that mean.
On a related note I like doing calves they are usually easy and friendly (unless mom comes along), we had to have the vet fix my sisters steer proper this summer and by the time he was set to go you could of done 10 calves.
Mach1Guy
11-05-2009, 04:56 AM
Even more scary is that there's whole groups of people out there that use this tool on themselves:
http://eunuchinfo.com/results.html
Pretty darn twisted if you ask me.
So i clicked on the link and then got suckered into reading this losers castration story. Apparently he was a husband and a father and then castrated himself. Not once, but twice! The first castration was only partially successful. Now has no desire whatsoever for any sexual activities. What a freakin MESS!
walrus
11-05-2009, 06:02 AM
Lots of things go on behind the scenes when raising animals. Most folks have no idea nor do they want to know.
Zrexxer
11-05-2009, 01:43 PM
I'm not sure a thread that I started about a vintage castration tool could go in a much different direction than it has.Sure it could... it could degenerate into a debate about how the castration tool industry has sold out to China :lol_hitti
vjquan
11-05-2009, 02:06 PM
You want scary?
http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Burdizzo
Did anyone click on this link and then click on the Elastrator link? I won't post the direct link, but it's pretty graphic. :shocking:
ryan_289
11-05-2009, 02:16 PM
We do it the old school way. Run em in the chute. Have someone stand above them and hold their tail straight up and tight. ( it pinches a nerve or something and they cant kick) Cut the bottom of the sac, squeeze one out and pull till it rips the cord. (less bleeding) squeeze the other one out, etc, etc.
Nolan
11-05-2009, 03:11 PM
Sure it could... it could degenerate into a debate about how the castration tool industry has sold out to China :lol_hitti
Best laugh I've had in a long time. Thank you.
Mattlt
11-05-2009, 03:16 PM
The "old timers" used a pocket knife, and cooked the balls over the branding fire for a quick snack. I never tried them, I figured it just added insult to injury for the calf.
Breaded, deep-fried, Rocky Mountain Oysters are pretty tasty.
Also, typically when bull calves are castrated they are de-horned as well. Horns can be burned or clipped off. You pretty much have the choice of a) the smell of burning hair or b) blood everywhere.
arkangel06
11-05-2009, 04:12 PM
Did you click on it, for real? What's in there?! :willy_nil:willy_nil
no pictures its safe
I have no fear
ryan_289
11-05-2009, 09:59 PM
Breaded, deep-fried, Rocky Mountain Oysters are pretty tasty.
Also, typically when bull calves are castrated they are de-horned as well. Horns can be burned or clipped off. You pretty much have the choice of a) the smell of burning hair or b) blood everywhere.
Thats why I only have polled cattle (no horns) Dehorning is by far more bloodier than castrating.
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