I finally found a tool I DO NOT want

afazz · Apr 1, 2011

I've been buying tools for a long time, and for the first time I discovered a tool I do NOT want to ever buy. :bounce:

http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/tls/2299102918.html

OLD FARMING TOOL( SKLAR) TO CASTRATE (cattle?)$35.00 OMO

THANKS FOR LOOKING..CALL 412-***-xxxx

I wish this was an April Fools joke, but I'm pretty sure the listing is serious!

Grape Ape · Apr 1, 2011

That listing has been bouncing around PGH Craiglist for a while. I've caught my wife looking at it a few times. :shocking:

ecotec · Apr 1, 2011

Grape Ape said:
That listing has been bouncing around PGH Craiglist for a while. I've caught my wife looking at it a few times.

do not fall asleep.

Kirbot · Apr 1, 2011

"toolremovaltool"

Nice touch :lol_hitti

anodyne33 · Apr 1, 2011

I wish that had been around when by buddy's sister got married last year. I think it would have made the perfect wedding gift from him.

jdv · Apr 1, 2011

The tetanus shot afterwards would be insult to injury.

BajaBound · Apr 1, 2011

That's classic!

Well it would work well if you had a daughter that was begging to date. lol

otanica · Apr 2, 2011

Now this is a farm tool

TAMPAGT07 · Apr 2, 2011

I think I'll wait to find a good deal on a Snap-On castration tool....

shanker · Apr 2, 2011

those are Berdizo's (I think thats how its spelled) I have a set that is all stainless steel and weighs about 20 lbs..

but of course we dont use them anymore because buyers want knife cut calves

shanker · Apr 2, 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdizzo

its actually burdizzo..I was close....

if I ever have a daughter, I'm going to hang the set I have in my foyer when she's of dating age....and a side by side leaning up in the corner

catfish · Apr 2, 2011

Some people like buying those old farm tools as house decorations.
that one there has an interesting back story , im sure someone will eventually pick it up.

chewy7 · Apr 2, 2011

Too bad its not near by me, we could use a tool like that on the farm lol. We use them small green rubber cheerios bands as our tool for castrating bull calves hahaha or the knife.
then they just fall off after a week or so. must be very painful.

Alchymist · Apr 2, 2011

Wait until the Torquemada estate sale comes up. I bet you will find a lot of tools you don't want/ :headscrat

DaleK · Apr 2, 2011

shanker said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdizzo

its actually burdizzo..I was close....

if I ever have a daughter, I'm going to hang the set I have in my foyer when she's of dating age....and a side by side leaning up in the corner

My sister brought home her first boyfriend from college one Thanksgiving weekend. We were fattening a couple of hundred hogs at the time along with everything else so Dad had prepared for the occasion by picking up a 130lb boar at the auction that week. Her new city guy was supposed to be coming right out to the barn for a tour so we had the hog down to castrate him, as the guy came in the barn he saw the nuts get snipped off and "accidentally" fall to the floor at his feet.

To his credit he didn't pass out but he didn't have much appetite that weekend.

fatfillup · Apr 2, 2011

Those old farm tools are collectible.

DaleK · Apr 2, 2011

Just so you get the full range of experience... http://www.farmersfarmacy.com/gc/gc...423710712861&FF=H&FK=Catalog:Instruments&Z9=0

bchee · Apr 2, 2011

How does it work exactly?

Kev442 · Apr 2, 2011

Them tiny rubber bands on Bulls give me the shivers! The truth is stranger than fiction....

shanker · Apr 2, 2011

chewy7 said:
Too bad its not near by me, we could use a tool like that on the farm lol. We use them small green rubber cheerios bands as our tool for castrating bull calves hahaha or the knife.
then they just fall off after a week or so. must be very painful.

not in texas...when buyers are shopping, they specifically require knife cut calves

Pukeballs · Apr 2, 2011

Anyone notice that our Moderator Bull has been unusually absent from this thread? I think he got scared away.

Az Scooter · Apr 2, 2011

shanker said:
not in texas...when buyers are shopping, they specifically require knife cut calves

My curiosity is piqued. Why do they prefer knife cut calves?

2oolhound · Apr 2, 2011

Reminds me of that scene in the movie "Hidalgo" BUT the tools the arabs had weren't designed for livestock.

If you haven't seen the movie it's pretty good and in spite of that one scene (which is a little hard to watch) it's still a family movie.

DaleK · Apr 2, 2011

Az Scooter said:
My curiosity is piqued. Why do they prefer knife cut calves?

Less chance of missing when you pop the nuts out and slice them off.

shanker · Apr 2, 2011

DaleK said:
Less chance of missing when you pop the nuts out and slice them off.

yep...as well as less chance of infection thus not requiring anti-biotics..

Tatsuya · Apr 2, 2011

shanker said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdizzo

its actually burdizzo..I was close....

if I ever have a daughter, I'm going to hang the set I have in my foyer when she's of dating age....and a side by side leaning up in the corner

Reading that wiki makes my balls feel uncomfortable.

ZRX61 · Apr 2, 2011

When I worked on a farm we'd just smash the bulls balls between two bricks. Friend saw this one day & said "CHRIST!!! doesn't that hurt??"

I said "only if ya get your thumbs caught between the bricks...

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