The only people who ever “believed” in cow-tipping are people who never lived around cattle.
Tipping does NOTHING to improve their performance, and is just a waste of cash.
Yeah, Rob, I was about to say: I grew up on a cattle farm and raised steers for 4-H. Doubt I could have pushed an 800-pound steer over and certainly not a 12-1400-pound cow. Heck, it was hard enough to get a steer to just take a step in one direction or another if he didn’t want to. I never heard the term “cow-tipping” till I was grown, and then I think it was on TV or in a movie.
Yea, city folks, just try to tip over that cow; better yet, try it with the bull and just see who gets “tipped.”
So why does the myth of cow tipping persist?
because its fun to watch someone who doesn’t know about cows try?
i reckon from what i know and have experienced with cows, they will bounce off, and the cow will step to the side and look back at them on the floor.
and i have already had my running with the bull experience, and never had to get a ticket to Spain.
🙂
(no, i did not try to tip it)
Rob and Mac,
As an aging farm boy, I am amazed by what the city slickers will believe. But as long as they keep flying over I don’t have to think about them very often.
Don’t worry, we will not pay you to live here. We want you to migrate to the the eden of Africa or South America or Cuba. There you will find how the real 99% live.
I had to feed the calves growing up on our small farm. In the barnyard, they were fed cracked corn which I doled out using a 5 gallon metal bucket. The feeding trough was in front of the corn storage building.
One day I had just filled the bucket and turned around. An 800 lb. calf walked by, kicked its leg out to the side and put a large dent in the bucket. If it hadn’t been there, the location of the kick would have made me sing soprano permanently.
While I didn’t think of tipping the calf, I did think of Mongo from Blazing Saddles and what he did to a horse. Didn’t do it as there were too many witnesses rolling on the ground in laughter.
It’s only feasible to uproot a cow if you use internal leverage mechanics, such as Archimedes and Chinese internal martial arts. Even then, you can’t lift it in the air given your legs cannot sustain the feedback energy from gravity or inertial. Tipping them over, should be possible though. But it’ll look more and more like a strike, because it cannot be effective as a push.
Whether the cow dies from that or is injured, is a different issue. Anything powerful enough to unbalance a cow and send it falling, can also kill it, or those around it.
I grew up in a rural Midwestern town. “Cow tipping” was code for “Let’s meet on in the country, some country road or field, and drink some brew skies.” Of course, we always told city folk we really were “cow-tipping.” Made up stories about it.
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Now, I’m bowled over.
Thanks for the tip!
The only people who ever “believed” in cow-tipping are people who never lived around cattle.
Tipping does NOTHING to improve their performance, and is just a waste of cash.
Yeah, Rob, I was about to say: I grew up on a cattle farm and raised steers for 4-H. Doubt I could have pushed an 800-pound steer over and certainly not a 12-1400-pound cow. Heck, it was hard enough to get a steer to just take a step in one direction or another if he didn’t want to. I never heard the term “cow-tipping” till I was grown, and then I think it was on TV or in a movie.
Yea, city folks, just try to tip over that cow; better yet, try it with the bull and just see who gets “tipped.”
So why does the myth of cow tipping persist?
because its fun to watch someone who doesn’t know about cows try?
i reckon from what i know and have experienced with cows, they will bounce off, and the cow will step to the side and look back at them on the floor.
and i have already had my running with the bull experience, and never had to get a ticket to Spain.
🙂
(no, i did not try to tip it)
Rob and Mac,
As an aging farm boy, I am amazed by what the city slickers will believe. But as long as they keep flying over I don’t have to think about them very often.
Their arrogance is always on display.
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Don’t worry, we will not pay you to live here. We want you to migrate to the the eden of Africa or South America or Cuba. There you will find how the real 99% live.
I had to feed the calves growing up on our small farm. In the barnyard, they were fed cracked corn which I doled out using a 5 gallon metal bucket. The feeding trough was in front of the corn storage building.
One day I had just filled the bucket and turned around. An 800 lb. calf walked by, kicked its leg out to the side and put a large dent in the bucket. If it hadn’t been there, the location of the kick would have made me sing soprano permanently.
While I didn’t think of tipping the calf, I did think of Mongo from Blazing Saddles and what he did to a horse. Didn’t do it as there were too many witnesses rolling on the ground in laughter.
It’s only feasible to uproot a cow if you use internal leverage mechanics, such as Archimedes and Chinese internal martial arts. Even then, you can’t lift it in the air given your legs cannot sustain the feedback energy from gravity or inertial. Tipping them over, should be possible though. But it’ll look more and more like a strike, because it cannot be effective as a push.
Whether the cow dies from that or is injured, is a different issue. Anything powerful enough to unbalance a cow and send it falling, can also kill it, or those around it.
I grew up in a rural Midwestern town. “Cow tipping” was code for “Let’s meet on in the country, some country road or field, and drink some brew skies.” Of course, we always told city folk we really were “cow-tipping.” Made up stories about it.