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OB Cattle Saw
We have all tried and complained about the wire saws that are available. Cheaply made, they don't last very long. I ran across a product that might work much better and shouldn't leave you in the lurch even if it breaks. It's a saw used by veterinarians to remove a dead calf from the mother cow. Yeah, I know, yuck but it looks like it would work for the woods too. The handles are listed at the bottom of the linked page. There may be cheaper prices out there. I just saw this one and it lists both the 11 yards of wire and the handles.
https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail....FYI7aQodGD8OZA
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Now that is a heck of a find......Why in the world would you be looking for dead calf saws?
Interesting, be will wait till some one tries it....LOL
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I wonder if the 3 local farm stores carry it.
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I did order one and have received it. It's pretty robust yet lightweight. I haven't had a chance to do any cutting with it yet but will and post back. I bought mine here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/OB-Dehorning.../281744271244?
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Cow in Indiana....RUN....
Rick is hunting down a victim............
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I figure if the dang thing is tough enough to cut bone, horns and teeth and is used by vets it "should" be pretty functional for tree limbs. I'll figure out how to baton with it and post a vid. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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Just please don't integrate it into some sort of survival hong.
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Holy Mother of Pearl. That sounds incredibly painful.
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Something only to wish upon enemies ...
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I have seen one in use, it is NOT a pretty thing. My sister (yep, the crazy one) when she was first married and had just recently found out that she was pregnant, noticed one of their cows was in labor. She watched her for a couple of hours then told her husband that the cow had not progressed any at all in her endeavors to have her calf. So he and his farm hand grabbed some rope and went out to try to assist the cow by tying the rope to the calfs feet, and when the cow pushed, attempted to pull the calf. They thought the calf was breach because the nose of the calf was not visible during the push phases. Eventually, they called in the vet, and he determined that the calf was not breach, but it's head was laying on it's shoulder, it's neck was bent rather than being straight allowing it to move more easily through the birth canal. He also was not able to push the calf back due to all the pulling my bil and the farm hand had done. There was only one thing that the vet could do and it involved this saw.And it was bad, and sad, and my sister had nightmares for a few days after.
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Yep we had a cow that could not calve because the leg was turned back. Fortunately or not the calf had died by the time they decided the needed to use the saw. But yeah not a pretty sight or sounds.
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bone is brittle, wood is not, the "teeth" will clog up pretty quickly
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I tested this thing out this morning on oak, birch and poplar. It worked just fine. No better and no worse than any other "survival" saw I've ever used. It won't replace my folding Gerber sportsman saw I carry in my pack but it's small and light enough to consider for a survival pack. The handles are stainless steel and pretty hefty stuff yet both of them and 3 feet of wire weigh in at 7.2 ounces. The handles are 3.5 inches long, which provides enough material to get my grubby mitts around. If you want to compare this to an actual saw then a real saw will win hands down. However, if you compare it to other "survival" wire saws then I think this thing is much more durable and will last much longer. You won't have to worry about the handles popping off when you need it. It fills a narrow niche for me and that's in one of my kits. Two handles and two rolls of wire each 3 feet long fit just fine. (The tea candle to the right sits on top of the coiled wire. It was removed to show the wire)
http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q...psfspaqmjt.jpg
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Are the handles mandatory?
Could one substitute a couple of key rings or even a couple of pieces of wood?
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I suppose you could but you'd have to figure out how to lock them on. The handles unscrew from one end and open like a vise in the center. The wire is inserted then the handle is screw closed. If you intend to do that you could just as easily buy one of those cheapo wire saws and change the handles on those. You can purchase the wire separately. It comes in 40 foot rolls.
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What I was thinking is a 40 foot roll is a bit excessive for most folks, who will never use up 12 or 15 wire saws.
You could get a roll and split it with someone if there is a way to wrap and tie it to improvised handles.
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It's less than $9.00. I'll bet you got enough empty coke bottles around there to come up with that.
http://livestockconcepts.com/en/equi...0-ob-wire.html
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All the coke bottles are plastic.
I guess I'll have to go back over to the interstate highway exit with that cardboard sign again....
It will take a day or too, I am too clean. I need to skip shaving and showering for a couple of days for that to pay off well.
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Plastic!? What ever happened to the days when a kid could scrounge a few soda bottles and trade them in for a candy bar? This is not good.
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LOL....Back in my "working for the city days".....helped out on the garbage truck 2 day a week.
One guy collected copper wire, and the other collected the points stickers on Clorox...bottles.
No one collected soda or beer bottles....all had deposits....So I called dibs.
Made a few bucks off that...
We were unloading at the dump.....dump guy didn't collet them either....came across a guy cleaning out his garage and was tossing full cases of empty beer bottles.....each case was worth like $.50 cents or maybe a bit more......made abut $15 bucks.....and split it with the other two guys.
Needless to say I lost my dibs on that corner of the market.
Some states have a $.05 cent deposit on aluminum cans.....Guy at a state park across the river form Iowa collet those from the camp ground.....paid for his new S10 Pick up with his can money.
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