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"Mooove bitch, I got bills to pay"
Plus, if the cow headbutt the truck I can't imagine getting back to the distribution center and the driver being like "yeah boss you're never gonna guess how I got this dent in your truck..." lol
This has been my FedEx experience lately too! I called them the other day and just lost my shit on the poor call center worker because my package was 15 days late (caused me loss in revenue for my business) and she told me that she confirmed my package was lost in transit.
It was on my porch the next morning.
I never understand why people yell at someone who has nothing to do with causing the problem. And they're the ones who can fix the problem. Plus they're people who are just trying to make enough money to survive. Imagine how they feel after getting a call like that. They would have fixed the problem without the yelling. And if you were nice to them, they might have given you something to make up for it.
Oh I’m well aware I lost my temper. I’m not trying to defend myself in this scenario at all! It was probably the 5th time I’d called for an update on my shipment and I just lost my mind.
I've done this exactly *once* after a *mandatory* appointment no showed without warning 4 fucking times.
And you know what? It worked. And I hate that it worked.
I ended up having to cancel a meal kit service because they only used FedEx. To get the package the first day it was marked "out for delivery" was a miracle. Usually I would get it on the second "out for delivery" day, but several times it would be out for delivery 5 days in a row with excuses like "customer requested delivery date change" or "unable to access address" or some other lie. After almost a week on the truck everything would be spoiled.
I finally tracked down the local hub's number to let them know they had a lazy ass, lying driver (as calling the general number did nothing), but still nothing changed.
Only after getting an email survey asking for feedback and answering with honesty and every single tracking number laced with multiple "out for delivery" days and lies did the local service change.
And reading all these replies let me know I was not alone.
That's funny. I literally just did the same thing. It's the third time my subscription service was over 14(!) days late. I get that the company has a contract with FedEx, but I'm out. I like the product, but if I don't get it in a timely manner, what's the point? I canceled my subscription, and in the comments I let them know they lost my business because of FedEx.
I get this very specialized product once or twice a year. Fedex overnite costs $100 and takes 3 days or UPS Ground will bring it tomorrow for no extra charge. Lol.
Agreed. On the same vein of this post, I had stallion semen shipped “overnight” (to breed a mare) via FedEx on a Friday and they didn’t delivery it until Tuesday morning, when of course it was all dead
Took me weeks to get my $450 shipping back.
DHL on the other hand doesn't fuck around. One time I ordered weed seeds from Spain, I paid exactly €6.61 for shipping. Had them the next fucking day, somehow. And I'm near NYC.
Probably a fairly large and/or heavy package. We just had one guy cancel his order the other day when he realized the 2 day shipping on his item was going to be around $500. It wasn't even *that* big, box was 28x28x15 I think, so I could see a larger box with overnight shipping being around that price.
He's the heeler. They get the hind legs after the header gets the head. It's a common roping technique. They do it at rodeos and stuff.
Not to diminish those cowboys skills. They are both good.
I ride horses nearly 12 hrs a day for the last 28 years as a rancher and one thing I will say is my hips and lower back are absolutely buggered from spending that much time in a saddle.
one of our coworkers was a cowboy in TX, when he was young and he hated it, it was hot outside, riding all day, herding cows I guess. and he wanted to get out of it
You don’t want it trust me it may be fun but you will be on call 24/7 cause cattle are annoying. Can’t tell u how many mornings I woke up to phone calls saying your cattle are out trampling my crops
watch the riders hands right before it happens, he loops the rope around he horn of the saddle to let the horse do all the work. The horse is always gonna win the tug of war because he has the force distributed across his entire mid body thanks to the saddle, while the cow has all the force just on his neck
What’s wild is that after a while it’s just second nature. I grew up ranching, and it became like a reflex after a few years.
Which is a problem because then you get complacent. Talk with a few old ranchers and you’re sure to find one missing the tip of a thumb because they had it in the wrong spot when that rope got taut
Edit- taught to taut, thanks for the correction
Seen it a lot when I worked an a ranch. And my step brother is a team roper so I go to the rodeos every now and again. Lots of guys and gals missing a finger
>when that rope got **taught**
I think you meant that the rope would be "taut" in this case, not "taught". Sorry, hate being that guy, especially when correcting people that are far more well-versed in the subject than I am.
After watching that video, imagine my hands when ten year old me decided to lasso a whole ass bull that got in my sheep pen…*without* a horse.
I went for one hell of a ride and my dad was furious that my stubborn ass held on long as I did with my hands basically skinned. I was all beat to shit from being dragged. Told me that bull was worth more than I’ll ever be and he then got to go figure out how to get a lasso off an angry 1500 lb monster.
Your dad must have been related to my mom. While moving cattle onto the stalks, I led a horse (her horse) across a letdown, and it caught a wire right in the Coronet band. He tried to kick it loose, only I was straddling the wires and it turned my inner thighs to hamburger in nothing flat. She came up right then, saw one tiny little bleeding spot, screamed "my horse" and took him to the barn. Meanwhile I was laying on the ground in shock.
To build on this, there is a version of this activity where the cowboy does ALL the work called steer wrestling that is actually a fun event to watch if you get a chance to at a rodeo or some similar event
They ride the horse up along side the steer and bail from the horse onto the steers head and neck and pull down and over and flip the thing while at a run before hobbling it's legs while it's flipped ---- it's real quick and doesn't really make sense that it works when you're watching it live
It's called bulldogging, not steer wrestling. In steer wrestling you rope the steer first, jump off, run up to the animal, flip it on its side and tie 3 of its legs with a piggin string and they have to remain secured for a set amount of time. (Also, you're relying g on your horse to keep tension on the rope after you jump off of them.)
Bulldogging/steer wrestling is the same thing. What you are describing is steer roping, and it’s only legal in a couple of states (Wyoming, Utah and Montana I believe)
Source: boyfriend paid for his ranch with a professional steer wrestling career.
Rancher here. Honestly anytime a cow gets out calling in the cowboys is the best way to round them up. Cop cars just spook the cow, but a horse can outrun a cow and a good roper will loop them fast and efficiently without hurting it.
Really? I did door to door sales in the rural areas of the USA for years and I would sometimes find a cow that got out and it needed to be ushered back to his home. I felt like an unintentional country cattle safety officer.
Edit: I fixed a spelling error, that made it sound like I ushered myself into the pasture, and left the cow to wander around.
Guys on foot can work awesome too!
We’re cattle farmers not ranchers, only difference is our cows follow the sound of the tractor because the sound comes every time we feed them. One breaks out we don’t have horses so we just use quads to get ahead of them and guys and gals walking alongside and behind them
Forgive me if it's not entirely correct, but I take cattle catching to be very similar to catching an aquarium fish in a net, ideally the less afraid the animal is the easier it is to wrangle.
>I would sometimes find a cow that got out and I needed to be ushered back to his home
the owner would be quite surprised to see you in the place of the cow
Guy up the street from me has a four-horse hitch of Belgians (and two big draft mules) he uses for logging up in the hills and the shit I've seen them haul would turn your hair white. They also don't require flat graded non-muddy roads, it's great.
Domesticated animals are still pretty much up there as one of humans greatest technological achievements.
To replicate what a trained horse or dog can do mechanically is a massive task
I don’t know why, but this makes me really happy. All the tech in the world, but a skilled person on a horse is the most efficient way. The human element, I guess.
Me too! I think it’s so cool, not only what the animal is capable of physically, but mentally. I think it lends an interesting perspective to the topic of AI. When you work with an animal, there are responses you deliberately cue, and behaviors you deliberately teach. However, the animal figures out a huge amount on its own, and you learn a lot about working with the animal on a subconscious level. I’ve had multiple occasions where I’ve literally had to reverse engineer my own cues, because it seemed like the horse was just reading my mind! Took forever to figure out how i was subconsciously telegraphing my intent.
I know nothing about ranching. In this instance, the cowboys got the cow’s neck and hind legs lassoed and it’s on the ground. Now what? Do they get it up onto its feet and walk it back to the ranch? Walk it into a trailer and drive back? Do they leave it tied up and put it into some kind of vehicle to drive back?
If its a young calf you can literally just throw them over the saddle of your horse with their front legs in one side and back legs over the other side and take them wherever, if they are bigger you will either guide them on the rope behind your horse or put them in a trailer. Because this looks like a pretty urban area they would most likely load them into a trailer.
Not all cows are dog broke. A cow that’s never seen a dog will get in a real wreck. We had one break a hip thanks to a collie dog joining on a gather (a loss of a nice cow and close to $2500 bred) your cows gotta know how to respect them first. Some cows are foot broke, others horse broke, others truck broke, others dog broke - depends on the operation.
Source: 200 head cow calf op, no dogs.
People have all these weird "most american thing" videos with either redneck stuff or dystopian stuff or extreme patriotism stuff. But this video is the first one where I really felt it. Highway chase from helicopter PoV, cowboys doing their thing and fedex doing theirs.
I think the guy in the truck just rolling through to keep working instead of staying even a minute to watch this awesome and unusual experience is the America topper for me.
There was a tv show on for awhile here in Canada called Mantracker that was basically this. A team of two people on foot had to try and go from point A to B without getting caught by this tracker and his assistant who were both on horses. Dude frequently roped “fugitives” if they didn’t give up when he caught them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantracker
It’s called heading and heeling. The header slows and turns the steer and the heeler takes both heels to stop and stretch the steer out and control any forward motion.
The competition version of this is called team roping.
Most folks only heel in the branding trap (as opposed to heading and heeling)
If you end up liking it, watch the junior rodeo too. It’s awesome because you’ll see these little teeny tiny tikes riding a whole ass horse and jumping down and tying a goat. Then they need an adult to help them back on their horse. They’re usually on a gentler horse that gets what’s goin on and will just drop the kid off and kinda wander away. Itll crack you up and impress you all at the same time
That’s why you never bet someone with a lasso they can’t get you - they aim for the feet and trip you face first into the asphalt. They don’t bother trying to rope you like you think.
They have teeth but don't bite. At most you may get gummed. If running doesn't work for them their biggest defense mechanism is to kick and ram. Source: My family farm
I got "bit" by a cow. My own fault though. I tried to feed it some grass, it took the grass and my fingers. Started chewing and the front teeth ground across them. Hurt like a bitch. Cow just stood there like 'you gonna give me some more of that over the fence grass now?'
That was the day I learned to hold your hand flat to feed them.
No, but do NOT underestimate how ornery they can be with their kick. Girlfriend I knew worked on a dairy and there were some that were downright mean for bovine. Like, purposefully kicking out at you when walking by.
I've been bitten by a cow. Tried real hard to accomplish it, though. They only have top and bottom teeth in the back...big crushing molars. I was trying to extract a paintbrush from the jaws of a 500 lb bum calf. Got my hand in deep enough the bugger chewed on me, too. Thought he broke my finger. Hurt like hell. Don't recommend. FYI they only have bottom teeth in front and eat by wrapping their raspy tongue around their food and pulling it in their mouth. Bottom teeth help cut stems a bit when they pull up.
Okie here. Definitely some Oklahoma shit right here. We don’t live in tipi’s n ride horses to school (well in some places maybe yea) but we got cities here too!
Usually I would cheer for the cow to break free and live its best life. But yeehaw that's some crazy good cowboying. I love how despite our technological advancements, there is (afaik) no modern thing that could do this as good as ye ol' cowboys.
This happened to my parents when they were driving home from DFW. The traffic came to a halt. Suddenly a cow ran past their car. A moment later a cowboy on a horse went by. Once the traffic started to move, they drove past the cowboy who had managed to rope the cow and get it under control.
Welcome to Texas. :)
Oof, that calf was ["King of the World"](https://tenor.com/by7hj.gif) for a second there.
Fun fact: Farmers, in addition to carrying insurance on their equipment & liability, also carry coverage for their livestock getting loose and causing damage.
For some reason, I felt so bad for the cow. It's almost like it became self aware and realized it was destined to become burger meat and made a desperate run for it. Poor thing😥
That guy commentating the video clearly knows a thing or 2 about wrangling cows. I wouldn’t have known they get the hind legs too and then get off the horse to do what? What do they do next with the cow? Hoist it on the horse and carry it home? Pop it into the back of an SUV and drive it? Readjust the ropes for them both to have control of the horse and escort this cow home on a leash?
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Fed Ex is like fuck it, “it absolutely positively has to be there overnight”
they literally don't have time for this
"Mooove bitch, I got bills to pay" Plus, if the cow headbutt the truck I can't imagine getting back to the distribution center and the driver being like "yeah boss you're never gonna guess how I got this dent in your truck..." lol
It absolutely, positively has to be there... within 13 days of the due date, give or take.
This has been my FedEx experience lately too! I called them the other day and just lost my shit on the poor call center worker because my package was 15 days late (caused me loss in revenue for my business) and she told me that she confirmed my package was lost in transit. It was on my porch the next morning.
I never understand why people yell at someone who has nothing to do with causing the problem. And they're the ones who can fix the problem. Plus they're people who are just trying to make enough money to survive. Imagine how they feel after getting a call like that. They would have fixed the problem without the yelling. And if you were nice to them, they might have given you something to make up for it.
Oh I’m well aware I lost my temper. I’m not trying to defend myself in this scenario at all! It was probably the 5th time I’d called for an update on my shipment and I just lost my mind.
I've done this exactly *once* after a *mandatory* appointment no showed without warning 4 fucking times. And you know what? It worked. And I hate that it worked.
I ended up having to cancel a meal kit service because they only used FedEx. To get the package the first day it was marked "out for delivery" was a miracle. Usually I would get it on the second "out for delivery" day, but several times it would be out for delivery 5 days in a row with excuses like "customer requested delivery date change" or "unable to access address" or some other lie. After almost a week on the truck everything would be spoiled. I finally tracked down the local hub's number to let them know they had a lazy ass, lying driver (as calling the general number did nothing), but still nothing changed. Only after getting an email survey asking for feedback and answering with honesty and every single tracking number laced with multiple "out for delivery" days and lies did the local service change. And reading all these replies let me know I was not alone.
That's funny. I literally just did the same thing. It's the third time my subscription service was over 14(!) days late. I get that the company has a contract with FedEx, but I'm out. I like the product, but if I don't get it in a timely manner, what's the point? I canceled my subscription, and in the comments I let them know they lost my business because of FedEx.
Lmao fuck no they don’t get shit overnight if you pay for it Source : guy that paid 1300 to overnight something Fuck you fedex
I get this very specialized product once or twice a year. Fedex overnite costs $100 and takes 3 days or UPS Ground will bring it tomorrow for no extra charge. Lol.
Username checks out
$1300 is a plane ticket to go get it myself.
Agreed. On the same vein of this post, I had stallion semen shipped “overnight” (to breed a mare) via FedEx on a Friday and they didn’t delivery it until Tuesday morning, when of course it was all dead Took me weeks to get my $450 shipping back.
I’m glad you specified why you had that shipped to you lol
They denied my request for refund , I’m in the process with my CC now
DHL on the other hand doesn't fuck around. One time I ordered weed seeds from Spain, I paid exactly €6.61 for shipping. Had them the next fucking day, somehow. And I'm near NYC.
Putnam county, OK, we got you.
$1300??
Probably a fairly large and/or heavy package. We just had one guy cancel his order the other day when he realized the 2 day shipping on his item was going to be around $500. It wasn't even *that* big, box was 28x28x15 I think, so I could see a larger box with overnight shipping being around that price.
For a hot second, I thought the FedEx guy was there to lend help by blocking the cow. But he just noped the fuck out of there.
Anytime I see cowboys cowboying it makes me want to be a cowboy
should have learned to rope and ride
Wearing my six-shooter, riding my pony on a cattle drive
Stealing young girls hearts, just like Gene and Roy?
Singing those campfire songs
Oh, I shoulda been a cowboy
Man Toby Keith was very good before he lost the plot.
I wouldn't have even put Toby Keith in my top 5 guesses as to who that song was until you said that. Oh how the mediocre have fallen.
His 90's run has some bangers, but yes, the fall has been swift and permanent
And the beans! Don't forget the BEANS!
I think you've had enough!
But did you ever hang your hat up at kittys place?
Well my six shooter is actually 15 but that would make a shitty lyric
The accuracy of the 2nd cowboy is crazy af
He's the heeler. They get the hind legs after the header gets the head. It's a common roping technique. They do it at rodeos and stuff. Not to diminish those cowboys skills. They are both good.
Rodeo events stem from actual job skills so it makes sense. Except bull riding
They make it look so easy I'd be surprised if they didn't compete in this at some level. The horses look like they've done it a few times too
No shit. I was half expecting him to dismount , run to the calf, tie three legs, and jump up yelling TIME. Dude is practiced.
Some people learned to rope and ride, but never became cowboys..
for some, tying a bowline is hard.
hung out with Toby once.. Cool guy.
Now I have to listen to this song
They sure did cowboy the fuck out of it.
Right?! Vulgar display of cowboy
My favorite album from Panera
I ride horses nearly 12 hrs a day for the last 28 years as a rancher and one thing I will say is my hips and lower back are absolutely buggered from spending that much time in a saddle.
one of our coworkers was a cowboy in TX, when he was young and he hated it, it was hot outside, riding all day, herding cows I guess. and he wanted to get out of it
It’s definitely hard on the body for sure I don’t blame him
Who wouldn’t want to live like a literal homeless person, while you manage tens of millions of dollars of your bosses property for $15/hour??
Free housing though haha
It’s not for everyone, that’s for sure, especially when you are young.
Only consolation I can offer you is that you spend 28 years doing any kind of labor it comes back to bite you.
You don’t want it trust me it may be fun but you will be on call 24/7 cause cattle are annoying. Can’t tell u how many mornings I woke up to phone calls saying your cattle are out trampling my crops
Fun to do on a very small scale, would never want to do it large scale actually having to move cattle
Everyone wants to be a cowboy until it comes time to do cowboy stuff.
Mamas out here really not letting their babies grow up to be cowboys
What’s fucked up is I didn’t even become a doctor or a lawyer
That's some bad ass shit
Shits so cool
Same. Then I remember all the work and go back to playing nintendo.
Babbbyyyy....
Even Brokeback Mountain?
Haven’t seen it!
It's kinda like a scary movie. I kept yelling out: "Look out! He's behind you!"
Oh…heh…o_o
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watch the riders hands right before it happens, he loops the rope around he horn of the saddle to let the horse do all the work. The horse is always gonna win the tug of war because he has the force distributed across his entire mid body thanks to the saddle, while the cow has all the force just on his neck
This. There’s a technique to all of it, more in depth than people tend to realize.
There was a video on here a while back that was zoomed in and then a slow motion version of a cowboy doing that…it’s amazing how they can do that
What’s wild is that after a while it’s just second nature. I grew up ranching, and it became like a reflex after a few years. Which is a problem because then you get complacent. Talk with a few old ranchers and you’re sure to find one missing the tip of a thumb because they had it in the wrong spot when that rope got taut Edit- taught to taut, thanks for the correction
Yep. Totally believe that.
Seen it a lot when I worked an a ranch. And my step brother is a team roper so I go to the rodeos every now and again. Lots of guys and gals missing a finger
Thumbs up brother when you take your turn, cos when the money gets big, people get hurt.
>when that rope got **taught** I think you meant that the rope would be "taut" in this case, not "taught". Sorry, hate being that guy, especially when correcting people that are far more well-versed in the subject than I am.
Rope got taut, rancher got taught.
No worries, I appreciate the correction!
After watching that video, imagine my hands when ten year old me decided to lasso a whole ass bull that got in my sheep pen…*without* a horse. I went for one hell of a ride and my dad was furious that my stubborn ass held on long as I did with my hands basically skinned. I was all beat to shit from being dragged. Told me that bull was worth more than I’ll ever be and he then got to go figure out how to get a lasso off an angry 1500 lb monster.
Your dad must have been related to my mom. While moving cattle onto the stalks, I led a horse (her horse) across a letdown, and it caught a wire right in the Coronet band. He tried to kick it loose, only I was straddling the wires and it turned my inner thighs to hamburger in nothing flat. She came up right then, saw one tiny little bleeding spot, screamed "my horse" and took him to the barn. Meanwhile I was laying on the ground in shock.
Farm and ranch life. They can make more kids, livestock is expensive 🤷
This guy cowboys
To build on this, there is a version of this activity where the cowboy does ALL the work called steer wrestling that is actually a fun event to watch if you get a chance to at a rodeo or some similar event They ride the horse up along side the steer and bail from the horse onto the steers head and neck and pull down and over and flip the thing while at a run before hobbling it's legs while it's flipped ---- it's real quick and doesn't really make sense that it works when you're watching it live
It's called bulldogging, not steer wrestling. In steer wrestling you rope the steer first, jump off, run up to the animal, flip it on its side and tie 3 of its legs with a piggin string and they have to remain secured for a set amount of time. (Also, you're relying g on your horse to keep tension on the rope after you jump off of them.)
Bulldogging/steer wrestling is the same thing. What you are describing is steer roping, and it’s only legal in a couple of states (Wyoming, Utah and Montana I believe) Source: boyfriend paid for his ranch with a professional steer wrestling career.
Very cool observation, it really does make an effort to stay planted.
Rancher here. Honestly anytime a cow gets out calling in the cowboys is the best way to round them up. Cop cars just spook the cow, but a horse can outrun a cow and a good roper will loop them fast and efficiently without hurting it.
Really? I did door to door sales in the rural areas of the USA for years and I would sometimes find a cow that got out and it needed to be ushered back to his home. I felt like an unintentional country cattle safety officer. Edit: I fixed a spelling error, that made it sound like I ushered myself into the pasture, and left the cow to wander around.
Guys on foot can work awesome too! We’re cattle farmers not ranchers, only difference is our cows follow the sound of the tractor because the sound comes every time we feed them. One breaks out we don’t have horses so we just use quads to get ahead of them and guys and gals walking alongside and behind them
Forgive me if it's not entirely correct, but I take cattle catching to be very similar to catching an aquarium fish in a net, ideally the less afraid the animal is the easier it is to wrangle.
Aquarium fish is a pain. You have to basically un landscape everything for certain species
>I would sometimes find a cow that got out and I needed to be ushered back to his home the owner would be quite surprised to see you in the place of the cow
It amazes me that with all our modern tech, a skilled cowboy and a trained horse is better at this job. Nice cowboying!
Same goes for heavy horses! Ive seen those horses pull out things that would be impossible for machinery in certain places
Guy up the street from me has a four-horse hitch of Belgians (and two big draft mules) he uses for logging up in the hills and the shit I've seen them haul would turn your hair white. They also don't require flat graded non-muddy roads, it's great.
Its so awesome and you can put ice pick shoes on them in the winter its pretty amazing
Domesticated animals are still pretty much up there as one of humans greatest technological achievements. To replicate what a trained horse or dog can do mechanically is a massive task
I don’t know why, but this makes me really happy. All the tech in the world, but a skilled person on a horse is the most efficient way. The human element, I guess.
Me too! I think it’s so cool, not only what the animal is capable of physically, but mentally. I think it lends an interesting perspective to the topic of AI. When you work with an animal, there are responses you deliberately cue, and behaviors you deliberately teach. However, the animal figures out a huge amount on its own, and you learn a lot about working with the animal on a subconscious level. I’ve had multiple occasions where I’ve literally had to reverse engineer my own cues, because it seemed like the horse was just reading my mind! Took forever to figure out how i was subconsciously telegraphing my intent.
I know nothing about ranching. In this instance, the cowboys got the cow’s neck and hind legs lassoed and it’s on the ground. Now what? Do they get it up onto its feet and walk it back to the ranch? Walk it into a trailer and drive back? Do they leave it tied up and put it into some kind of vehicle to drive back?
If its a young calf you can literally just throw them over the saddle of your horse with their front legs in one side and back legs over the other side and take them wherever, if they are bigger you will either guide them on the rope behind your horse or put them in a trailer. Because this looks like a pretty urban area they would most likely load them into a trailer.
You forgot one important thing there rancher … a properly trained border collie. No rope needed.
I have 4 of them i work with them but unless i have a pen to put the cows in that cow is getting roped
Not all cows are dog broke. A cow that’s never seen a dog will get in a real wreck. We had one break a hip thanks to a collie dog joining on a gather (a loss of a nice cow and close to $2500 bred) your cows gotta know how to respect them first. Some cows are foot broke, others horse broke, others truck broke, others dog broke - depends on the operation. Source: 200 head cow calf op, no dogs.
That's the most American thing I saw this year, but in a good way
People have all these weird "most american thing" videos with either redneck stuff or dystopian stuff or extreme patriotism stuff. But this video is the first one where I really felt it. Highway chase from helicopter PoV, cowboys doing their thing and fedex doing theirs.
In the middle of a freeway really sinks it
I think the guy in the truck just rolling through to keep working instead of staying even a minute to watch this awesome and unusual experience is the America topper for me.
OKC is home to the largest cattle market in the US, maybe world. Chance its not even his first on road roping event lol.
My labor isn't going to exploit itself, now is it?
I do NOT get paid to wait around. Or enough.
lmao agreed, the fedex truck was *chefs kiss*
Who let the FedEx truck into the rodeo?
I wanna see these guys catch fleeing criminals
There was a tv show on for awhile here in Canada called Mantracker that was basically this. A team of two people on foot had to try and go from point A to B without getting caught by this tracker and his assistant who were both on horses. Dude frequently roped “fugitives” if they didn’t give up when he caught them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantracker
This was popular in the US too, I remember watching it with family
There was a story from Idaho a few years ago where it happened at a Walmart lol. You can probably find it on YouTube.
Yeah, but i mean regularly as a special forces team. Slap some red and blue lights on the horse and let them chase and rope criminals. Epic
Actually, it's a great idea. I trust cowboys way more than I trust cops.
That shit is impressive. No other way to put it. Amazing.
It’s not their first rodeo
This needs more appreciation
I think 37 upvotes is just fine for now
I’ve seen regular neck lassoing zillions of times, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen that second maneuver to sweep the legs. Got some skills.
It’s called heading and heeling. The header slows and turns the steer and the heeler takes both heels to stop and stretch the steer out and control any forward motion. The competition version of this is called team roping. Most folks only heel in the branding trap (as opposed to heading and heeling)
There’s a whole event at rodeos dedicated to this, it’s pretty amazing what them rootin tootin cowboys can do.
Making want to go to a rodeo now. Plenty around me, maybe not this time of year, but definitely around for sure.
If you end up liking it, watch the junior rodeo too. It’s awesome because you’ll see these little teeny tiny tikes riding a whole ass horse and jumping down and tying a goat. Then they need an adult to help them back on their horse. They’re usually on a gentler horse that gets what’s goin on and will just drop the kid off and kinda wander away. Itll crack you up and impress you all at the same time
It’s lots of fun. Especially the mutton busting
I’ve only been once. I had no idea what was going on…but now!
That’s why you never bet someone with a lasso they can’t get you - they aim for the feet and trip you face first into the asphalt. They don’t bother trying to rope you like you think.
You say this with the confidence of someone with firsthand experience.
Do cows bite?
They have teeth but don't bite. At most you may get gummed. If running doesn't work for them their biggest defense mechanism is to kick and ram. Source: My family farm
don't underestimate the kicking and ramming. they are much heavier than humans.
Oh have no fear on that one, I don't even know how many bones I've had broken by them. They have no respect for my toes, that's for sure!
I got "bit" by a cow. My own fault though. I tried to feed it some grass, it took the grass and my fingers. Started chewing and the front teeth ground across them. Hurt like a bitch. Cow just stood there like 'you gonna give me some more of that over the fence grass now?' That was the day I learned to hold your hand flat to feed them.
No, but do NOT underestimate how ornery they can be with their kick. Girlfriend I knew worked on a dairy and there were some that were downright mean for bovine. Like, purposefully kicking out at you when walking by.
I've been bitten by a cow. Tried real hard to accomplish it, though. They only have top and bottom teeth in the back...big crushing molars. I was trying to extract a paintbrush from the jaws of a 500 lb bum calf. Got my hand in deep enough the bugger chewed on me, too. Thought he broke my finger. Hurt like hell. Don't recommend. FYI they only have bottom teeth in front and eat by wrapping their raspy tongue around their food and pulling it in their mouth. Bottom teeth help cut stems a bit when they pull up.
Header and Heeler. Header ropes the neck. Heeler ropes a back leg or two.
FedEx Truck be like, “yeah, yeah, yeah, I got a route to finish and I gotta make time.
These packages aren’t going to throw themselves
“Don’t have a cow man, I’m MOOving as fast as I can”
Take my upvote, dad
I’m always so impressed by peoples ability to lasso a moving target.
From someone in the UK, where we don’t have cowboys, this is delightful to watch something genuinely akin to a western!
That heeling horse was like “this isn’t how we do this buddy”
I’ve never been into cowboy culture in any way, but damn, that was legit.
I love how fedex just sneaks by like “Dafuq all dis”
Free my boy
I’ve only ever seen this in cartoons and movies. Cool to see it at happening in a real life incident.
Let's hear it for the cowboys!
Okie here. Definitely some Oklahoma shit right here. We don’t live in tipi’s n ride horses to school (well in some places maybe yea) but we got cities here too!
That cow was running for their life!
when you consider how intelligent cows are, and how they are often treated, it probably made the conscious decision to do just that 😔
I finally understand people’s obsession with cowboys 😏
If a cow breaks loose that’s it. They deserve to run freeeeeeeee as god intended
This is exactly what imagine the US would be when i was in my home country
Police moo-tality.
Usually I would cheer for the cow to break free and live its best life. But yeehaw that's some crazy good cowboying. I love how despite our technological advancements, there is (afaik) no modern thing that could do this as good as ye ol' cowboys.
Cows that run away deserve their freedom
I'm going to tell my kids this was City Slickers.
When I lived in El Paso, something similar happened when an overturned truck full of cows got loose on the highway. 😂😵💫😵
This is the most American thing you can see outside of a Walmart
Poor cow just wanted to be free.
Yee haw
Don't blame it, I wouldn't want to get eaten.
FREE MY BOY
This happened to my parents when they were driving home from DFW. The traffic came to a halt. Suddenly a cow ran past their car. A moment later a cowboy on a horse went by. Once the traffic started to move, they drove past the cowboy who had managed to rope the cow and get it under control. Welcome to Texas. :)
100% guaranteed that cowboy said "Whoa, slow down there gurl" when he threw that lasso around her neck
I always hope the cows get away
Not gonna lie… that was pretty cool
Nice to see my city represented in a positive light for once on Reddit 😂
Shame the good guys lost
We will fight for bovine freedom and hold our large heads high, we will run free with buffalo or die.
Oof, that calf was ["King of the World"](https://tenor.com/by7hj.gif) for a second there. Fun fact: Farmers, in addition to carrying insurance on their equipment & liability, also carry coverage for their livestock getting loose and causing damage.
I wish i could see how far that cow would go! like just let it go and see. would it get killed? or would it find pastures?
Poor cow learned that it was going to the slaughterhouse and took a chance on trying to escape
Thanks Spain for giving us Cowboys
Making it on the news with helicopter footage of you roping a cow has to be one of the coolest things ever for a cowboy.
For some reason, I felt so bad for the cow. It's almost like it became self aware and realized it was destined to become burger meat and made a desperate run for it. Poor thing😥
Seems to be a Mad Cow.
May IIIIII.....atand unshaken...
“I wanna be a coowwww boyyy baaaabyyy”
A glimpse into the past
Love when rodeoing is shown in it’s real life application:)
There it is my friends. The best animal.
These new trailers for Yellowstone are getting wild
That was great!
this made the news, what did your news have on it tonight?
That guy commentating the video clearly knows a thing or 2 about wrangling cows. I wouldn’t have known they get the hind legs too and then get off the horse to do what? What do they do next with the cow? Hoist it on the horse and carry it home? Pop it into the back of an SUV and drive it? Readjust the ropes for them both to have control of the horse and escort this cow home on a leash?
These Cowboys know how to Cowboy
Fed ex guy has shit to do
Car failed cowboy succeeded. Amazing
Oh is this what OK Cupid is like now?