OK, I got to know?

[gwstang]

masses with the pain signals that travel through nerves in that area? maybe? I hope?

You were really close on that one. I had not even thought about it.

 

[gwstang]

It's a cattle immobilizer. It electrically stimulates the nervous system so the animal won't move.

Farmfreund Cattle Immobilizer

And you can even buy it on ebay where the ad I saw used the same picture as the OP in this post.
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Bingo, thanks for finding that for me.

 

[gwstang]

Electric cattle brander. The hide completes the circuit.

I don't see a cord on his end of the brander.

 

[Fuddy1952]

I don't see a cord on his end of the brander.

It's up his sleeve. And no one answered the question about how it's tested according to the instructions.
Wouldn't branding foul up the cowhide for leather?

 

[gwstang]

I worked with a guy back in the '80s that had a house that backed up to some large fields with a very large bull and a bunch of cows. He said one day the vet came out, so he went to watch, and had that bull tied up to his truck. The vet stuck a rod up the bulls arse and had some contraption hooked to the bulls male part. He said the rod was hooked to the battery of the truck and when the vet hit a switch that bull went to his knees and filled up the cup thing with baby cow stuff. I had wondered how they got the stuff to do the artificial insemination. :confused2:

 

[goeduck]

I worked with a guy back in the '80s that had a house that backed up to some large fields with a very large bull and a bunch of cows. He said one day the vet came out, so he went to watch, and had that bull tied up to his truck. The vet stuck a rod up the bulls arse and had some contraption hooked to the bulls male part. He said the rod was hooked to the battery of the truck and when the vet hit a switch that bull went to his knees and filled up the cup thing with baby cow stuff. I had wondered how they got the stuff to do the artificial insemination. :confused2:

I thought they put them in a pen with a playbull magazine.

 

[gwstang]

"I thought they put them in a pen with a playbull magazine"

hahahaha. Thanks, I really cracked up on that...lol