NO BULL! Weirdest Rescue Yet! (+Thief Update)
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- čas přidán 23. 02. 2023
- Robby, Hillbilly, and Demri get an unusual request for a rescue. Will they do it?
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Come on Robbie call heavy d sparks 🔥 and get him to fly the Bulls out 🤦🏼♂️😂😂😂
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@@JRs-Garage I was thinking the same thing, Heavy D can do it lol but Robbie might be in do not answer list after the last recovery lol.
Heavy d got a blackhawk and loves crazy recovery's 😂
what he said
Was coming to say that 🤠👍🇺🇸
So right you are and I totally agree 👍
and heavy d has cows so he might now more about it.
Tranquilize them, strapped them up and helicopter them out is the only way...
We faced a similar problem where some cattle got "snow bound". The Snow Cat had a goose neck hitch, so we hooked up to livestock trailer, went to the roads department and "borrowed" the curved end section of some guard rail to use as ski's, strapped trailer to the makeshift ski's, loaded and towed them out. Snow Cat had a front blade so we could build any necessary roads. Area was flat, so may not work in your condition.
Best idea yet!
Yeah I thought about this - It's likely the owners have a livestock trailer. They could temporarily pull the axles off the trailer and tow it with the snowcat on the frame, or fashion some skis.
Good idea I was thinking like a horse trailer on skis.
That sounds good. We don't have to deal with snow like that in Texas.
That would work if you put some matrax tracks on the trailer in place of the tires. Ave then just pull the live stock trailer with wiskers
You have to create a path for the bulls to follow. They are wary of getting stuck in deep snow so you have to have a path that looks useable to them. The first several yards have to be easy walking or they'll head back to what they know is safe. They can buck deep snow for a short ways, but it is hard on them. They have to rest frequently. If you can compact the snow to a two foot depth and pick out a path that has the least amount of snow cover, they'll readily follow you out. I saw many suitable paths the bulls could take, but the path will, of necessity be a winding one. It is the deep areas that you will have to dig out so they don't get bogged down. Can a snowmobile and a small harrow be used to groom a path? If a person on foot creates a trail, the bulls will follow, because they will then know how deep the snow is.
That and a carrot on a stik and some borderline collies.
best realistic idea yet, thats for sure
Using a hood create a "SKI" for a small stock trailer.
Owners need to use a hood and drag up some panels for a catch pen. Figure a way to have whiskers haul the winter stock trailer on skis up there. Then load them from the catch pen. I'm out west and we are sending a whole bunch more snow your way...
To try and drive them is futile and dangerous. Snow is too deep. They may split and take off. Then you have a huge problem. This requires a plan so think carefully. If Dave will airlift, cool but still a huge task. Range cattle are not like your barn yard variety.. fight or flight..
If I can imagine it, you can make it.. just like a sleigh...
Snowblower on a tracked skid steer.
@@danlux4954 I thought of that too. Guess it depends on the rocks, brush and holes. A skid steer and snowblower could get to the end of the road anyways.
In all seriousness, you should call Heavy D. I remember from one of his videos he has a lot of cattle. He may be able to tell you what you can and can't do for the well-being of the bulls.
Up here in Canada I've had this same thing at one point in my life.. we took a hood from a 60s Crown Imperial. Welded four sides and the top on it. Basically making it a wood stove. Get a good fire basically hardwood get her hot. Slowly pull the hood to the Animal. Turn around and pull it back out. We had to do it twice. Melting and packing a solid trail. Then they have to be walked out
That might work ,definitely would be a great video.
This right here seems like a good option! Or like others said use a snowblower on your track loader to make the trail.
This might be the best local solution.
🇨🇦 awesome!
Your idea is a good one. It is obvious the bulls will have to walk up to where the Snowcat is stopped, from there they could be loaded onto a sleigh outfitted with wide skis. Those bulls will probably be so eager to leave they'd ride on just about anything. The path only needs to be wide enough to allow a bull to walk on it. The snowblower idea could also work.
Old horse trailer, and weld skies on it, with outrigger skies to keep it upright. Hook up 3 or so snow mobiles just to get them to where Whisker awaits, then hook the trailer to Whisker. Map the safest flattest way out as possible.
Sounds like a good plan! Maybe the bull owner might have or know some one who has the trailer. I'd make the skies as wide and long as is possible. Maybe have them bolt to the axle studs so they can pivot. I'd think maybe a single axle trailer might do better for this.
A 1 horse trailer weighs from 2300 to 2900 lbs. Add a bull and you have a lot of weight to pull. Don't know if you could do it with an aluminum flat bed trailer with fence panel sides. Call the state livestock association or even your local ag agent and ask them what to do. The old timers would just bring hay to them regularly and maybe water, although they will eat snow. That might sound bad but wild horses and range cattle did in the old days. In the past when herds were strand in snow they dumped hay from helicopters until they could get to them. If they lay down and you try to lift by hand, well you can't, not by a few hands.
I concur and for weight reduction you can cut the top off the trailer. The drop top cattle sleigh!!
i agree
Great idea. Need something heavier than a ski mobile though.
I never thought I'd see such a high steaks recovery on this channel.
Ha Ha, I see what you did there 😆
They just might meat their match with this recovery. It's tough to moove bulls through that terrain.
@@Eyes0penNoFear There's no bull about that observation.
I cracked up when he said you gotta make the bulls come
Yeah, you win this one!
A friend of ours had some young bulls she had raised and needed to get them into a cattleyard. She asked if our hunterway sheep dog could round up bulls? We didn't know as the dog had never encountered cattle. So we took the dog to her place. Pointed up the hill at the bulls and sent the dog off while we waited at the yard gate to close it behind the bulls if the dog was successful. The dog took off up the hill to get behind the bulls like she would with sheep. But when she got close to the bulls they put the heads down and started charging toward the dog. The dog immediately developed plan B and turned back down the hill with the herd of bulls in pursuit. The dog ran into the cattleyard with the bulls close behind and jumped over the fence inside while we closed the gate. Smart dog, job done.
You can’t tranquilize/ sedate them because in that cold weather they will go hypothermic. It might sound crazy but the best solution is for the owner to buy the biggest snowblower they can, find the shortest route out to where they can be trailered, and then over the course of many many days snow blow from tree to tree in that direction. At the end of each days work they would have to set up food and water at the end of their progress path and lead them to that spot followed by setting a temporary fence to keep them from going backwards and getting drifted back in by snow or wind. There is a reason farmer don’t leave herds in those kind of areas so late in the season because then they have to haul food and water all winter. The way you can help the owners is by building a sled using a cut down car hood welded to a metal frame that can be pulled behind a snowmobile to haul in food, water, and the snowblower. Could consult Paul about building a sled platform that will attach to a horse trailer so once you get the bulls to where the snow cat can get you haul that trailer in and then build a packed snow ramp with either a steel grate or thick wood to help load them into the trailer. Remember, you only need to have a tunnel through the snow drifts about 36-40” wide to lead the bulls through from tree to tree and they do make snowblowers which will cut a swath that wide. My grandfather, who was a farmer in Wisconsin didn’t have that option in his day.
I concur with this. Family is from Prince Edward Island where in olden times had snow up to the tops of telephone poles. (really, look it up). Have heard of similar stories growing up.
Create a snow "tunnel" and lead them out day by day. The only viable way with all that snow, and not as harmful or risky to anyone.
Some good practical advice.
Some combination of these ideas will be the most practical. Plowing a road is going to be the best solution for getting a trailer to the animals. Heavy D has a big snowcat with a blade and a rear deck that could handle a 5th wheel hitch. Looks like epic video for both channels. Probably need some cowboys too. Maybe Lizzy knows some Hands that have snow rodeo experience? Probably need several Snowcats to pull plus a few snowmobiles to herd.
I was thinking drag a pole or a 2' wide concrete wheel and pack the snow to 1' and then lead them out the trail. Or just get a hot young cow at the top of the hill, the boys will figure it out themselves.
That is true if they are Tranquillized they would need to be covered with a very warm blanket to keep their body heat up or put into some sort of trailer.
Props to whoever did the bull artwork... really added to the story.
Yeah, that was well done.
That was good stuff. Hillbilly looked better then a marvel comic
Maybe it was one of the AI tools? They are getting good...
That was rad for sure !
@@tobiastho9639 Agreed. Definitely looks like AI artwork.
Love everyone's suggestions. Good friends. I was thinking maybe call HeavyDSparks and get the Beast in there. That will drag them out. So glad for the good news on the theft too. Can't wait for the update.
Back in the early 80s I was on a forest fire in Montana. One of the helicopter crews saw a Bull stranded on a sand bar along the Flathead river, nobody could figure out how he got there. The fire crews dropped hay bales for a few days as the higher-ups figured out a plan to rescue the Bull.
They tranquilized the Bull, rolled it onto a cargo net and started lifting it out. Apparently they didn’t use enough tranquilizer as the Bull came awake several hundred feet in the air. Scared shitless, I’m sure! It started kicking, etc, rocking the helicopter and scaring the crew just as much. They were able to civilly set it on the ground, but it was still in the net and now more mad than scared, and they had no more tranquilizer. Later that day another helicopter flew out the local Veterinarian with more drugs. All turned out OK, and the Bull lived an enjoyable life doing what Bulls do.
Get Lizzy and her sisters, with horses and drive them out like proper cowboys!
Issue is the snow is 3’ deep. The cows literally have to be carried out in some capacity
@@TaylorCrosbyofficial there was another suggestion in another comment to plow a passage through. Perhaps the skid loader or a bigger machine to plow a path to corale the beef.
@@welshalan i don't think there's any way of getting a machine in there to plow snow that far in that terrain. The idea of going in on horseback won't work either. That's too deep of snow for horses. You would have to walk the horses through most of it, & they would be worn out by the time you got there. I would never put my horses through that.
Direct D and his chopper that’s the only way I can come up with a solution from here in down town down under.
@@MrMadhousedave I see. I would have made a great mess and fail video. Heavy D and his big chopper it is! ha!
I would make a temporary lean-to or barn and give them some shelter until the weather calms down.
No you wouldn’t, stop lying 🤥
That or by helicopter. Where I live cows are flown around, vines are sprayed, houses are built by helicopter all the time
@@cunever I just wonder how much of a whiteout the helicopter would cause.
@@65jimmytex good point, but flying cows here is on a very long line for not to scare the cows when putting on the harness…
Drag a 20' container on skis up there. Lol
You get a livestock trailer. Put/make skis so It will go in the deeper snow better. Put a tow hitch on the snow cat and load the cows up.
Haven't finished the episode but - borrow a dozer, plow the snow out into as good of a road as possible, outfit an old stock trailer with skis/old hoods under it, and drag it up behind the snow cat or the aforementioned dozer.
This is a WILD one! I would say Heavy D knows people with helicopters. You take a vet in put them to sleep, put them in a sling and the helicopter carries them out. Or do what you said go out shovel some snow away from them and build them a shelter until spring. The bulls need to be able move, walk around so they need bigger patch of ground if they are left there.
Positive Thoughts & Prayers that you able to help save the bulls!
Be Safe!
Keep Your Head Up! 👍
I just got a giggle when you said Heavy D knows people with helicopters cause Heavy D OWNS helicopters 😁
@@alannahayter8491 I meant helicopters that are made equipped and pilots trained to used or do sling cargo from a harness like cows. HeavyD's helicopters are not rated for that type of hauling in the air under the helicopter. I was going say for live animals but depending on day or who reads this is someone is going to reply well the guys can be live animals, they alive and can act like animals.😉
Heavy D will help!
A few years ago, a local rancher had the same problem. But it was 11 miles in. They had to hire a D8 Cat bull dozer to get to the bull. It walked right out.
I would have to go with this. Probably cheaper than tranquilizer and helicopter. I used to work for a large animal vet and cows, horses dont do what you want them to do. They will kick your A**.
Hi. Cool suggestions so far!!! My idea has 2 parts. 1) Like others, get a "cow-cart". I'm thinking a 4' wide cart, strong enough to contain a single bull. This could be a stripped down horse-trailer, maybe, or fashion one quickly with 3/4 inch plywood and metal reinforcement? Strong enough to keep a bull from breaking through and small enough for small width trails. Then attach skis or sleds on the sides about twice the width of the cow-cart. Think catamaran. Perhaps the whole width is 6'? 2) Attach a plow to a tracked UTV side x side or similar. If Whiskers can handle it, great. An Argo 8 could be helpful too. Anyway, you use the plow to shave the drifts to a level surface for the catamaran style snow sled (sleigh).
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I believe my first call would be to Heavy D! He might just have a really good idea how to do this safely and humanely! You have got some really good suggestions so far! The wood stove made out of car hoods and melting a path for them to walk on might just work! Fun to watch, anyway! Good luck!
Holy Cow!! They walked in there, clear a narrow path and place their food/water further up the trail,go around behind them to gently drive them along the trail you've opened until you can transport them, as they move up fill in the trail behind them
You can't go through snow that deep. They have to go over it.
@Jack Springer. Agreed. Plow a path,. They'll follow a bucket of grain right out. Did it more than once growing up.
Brilliant!
Plywood
The path doesn't have to be perfectly clean, just down to a level they can walk through, remove the food and they will follow a bucket of grain to a enclosed trailer, getting them in the trailer might be the more difficult part
Congratulations on finding the owner and operator of the truck that stole your brothers equipment. I hope you can get his equipment back. Can’t wait to see your updated video and this thieving SOB prosecuted to the full extent of the law as well as his accomplices. I am a general contractor that has had his tools stolen twice, and it almost put me out of business. I’m glad you caught these SOBs!
that stuff has already been sold for more drugs
Quite a conundrum. I remember years ago in Quebec we were to get a dusting of snow, and it turned into a 3 foot blizzard. We had some beef out in the far pasture, and no way they would be walking out. We used a large sled in winter with the tractor and horses to log. We pulled the sled into the back pasture with the tractor. We brought them out 2 at a time strapped to either side rails of the sled. They didn't like it, and showed their displeasure by shitting everywhere. But, 3 trips and we brought them in with no worse for wear. So, number one idea, could you take the seats out in the back, leave the sides there, and make some sort of harness or straps to strap them tightly to the sides. You would need to build a snow ramp well packed, up to the height you need. The problem is the narrow road. Is their a road under all that snow that could be levelled off, or is it narrow? I would go with sedating them no matter what. Do you have a plow that you could knock down some of the drifts.
We’ve used an old 8x8 flat deck feed trailer that has big metal skis to haul bulls out of the snow behind a snow cat. Roped them and tied their feet then drug onto the trailer. Cover them and their eyes with a blanket and the bulls stay fairly clam
Face It - continue to snowmobile hay & water to them until the snow melts down to allow the bulls to walk out. March 1st is around the corner, I predict by March 20th they’ll be home.
Yeah, it would be easier to snow cat hay in than get the bulls out. Get a big sheet of metal roofing, screw some square steel tubing to the edges, load it up with hay and pull it in with whiskers.
My favorite sled, for small jobs & kid’s tobogganing is an upside down hood off a 1956-58 Chevy, Buick or Olds.
It would be better to leave them there, feed and water them. They can be herded out. But over about 2 feet of snow it's slow going. I'm in Wyoming. The cows you don't have in before winter. You kinda have to keep where they are.
Do you really want to use these bulls to reproduce after they wouldn't come back to a safe place ? I'm thinking take a snow blower out there and make a snow corral until winter breaks. Maybe teach them something. ?
@@MacGyver2154 over 1 year old. It's not easy to teach them. If you openrange your cattle. They become accustomed to the space. I can spend 3 years getting a fence crawler to stay in a corral. Welded steel panels on the inside of the posts with electric wire over it. That's about the only way. If it is wrecking the look of your fences. Put a wooden one about 3 feet outside. Give yourself room to walk between them. Keep the grass cut and have a double gate for entry. Enter 1 close it behind the open the other. And them soft light weight panels do not a fence make. Wild is wild. I have only seen a few tame cows/bulls. Even show cows are still wild at heart. I have a 2500lb Angus in the pen. I started raising him when he was 500lb. He will roll over and get his belly scratched. He is still wild. I won't call it trust. When I was incompacitated in the corral. He kept everyone but my horse away from me. She came and dragged me out of a pen full of mama's wanting their calves back. He is still wild. Trust me. He is as wild as any other in the pen. But I am part of his herd. He trusts me.
I think Paul Linkies idea would work if Heavy D Sparks can't help in some fashion. A lot of good ideas were given.
@@thesnake4282 it is the safest for the animals. The other option is to run a small group of open cows in and then the whole group out. But to move them requires a trailer of some sort. Walking and pushing them they will be exhausted in 2 hours and then the sweat will start to freeze on them and then it is bad for them. Tranquilizers even under a veteran supervision in the field is risky. Helicopter removal causes brusing that may develop a infection under the skin creating a abscess that may kill or sterilization. You could bring them in a mile at a time every day. I hate the light weight pin together panels but 2 sets say 8 panels. Set one up food and water. Move them to it. Set the next up a mile away. Push them there with food and water waiting. Then do the next. Someone will have to stay there and watch them. Those panels are not that strong and I'd not trust them long. They can move. They are eating and drinking. Stress is the enemy. The temperature there is no worse than here and calves are just fine. So the bulls are big enough to weather it well. The issue will be a melt and them moving to a unknown location when your not there. You could place a small livestock trailer on some kind of sled hook it to wiskers and try to load the bulls. Doing so with luck and a sled big enough to float the trailer and 3000lbs you might make it. But in the mountains. If they don't want to come down, leave them. It's the least stress for the animal.
If someone has a bigger snowcat with a blade and/or plow on front, such as used to plow and sculpt snow at ski resorts, etc., a stable “road” could be made across and through any sketchy drifts and slopes. If you made a reasonably light sled, like a modified trailer or such, to tow behind one or two snowcats in tandem for more pulling capability, sedated bulls could potentially be loaded on the sled and hauled out, one at a time? You could bring a veterinarian with you. The sedating idea is a great one, so they wouldn’t be stressed. Good luck, whatever you guys decide! ❤
Congratulation Demary - Did you tell Robby?
The ranchers that own the bulls -Can they walk them to wiskers. Place 1 in the back of wiskers and drive him down. Need modify back of wiskers.
Several suggestions have been proposed in the comments, and several will work. Whichever one you go with remember that things usually go smoother going downhill. Check out the path from their current position down the valley to the nearest road. It might be further but it will probably be easier especially in deep snow.
Robby get cattle halters and rope put halters on them one at a time tie one at at a time to s cat one at a time down hill to nearest road that mite fire a little but thay will get used to it
Following someone out isn't the problem, the problem is the deep snow. Those bulls can't buck 3' snow for very long. If they have a path to follow those bulls will run you over trying to get out of there!
I recommend contacting your Utah Department of Fish and Game for advice. Here in Alaska about 30 years ago our Alaska dept fish and game tranq’d several (20+ if I remember correctly) Grizzly Bears in Denali National Park and airlifted them a hundred miles away as a test to see if more moose calves would survive the calving season. The experiment proved successful in that more calves did survive. Reason I bring this up, is your UDF&G may have personnel experienced in proper dosages for tranquilizers for weight of animal, and know how to safely set up a sling to carry them for air lifting. As for a helicopter, you know someone that owns a Blackhawk, and you just recently did a recovery with his team.
A veterinarian would know all that information. Sometimes sick cattle have to be lifted. There are special slings that are designed to do it in a safe and humane manner.
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Get a junk caravan and get rid of the wheels and axels. Then put the whole thing on some skies and you have an awsome snow-animal-carrier-thingy!
If one snowmobile cannot drag it out, two snowmobiles probably can!
Plus; you made youre self an awsome addition to your Snowcat.
I have hauled elk by laying them on heavy plastic and pulling them with a horse. You could tranquilize the bull, lay it on plastic and easily pull them through the snow with a snowmobile. Going downhill, I've had them actually slide too fast. Glad you're helping out!
Rory definitely made this video!!! Gotta carve a path, I live in the interior of BC Canada, and from October to April were surrounded by snow and ice several feet deep. All the farmers here just plow trails with their snowcats/tractors/bobcats. Mind you they also maintain that from day 1 of the snowfall, so...
two horse trailer, weld up skis with saddles for tires (dual tire trailer fenders work for skis but weld a bar or angle iron as guide/rail to bottom center) you will have the skis for later use and no mods to trailer. lift trailer up slide skies under drop tires into saddles in skis. old MN trick.
We had a 6x12 ski race timing gear trailer that moved between several hills and at each hill the skis would get put on and a snow cat would pull it to top of hill.
I wish I could help! Your adventures always looks like a lot of fun while helping someone in need! My suggestion would be is use a steel flat bottom fishing boat, and a bigger snow cat to pull them out, and if you have to sedate them put hay around them in the boat to stay warm! Congrats on the leads on the thieves! Til next time take care and stay safe...
I vote for the snowblower. I think you can use this one, its small enough that you can maneuver it in that tough country, and blowing the snow and creating a solid path, will allow the Bulls to walk out!
Talk to Casey at casey's offroad recovery in hurricane. He's kind of a cattle guy and does recoveries too. He also has a large Canadian nodwell Track vehicle. It's about twice the size of your snow cat.
There's a little bit of tension between Casey and Matt. Since Robby is hooked up with Matt and Rory I'm not sure that would work. I think Casey would be interested and willing.
I hate casey, don't support him.
@@MacGyver2154 there is? Matt's mentioned him more than once recently..
Casey is going to be at the wrecker games so cant be to much tension. He made a video about it
@@mattbrown783 That is Casey Ladelle in Oregon, not the one in Hurricane. The one in Hurricane is the one that has a beef with Matt.
Get a trailer and convert it to tracks like something from Mattracks has for trailers. Make a path for the cows to the trailer, and have the owner walk them to the trailer with a feed bucket. Get another Snowcat with a plow to assist you.
Trailers don't get tracks, they get skis. Some wide skis on a trailer would definitely do the trick.
Robby! They make snow tracks for regular vehicles, I believe. How about taking an old truck bed and turn it into a snow trailer with tracks on it? Maybe a couple bench seats for hauling passengers? How about a camper for overnight emergencies?
As you get older.... you will start to remember all the Oops moments & unload at the snow line or just b4. We use to push our luck & then waste hours getting turned around b4 the ride ever got started. A little mud late season doesn't bother us as much as tearing things up trying to get back onto firm ground. Thank heavens for winches & lockers! Would be lost without them for sure! I spun out in the snow towing my 6 place horse trailer trying to get as close as possible to avoid walking. I had a flip ball just inside the tailgate & was able to drive it back to a spot to turn it around... then saddled up & rode several miles in to rescue some horses left at a hunting cabin.
You need to get yourself a BV-206 flatbed. Fantasic veichle in the snow!
I drove one in the military, it would be the perfect replacement for your snowcat.
Really glad that the thief-situation seems to be solved.
I think Heavy-D got one , but with a standard rear wagon. Check out his elk-hunter recovery.
@@ovejohansen77 Isn't heavy d's have some engine in the rear section ?
@@dubuque1 Heavy-D has a SISU, the finnish version of the swedish hagglunds BV-206.
Engine in the front , driveshaft inside the link bar to the rear wagon
Build an open-top stake side box. Get some rated polyurethane or polyethylene roof panels and attach them to the bottom. Tranquilize bull 1, put on platform, put stakes sides on, use two snowmobiles to pull one. Rinse, repeat.
Or, call Dave.
In Minnesota we hauled heavy loads of firewood as kids using utility sleds behind a long track snowmobile with a low and high gear for pulling, like a modern day ski-doo skandic if you can located one, maybe two for this load. We hauled some pretty heavy loads along snaking trials thought snowy woods.
I've never done this second part, but a cattle squeeze chute holds an animal still and mostly secure for veterinary care and could be modified with sleigh rails (wide as the trail will allow and/or with additional out riggers). Depending on the temperament of the bulls, you might be able to use one of the scandics to pull a bull into the squeeze chute by threading a lasso though and pulling along with a prod, or you may need to transport up a few cattle gates to funnel him in as you normally wood which could be hauled on a utility cargo sled behind a second skaldic. Be a heck of load and a bit top heavy with a bull in the chute, but putting the sleigh rails wide as the trail allows would help. Put several heavy riders on the skandic to help with traction and it may take a second one for any hill climbs. Also, extend the sleigh rails a couple feed behind the squeeze shoot and add a foot lever drag snow brake with room for a rider. This will give some break control to the rear on any down slopes to keep from over running the skandic. There maybe a better plan some one comes up with, but this was a thought on what I'd try from the land of northern snow. Good luck!
Glad you found out who stole the tools, good luck on getting the cows out! Besafe! 👍
Hilarious as always. Great news about the thieves, cant wait to hear the whole story. Matt looked so disappointed when he remembered he didnt have a helicopter. Heavy D and the Blackhawk would be the answer but cost of that operation would end up more than the bulls value. Hope you find a solution. Love you guys, thanks for the video
I think the bulls have found there new winter home. Maybe you can drag something behind the snowmobile and go back and forth to groom them a trail. Then use the carrots.
Hi my names Andy Davis from England,I have a idea on how to get your bulls out safely,get a snow plow with a 5 foot blade on it and ploy a channel through the snow upto the bulls,then don’t feed them for a day and they will get hungry,now take their food upto them and drop small piles of food along the path you have created and let the bulls follow the food down the channel to safety on their own.hayho job done😀😎
I'd find a hood off a pick up truck. Second I'd find a vet willing to help. Third rig up a cable on the hood so it can be pulled by the snow cat. The bulls don't seem interested in going into the deep snow. Position the hood/sled on the down hill side of the bull, not to close--you might spook the bull. Have the vet give the bull that will put him out for a while. As soon as the bull starts to go down side the hood under him so he lands on it. If you're worried about him get cut or hurt put a maturest on the hood. Bring in the snow cat and head out. Repeat on second bull. This should be an easy rescue. Check out some of the video's where they are pulling horses out of the mud. These bulls aren't hurt or bogged down. Getting them out of the hood might be fun. You find laying straps under the bulls will help you get them up.
I like Matt's suggestion of sedating them, wrapping them in a blanket and dragging them out. Naturally, the blanket or wrap would have to made of some very durable yet cushioning material. Good news regarding the thieves.
The bulls will suffer from hypothermia if sedated. Best to lead them out conciously.
Thanks for the videos!! Coming from someone who has 20 years experience. You need a cat with a blade.Heavy Ds prinoth beast, or a local regular sized cat to pull a trailer.. in and out.then you can build a road through the gully. Pack the road out 2 or three times then on cold morning go in an pull them bulls out.
Use a livestock trailer. Remove the tires and put sleds on for the wheels. They have to be large/wide enough to hold the weight and distribute over the snow.
Weld up a gooseneck ball on the snowcat. Get a cattle trailer to tow behind snowcat. Widen axles on trailer. Put some big ole tires on trailer. Coerce bulls to trailer after you get as far as you can. Drive out.
I just love every episode, feels almost like family. Makes my day, every time.
two twelve-foot jon boats, one for each bull. cut seats out, line floor with 1/2" plywood, arch feedlot panels for top weld on inside...sled them out. Feed them in the jon boats three days and they'll walk right in. Still sedate them on day of removal. Once they're in, fasten open end closed.
Modify a existing smaller cattle trailer either By putting some type of ski on it or maybe even a flat bottom surface to glider cross snow As you would a sled And then drag it out with a snow cat might take 2 trips depending on trailer size modified Maybe owner has a trailer that could be modified good luck
My first thought was to use a commercial snow blower to clear a path and walk them out.
Been reading all the comments and yours is the one that makes the most sense to me. Probably because I thought of it too. Anyway, a snow blower on tracks could clear a path to the bulls. Then they could be led out.
@@idontknow2293 I believe there are snowblower attachments for the skid steer. Give the bulls some corn for energy, then lead them out by pulling a bale of hay on a sled.
If you can get whiskers into them, engineer a drop hitch V-Plow that mounts to the receiver hitch and drag out a single lane of snow for them to walk back out in, might have to lead them with hay and follow behind and to usher them forward. A snow blower could do the same if you want to loose a few extra pounds walking it back 1/2 a mile.
How about a couple of sheets of ply with some cleats for the bulls to walk on top of the snow. A bit like snow shoes in that they spread the load, but more like maxtraxs in as far as you have to move them and make a road. Use a small horse float to put one bull in at a time and tow behind a snowcat. Have to use either metal or wood to make some skid to place under the wheels or hubs if you want to keep the Centre of gravity lower.
In my mind the simplest solution it to make a path to them instead of trying to drag em out on something. You could go get a piece of equipment that can plow a path to them to make it so they can either walk out or make it so you can get something to them to carry them out much more easily like a small trailer. A snowcat with a plow maybe? I’d probly just go borrow/rent/steal a small dozer and cut a path for em to walk right out of there on a lead, or following their owner with a feed bucket out. Getting them drug up on/in something while sedated just sounds risky to the animal, but maybe there’s a way to do it with a vet or someone there who knows how to do it properly.
You could build them a shelter. Or you could use the snowcat + the snowmobile and some attachment on the back to "plow" some path the bulls can walk on?
Basically compact the snow to make a path - like HeavyD did when you recovered the telehandler.
Then you could use some luring and safe techniques that Lizzy could show you to herd them without them going backwards again.
Where's dinner have not seen him
Maybe get heavy d to come with his helicopter
You red my thoughts just right lol
That's exactly what I was thinking as well!
Yup, Sparks is the only one I can think of
A snowblower attachment for your tracked skid steer.. Cut a path to them.
Get a snow blower attachment for your skid steer and cut a trail out of there.
Get a large pram style boat. Tranquiliz the bulls over a web made with yankum web straps. With everybody from all the cool sites Matt, Roy, and you all of course. Using the multiple straps lift the bull onto the john boat. Then with 4 or five snow machines using yankum ropes pull them to safty. One or more snow machines must be behind the load to prevent the boat from sliding down hill. Note: if it doesn't work. The bull wakes up and eats lunch. Good luck.
Finally found a recovery that has you stumped. I’m sure you will find a way to get the bulls out.,with all the resources you have. Good luck!
Use a sled. Like a corral on a sled. Maybe a hood with I pen on top or a pick up bed with with corner posts and steel cable for cross bars. Maybe sheet metal underneath with some old skis or something to keep the bed from digging in?
1:36 Shots fired!!
Y'all are simply hilarious ! Glad I found your channel ! My suggestion is some kinda snow blower or plow type system on the front of Whiskers to get threw the snow then rope them and lead them out ! Best of luck ! And thanks for sharing your adventures with us all ! ✌️❤️🙏
Robby has a tracked skid steer just purchase a snow blower
What you need is a squeeze chute on wide skis with a short solid hitch so it won't tip over. Hopefully it would push or pull easily.
Heavy D. The man for the job.
Ok. You need a big snowcat with a hitch so you can pull a trailer out to them. Some snowmobiles in case you need to wrangle them into the trailer. You could also get yourself a recovery expert with experience with cattle and maybe a chopper,sound familiar?? Time for another collaboration with Dave Sparks!!
Robby, contact a rancher in the area. I would think he has had to deal with issues like this before. He may do it the old fashion way with a heard dog and horses. Main thing is to get them moving. Good luck.
Snow was to deep.
glad to hear there was good news that came out of the update, you cant fix stupid, but nobody ever said criminals were smart, also whoever did the artwork of the bulls was amazing, heavy D also has the BIG piston bully snowcat with the pusher blade, he might be able to at least clear a drift and groom in a road that would make extraction easier for y'all
1. Take your winch skid steer and mate it with a small sidewalk snow blower or two and drive out and back and make a path to walk them bulls out. Never know when you gotta move a little snow to get a stuck rig out... might be a good rescue tool in your arsenal.
2. Make a snow plow with a couple of cheap snow shovels and your snowmobile and cut the trail in easily and quickly.
I am glad the thieves have been caught. As for the bulls, I suggest sedating them and pull them out in a small aluminum flat bottom boat. Kind of like Heavy D's fan boat but smaller. Good luck!
Like runerafell said, you already answered it, HeavyD has an apache helicopter, he has cattle, and loves the weird and difficult recoveries.
As others have said, build a temporary shelter for the bulls to get into our of the weather, so they don't suffer from extreme long-term exposure until the weather breaks and the snow melts. Then a proper rescue can be attempted. Lifting them out with a helicopter might cause skeletal damage. Be careful !
How do wild animals make shelter?
Domestic animals are lazy. Like a welfare recipient you must build for it.
Sweet feed. They will follow you anywhere.
The cattle owner should contact the Public Affairs Office for the Utah Army National Guard and ask if they could render assistance. I know Army National Guard Helicopters have helped in similar situations before on a larger scale. No harm in asking.
Make a 1/2 mile long trail with a snowblower. 😂
I recommend go and buy a single horse transport trailer, one in the style that is just basically a bunch of metal tubes. Then cut out the original axle and reattach the ends of the axle almost halfway up the side of the trailer. Then get some extremely large and low pressure flotation tires like for a Sherp. You may need to strip some weight out of the trailer just to really make sure the tires are effective, and it all floats on top of the snow. Also, I would convert the trailer over to a Pindle hitch.
It would be better to just remove the axles completely and attach sheets of corrugated metal roofing to the bottom and make a sled.
@@travispoulin252 took the words right out of my mouth. Way easier to skid over the snow than plow trough it!
take an old horse trailer, replace the wheels with skis, tow with crawlers. good job and best wishes
Tranquilize, strap to a sheet of plywood, drag them out with the snow cat. The snow cat should stay on top of the snow. The chain should be attached to the two front corners of the plywood and should be slightly lifted on the front so that the plywood rides on top of the snow.
Happy to hear about the thief update. This was a funny video for everyone but the bulls!
For sure no sedation or airlift or anything crazy needed.
Just need drive on the path back and forth a few times with the snowmobiles and snow cat and you will be able to create a path they can walk on without too much issue and then just slowly drive them out. (As in cattle drive)
Pack down a trail with the sno kitty as much as possible. Trailer in as far as possible some big Montana stock horses and try and push bulls as close as possible to a trailer brought in by the big snow cat by h d sparks ? Or use his black hawk or other chopper and airlift them to a stock trailer. Good luck , this is a fun one to watch
Robby - have your brother make a wood platform with 6x6 skids under it. Add metal railings around three sides (leave back open. Attached 4 pull points across the front. Two bridles to the snow kitty. Add canvas slings to wrap around the beef and attach to the railing (stability). Keep everything as light as possible. Minimal bracing where needed.
Call Casey he deals with mules a lot and would probably love the challenge. He might have some ideas and he sure wouldn't leave those bulls up there for the rest of the winter. Paul might be able to offer some advice or help as well. The Nodwell that Casey has might be just what you need it's big enough to load the bulls onto and drive them out if you can get them on it. Only other option other than a helicopter is a good sized Cat that can't clear the snow.
Robbie, what about this?
- Fabricate a large sled that they can walk into and stand on.
- Have the vet tranquilize them when they are on the sled. I'm assuming you need some sort of soft materials on the bottom to soften and cushion during transport.
- go up with 2 or 3 snowcats for pulling the sled. Maybe you use one snow can to pull and the other 1 or 2 snowcats would need to be the anchor on the back to help stop and guide the sled.
Once you Tranquilize the bulls their body heat would lower to quick they would get hypothermia
Hay Bobby i agree with Hillbilly, Better thinking happens on a full stomach. 😎
Now come to think about it. 🤔 That's a lot of Bull 😇
It's awesome that you we're able to catch the thieves! Hopefully they get what they deserve!
Love the channel . Congrats BIG DINNER 🌹❤️
Try the National Guard, they can call it a training mission. You'd need to make a sling to put the bulls into. And of course Heavy D might be able to use his new helicopter for this.
Two car hoods, some straps, and some tranquilizer shots for the bulls, shortest way down, even a good snow mobile could pull them down hill to where you could hook up Whiskers.
Heavy D has crazy helicopters...thats a crazy rescue
Call Casey and use the Nodwell.
An idea to recover the bulls: Put skids under a 6x4 pallet, then put a fence around it.
What will you do with the back half of the bull they are longer then 6’.
Snowboards...
make a makeshift corral with pallets or heavy duty equivalent and cattle panel.. and put 3-4 snowboards under makeshift corral... use them as skis to keep the bull on top the snow... tow em out
Nice job with the interior.