What Is This Tool? May Not Be Leather Tool.

[PeterA]

So I found this old tool in the shed. It has a wooden handle and a 3 faced point with a slide on thing.

It is very sharp.

Is it used to punch holes in something? Be it leather or timber?

[MonicaJacobson]

My husband walked by and informed me that it was a cattle trocar. I looked it up, and he appears to be correct: https://www.enasco.com/product/C00308N

[PeterA]

Gotta love the internet hey. Would have never guessed that ourselves. Give your husband a pat on the back from me.

Thanks.

Peter from Australia

[Chief31794]

Interesting piece. Must have been made for export, I lived in Germany for about 11 years and most of the tools and things that are made there don't have "made in", it would normally be in german. Just seemed funny that it would be marked as "Made in Wurtemburg"

Chief

[Kulafarmer]

My husband walked by and informed me that it was a cattle trocar. I looked it up, and he appears to be correct: https://www.enasco.com/product/C00308N

Could be put to good use on some politicians!

And their employer

Edited December 20, 2015 by Kulafarmer

[Colt W Knight]

I have used one a few times. It's really a last resort deal. They were used a lot more in the past, but spilling rumen contents into the peritoneal cavity isn't all great from a infection standpoint

[Northmount]

They were used to try to save bloated cows. Cows that get into a lot of fresh hay when they are not used to it. Stick them one hand width behind the last rib where the stomach is basically preening against the skin. When I was about 10 or 12, a cow got into a bunch of frozen potatoes and bloated up real big. Dad stuck her with a pocket knife. Then had to insert a plastic tube to keep it open. Foamed lots, yeast and potato grow well. Had to keep cleaning it out every few hours. It bubbled for about a month before it healed up. Would have been nice to have the trocar.

Think it was the same cow that got into the hay yard a couple years later. Found her too late to do anything for her.

Tom

[x101airborne]

They are also used to put weaning rings in calves noses and if you have a bull that will NOT quit crawling fences, add a foot of dog chain to his nose ring. We did that to a bull (we check them daily) and he got it hung in the fence trying to crawl through. We let him stand a while tied to the fence and when we let him go, he would not come within 20 feet of a fence.

Also, I was told that the flange on the outside tube went toward the handle, not toward the tip. That was so when it was used, the hollow tube could be stitched in place.

Edited December 21, 2015 by x101airborne

[Northmount]

It sure wouldn't go through very far as assembled in the photo.

A young Holstein bull we had paid no attention to a chain on his nose ring. Would put his head under the fence, stand up, and pull the posts out of the ground. Bolted planks across his horns so he couldn't get under the fence. He still managed to get loose. Found him at a neighbours' a mile across from us, terrorizing the poor fellow. The fellow was trapped in his garage. He would go to the man door to make a run for the house, and the bull would be there. He'd go to the big door, and the bull would be there! So he couldn't get to a phone to call for help. My brother took the little Ford tractor over, hooked onto his chain and led him home. We didn't keep him much longer after that.

I have a couple more bull stories from my grandfather's dairy farm if anyone is interested.

Tom

[MonicaJacobson]

Ha, I'm interested. We had an escape-prone Holstein, growing up. We finally sold the thing. But not before we all got pink-eye from it.

[Northmount]

Ok, rather than infringe further on the OPs thread, here is a new thread.

The bull in the post above, is a likely descendant of the bulls in the new thread.

Tom