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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 2:29 pm 
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This is the tool of the day.
I took it off the fence this morning and started cleaning it up. It was rusty enough to be frozen up but not rusty enough to be pitted.
One composite handle was missing and the other one fell apart when I started messing with it.

As I cleaned the rust off I was quite taken with the quality of the tool. It is very finely made.
It also had some cool stampings that I never knew were there.

One of the stampings that is too small to see in the pictures says "tenaglia per castrazione" which translates from Italian to English as "tongs for castration".

OUCH! :shock: :shock:

I turned the new handles on the lathe out of red oak and oiled all wood and metal with linseed oil.

It is a very high quality tool that is now resurrected that I hope I never have to use.

Has anyone out there ever used one of these things?
I bet the bull dosen't like it very much. :shock:

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 6:46 pm 
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I'm in pain just looking at it! :shock: Gives me goose bumps just thinking about what it is used for. :shock:
Then again, I do like "Mountain oysters" :lol: :lol:

Oh well, tools is tools I guess. :D

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 7:14 pm 
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While I've never 'assisted' at such a surgical procedure, what my ancestral farming relatives implied that the actual ... shall we say, incision was done with a knife. The tool you have, Zulu, would be, to my best guess, to retrieve the, ummhh, well, to retrieve and hold them to access that which must me incised. Kinda like pulling the tree branch down to access the fruit.

Oh, man ....

Poor analogy ...

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:21 pm 
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ZULU: OUCH indeed :shock: :shock: !!!
I see in one of the pics an image of what appears to be an OLD, Water Witch I think, outboard motor. I bet there are some stories that old water churn could tell. IIRC my first few fishing expeditions with my Mom and Dad were in a leakey old boat with one of those on the back end. Back then, size mattered. The sunfish I caught on a dad baited worm hook were about 2 or 3 times the size of my hand. HUGE fish. I still look at those fish and when I talk about them to my grandkids, they are still about 2 or 3 times my current hand size.
As ERIC says remarkable work in restoration, keep 'em coming.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 10:19 pm 
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newtooth,
It is, indeed, an old outboard motor.
I paid $12 for it at a junk yard in Alabama about 33 years ago.
I'm afraid that all that time outside has taken it's toll.
I still like it though. :-D
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Zulu, Here in Arkansas the ranchers ban them, much easier time and they drop off.


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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 10:43 pm 
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DonR wrote:
Zulu, Here in Arkansas the ranchers ban them, much easier time and they drop off.



Don,
Please explain this.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:03 am 
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The tool crushes the ducts coming out the testicle. I don't recall if the crushing causes the entire scrotum to die and drop off or the ducts become blocked. May not be more humane than cutting but eliminates chances for infection.
I think Don missed one letter, should be "band". Little ring, about the size of your little finger, special tool that stretches the ring to about two inches diameter. The ring is the released near the base of the scrotum causing the scrotum to die and fall off,(used on young animals only).
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:58 am 
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NormT wrote:
The tool crushes the ducts coming out the testicle. I don't recall if the crushing causes the entire scrotum to die and drop off or the ducts become blocked. May not be more humane than cutting but eliminates chances for infection.
I think Don missed one letter, should be "band". Little ring, about the size of your little finger, special tool that stretches the ring to about two inches diameter. The ring is the released near the base of the scrotum causing the scrotum to die and fall off,(used on young animals only).
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Wow! :shock:
I'm sorry I asked.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:53 am 
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Zulu,
Well, yes!
I think all of us know things that we wish we didn't know.
This is definitely off-topic :lol:
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:18 am 
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Norm,
If you see the title of this thread, it is not off topic.

I thought I would Google the word "Burdizzo" and see if I could learn anything about this thing.
I went to Google Images.
Boy did I get a shock to see graphic pictures of these things being used on humans. :shock: :shock:

Don't go there.
I wish I hadn't. :-?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:59 am 
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Norm was right I missed the d and his explanation is right on.


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 5:28 pm 
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Check this out.

http://www.believermag.com/issues/20030 ... asculatone

I have seen them for sale before, but never used them. We put bands on ours, but you have to be real careful that you get both(DAMHIKT)

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 5:34 pm 
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eric wrote:
Check this out.

http://www.believermag.com/issues/20030 ... asculatone

I have seen them for sale before, but never used them. We put bands on ours, but you have to be real careful that you get both(DAMHIKT)

eric



eric,
I just read that.
I can castrate in the morning and make ravioli in the evening. :shock:
Yum! :-D
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Hey Zulu,

I once worked for a guy that was a former large animal vet. He had a castration tool, for sheep and hogs, that looked like a large pruner, except that while one side had a clean, sharp edge, the other was serrated with nasty looking teeth. He said the clean side was the testicle side, but the toothed side was the animal side. The theory was that by mangling the tissues they would induce clotting and staunch the blood flow. A very nasty implement indeed.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:43 am 
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Tom, that is why this one is called a bloodless castrator. It is supposed to crush the tubes, and then the beasts body reabsorbs the tissue. In some ways it might be better then the banding we practice. We often find old scrotums with the rubber band still attached after owls or other birds of prey pick them up and then discard them as to dry to be edible....

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Yes I've used a tool like that back in the mid 1950s. They do a good job for what they do.

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