Been to a Rodeo lately?

[valley ranch]

In the bull riding, this was the only cowboy that wore a western hat, the rest wore helmets. First time I've seen helmets worn at a Rodeo.

Richard

 

[valley ranch]

This dog, a McNab Shepard, would bite the heels of the bulls and herd them to the gate.

Richard


sorry I have the pictures bass ackwards.

 

[BrotherBart]

Protective vests and helmets have been getting traction in bull riding for the last ten years.

 

[valley ranch]

Bart, I think the helmet is so they can identify the body if the bull gets hold of the rider.

 

[BrotherBart]

As Tuff Hedeman says, the helmet and vest help but the most common thing is having an 1,800 pound bull stomping you.

 

[fossil]

I wouldn't do it no matter what they let me wear.

 

[BrotherBart]

I only did it once. And wished I hadn't.

 

[Bobbin]

I'm sorry, getting on top of a bull and then deliberately pissing him off by yankin' a cinch near his privates is pretty dumb. Were I foolish enough to mount up I'd damn sure sport a helmet and Kevlar, too!

All you have to do is stand next to a mature bull to get a full appreciation of just how big they are, and it doesn't take a lot of imagination to extrapolate the damage they can do... check out the footage in Pamploma. Stupid is as stupid does. (rock on, boys)

 

[fossil]

And, of course, the bull would have to have a nice quiet muffler on it.

 

[Bobbin]

Hey, I'll concede the muffler thing when pissing off a full grown bull. I'm not a full grown bull, but someone yankin' on my privates? well... even that gets a "pass" from this ball-buster!

(grew up in community where a lot of the old guys had yokes of oxen. Trust me, an ox is really big! A steer has to be 4+ yrs. old to be called an ox. NO WAY would I ever deliberately piss off a sexually mature bull! muffler or not... )

 

[Dix]

Helmets are becoming common in Western riding. They have the used to be ugly" helmet hats, that are now looking more like a Stetson

 

[BrotherBart]

This thread just keeps reminding me of something. Our next door neighbor in the sixties was working on the construction of a missile silo outside of our town. He fell over a hundred feet and landed on his head. Dead on impact. In the subsequent investigation report they gigged him for not wearing a hardhat. He would have been a puddle in the hardhat had he had one on.

 

[Dix]

This thread just keeps reminding me of something. Our next door neighbor in the sixties was working on the construction of a missile silo outside of our town. He fell over a hundred feet and landed on his head. Dead on impact. In the subsequent investigation report they gigged him for not wearing a hardhat. He would have been a puddle in the hardhat had he had one on.

He was a goner when he left the ground. Sad.

I gotta tell ya, I'm getting ready to go back to riding, and working with the Dix to get her back under saddle. IE - round pen, Clinton Anderson ... all that stuff. When she was 3, and I sat on her for the first time (first one to sit on her, too ) I had no helmet.

I haven't sat on this mare in 2 years. When I get back on, there's gonna be a helmet on my noggin. I don't think she's gonna buck & fart, she never has, but she's a horse. I'm to old to be a dirt dart

 

[BrotherBart]

Do it like they break horses in Louisiana. Saddle her and walk her into a stock tank. Then climb on. The mud eventually takes the fight out and if you go off you just get wet. Darnedest thing I ever saw.

 

[ironpony]

was out riding the Harley on a country road one evening. Came to a corner and there was a car stopped in the middle of the road, sat there a few minutes, did not know why. Car finally goes, I come around the corner and there is a bull standing in the road, looking at me snorting. My only thought was, this is going to hurt. The bull turned and walked to the side of the road, so I slowly rode by. I was scared and bruised where the wife punched me in the back while saying go go go.

 

[BrotherBart]

Bull handling just requires proper technique. I was maybe five or six years old when one day I was "helping" Grandpa feed the cows. The Hereford bull decided to charge me from across the lot. Grandpa stepped between us and put a boot heel right between the monster's eyes. That mountain of hamburger went to its knees.

 

[Osage]

Can only remember one time of a bull putting me on the corral fence, but can't count how many times I had to sidestep a cow with a calf if I couldn't get the calf between us. And even then had one old bossy steamroll both her calf and me.
Probably the funniest thing I ever saw was when the neighbor put some open heifers in the pasture next to ours. We had one old bull that grew fond of those young gals and and crawled the fence more than once. The last time he did he brought down the wrath of a 1st Sgt. from Patton's Third Army ( Dad).When he charged Dad, he side stepped him and grabbed him buy the tail and away they went across the pasture with the bull running about 10 mph faster than Dad, who was taking about 10' steps wacking the old angus between his rear legs . After that episode he decided those heifers weren't so pretty.

 

[1kzwoman]

Folks raised Hereford bulls for sale when I was a kid. I was in 4H had a steer and a bull that I took to fair. As part of process of getting muscle on them they need exercise.... I rode the bull leading the steer many miles around our boundary fence. Took bull to state fair, sold steer and put down payment on my first car at 16.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

I just can't get around pissing off critters for entertainment. I'm all about eating them- that plight is bad enough

 

[begreen]

I just can't get around pissing off critters for entertainment. I'm all about eating them- that plight is bad enough

I'd much rather watch pandas.

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[Lake Girl]

This thread just keeps reminding me of something. Our next door neighbor in the sixties was working on the construction of a missile silo outside of our town. He fell over a hundred feet and landed on his head. Dead on impact. In the subsequent investigation report they gigged him for not wearing a hardhat. He would have been a puddle in the hardhat had he had one on.

No mention of fall restraints? Far more important than a hard hat when working 100' up...

As to the bulls, couldn't pay me enough... even with helmets and vests.

A friend got bucked-off her horse (spooked but don't know why). Four busted up ribs and lots of other bruising later...