[AT] [External] Re: How now rusty cow

[Kenneth Gene Waugh]

I was very aware of hardware disease and the magnets when I was a kid
(early 50s on)---but enjoyed your additional info, Farmer!

On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 4:12 PM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Cows ingesting bits of wire or nails is usually called "hardware disease"
> and can easily be fatal. We never used cow  magnets here on this farm but I
> always knew what they were. I haven't priced them but I think back then
> (1940's and 1950's) they were a little $$$. I have heard of some guys
> sticking some on their baler and at the feed throat of their hammer mill.
> I don't remember off of the top of my head if any other critters are prone
> to hardware disease. A cow's mouth and nose is not prehensile enough to
> sort food well. Sheep, goats and horses etc. are very much so and a horse's
> mouth is almost as suited to sorting things as an elephant's trunk.
> Hardware disease is basically unknown in equines. A horse could sort a
> Necco Wafer out of a stack of quarters and would stand in line to do so...
> :-)
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> On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 3:08 PM Gunnells, Brad R <brad-gunnells at uiowa.edu>
> wrote:
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>> I just thought magnet myself and didn’t give it a second thought until
>> Spencer mentioned it. After a quick Google search I recall seeing these in
>> my youth. I didn’t know what they were “for” other than as a young boy it
>> was just another toy laying around at Grandpa’s house.  😊  Always enjoy
>> this list as it teaches me something new all the time.
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>> Brad
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>> *From: *AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> on behalf of Spencer
>> Yost <spencer at rdfarms.com>
>> *Reply-To: *Antique group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> *Date: *Monday, February 3, 2020 at 2:01 PM
>> *To: *Antique group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> *Subject: *[External] Re: [AT] How now rusty cow
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>> I must admit, I had to look that one up. Had never heard of a cow magnet
>> before.
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>> Of course what I want to know is how they got a cow inside a cub fuel
>> tank.
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>> Spencer
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Feb 3, 2020, at 2:04 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> On most old tractor groups the discussion of problems with rusty fuel
>> tanks etc. are almost constant. In a Farmall Cub group a member posted this
>> solution and it struck me that it might be worth consideration.
>>
>> *****
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>> " I used a cow magnet with a string eased it down in and collected rust
>> several times. then on way home from a show left magnet in bottom of tank
>> let it slosh the whole ride home. when we pulled it out looked like a wooly
>> bear caterpillar, has run great ever since".
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>> Central Indiana USA
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Gene
Kenneth Gene Waugh
Elgin, Illinois
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