New Type of Cattle

[rollingrock]

:lol::lol: Pls find something to cover your monitor! This isn't a photoshop, I promise. The logger is from Kalun, BC. Exclusive from a logging partner of my wife's company.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v456/rockrolling/Terre2.jpg

[Nails]

Great pic, there must be a great story associated with it.

[Browningmirage]

id like to order a couple

[Chuck]

Now ain't that something! I once saw a similar pic in provincial archives magazine or thereabouts, but I think the moose was a cow hooked up to a wagon full of people back in 1800's, somewhere in northern B.C.
I wonder how he is to handle when he gets rutty? Definitely minimum damage to the environment for sure and notice the nice log piles. I'd like to go on, but I'll stop!

[Gateholio]

I've seen plenty of old pics of draft moose in the oold days. pretty cool.

[Will]

Could have

[Leaseman]

That pic sure likes to pop up yearly.....8)

[bochunk2000]

It look really neat but it does look shopped. The lighting seems off. I guess you can domesticate almost anything.
Steve

[brotherjack]

The focus and depth of field of the subject doesn't match the background. Still, a neat pic though. :)

[StoneChaser]

Call me a skeptic...but I have trouble believing a few things:

1. The picture looks a little "photo shopped"

2. Hard to believe a bull like that would stand around that docile during what is obvioulsy the rut (antlers are hardened off and rubbed... leaves still on the trees (a littlel green?)

3. Bull seems a little large for an average BC bull (unles WAAAAY up north)

Nope... don't believe it (cool pic though)

StoneChaser

[jethrobuddy]

Where is Kalun BC?

[BIGHUNTERFISH]

Next to ''Bullshit'' mountain. :lol:

[Hagen]

man i'd like to beleive, but ive seen this one a few too many times from different locations....still cool picture, even if it looks "shopped"

[rollingrock]

:mad: Oooops, that guy got me real good this time. :oops: Man you cant trust people too much sometimes. :lol:

The problem is this guy has been serious all his life..... in his email, he said they've set up a new contractor and production is expected to be doubled.... together with this photo.

[RiverOtter]

It does have an advantage over a horse because it can deck the wood it skids in. Well at least late summer and fall.:lol:

RO

[Mark_S]

I remember watching a documentary about how Moose got to Newfoundland. They brought in 4 domesticated mooose and were using them instead of horses to pull plows and do other farm jobs. The Documentary had numerous pictures of Moose in harnesses. I think they eventually lost or turned the moose free and they started doing what moose do and eventually the government had more moose brought in to help the populations grow.



But the idea that a Moose or a horse is easier on the environment for logging is not true. A person puts about 6 psi of pressure on the ground when he walks at a normal pace. A D4 puts about 7 PSI of pressure on the ground because it has a MUCH larger foot print on the ground. A horse has only a slightly larger foot print than a person but weighs close to 10 times as much and ends up putting over 10 PSI of pressure onto the soil (because it has more feet touching the gorund at a time when it moves where a person puts all of there weight on one foot at a time if a horse stood on one foot it'd be around 50 psi).

Compaction is what destroys the soil and makes it so nothing can grow again, not soil disturbance or displacment from a Skidder or Cat. In fact you WANT the soil to get chewed up a little bit in order to get the seedlings to grow better, just like a 'tiller would. The last thing you want to happen is for the soil to get compacted. I've seen areas logged with horses 90 years ago and still nothing grows where the trails were and where the stables were.

[talver]

I would be awsome to see that bull in the wild during the fall

[mark]

This pic was just on BCTV news!

[3kills]

what did they say mark???

[mark]

what did they say mark???

They were saying that due to new environmental concerns this will be the only way any logging will be done come 2008!

[30-06]

that dosent look that shopped

[CHilko21]

'Shopped or not, I love that picture, it's great for shock value...you show it to someone and their reaction is just priceless ( " what the hell...."). It's not totally unbelievable, I dunno if any of you are familiar with Monty Roberts, the "horse whisperer" if you would like to call him that, but he managed to tweak his horse training techniques, what he calls " join up" to apply to white tail deer.

[MichelD]

If you look at the back of the guy's jacket, it has a draft horse on it, similar to jackets I've seen worn by horse owners at draft horse displays at the PNE and other ag. fairs.

The script on the jacket is hard to read, but reading the last part I make out "chevaux d'Abitibi," which means "horses of Abitibi, " so he could be part of a draft horse club or a draft horse company in Abitibi Quebec.

[TPK]

Of course it's "Shopped", look at the log piles, mirror images. Still a great conversation starter though.

[partsman]

:lol:Looks like a lot of "bull" either way.