Cow Tipping Fake or Really Fake? This article written by author Jake Swearingen, publish on an online journal Modern Farmer. Swearingen, try’s to establish how impossible it is for one person to tip a standing cow over. Tipping of cows however, entertaining it is just not very likely. Swearingen, try’s to help make his claim with proof of how cow tipping can be done. The term “Cow Casting” is when veterinarians need for a cow to be on their side. This procedure takes many skilled helpers and ropes strategically positioned on the cow, with a lot of determination, brute force, and luck the cow will go down gracefully. Even this is not a guarantee that the cow tip to their side. Casting, a tried and true method doesn’t guarantee a success. With
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Wilson, started working with cows in 1970. Wilson, points out a couple facts pertaining to cows. One of which is cows do not sleep standing up, thou commonly mistaken cows sleep on their bellies, Cows actually spend a great deal of time on their bellies, sleeping, and digesting. Sleeping on their bellies is not the only cow tipping problem, cows are cautious creatures. They will lay in pastures facing all different direction to help protect the herd. Cows have developed good hearing and smell. Wilson, said that even after several years of taking care of the same cows that they were still frightened if he were to approach them at dark. So he says for strange kids, who are likely making a lot of noise this task would be impossible. Wilson, believe cow tipping to be nothing more than …show more content…
Their finding disclose that one person could not possibly tip over a cow. They described using physics that it just is not possible. Cows can be 1400 pounds and are very squarely framed animal. That alone would start the many issues of cow tipping. However, large cows are they also stand on four legs and are mobile. That being said as one would start to push or shove on the cow to try and tip it over. The cow would just lean towards them making it that much more impossible to tip. The study did prove that under static conditions, two people could possibly tip a cow over. But since it is not a static reality, it would be more like five possibly six people to overcome the weight and resistance. Dr. Lillie, seems to think that cow tipping became more prevalent in the ‘80s after the movie Heathers written by Daniel Walters, in the movie a couple of the young men get drunk a go out to tip cows. However unsuccessful it seems to make cow tipping a pop culture phenomena. Lille also describes cow tipping as a “muddier, drunker, and more dangerous version of snipe hunting. Which is nothing more than taking a naive person out into the field tell them to go find a cow and sit back and listen to them slipping around in the dark in the
Wilson, started working with cows in 1970. Wilson, points out a couple facts pertaining to cows. One of which is cows do not sleep standing up, thou commonly mistaken cows sleep on their bellies, Cows actually spend a great deal of time on their bellies, sleeping, and digesting. Sleeping on their bellies is not the only cow tipping problem, cows are cautious creatures. They will lay in pastures facing all different direction to help protect the herd. Cows have developed good hearing and smell. Wilson, said that even after several years of taking care of the same cows that they were still frightened if he were to approach them at dark. So he says for strange kids, who are likely making a lot of noise this task would be impossible. Wilson, believe cow tipping to be nothing more than …show more content…
Their finding disclose that one person could not possibly tip over a cow. They described using physics that it just is not possible. Cows can be 1400 pounds and are very squarely framed animal. That alone would start the many issues of cow tipping. However, large cows are they also stand on four legs and are mobile. That being said as one would start to push or shove on the cow to try and tip it over. The cow would just lean towards them making it that much more impossible to tip. The study did prove that under static conditions, two people could possibly tip a cow over. But since it is not a static reality, it would be more like five possibly six people to overcome the weight and resistance. Dr. Lillie, seems to think that cow tipping became more prevalent in the ‘80s after the movie Heathers written by Daniel Walters, in the movie a couple of the young men get drunk a go out to tip cows. However unsuccessful it seems to make cow tipping a pop culture phenomena. Lille also describes cow tipping as a “muddier, drunker, and more dangerous version of snipe hunting. Which is nothing more than taking a naive person out into the field tell them to go find a cow and sit back and listen to them slipping around in the dark in the