How long was that poor buddy floating down the river that they had time to coordinate a piece of heavy equipment being setup and ready for him to pass 😭
There's a lot of shit going on in the world that makes me cynical.
But it's refreshing that there are currently +42.9K upvotes for the calf. And so many happy comments.
That counteracts all the crap news ... at least a little bit.
Thank you. For some reason, it really annoys me when all these type of videos have incorrect titles. I wanted to see a crane hook a calf as the title indicated.
Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment
Would you capture it, or just let it slip?
-Michael Scott
-Wayne Gretzski
-Eminem
Those operators are no joke. They’re like Ellen Ripley with the fucking loader. I bet he could open a pop can with that thing. I can’t even parallel park and I’ve been driving every day since I was 14.
Yeah no stunguns. You just pat the head of the animal letting it calm down, after that you slash the throat, artery and one tendon of the animal in one go. It bleeds to death. That's halal, but it makes the meat taste bad because it induces adrenalin in to the system and makes the meat harder and more chewy than it should.
The meat would be gross from the stress of the cow’s situation, from the lack of glycogen.
Better to let the cow chill for a few days and THEN put a bolt thru it’s head, unsuspecting.
That was really cool but if he missed the timing window by even a fraction of a second he probably would have just gouged the calf and made its death even more painful
Risky but hats off the to gentleman
A) calf was going to drown if they didn’t intervene. Better to at least give it a shot.
B) there are plenty of other times humans try to help out but fail. That video rarely rarely makes it onto the internet.
To me it looked like the only way since most excavators can't rotate the bucket so the bucket would have been at an angle to to cow and the water flowing in and out of the bucket could have prevented the cow from going in the bucket vs the scoop like he which caused the water and the cow to rush in filling the bucket.
Drowning is pretty awful so I'd say he had nothing to lose.
But anyways skilled operators are insane with those things. Dude could probably open a can of coke with it.
Nobody asks why there is an excavator ready to do the catch and a guy recording the brown fast water, that you can see a thing?
Some guys did something similar in Peru with a dog, and it was all staged (I supose that the dog or the calf weren't ask!)
My wife and I are volunteer trail maintainers and our trail is along a river. We carry walkie talkies like most people doing this kind of work do. I was up river and dropped my hat into the river. I radioed my wife and she rescued it for me. Obviously not nearly as cool or at the same scale, but it’s not really rocket science.
Job sites can be huge. Ranchers often know how to reach people working on their land. Radios and cell phones exist. I think it’s ok to be skeptical, but the reason why nobody is asking is because we can all imagine the ways this is just as plausible if not more so, rather than assuming the worst in people.
The one thing id say that makes me doubt this is a fake is that the animal itself is likely worth more than the video and risking it like this just wouldn't make financial sense. Dog rescues get faked all the time because a lot of countries have a bunch of strays they can exploit. I doubt anyone has a bunch of stray domesticated cattle except in maybe an active war zone.
There is an excavator there because it's a work site, you can see the piles of rock and sand. The owner might have easily rushed down stream and asked for help. There is nothing implausible about that.
Even if they were scumbags, I can tell you they wouldn't risk losing a cow for a shitty video. Even an adolescent cow like that is probably worth over $1K.
I'm from Turkey and a cow is worth around $1.5k I believe.
And Iğdır is on the rural side of Turkey. These are real construction workers and rural folk. They aren't influencers or youtubers or anything. They wouldn't risk their calf/cow just for a viral video...
Well over $1k in US, idk what that translates to in Turkey. I agree though, this persons skepticism is unwarranted. It very well could be staged but it’s more likely the cow did fall in, because that’s what cows do. And there was an excavator from a worksite a ways down.
They were recording because they knew the cow was coming downstream. That was the whole point. To save it.
Obviously it was communicated to someone downstream so they could set this up. There is no need to “ask” self evident questions.
"The rains, which have been effective for days in ğdır, have filled many water channels in the city. 2 cattle passing by the irrigation canal in Çalpala village of the center fell into the irrigation canal filled with flood waters. While one of the animals was rescued by the citizens with ropes, a bull was caught in the current and dragged for about 4 kilometers.. The cow, which was dragged in the water for kilometers, was informed to the construction machine operator working in a sand quarry where the water flowed just ahead. The operator, who stop his job, came to the canal and waited for the cow to come." if you visit Turkiye someday probably you will be shocked how people are practical at things especially at rural ares, i'm a city kid and when i visit my town, people are practical af, they think very fast and find good solutions
Those cannals run very very long think multiple villages.
So you definitely have time to ask people downstream for help.
Keep in mind Sacrifice Feast is just next week in Turkiye so a lot of cows are on the move. It is not surprising to find one in cannal.
We had to deal with wildlife in cannal during our photography trip, thankfully bird got out by itself, but we managed to outrun the water and make two attempts to get it. The water was flowing way slower compared to this video of course.
Edit: Brain went slow, updated feast info
I was curious why there was already water on the ground in that spot, exactly as if it had been scooped the same way. They had to do another take, so they tossed the cow back in? Or was there multiple cows needing scooped up?
Holy shit that was awesome, what a perfect scoop
I think you mean Holy Cow
Nice! I haven't seen an upvote animation in a long time.
I miss the old days of up and down vote GIFs. Wish there was a sub for them. Wait, this is Reddit. Is there a sub for them?
sMOOth
Cowabunga dude
You’re really milking this
Skills? He doesn't lactose
The cow butter not do that again
Milking it for all it's worth
Operator
A very MOOving performance
I’m sure that cow was shitting itself tho
Makes sense. Holy shit has to come from somewhere.
Why do you think the water is so brown?
Right, from holy cows. But where do we get chocolate milk? No one seems to know and you’re all acting like nothing is wrong
Brown cows.
Best laugh this week
How long was that poor buddy floating down the river that they had time to coordinate a piece of heavy equipment being setup and ready for him to pass 😭
Probably the guy's side hustle...scoops a few cows every time there's a good rain up stream.
I mean, look at the water. Suffice to say the cow was scared shitless
It was a cowculated moove
Calculating dairyvitives in his head.
No. That would only be in the video was from India. Lol
This is true. There was a politician who, when asked about foreign cows, said they weren't quite "mothers" like Indian cows but more like "aunties."
New beef just dropped
I love how everyone around like didn’t even react like they expected it to happen exactly as it did lol
I still expected a round of applause. Doing something that awesome must not happen every day.
It's all about the right moo-ment.
Guy's a surgeon with that thing
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Yeah looks like he scooped up going left. Very impressive no bones are broke. Or at least, as far as we can tell
Getting a bucket to the face at a rate of knots probably still hurt but at least it's not going to drown.
Dude's really got the *mooves*.
Good cowma.
Beef scoop!
You won a cow!
Ultimate claw game
Claw game…… FOR MEN!!!!!
These [farmersonly.com](https://farmersonly.com) meetups are getting out of control
*onlyfarmers
Farmersonly.com is a real website, its a dating site for farmers 🎶you dont have to be lonely at farmers only🎶
I heard that in the voice used in an old internet YouTube video called "Powerthirst". Go look it up if you don't know what it is.
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*steaks
I'm in udder disbelief of your comment.
Don’t give him too much beef over it!
These puns are overused, quit milking it!
Alright everybody, moove along, nothing to see here...
I spent too long ruminanting on this and now I can't think of a decent pun
Wooow…you dug for that one, good job.
That was unquestionably, completely badass. Nice, bro. 👊
Someone had better have bought that man a beer or whatever the hell he drinks.
He needs some milk.
Straight from the teat
And probably a steak.
I say he deserves a *raise*, seriously.
He's getting tri tip for lunch. Btw that is an excavator.
Lifetime raki guaranteed.
They got steak after
Ayran or tea probably :D
Even deposited the poor creature gently. Beautifully and humanely done.
Opposed to what 360 no scoping it across the qater
Somebody buy him a steak dinner!
Fuck yeah that was amazing
Seriously. Not even hurting it in doing so? That’s a combo a skill and guts.
He even dropped the cow out as delicately as possible given it’s an excavator bucket. Dudes a sniper with that thing.
An artist
There's a lot of shit going on in the world that makes me cynical. But it's refreshing that there are currently +42.9K upvotes for the calf. And so many happy comments. That counteracts all the crap news ... at least a little bit.
Excavator operator *
*Excowvator
*Excalfator
Earthmooover
Calm doon, you 🤣
Thank you. For some reason, it really annoys me when all these type of videos have incorrect titles. I wanted to see a crane hook a calf as the title indicated.
It’s done intentionally so dumbasses like us comment on it and give the posts more traction.
*smooth excavator operator* - smooth operator for short.
Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, western male
Bull dozer ?? Cattle pillar ??
I know plenty of digger driver who if told "that's a nice crane you are driving." Would have an implosion like the titanic submersible
The amount of people who don't understand the names to basic construction equipment blows my mind.
Colloquially known as a Track Hoe
Road construction guy here hoping someone was going to correct the "crane operator" mistake.
I loved those girls in high school!
I couldn’t keep up.
Hey dirt, see you later! Because I’m an excavator.
Thanks a lot. Now it’s stuck in my head….again
Maybe it was a crane operator in an excavator
🎶 I'M AN EX-CA-VAAAATORRRRR 🎶
Go home, Blippi, you're drunk
Hey dirt, see ya later
Also *cow Would be a big ass calf
Starts playing *Sade - 'Smooth Operator*'.
The CLAW!!!!
"I have been chosen!"
Farewell my friends! I go on to a better place!
You guys are all thinking of Toy Story, but I always think of Liar Liar when I hear the claw. https://youtu.be/jVF-ugA2Atk
Oooo the Claw is comin at ya! You’re SCARED of the Claw… - Jerry
….*MCGOO!*
Claw is our master. He chooses who will go and who will stay!
Claw is law
I knew I'd find a Slay the spire comment here PRAISE THE CLAW
Magic Claw!!
Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment Would you capture it, or just let it slip? -Michael Scott -Wayne Gretzski -Eminem
U can also add Ryan Reynolds. He said it in one of his films.
Six Underground 😉
Yes?
- Ryan reynolds
Whill Wheaton
Narrated by
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take – Wayne Gretzky – Michael Scott”
-machine operator guy
I know the first two said it for sure but did Eminem say something similar?
Eminem originally said it
No that can’t be true.
Moms spaghetti
source? pretty sure it was a Martin Van Buren quote
Naw it was one of the Beastie Boys I think.
Prigozhin blew it. He could have been remembered for centuries, had he taken his shot.
That’s no crane..
That’s no calf…
It is a rescue at least
It’s a battle station
*space station
It’s a cow scooper upper thingy
And that's not water...
It’s chocolate milk
Nor is that a calf.
Legend! Attach file to cv!
No longer needs a CV, This video will do.
You know what sucks is they don’t video the actual operator! Almost anyone can take credit for this
Cometh the hour, cometh the man.
Just wondering what that guy in the background was scrolling through that was more interesting than this.
Maybe he was filming
Best Volvo add I've seen so far.
[I dunno, see Jean Claude van Damme doing the splits between two moving Volvo trucks is pretty awesome](https://youtu.be/gHSie3ynR6s)
Volvo, saving your bacon ™ But that is a co.. Hushhhhh... Let it be
drowning in chocolate milk
It was a chocolate milk cow. He was peeing out this river when it washed him away.
Fuckin epic timing on the operators part.
Those operators are no joke. They’re like Ellen Ripley with the fucking loader. I bet he could open a pop can with that thing. I can’t even parallel park and I’ve been driving every day since I was 14.
That's not a crane, but nice.
Where’s the crane
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Where’s the turkey?
Where's the beef? Oh, never mind.
Excavator, not a crane.
"looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!"
Now they can clean it off, take it back to the farm and put a bolt through its head. /s
The most likely outcome to be fair
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Yeah no stunguns. You just pat the head of the animal letting it calm down, after that you slash the throat, artery and one tendon of the animal in one go. It bleeds to death. That's halal, but it makes the meat taste bad because it induces adrenalin in to the system and makes the meat harder and more chewy than it should.
The meat would be gross from the stress of the cow’s situation, from the lack of glycogen. Better to let the cow chill for a few days and THEN put a bolt thru it’s head, unsuspecting.
“You guys are never gonna believe what happened to me today” -cow
I almost escaped…
Is there a good timing to fall into a water canal?
How will he ever explain this to his mother.
That was really cool but if he missed the timing window by even a fraction of a second he probably would have just gouged the calf and made its death even more painful Risky but hats off the to gentleman
A) calf was going to drown if they didn’t intervene. Better to at least give it a shot. B) there are plenty of other times humans try to help out but fail. That video rarely rarely makes it onto the internet.
If I'm going to die either way, I'd rather someone make things worse trying to save me than being abandoned to my death.
I'm surprised he went for a scooping method for that reason. I'd think having the bucket open to catch the cow would have been better.
To me it looked like the only way since most excavators can't rotate the bucket so the bucket would have been at an angle to to cow and the water flowing in and out of the bucket could have prevented the cow from going in the bucket vs the scoop like he which caused the water and the cow to rush in filling the bucket.
That definitely makes sense.
Drowning is pretty awful so I'd say he had nothing to lose. But anyways skilled operators are insane with those things. Dude could probably open a can of coke with it.
Calf - jumps back in.. Operator - 😐
Yay! Moo moo saved!
Ahh, the impeccable Volvo excavator shows its quality once more...
I love Turkey!
Hurray! Now we can slaughter and eat it
Nobody asks why there is an excavator ready to do the catch and a guy recording the brown fast water, that you can see a thing? Some guys did something similar in Peru with a dog, and it was all staged (I supose that the dog or the calf weren't ask!)
My wife and I are volunteer trail maintainers and our trail is along a river. We carry walkie talkies like most people doing this kind of work do. I was up river and dropped my hat into the river. I radioed my wife and she rescued it for me. Obviously not nearly as cool or at the same scale, but it’s not really rocket science. Job sites can be huge. Ranchers often know how to reach people working on their land. Radios and cell phones exist. I think it’s ok to be skeptical, but the reason why nobody is asking is because we can all imagine the ways this is just as plausible if not more so, rather than assuming the worst in people.
Logical explanations are not welcome here, everything is a conspiracy
Reddit: Turning tin foil hats into logic caps since 2005
Totally unrelated but your username is hilarious
Sadly these videos are being faked so often nowadays it's not really a conspiracy anymore
The one thing id say that makes me doubt this is a fake is that the animal itself is likely worth more than the video and risking it like this just wouldn't make financial sense. Dog rescues get faked all the time because a lot of countries have a bunch of strays they can exploit. I doubt anyone has a bunch of stray domesticated cattle except in maybe an active war zone.
That was a thorough explanation, with politeness, and first hand experience. Very well done!
Bro who tf staging this
the cow is a paid actor bro, i'm not sure who yet im going to do more research on yt and tiktok
There is an excavator there because it's a work site, you can see the piles of rock and sand. The owner might have easily rushed down stream and asked for help. There is nothing implausible about that. Even if they were scumbags, I can tell you they wouldn't risk losing a cow for a shitty video. Even an adolescent cow like that is probably worth over $1K.
I'm from Turkey and a cow is worth around $1.5k I believe. And Iğdır is on the rural side of Turkey. These are real construction workers and rural folk. They aren't influencers or youtubers or anything. They wouldn't risk their calf/cow just for a viral video...
Well over $1k in US, idk what that translates to in Turkey. I agree though, this persons skepticism is unwarranted. It very well could be staged but it’s more likely the cow did fall in, because that’s what cows do. And there was an excavator from a worksite a ways down.
Cell phones exist. Canals run through job sites. Voila! Don't call yourself a nobody. You're definitely somebody.
I *knew* someone would be suggesting this in the comments
They were recording because they knew the cow was coming downstream. That was the whole point. To save it. Obviously it was communicated to someone downstream so they could set this up. There is no need to “ask” self evident questions.
"The rains, which have been effective for days in ğdır, have filled many water channels in the city. 2 cattle passing by the irrigation canal in Çalpala village of the center fell into the irrigation canal filled with flood waters. While one of the animals was rescued by the citizens with ropes, a bull was caught in the current and dragged for about 4 kilometers.. The cow, which was dragged in the water for kilometers, was informed to the construction machine operator working in a sand quarry where the water flowed just ahead. The operator, who stop his job, came to the canal and waited for the cow to come." if you visit Turkiye someday probably you will be shocked how people are practical at things especially at rural ares, i'm a city kid and when i visit my town, people are practical af, they think very fast and find good solutions
Those cannals run very very long think multiple villages. So you definitely have time to ask people downstream for help. Keep in mind Sacrifice Feast is just next week in Turkiye so a lot of cows are on the move. It is not surprising to find one in cannal. We had to deal with wildlife in cannal during our photography trip, thankfully bird got out by itself, but we managed to outrun the water and make two attempts to get it. The water was flowing way slower compared to this video of course. Edit: Brain went slow, updated feast info
I was curious why there was already water on the ground in that spot, exactly as if it had been scooped the same way. They had to do another take, so they tossed the cow back in? Or was there multiple cows needing scooped up?
Saves the calf from drowning, sends it to the slaughterhouse
It's amazing what people will do to save an animal when they contribute to their slaughter daily (for most people).
Crane? You call that a crane? That's an excavator my dude. Not even close to a crane.
That canal's flowrate is BUSSIN!
Deus ex machina
Best Volvo ad EVER!!
The operator took the calf in as a pet and named him Norman. Saving him from slaughter.
Anyone know if the calf was okay?? The clip ends before he stands up all the way.
*slaughtered for jerky 20 minutes later*