Joyika
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Feb 25, 2023 5:42 PM
Joyika
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ILike2TouchButts
What a yoke
AussieAzza
Looks like the yoke's on them.
Smacketywack
At first I saw “reduce the load on bollocks,” and thought, “It’s about time.”
notacobra
Is it not "bull-ox"?
Howfuckinhardisittogetausername
Do a sweet jump.
theotherwhitematt
Any load off the bullocks is a no brainer in my book.
jpatterson45
laacis2
Simple 'innovation', rather caring for your animals. Actually it could help steer the animals too.
KnifeKnut
Makes loading the cart faster also since it makes the system less sensitive to balance.
hotrodny
Oh bullocks
jodeum21383950
That looks like it does nothing to reduce the workload of the animals.
hitdog42
Bullocks!
Petemccabe
Never mind the Bullocks, here’s the Sex Pistols.
TrueNorthernLights
Nice! Just make it affordable.
moose2000
I need one for the mouse.
EDoPur
Hey, I'll do almost anything to reduce the load on my bullocks?
MiniMegaOfParagonCity
At first I was sitting here trying to figure out what this had to do with the animal's testicles.
boozer69r
Never Mind the Bollocks.
smorsdoeuvres
The wheels on the cart go round and round
ArkoneAxon
Thinking of "Eureka," and the "Dr Nobel" episode.
ath1337e
You could take the strain completely off their neck with a simple 3-wheel cart. Then the bulls would only need to pull horizontally.
KnifeKnut
That is exactly what this is doing.
Arook1
Yep they literally made it a three wheel cart.
METROlD
But how do you steer?
Ghlargh
This comment is bull.
Bleakascanbe
Or I dunno buy a fucking car
dazergolf
CrushBug
Reduce the load on the what now?
reverendbonobo
RummageSaleBubbler
Or, you know, just balance your load properly to keep your tongue weight at a reasonable level.
JKJeepHawk
Title of your sex tape!
nerdyvet
Not wrong, but there may be a legitimate survival reasoning to try to maximize loads. As long as it works ok in the end, what's the problem?
Arook1
Ya that reason is they are poor and need to work hard for very little compensation. So you load up the wagon as much as possible.
Windharp
Mostly, that this most likely won't work ok in the end.
PaulHavingABall
Why not?
ColdestOne
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UnapologeticTeaEnjoyer
As someone who works with oxen and horses and has spent a long time researching draught work: there is no reason here to overload them.
nerdyvet
1) How do you know the driver's story just from this photo? 2) If it's serving the purpose to lighten the load, then they aren't overloaded.
UnapologeticTeaEnjoyer
The oxen STILL have to pull more weight. Just because it's less on their back doesn't mean it isn't still a hard to pull load for them.
nerdyvet
Of course but the load they can pull may be more than the load they can bear. My point is, we aren't there to assess any of this.
Trelis
But in history the load was on a wagon behind them anyhow, and they only had to pull. Seems they reinvented the wagon, for the worse.
GWJYonder
If you look you can see the wagon wheels behind them. Looks like they have too much volume to fit on the wagon.
Hellbrand
there is still the frontal Load, for these style wagons, it's a two wheel setup, the weight is often loaded up front over the yoke.
Cucumberclouds
You pull it then, mr strong
jimjong1
I'd still rather pull it than balance it ok a unicycle with my head and with a different person on the other side
KnifeKnut
What does a unicycle have to do with it?
muzzmuzzle
Or do they push??
shakefu
This guy here thinking illiterate peasants are load balancing their wagons.
mebe21
And here you are thinking that the ability to read is necessary for intelligence in peasants. Gatekeeping using wagons now....
SarcasticComment
funny because guarantee they've never loaded one nor attached an animal
SarcasticComment
equivalent to gate keeping French cooking when you've never had it nor understand the general requirements
nerdyvet
The load still applies top pressure in this kind of set up. Even if it's small, any relief of that will assist
demizu
if its a two wheeled wagon load behind the axle actually reduces pressure and pulls the front up. i.e.
Sasurau
Horse's internal monologue: WHAT THE ACTUAL FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKK.
LongCommentChainAppreciator
That is a donkey/mule
KnifeKnut
You can put more load on this wagon without overloading the beast, and not have to worry as much about the balance either.
Trelis
That is why big loads were loaded unto four wheel wagons. Wagons aren't rocket science, people. Hasn't been for thousands of years.
Arook1
Ya buying a wheel is a lot cheaper than a whole new cart. Poverty sucks.
j4gr
Buying a wheel is something you might be able to afford if you bought enough bullets and get lucky on the trail.
RustedFriend
Agreed, they're wagon science. Always have been, always will....until we mount rockets on them. Good idea Bluris.
Arook1
So this is a two wheel wagon adding a front wheel helps the animals. It would be very much less help if the back had 4 wheels.
PoorBoyChevelle
If you load a single axle wagon correctly you can get near 0 tongue weight as well
Arook1
This is also true but now they don't have to bother
KnifeKnut
I don't see how this wouldn't affect steering, no pun intended.
scotjam
I assume you can use it to steer though right (rather than steering the animals directly)
KnifeKnut
No, you would steer the animals just like you would normally; doing it like that would make it unnecessarily complicated.
alcaray
If it was designed with feedback to the animals it could be used to steer. Maybe even simple visual feedback would work. Needs r&d.
KnifeKnut
Or you could just do it the same way that's worked for thousands of years.
KnifeKnut
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/KKpUYdI8Qi2LsKUYw5MwgA
Darjanator
Coward! Intend your puns!
MrBinkiBobo
For the first time, I can actually say people are looking at me weird as I suddenly start laughing out loud as I read your comment. >
MrBinkiBobo
I’m in a restaurant.
Onlyonerowing
Not sure if you missed an opportunity for "Cow-ard" or you're just being subtle.
swimmingit2
I understand that reference
AhhhhComeOn
No pun intended...
Magjee
The Govenor! Those early seasons were pretty good
LoneWanderer101
He was a good villain but definitely got outshined when Negan came out swinging
KnifeKnut
It's not my fault the English language has such silliness
AhhhhComeOn
It was clever in any case.
KnifeKnut
The tongue must be on a pivot rather than connected directly to the yoke.
pickinganameistoomuchpressure
no yoke?
astralfields
Now read the post title. :P
KnifeKnut
Which doesn't say where the pivot is.
VirtualNaut
You just blew my mind
janda2007
Is this a bit?