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It's still (just) Friday, so where would you start here in determining control measures for this extrication as part of an ongoing DRA????
(from Cumbria Fire & Rescue News pages)
Bull rescued from tree in Thrimby
(Eden)
28 Aug 2012
At 13:39 fire and rescue crews received a call reporting a 300kg bull stuck in a tree, overhanging a 10m drop, in Sheriff Park, Thrimby. Two crews from Penrith and one from Shap attended the scene. Utilising working at height equipment, firefighters used an animal strop and sling to stabilise and support the bull, which was then lifted down from the tree with telescopic heavy plant machinery.
(300kg of bull, 10m up a tree? Rather them than me!)
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Devotees of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' might wish to speculate whether or not the bull had been trying to pioneer bovine aviation. If so, perhaps he was unaware that attempts by sheep to fly (ovine aviation) as depicted in the Monty Python sketch were spectacularly unsuccessful! To paraphrase the comments by the rustic gentleman in the sketch ".... one thing is for sure; a bull is not a creature of the air..... As for flight, its body is totally unadapted to the problems of aviation. Trouble is, bulls are very dim. And once they get an idea in their heads there's no shifting it." (probably not even with a length of blue alkathene pipe as mentioned in another forum thread!) :-)
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As a serious reply to your question it would be worth asking Cumbria Fire & Rescue Service. As its rescue remit evidently includes animals as well as people, it probably has well established procedures for recovering animals, especially valuable ones like bulls, from various types of locations. Even so, rescuing a bull from up a tree was probably a new and previously unforeseen scenario. Perhaps it also involved a vet so that the bull could be suitably sedated if necessary.
p.s. At the risk of getting forum threads crossed, perhaps one or more pieces of blue alkathene pipe were used to guide the bull after it had been lowered from the tree!!! :-)
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