It happened in early spring of 1979, my last year of high school in North Dakota. Dad, Grand Pa, my Uncle and older cousin were out of town. The hiefers were calving and I was suppose to watch them. One had been working on delivering for hours and she went down. It was a miserable day, cold. windy, freezing rain, mud. I worked with her for a while, got her back end pointing down hill, the feet and nose were showing,had the chains on its legs, I watched the cow and when she had contractions, I pulled. Nothing, I was worried about losing calf and cow. Went to get help, the only one I could find was my 16 year old brother. He is a guy that never liked physical labor, being uncomfortable, being dirty, things that bit or kicked, noisey machines and mostly, listening to anything I said (he still does). Grandpa always said never pull more that two men. My brother and I got out to the field and I told him what we were going to do and he said, no way, he was staying in the pickup. I start working on the cow again and it started to downpour, maby 30 degrees. My fingers were so numb, I couldn't hold the chain. So I tied a rope from the chains to the top of the grill guard on the front of the pickup. My plan was to snug up the rope and when she pushed I would sit on the rope. I told my brother, back up very very gently. The pickup was a 1975 Chevy 4 X 4 with a 400 and a 4 barrel carb. It was strong. I told my prother to back up and he stood on it, the 400 roared to life, all 4 tires were throwing mud at me and the cow, the rope got tight the grill guard bent straight foreward, (I worried that the cow would turn inside out or legs get torn off the calf) and the calf popped out like a cork out of a Champane bottle. The calf went skipping accross the prarie like a rock accross the water. They both made it. I got the cow up and then both in the barn. When dad got home he was sorta wild and wanted to know what happened to his trucks grill guard. I told him to talk to #2 son, it wasn't my doing.
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