Use of a Come Along in a Bovine Practice

Abstract

What I would like to do this evening is spend a few minutes and talk about some of the uses that we found in our practice for a device, which all of you know is a come-along or power puller. It's a very simple device. It has a metal frame with a steel cable with a hook on the end of it, and a winching device. A very simple thing. You can buy these in hardware stores from anywhere from $15 to $30. In our practice we prefer the ones with just a single cable. These have about a one ton capacity. You can get them with a double cable that have about a two-ton capacity. We just don't work on anything that takes two tons to lift. We find that the single cable puller has a longer cable on it which is preferable in our situation.