11 September 2023 , 12:50
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This is the incredible moment that a cow is rescued from a sinkhole and hoisted out, feet first.
Workers at Witton Castle, Bishop Auckland, were going about their day as usual when they received a call for help from a local farmer. Unbeknownst to him, one of his fields had - at some point - developed a sink hole.
This hadn’t been an issue until one Bullock got a little too curious and wondered over to have a look - before falling down it. From the outside the hole appeared quite small, a circle in the grass, near to where two fences met.
Four men and a tractor were needed to save the cow from the sink hole (TWITTER)
The cow is now safely returned to its herd (TWITTER)But the entire full grown cow vanished below, and it took a team of four men and a tractor to rescue it. The video shows them working together, straps running down into the deep hole, as they carefully coordinate the tractor into place.
In the footage, the three men motion for the tractor driver to come slightly closer to the hole as the winch begins to work, and the straps are reeled in. Shockingly, a pair of trussed up hooves appear first out of the hole.
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The legs lead out of the hole as the cow’s back catches on the lip of the hole, but it continues to be lifted to freedom. The huge animal is far bigger than the men and slowly lifted out of the hole by the tractor, before the driver slowly reverses, getting most of the animal free of the sinkhole.
When free, the cow looks worryingly lifeless as it dangles there and is gently lifted across the grass, and set down. But then, just as it’s being laid down, the cow rears into life. The team of men quickly free it from the strappings that they used to lift it free. The cow then rises, slightly unsteady on its feat and returns to the herd.