Sheep rescues

[owd git]

A friend who let's his sister graze her sheep on his land says he hates them. Always trying to find new ways to kill themselves.

A few years back one tried to fly over the entrance to Giants,(i guess.) was in a very poor state, it's eyes being eaten by a rook, neck wrong shape.needed helping "out". Obviously the vegetarian in the party had the honours. they don't die that easily i assure you. details on application only.  . O.G.

 

[AR]

Found one  a few years back in one of the choked shafts on Peak Pasture (then surrounded by a not very stockproof fence), it was fortunate for the sheep that I shone a torch down the shaft and saw a pair of eyes reflecting back. Apologies to the DCRO guys whose Sunday dinner I disrupted by reporting it...

The shafts got recapped subsequently with tembo bits, but sadly that meant the steel plate covering one of the shafts that I was pretty sure was a narrow-gauge turntable disappeared, probably chucked in a skip

 

[mudman]

I was scanning an old Brynmawr Caving Club log book today and came across an entry from April 2003 of one of our digging trips to Brynmawr Old Dig. Here we were greeted by a ewe and her lamb that had managed to either come down the cliff above or across the river and were sheltering in the cave. The entry goes on to say that "An entertaining hour was spent chasing the sheep in and out of the cave." Anyone who's been there will know that it isn't that big so how we weren't able to just grab the things, isn't recorded but I seem to remember that every time we got them out they ran back in. The entry finishes up with "Eventually caught but not before Brent had been trampled at the far end as they stampeded over him" and the quote "Bloody hurt that did!"

 

[Badlad]

Tamarmole - digressing from the thread a little but here are a few photos (thanks to Franklin) of the Valentine dig in 2015 FYI.  We only spent one day on it, had a little dig at the bottom and tidied up around the top which was collapsing into the dig.  Before, during and after....

 

[pwhole]

they don't die that easily i assure you. details on application only.  . O.G.

I'm not surprised if you used folk music again. That takes ages! A big rock every time. Seriously though, the only detail I need to know is did the non-vegetarians also get to take it home? It being fresh and all...

 

[Tseralo]

I found a very small mine above Castleton by nearly falling down it whist doing some photography. This greeted me at the bottom of the first "pitch" (only about 10 ft) suffice to say a few have fallen in.

 

[langcliffe]

I found one at the bottom of the Jingling Pot entrance shaft today - beyond redemption, I'm afraid. In fact, it made its presence known before I saw it.

 

[Fulk]

Many years ago I visited a small cave in Mallerstang, which consisted of a short passage into a chamber maybe 6 m in diameter and a couple high, but the odd thing was, it was half full of bones; I've never been back, but it was a very odd experience 'wading through bones'!

 

[Pitlamp]

Several years ago, just over the hill on the west flank of Wild Boar Fell, two divers were doing just the same. Only it turned out the bones were human - bronze age in fact!

 

[tobyk]

Another sheep rescued yesterday, which was stuck in the gully leading to Juniper Gulf.
We spooked it initially and I thought I was going to witness it plunge into the depths. It was right on the edge. Managed to coax it back up the gully, where I took the opportunity to dive in and grab it. When I lifted it up onto the bank it just laid there (I think it thought ?that?s it, I?m going to be eaten?) but one more push and it was off.
Having never picked up a sheep before, I was surprised how light it was actually, but definitely a young one.

 

[langcliffe]

Having never picked up a sheep before, I was surprised how light it was actually, but definitely a young one.

I once tried to rescue an older, fully-fleeced, one from the river. The sodden fleece made it impossible for me to lift it onto the bank, and it drowned before I could get someone to help me.

 

[Fulk]

I was once travelling past a reservoir when I saw a 'strange' creature swimming for the edge; we wondered what it was, and stopped to watch, and when it dragged itself onto the bank we saw that it was a sheep. I never knew that sheep could swim ? I can't remember now, but maybe it had just been shorn and didn't have a load of wool on its back to impede its progress.

 

[oldfart]

I was once doing some repairs to Kentmere reservoir where I 'rescued' an old tup from the sludge at the edge of the drained reservoir using a thirty six tonne digger we were using. Damn thing went straight back unreachably in.  It added to the flavour of Kendal's tap water.

 

[Alex]

What's a tup?

 

[langcliffe]

What's a tup?

A ram.

 

[Pitlamp]

What's a tup?

It's a good method of curing a collie which is overly fond of upsetting sheep. 

 

[MJenkinson]

I remember finding a sheep hopelessly entangled in brambles once; I cut it free - it ran off, did a huge loop and ran straight back into the same hedge. Idiot.

Cut it out again and this time it kept away.

 

[Pitlamp]

Ah yes - sheep, brambles - isn't that where the idea for Velcro came from?  :-\

 

[s_allshorn]

I was paid ?3 for saving two riggwelted pregnant ewes at Neals Ing once. First had run off but the second was taken to the barn as it was in such a state.

 

[HardenClimber3]

A couple of years ago on a CPC Try Caving Meet we found this (intact and vigorous) recruit at the bottom of Calf Holes. Can only presume the water broke her fall.