Good Arthuritis, We have the hip joint lifter too-the one with the orange rings and the threaded rod to adjust. The one I would like to have is the full body so she could be left up for hours without strain on the spinal cord.
Thankfully , we don't have to use it much- maybe once every couple of years. We have eliminated the yearly occurrence by culling the old cows in the commercial herd (some 16 year olds in there still) and total AI on our registered herd.
Off subject but we had some registered cow calf pairs in a registered sale at a college last week and the way those "cow boys"thugs handled our cows was disgraceful. My bil went down to the chute and told them what he thought of it and put the remainders in himself. They were beating and shoving and poking on them ,waving papers at them- - and worst of all hotshotting them.. Terrible to treat an animal that way and bad for getting them in a chute without wilding them up . He moved the 'wanta' be cow boys out of the way, just grabbed the cow's tails, twisted and got them to do what he wanted.. no hitting, with just some guidance from a sorting stick that I make. We haven't used a hotshot in 20 or more years.