It has become some sort of a 'cowboy' fad to have the nutsak or bell hanging from rear bumper--but they had to get the idea from somewhere---and they did. Out west, the ranches are a lot bigger than around here, and not much grassland--just cactus & mesquite. In winter, even the cactus dries up, and mesquite sheds it's leaves. Winter comes-cattle can easily starve. Cattle ranchers used to take their trucks out in the rangeland, with someone sitting on the tailgate pouring rangecubes out in a long trail, as the pickup pulled slowly ahead. Rangecubes are a pellet type feed, but the pellets are real big--about 1 1/4"Dia X 3" long. You pour them in a long trail, instead of in a pile, so the cattle don't bunch up and stomp them into the ground-in other words--better access. Most times, the cattle won't be right at the gate, so you have to call them up--and that jangling cowbell, as the truck bumps along, does pretty good. If you were to just pour them out and leave, without calling the cattle up, the deer would eat most of them instead of the cows.
I did this many times out in Nolan County Texas when I was a kid, staying with my uncle. It was a hoot, because on our way back up to the hiway, we would shoot jackrabbits from the truck bed. There was a bounty on them back then. $.25/ear I believe. So now you know.
As for the hanging nutsaks--I don't have a clue why they do that. It's something recent.
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