I never knew this

[Cornio 0]

Apparently, in the 1960's, Boeing Aircraft Corporation used ferrets to lay guidewires that pull heavier cables through conduits when building aeroplanes.

 

Wonder if there are any other uses.

[Kay 3,709]

Apparently, in the 1960's, Boeing Aircraft Corporation used ferrets to lay guidewires that pull heavier cables through conduits when building aeroplanes.

 

Wonder if there are any other uses.

 

I also heard they were used to lay cables at the wedding of Charles & Diana

[Guest jt750]

i think BT used them for laying cable too...maybe they still do

[COMPO 54]

they were used under the false floor in Westminster abbey to lay string, that pulled through the wires etc...for the cameras for charles and diana's wedding

 

Some electricians use them for pulling string through gaps which they can then use the string to pull wires through

 

i believe they have been used such on some big films!

 

and yes i heard that about BT

 

Ferret racing developed from such uses, apparently texan pipe layers used them for running cables down pipes when they were making oil pipes, and that it was the bored labourers with their big hob ferrets started betting on whose ferret was quicker!

[COMPO 54]

Cut from wikipedia

 

Other uses of ferrets

Ferrets have been used to run wires and cables through large conduits. Event organizers in London used ferrets to run TV and sound cables for both the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer, and for the "Party in the Park" concert held in Greenwich Park on Millennium Eve.[30] One ferret, Freddie, was even registered as an electrician's assistant with the New Zealand Electrical Workers Union.[31]

 

Because they share many anatomical and physiological features with humans, ferrets are extensively used as experimental subjects in biomedical research, in fields such as virology, reproductive physiology, anatomy, endocrinology and neuroscience.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret

[COMPO 54]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/582123.stm I want to get mine a job like that!

[slip,course,kill 0]

Apparently, in the 1960's, Boeing Aircraft Corporation used ferrets to lay guidewires that pull heavier cables through conduits when building aeroplanes.

 

Wonder if there are any other uses.

dident you lern histery

[ferret15 0]

Wednesday, 29 December, 1999, 14:57 GMT

Ferrets save millennium concert

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A group of highly trained ferrets has been recruited to save a millennium pop concert in London.

 

When millions of people watch coverage of the Party in the Park concert in Greenwich on Millennium Eve, they can thank a team of "electricians" lent by the National Ferret Association.

 

The concert organisers have hired the ferrets to lay TV, lighting and sound cables along the tunnels under the stage in Greenwich Park - a novel way to get around the high cost of electricians' wages over the millennium period.

 

found this so they are still being used

[ferret15 0]

youbeat me to it compo

[Cornio 0]

Apparently, in the 1960's, Boeing Aircraft Corporation used ferrets to lay guidewires that pull heavier cables through conduits when building aeroplanes.

 

Wonder if there are any other uses.

dident you lern histery

 

You obviously didn't learn English with that atrocious spelling. Besides, since when has ferrets and Boeing been part of the history curriculum?

Edited March 19, 2009 by Cornio