Hint: It is literally a hands-on exhibit in a Farm and Ranch museum.
The device pictured above is a milking machine. The idea is,
supposedly, for the visitor to learn what the machine feels like to the
cow.
Somehow, I doubt the experience is very similar.
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Hmmm, looks about the right height ...
But I guess that wouldn't be a similar experience either.
Yes, I imagine there has been a farmer or two that has "experimented" with one of these....once.