Mechanical roping steer

A mechanical roping steer assembly including a pair of elevated horizontally spaced apart mounting structures, a pair of drive and idle pulleys journalled from said mounting structures, an elongated flexible tension member trained about said pulleys and arranged in two generally parallel reaches, an elongated support member extending between and anchored relative to said mounting structures, a wheeled carriage supported from said support member for rolling therealong, a crank journalled from said carriage, drive means drivingly connecting a wheel of said carriage to said crank, said carriage including a depending support structure projecting downwardly below said reaches, said support member and said carriage and including a lower portion, an arm portion projecting horizontally outwardly from said lower portion of said support structure in one direction along said support member and including a free end portion, an animal simulating structure supported from said free end portion and including at least a first oscillatable head simulating body part, connecting structure connecting said crank to said body part for oscillation of the latter in response to rotation of the crank, said head simulating body part disposed at an elevation above said free end of said arm and spaced below said reaches, said support member and said carriage, said animal simulating structure defining front and rear ends spaced along said support member with said head simulating body part defining said front end, said front end facing toward and spaced horizontally rearwardly from said lower portion of said depending support structure, reversible rotary drive motor means drivingly connected to said drive pulley, one of said reaches of said flexible tension member being anchored relative to said frame.