Mobile crush

Mac Taylor

Looking for some advice on mobile crush. Looked at 2 in tullamore. Priced from 1k to 2k. Was not impressed with cheaper one as it seemed too light. Anyone use one? Recommendations welcome. Tks, Mac

(Btw only problem with 2k one was price. Hard to justify with our numbers)

eric prydz

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Looking for some advice on mobile crush. Looked at 2 in tullamore. Priced from 1k to 2k. Was not impressed with cheaper one as it seemed too light. Anyone use one? Recommendations welcome. Tks, Mac

(Btw only problem with 2k one was price. Hard to justify with our numbers)

Ive two homemade ones that we made up here ourselves, one is 24ft and the other is 12 both have a folded steel floor,biggest cost was folding the floors and the crush gates

lakill Farm

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Looking for some advice on mobile crush. Looked at 2 in tullamore. Priced from 1k to 2k. Was not impressed with cheaper one as it seemed too light. Anyone use one? Recommendations welcome. Tks, Mac

(Btw only problem with 2k one was price. Hard to justify with our numbers)

saw one at the oldcastle show and it was 10k it included a scales and had to have a hydraulic oil supply also so either tractor or a hydraulic pack:eek:

Genghis Cant

http://www.nugentengineering.com/products/economy-crate/

We've one very like this. Never a bother on it. I do notice though that cattle don't like goin into it. When they're in it and caught, they're goin nowhere!

Reggie.

I've one here. Will take a photo later on for ya. It's a back up. Never had to use it yet

Muckit

I think those single crates would break your heart unless you had a separate race made with gates etc to load it. Cattle like to follow each other.

lakill Farm

Muckit wrote: »

I think those single crates would break your heart unless you had a separate race made with gates etc to load it. Cattle like to follow each other.

the 3pt ones are fine for a few cattle out a shed door or down a crush race.

you pick one up for €600 / maybe €1k with a scales and a few gates and a few rsj concreted in the ground. bring gates home each time

Mac Taylor

lakill Farm wrote: »

the 3pt ones are fine for a few cattle out a shed door or down a crush race.

you pick one up for €600 / maybe €1k with a scales and a few gates and a few rsj concreted in the ground. bring gates home each time

Kinda what I was thinking. Would only plan to use for emergencies. Like the ones with the gate holders at the back.

Genghis can't, do you know roughly whAt that nugent Eco would cost?
I'm a poor west of Ireland suckler farmer so money is too tight to mention (just like the song)

Mac Taylor

Reggie. wrote: »

I've one here. Will take a photo later on for ya. It's a back up. Never had to use it yet

Reggie, sure if your not using it, I'll just borrow it and sure you can drop over for it whenever you need it:D:D

lakill Farm

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Kinda what I was thinking. Would only plan to use for emergencies. Like the ones with the gate holders at the back.

Genghis can't, do you know roughly whAt that nugent Eco would cost?
I'm a poor west of Ireland suckler farmer so money is too tight to mention (just like the song)

In emergencies here I load onto trailer and bring home and sort here where I have facilities and if I need a hand I can get it or the vet

Reggie.

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Reggie, sure if your not using it, I'll just borrow it and sure you can drop over for it whenever you need it:D:D

Sure your only down the road "hey"

Genghis Cant

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Kinda what I was thinking. Would only plan to use for emergencies. Like the ones with the gate holders at the back.

Genghis can't, do you know roughly whAt that nugent Eco would cost?
I'm a poor west of Ireland suckler farmer so money is too tight to mention (just like the song)

No idea of the price but I gave €500 for it a long time back 10 years+.

F.D

Genghis Cant wrote: »

http://www.nugentengineering.com/products/economy-crate/

We've one very like this. Never a bother on it. I do notice though that cattle don't like goin into it. When they're in it and caught, they're goin nowhere!

Have a cashel one similar to above its well built and handy to go to the different fields we have
it is hard to get the cattle to go from the concrete or gravel in the race and step on to the steel
it also rocks about if the ground i uneven so the cattle dont like it

i would choose what head locking gate you get carefully, i think that's more important than the crate its self

Zr105

I no it's probably a more expensive option but personally if i was me id just get the best head gate and see if local engineering spot would make up a handy 20ft trailer run, stick the head gate on the drawbar, and a few simple rails back along, with a drop to floor axle and it'd be far less likely to rock around and would be able to get more than one in, or at least you would have a chance of getting a bar behind him if he didnt latch the gate the first time, wereas you'd want to be on the ball to get it in behind a beast quick enough when the crate is onto the length of him

Zr105

Something along the lines of this is what i mean, but could even be made simpler really, just a flat floor would do..

F.D

Zr105 wrote: »

Something along the lines of this is what i mean, but could even be made simpler really, just a flat floor would do..

I'm actually sorry i didn't go with something like that from the start, but i might get mine put onto a frame and axle and made longer when ever funds allow

Zr105

F.D wrote: »

I'm actually sorry i didn't go with something like that from the start, but i might get mine put onto a frame and axle and made longer when ever funds allow

Wouldn't be hard done id imagine! Most I've seen are just a heavy box iron frame at the bottom with say 60mm box goal posts and 50mm pipe for sides.

I've often thought that doing something along the lines of what your thinking and mounting the crate on a couple of weigh cells, that way you'd have weighing built in, and it'd be handy out as there's no fear of them leaning against the sides, which could distort the reading

Reggie.

Thus is my one. Sorry about photos but I wasn't gonna move the machinery for ya

Corkfarmer

Anybody have a portable crush with a pen at the back or system of setting up a pen without having to lift gates and tie together with chains. The crush part is widely available but I haven't seen too many with a good mobile pen and I think one isn't much good without the other.

visatorro

have a twenty foot mobile crush with brackets for hanging gates on the back of it, would still need another gate to make up a pen thou. dunno if that's any use