Anyone come across this ?

greenpetrol

Anyone use 4 or 6 gates to make a temporary pen out in a field and how? Without driving posts or anything too strenuous just a creep area I can move about ! Is there any type latch that would secure gates fairly solid into a square or rectangular pen ! One of gates being a creep gate I could put in feeders and get suckler calves trained! Load the lot on the front loader and move to the next field and set up again After the second or third attempt the cows will abandon the idea of trying to get in

Grueller

greenpetrol wrote: »

Anyone use 4 or 6 gates to make a temporary pen out in a field and how? Without driving posts or anything too strenuous just a creep area I can move about ! Is there any type latch that would secure gates fairly solid into a square or rectangular pen ! One of gates being a creep gate I could put in feeders and get suckler calves trained! Load the lot on the front loader and move to the next field and set up again After the second or third attempt the cows will abandon the idea of trying to get in

2 scaffolding clamps per joining? Wouldn't be any chance of them failing.

greenpetrol

Grueller wrote: »

2 scaffolding clamps per joining? Wouldn't be any chance of them failing.

Sounds the business ! That's the brilliance of boards! !! Simple and cheap ! Thank you

caseman

I hung gates ón a old trailer,alot of fragmented land here could'nt justifie pen's
I'll try and put up a few pictures.

jimini0

greenpetrol wrote: »

Anyone use 4 or 6 gates to make a temporary pen out in a field and how? Without driving posts or anything too strenuous just a creep area I can move about ! Is there any type latch that would secure gates fairly solid into a square or rectangular pen ! One of gates being a creep gate I could put in feeders and get suckler calves trained! Load the lot on the front loader and move to the next field and set up again After the second or third attempt the cows will abandon the idea of trying to get in

Someone in the guntering thread made up a pen from posts concreted into tyres. That can be moved.
Sligoronan is the man. I cant post link to his post in the guntering thread.

Grueller

jimini0 wrote: »

Someone in the guntering thread made up a pen from posts concreted into tyres. That can be moved.

Used to run an electric fence wire across a few of these to allow cows to self feed from a silage pit face years back. Thank god that day is gone.

greenpetrol

Grueller wrote: »

Used to run an electric fence wire across a few of these to allow cows to self feed from a silage pit face years back. Thank god that day is gone.

Actually read lately that in new Zealand big dairies are moving back to this method! Low cost no machinery and can feed 1000 cows in minutes of moving a wire ! So maybe it's back to the future

Grueller

greenpetrol wrote: »

Actually read lately that in new Zealand big dairies are moving back to this method! Low cost no machinery and can feed 1000 cows in minutes of moving a wire ! So maybe it's back to the future

Been there done that. Give me my sheae grab and a feeding passage any day. No mess, no scraping out scutter from the pit face.

greenpetrol

caseman wrote: »

I hung gates ón a old trailer,alot of fragmented land here could'nt justifie pen's
I'll try and put up a few pictures.

Anything like this would interest me! Those creep feeders are too costly for what they are ! Feeding crows

49801

Cheaper again to lift the electric fence a bit and let calves creep under it

Pacoa

I did one for calves years ago. Four gates held together with chains and D shackles. Two 3x3's on top and a few sheets of galvanize.

greenpetrol

Pacoa wrote: »

I did one for calves years ago. Four gates held together with chains and D shackles. Two 3x3's on top and a few sheets of galvanize.

I wouldn't bother covering it just ration once a day while checking on them