When you bring stock to the mart/factory

whelan2

do you wash the trailer out, see lads taking forever to wash their trailer out. We wash it when we get home

jfh

whelan2 wrote: »

do you wash the trailer out, see lads taking forever to wash their trailer out. We wash it when we get home

Usually wash at the mart, takes 2 euro at local mart.

_Brian

Wash at home.

patsy_mccabe

Usually wash at Mart or factory but the queue can take forever especially at the factory. I bought s petrol water pump a while back and its a great job. Similar power to those at the marts.

Lady Haywire

Always wash at home straight after we get back. Nothing worse than someone borrowing a trailer for a while and leaving it back (if you're lucky!) a weeks later with shíte dried in all over it.

PN14

At the mart usually or at home if the queue is too long at the mart but always wash out the day we use it easier in the long run.

2euro at the mart and the ramp washout is handy

Base price

Normally wash out at the factory. Didn't do so today cause the trailer ramp sorta fell off on one side when I was unloading

Bass Reeves

When we use the box tp drop cattle to the factory we would always give the box a was. Nothing worse that a wet smelly sloppy box :P. Haulier usually takes them unless we have only one or two. Even if you have to que it is faster than doing it when you bring it home. If we use it to move cattle from one place to another or if I buy a few and decide to collect then it is a case of powerwasher again.

Muckit

Has anyone a set area for this at home? Takes a good while I find pulling out washer and setting it up. Would be great to just b able topull up beside hose, switch on and work away.

Bsloe mart charges €2per 3min. On reality you need at least 2 goes to clean an average trailer fully. If it cost €2 all in would do it there the whole time.

Panch18

Usually buying cattle at the mart these days so trailer is washed at home with the parlour volume hose

Always selling at the factory so trailer is always washed there

Nothing worse than opening the trailer to load cattle and it's covered in ****e, which cattle that are being loaded are able to propel at high speed in any and every direction

rliston

Wet the cattle box before loading up and heading to the factory and then wash it out at the factory. If its a warm evening and I've a few trips I give it a quick wet down at home between loads too.

Who2

Most go by haulier but the trailer only gets cleaned every couple of months and there's no point lying about it on here. Looking for a good second hand porter trailer so might aim to treat it a little better.

greysides

whelan2 wrote: »

do you wash the trailer out, see lads taking forever to wash their trailer out. We wash it when we get home

Jez, I dunno about this thread. With Whelan 2's fondness for power-washing I think this thread might be commercial research..........

Muckit

Who2 wrote: »

Most go by haulier but the trailer only gets cleaned every couple of months and there's no point lying about it on here. Looking for a good second hand porter trailer so might aim to treat it a little better.

Sure if you've an aluminium trailer, what loss?

Who2

Muckit wrote: »

Sure if you've an aluminium trailer, what loss?

The time it takes washing it can be precious sometimes.

Muckit

Hardly have time to wash myself sometimes!

Lady Haywire

Muckit wrote: »

Hardly have time to wash myself sometimes!

You could be onto something there.....the PowerWowsher.
Install it just outside the door where you can wash the car, the dog, or the husband after putting out slurry!

whelan2

had a lad came here for calves last year, must have been about 6 inches of crap in the trailer he was putting the calves into :eek:

kerry cow

Have a wash bay here .bought a 3 phase power washer and bolted it down up high in the shed , plumbed with mains and with a hose reeler off it .If it wasn't fixed someone would pull it off somewhere else .alway there when you need it .
Abp will not leave you out the gate without been washed .

IH784man

rliston wrote: »

Wet the cattle box before loading up and heading to the factory and then wash it out at the factory. If its a warm evening and I've a few trips I give it a quick wet down at home between loads too.

Is that not a bit much,don't get the point in people washing trailers only to go out with them the next day and do it all again

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

had a lad came here for calves last year, must have been about 6 inches of crap in the trailer he was putting the calves into :eek:

Sorry about that

Bullocks

Who2 wrote: »

Most go by haulier but the trailer only gets cleaned every couple of months and there's no point lying about it on here. Looking for a good second hand porter trailer so might aim to treat it a little better.

Same as that , ours only get cleaned if theres young calves or sheep going in it . Even then it might be just a lock of straw thrown in to keep them clean .
The brother bottowed it last year and all the thanks I got was "youre a pig " , but I think he might be a clean freak

390kid

Does anyone on here bed them with sawdust or woodchip seen a few done with it and not sure wat to make of it

Limestone Cowboy

Bullocks wrote: »

Same as that , ours only get cleaned if theres young calves or sheep going in it . Even then it might be just a lock of straw thrown in to keep them clean .
The brother bottowed it last year and all the thanks I got was "youre a pig " , but I think he might be a clean freak

Your a man after my own heart so. I wash it at the mart alright but would normally be using it 2-3 days a week around home and I'd end up spending more time washing it than using it. Do a right job on it every few months with the powerwasher but it does be as bad again a week after.

lakill Farm

I never wash it at the mart. When I get home I use a rubber yard scrapper to clean the trailer out .

Then maybe 3 or 4 times a year I completely power wash inside and outside with detergent and then hot wash the bejaysus out of it at 60 or 70 degrees