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Cattle pen from crash barriers

  • 27-06-2019 7:45pm
    #1
    TooOldBoots
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    Need to put up a new pen. I've seen some done with crash barriers.
    Are they any good?
    How are they held onto the posts
    3 or 4 rails ?
    Cheap or expensive?


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  • #2
    148multi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭148multi


    TooOldBoots wrote: »
    Need to put up a new pen. I've seen some done with crash barriers.
    Are they any good?
    How are they held onto the posts
    3 or 4 rails ?
    Cheap or expensive?

    See lads welding them to girders, get a longer span, all depends on livestock, forward stores on, 3 would do, smaller 4. Plus they are reusable if you want to move pen.


  • #3
    I says
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,044 ✭✭✭I says


    Did one here in awkward part of farm, esb poles and used the barriers not a bother with it.


  • #4
    TooOldBoots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 604 ✭✭✭TooOldBoots


    I says wrote: »
    Did one here in awkward part of farm, esb poles and used the barriers not a bother with it.
    Yeah I was thinking of using railway sleepers instead of the poles


  • #5
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,123 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    It's the spacing between the crash barriers that would bother me. Get it wrong and a beast would get it's head caught in them.


  • #6
    Albert Johnson
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 1,916 Mod ✭✭✭✭Albert Johnson


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    It's the spacing between the crash barriers that would bother me. Get it wrong and a beast would get it's head caught in them.

    That's something that could well happen but should be easily avoided with a few metres of sheep wire. Simply attach the sheep wire to the pen uprights and put on the crash barriers after, this sandwiches the sheep wire between the upright and the barrier. The wire should hold back the head's of larger cattle and prevent calves or sheep from escaping between the rails.


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