Handling facilities

farawaygrass · 05-06-2017 11:20AM #1

I wonder would this thread be a good idea to share ideas/tips/experience of handling facilities to make life a bit more easy?
I hope to put in some kind of handling facility in the near future. I'm thinking about the combi clamp, and the only reason I haven't bought it yet is indecisiveness. Without proper pens and race it would be wasted. I just happened to come across this picture the other day-seems a class set up and wouldn't rob the bank either. Some handling units are wicked expensive but I suppose if they work they would be cheap in the long run.

ganmo · 05-06-2017 07:13PM

One thing I'd like to try is a v-convayer. Saw a few videos and it looks like a right job, holds the lambs steady and can raise them up so you're not bending over the whole time

rangler1 · 06-06-2017 06:39AM

farawaygrass wrote: »

I wonder would this thread be a good idea to share ideas/tips/experience of handling facilities to make life a bit more easy?
I hope to put in some kind of handling facility in the near future. I'm thinking about the combi clamp, and the only reason I haven't bought it yet is indecisiveness. Without proper pens and race it would be wasted. I just happened to come across this picture the other day-seems a class set up and wouldn't rob the bank either. Some handling units are wicked expensive but I suppose if they work they would be cheap in the long run.

You'd be better to buy an ordinary race and a pile of gates for the money that the combi clamp would cost.....also very easy to make brackets to pin sheep gates to existing walls etc.
There's a lotn of mixed reports about thecombi so don't buy it unless you use it somewhere first, a conveyor seems to be a better job

sea12 · 06-06-2017 07:09PM

farawaygrass wrote: »

I wonder would this thread be a good idea to share ideas/tips/experience of handling facilities to make life a bit more easy?
I hope to put in some kind of handling facility in the near future. I'm thinking about the combi clamp, and the only reason I haven't bought it yet is indecisiveness. Without proper pens and race it would be wasted. I just happened to come across this picture the other day-seems a class set up and wouldn't rob the bank either. Some handling units are wicked expensive but I suppose if they work they would be cheap in the long run.

That is some set up. You'd need a fair few sheep to justify that. What article is your picture from. Did it have much on the set up?

farawaygrass · 06-06-2017 09:53PM

ganmo wrote: »

One thing I'd like to try is a v-convayer. Saw a few videos and it looks like a right job, holds the lambs steady and can raise them up so you're not bending over the whole time

That is the only reason I was going for the combi clamp too-the sheep are at your height and no bending down

farawaygrass · 06-06-2017 09:55PM

rangler1 wrote: »

You'd be better to buy an ordinary race and a pile of gates for the money that the combi clamp would cost.....also very easy to make brackets to pin sheep gates to existing walls etc.
There's a lotn of mixed reports about thecombi so don't buy it unless you use it somewhere first, a conveyor seems to be a better job

What price would a conveyor be though? Ya as I said the only reason I haven't bought the combi clamp yet is I want to have the pens and race right first as they are the vital parts

farawaygrass · 06-06-2017 09:57PM

sea12 wrote: »

That is some set up. You'd need a fair few sheep to justify that. What article is your picture from. Did it have much on the set up?

It's from a farmers journal article I came across when reading something else. The article itself didn't say a thing about that that particular setup, unfortunately. Pity it didn't give a detail drawing with dimensions. As regards needing a lot of sheep, 750e would go along way in that I'd imagine?

rangler1 · 06-06-2017 10:00PM

farawaygrass wrote: »

What price would a conveyor be though? Ya as I said the only reason I haven't bought the combi clamp yet is I want to have the pens and race right first as they are the vital parts

Don't know, they look the job though.....they have one in teagasc in athenry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03qMR0BUNpw

There's a nice yard for 3400 +vat on agriland
http://cdn.agriland.ie/uploads/2015/07/race-1.jpg

kk.man · 06-06-2017 10:32PM

rangler1 wrote: »

Don't know, they look the job though.....they have one in teagasc in athenry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03qMR0BUNpw

There's a nice yard for 3400 +vat on agriland
http://cdn.agriland.ie/uploads/2015/07/race-1.jpg

The teagasc one looks the business!!!!!!

Green farmer · 07-06-2017 08:50AM

kk.man wrote: »

The teagasc one looks the business!!!!!!

Shir if they were able to spend €1 million quid on a shed, a few grand on a clamp would hardly be noticed.

rangler1 · 07-06-2017 09:41AM

Green farmer wrote: »

Shir if they were able to spend €1 million quid on a shed, a few grand on a clamp would hardly be noticed.

It'd be some yoke to have available for hire in a sheep area, we have two bunches here with 350 -400 lambs each, ya get fair pissed off with them when you're dosing and bolusing them together the one day in a race.
If they got used to it they'd be fighting to get into it, ICM has one and they fly into it

Green farmer · 07-06-2017 11:20AM

Might be on display at the open day

Cattlepen · 08-06-2017 09:08PM

rangler1 wrote: »

Don't know, they look the job though.....they have one in teagasc in athenry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03qMR0BUNpw

There's a nice yard for 3400 +vat on agriland
http://cdn.agriland.ie/uploads/2015/07/race-1.jpg

I really like the idea of that yard. If it had a double wide race that led into two separate foot baths it would be a great job for dosing/ vacinating while the previous batch footbathed and then switch to other race. There would be a constant fresh batch to work at. Also, a slip ramped dip out to the side of the narrow race would be great. You would be getting in the sheep just for the pleasure of working with them

AntrimGlens · 11-06-2017 09:33PM

Just in case anyone's willing to travel who's looking for a handling set up.

Nekarsulm · 14-06-2017 12:12AM

https://m.facebook.com/groups/512723592166907#!/photos/viewer/?photoset_token=pcb.1133043946801532&photo=251553991916335&profileid=712435197&source=48&refid=18&_ft_=qid.6431279877183606470%3Amf_story_key.1133043946801532%3Atop_level_post_id.1133043946801532%3Atl_objid.1133043946801532

Handy idea for any permanent sheep race

Username John · 14-06-2017 05:53AM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

https://m.facebook.com/groups/512723592166907#!/photos/viewer/?photoset_token=pcb.1133043946801532&photo=251553991916335&profileid=712435197&source=48&refid=18&_ft_=qid.6431279877183606470%3Amf_story_key.1133043946801532%3Atop_level_post_id.1133043946801532%3Atl_objid.1133043946801532

Handy idea for any permanent sheep race

That link right Nek?

Nekarsulm · 14-06-2017 07:31AM

I was trying to link to Edward Egan's post, an overhead wire with a pipe fixture to hold your dosing gun. It's a couple of posts down.

gazahayes · 15-06-2017 07:09AM

Few pics of a handling unit with a large footbath and a dip tank also.

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