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Cattle pen with crash barrier

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  • 30-01-2018 11:04am
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    Muckit
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    Hi guys. I'm planning on erecting a small loading pen with open box beam uprights and crash barrier rails. About 2 14' rails long by 16' wide.

    If l bolt the rails to the uprights, I'm concerned about the ends of the rails being exposed and catching cattle or myself.

    Love to hear anyones comments/ recommendations about cattle penning in general.

    Thanks


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    larthehar
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    Muckit wrote: »
    Hi guys. I'm planning on erecting a small loading pen with open box beam uprights and crash barrier rails. About 2 14' rails long by 16' wide.

    If l bolt the rails to the uprights, I'm concerned about the ends of the rails being exposed and catching cattle or myself.

    Love to hear anyones comments/ recommendations about cattle penning in general.

    Thanks

    You even commented on this thread! Tidy job by ren..

    https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057486411/1


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    Muckit
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    Thanks. I suppose l should have clarified. This is a field away from yard. Only needed to gather and load a handful of times each year. Dry stock so no AI. Also very different scale. Very different budget.


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    Genghis Cant
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    Muckit wrote: »
    Thanks. I suppose l should have clarified. This is a field away from yard. Only needed to gather and load a handful of times each year. Dry stock so no AI. Also very different scale. Very different budget.

    Would a few aul pallets tied with baler twine not do you? :-)


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    patsy_mccabe
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    Be wary of the gap between the crash barriers, Muckit. Can't give you the ideal measurement but I had a cow put her head through a gate last year and it was a job to get her out. Used a bottle jack. Can't do that with rigid crash barriers.
    Too wide apart and they will all be putting their heads out. Too near and you'll be wondering if calves will do the same.

    'The Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Galway, As they sailed beneath the Swastika to Spain'



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    Muckit
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    I'm going using 3 rails of crash barrier. I've been i formed they're 12". And I'll space 6" apart. I'll prob bolt timbers in between 2 bottom rails to close the gap.


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    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    Would a few aul pallets tied with baler twine not do you? :-)

    That's not far off off what I'm using already!


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    visatorro
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    I bought ten mobile eight foot gates, five foot high. I had 26 weanlings and thought it was slightly small so tied in a fifteen foot field gate as well. Enticed them with meal. Gates were 960 all in. Only took it down yesterday because in testing soon and I'll use them as a race around yard. Connacht agri do them as well.


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    blue5000
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    Muckit will there be more than one load in it? reason I'm asking is it might be better to have a separate smaller pen to sort whatever will be in a load first IYKWIM.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Muckit will there be more than one load in it? reason I'm asking is it might be better to have a separate smaller pen to sort whatever will be in a load first IYKWIM.

    Yes was planning on splitting it in 2 with a 12' and 4' gate. Won't be any more than 10-15cattle


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    Hagimalone
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    Planning on using crash barrier on one side of crush race, what measurements did any of ye use between them. Distance from ground and between each other. 250kg weanlings would be the lightest stock.


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    ford 5600
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    Hagimalone wrote: »
    Planning on using crash barrier on one side of crush race, what measurements did any of ye use between them. Distance from ground and between each other. 250kg weanlings would be the lightest stock.


    Each barrier is 12 inches/a ft. I used 3 barriers.
    So , 12 inch gap from ground to bottom of bottom barrier, 6 inch gap , another 12 inch barrier , another 6 inch gap , and then the last 12 inch barrier . Total height of 5 ft . Happy with it , and have had various age stock in it .


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    Count Mondego
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    I'm looking to build a holding pen in a bit of land I have away from the farm. Usually walk cattle over the road to it, about a mile and a half on a busy road but that's not an option going forward with the temperament of cattle and amount of cars on the road. I as aiming to use Crash barriers, which are easy to get but it's impossible to get the steel uprights. I'll have to use heavy 8ft strainer posts for this instead.

    What distance between posts would you get away with, considering the barriers are 14' with an overlap of 1' on joins?

    I'll have 3 barriers on each side. Usually heavy store cattle down there too.


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    greysides
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    Hagimalone wrote: »
    Planning on using crash barrier on one side of crush race....

    Not something I'd be in favour of if animals have to be tested through it. Makes it hard to get the jab in as movement is limited. More likely to get an arm caught too due to the contortions needed to get at an animal.

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    MfMan
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    Count Mondego wrote: »
    I'm looking to build a holding pen in a bit of land I have away from the farm. Usually walk cattle over the road to it, about a mile and a half on a busy road but that's not an option going forward with the temperament of cattle and amount of cars on the road. I as aiming to use Crash barriers, which are easy to get but it's impossible to get the steel uprights. I'll have to use heavy 8ft strainer posts for this instead.

    What distance between posts would you get away with, considering the barriers are 14' with an overlap of 1' on joins?

    I'll have 3 barriers on each side. Usually heavy store cattle down there too.


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    You try these guys, FRS in Boyle, Roscommon, for uprights? at €40 VAT incl. their uprights are cheaper than H-beams, and probably easier bored. Cheaper again, get old railway concrete sleepers @ €10. About 1/4 ton in weight, 8' long. Stick them down in 2' of concrete, they'll never budge. Rawl bolt brackets to hold 2" pipe onto them.

    https://www.donedeal.ie/fencingequipment-for-sale/crash-barriers-and-steel-beams/8285327?campaign=14


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    Count Mondego
    Registered Users Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Count Mondego


    MfMan wrote: »
    You try these guys, FRS in Boyle, Roscommon, for uprights? at €40 VAT incl. their uprights are cheaper than H-beams, and probably easier bored. Cheaper again, get old railway concrete sleepers @ €10. About 1/4 ton in weight, 8' long. Stick them down in 2' of concrete, they'll never budge. Rawl bolt brackets to hold 2" pipe onto them.

    https://www.donedeal.ie/fencingequipment-for-sale/crash-barriers-and-steel-beams/8285327?campaign=14

    He has them but they're a bit rusted.


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    MfMan
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    Count Mondego wrote: »
    He has them but they're a bit rusted.

    A couple of other places have them too on DD. Some place in Meath as far as I recall...


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