When I rebuilt the corral I developed a much higher respect for the old guys who built it to start with. I dug those rocks with an excavator. They did it by hand. Of course being 40-50 feet from the river should be a hint as to what is below the surface.
How do the arched feet help over the flat feet? All around here have the flat feet.
Arched feet don’t slide along the ground near as easily and they tend to not wobble like the flat footed ones when the ground is a little uneven. They also don’t freeze down as badly which can be a concern in northerly climes.
I like those and that's a good price.
the3 flat feet where we located them aren't an issue, the arches may be nicer, I've never had any with that feature
Those prices are good, I think we gave 400 each for 24 footers and since we bought more than 10, one had a 10" swingigng gate on the end. I'm not sure how much we paid for the ones with a built in gate and frame
their panes look good, we almost went with them
you can make 2 24' panels into a chute pretty easily
For sure, and they make one, but keep building it out. Just do a real basic pen to the left to catch cattle with a gate up top. Put some thing on the bottom to bring them in to the chute. If you are trying to stay any where near a square it gets pretty tricky, fast.
I learned to put the loader on float until the driving slows right down it’s a lot easier to maintain a vertical position with the driver as the post goes down, and keeps things from getting out of plumb as quickly.
My issue was that on the 10' posts, this skidsteer lacked about 8" height to get straight on it to start and also my footpedals are just sticky enough that my float doesnt really work real well and put enough steady pressure on the head to keep the hydraulics engaged. That said, your suggestion would be 100% the way to go and my form on this video is . . . a bit lacking. :-D Dad just took this video because we were all amazed watching steel disappear this easily and its the only video I had.
It is amazing for sure. When I got mine I went on the hunt looking for posts that were left sticking up in the past because of hard ground and just hammered them down like nothing. Couldn’t wipe the grin off my face. This coming year I plan on going around and tearing out old corner braces and replacing them with 8’ posts. Seems like every brace on the place is pulling out of the ground because of lack of depth.
Exactly what we did
What did you use to feed the chute?
Their Facebook market place ads have some nice examples of the panels setup to work cows. I was there getting continuous panels several months back and they had an entire corral setup with alley and chute on a 25' gooseneck. If I had lease places I'd definitely buy a set.
I’m a big fan of the vertical lift as well.
I'm not seeing any pics of a full set of pens on their FB. When you click on corral systems on their website it says items not found, also.
