30-year-old wooden cattle handling facility

[HDRider]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0hm80GmxR0

 

[M-5]

Pretty cool.

 

[greybeard]

Very nice, but I have to wonder how many times in 30 years that long sweep gate has been busted up?

 

[Brute 23]

That is a cool squeeze chute. They must be some pretty mellow cattle. Those fences are not very tall. All the old stuff around here is a solid 6' maybe 7'.

The bad thing is 30 yrs old is only 1985. We just recently replaced a set my dad put in as a kid.

I have always liked a good set of wooden pens. They are just so time consuming to build, right.

 

[joeu235]

must be some kind of tropical hardwood not found the the US.

 

[greybeard]

must be some kind of tropical hardwood not found the the US.

Lignum Vitae?
(It's a very hard, tropical, very very dense & naturally self lubricated wood still used today in big ship and submarine propeller shaft for sealing bushings. I learned about it while on the USS Paul F Foster--DD964. It is also one of the most expensive woods in the world.)

 

[Nesikep]

Our pens we built are 22 years old, the rest of the corrals (getting rough now) are 35.. all made from douglas fir.. one of the hardest 'softwoods' I know... House was built in 1936 and the nailgun will turn nails into noodles if you try nailing it.. especially where there's a knot.. Perhaps a Hilti gun would work there. I predrilled and screwed most everything I had to mess with while renovating

 

[skyhightree1]

very nice find HD