Automatic Headgate?

[Plowboy_TX]

First off, Im the biggest newbie in the whole of Palo Pinto County so laugh
if you will, but im willing to learn anything

I'm looking at buying a Powder River Value I™ squeeze chute. It say its
headgate is "Auto catching".

How does it "catch" them? Do you need someone at the chute controls and
another person running them into the chute?

Also, it say not for cattle over 1100lbs. I'm raising Hereford Heifers, with
the intentions of breeding them (much later) to a Black Angus bull. Will
these Herefords get too big for this chute?

Thanks,

 

[dun]

To answer the last question first, some or most of them probably will.
The way an auto head gate works is that you set the gate in such a way that as the animal attempts to go through it will automaticlly close on their neck.

dun

 

[cowfarmer]

Priefert makes an excellent autamatic headgate.
I had never worked cattle before buying maine a
few years back. It works great!

I think Powder River is carried by TSC. At our TSC there is no one there
that knows anything about working a headgate or any other livestock
working tools. Most of the time Priefert items are carried by smaller
stores and CO OPs that have knowledgable staff.

 

[jerry27150]

definitely be too light

 

[Plowboy_TX]

Thanks for the info y'all

I ended buying a Powder River XL, and my neighbor thats an "Old school"
rancher and loves nothing more than a chance to poke fun at
the "greenhorn" (that would be me ) came over with his big John Deere
and unloaded the chute, and helped me set it in place and even gave me
a run down on how it works. We set it up for my cow size and now im
good to go! Yeeehhaawwww!

Friends and neighbors can be priceless

Thanks Agian