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<blockquote data-quote="Kathie in Thorp" data-source="post: 1022224" data-attributes="member: 16769"><p>I don't have pics of it yet, and would have to get up on a barn roof to take pictures that really show anything, but we are SOOOO STINK'N HAPPY to finally have the cattle handling facility up and working! Final gate latches and misc. hardware were installed about 6 weeks ago. It was a 2-year project of time and material, but we've used that about 10 times just in the last two weeks. The squeeze is an older Pearson w/ preg cage. We bought P.R. sweep, alleys, and cut-out gates new. Holding pens were made out of the used heavy steel material we got from a defunct feedlot. Just about everything opens to everything else. Our holding pens are only about 16X16, but there are 3 of them, and we can open gates between them to make them bigger, or just move critters through. It would have been nice to have the chute under cover, but sometimes you can't have everything. Most of the gate latches are those that you can open quick/easy from either side and slam. The only gates that don't have those are a couple of the perimeter pen gates, which feed in from 3 pastures. We can load out either straight from the chute, or an alley along the perimeter; and work safely from either side of the alleys and chute. :banana: </p><p></p><p>Sis and her hubby gave us an older PR calf table needing some fix up; that will be a winter project and I don't know that we'd use it much, but it's here. </p><p></p><p>And, if/when we finally get to the age that we don't want to mess w/ cattle, that set up would be a good point in leasing the pastures to someone else w/ cattle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathie in Thorp, post: 1022224, member: 16769"] I don't have pics of it yet, and would have to get up on a barn roof to take pictures that really show anything, but we are SOOOO STINK'N HAPPY to finally have the cattle handling facility up and working! Final gate latches and misc. hardware were installed about 6 weeks ago. It was a 2-year project of time and material, but we've used that about 10 times just in the last two weeks. The squeeze is an older Pearson w/ preg cage. We bought P.R. sweep, alleys, and cut-out gates new. Holding pens were made out of the used heavy steel material we got from a defunct feedlot. Just about everything opens to everything else. Our holding pens are only about 16X16, but there are 3 of them, and we can open gates between them to make them bigger, or just move critters through. It would have been nice to have the chute under cover, but sometimes you can't have everything. Most of the gate latches are those that you can open quick/easy from either side and slam. The only gates that don't have those are a couple of the perimeter pen gates, which feed in from 3 pastures. We can load out either straight from the chute, or an alley along the perimeter; and work safely from either side of the alleys and chute. :banana: Sis and her hubby gave us an older PR calf table needing some fix up; that will be a winter project and I don't know that we'd use it much, but it's here. And, if/when we finally get to the age that we don't want to mess w/ cattle, that set up would be a good point in leasing the pastures to someone else w/ cattle. [/QUOTE]
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