jcarkie":2nmcvaze said:
it is a rent place and the equipment happened to be at another place, truck in the shop yada, yada, yada, no excuse just happened.
I've been there and it is no good. You wind up penning cattle with panels, roping them and such. Eventually you recognize that you are lucky you weren't hurt and just as lucky the cow was not hurt.
When I built my new pens and chutes, I built them all portable and plenty strong. They are built out of 3 inch tube steel with 4 inch grid utility panels welded to them. There are lifting eyes on top of the panels and on top of the alleys and chutes. There are head gates, cut gates, a loading chute and medina gate all combined. They can be moved onto leased property and such. With a tractor front bucket and chains, it can be assembled in about 30 minutes off of the back of a flatbed.