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<blockquote data-quote="canoetrpr" data-source="post: 816535" data-attributes="member: 4892"><p>All, thank you for your responses.</p><p></p><p>I was adverse to using a hot-shot but when I think about it logically, its worse for me to be man handling the cow through tail twisting or pushing with a bar behind their butt I think.</p><p></p><p>I have used a black cloth (the one you use to prevent weeds) wrapped on one of the sides to see if it would help but I don't think it is working too well as it will have a tendency to move around since it is in cloth. I wish chutes were made so that the sides were solid perhaps so that you could lift out sections once the animal was in there if you needed to get access to it. More correctly - I wish my chute was built that way! I'm sure someone makes more expensive ones that do. </p><p></p><p>I'm going to think about a way to get some exterior plywood on the gates / panels that I use to funnel in the cattle to the chute and to build something that will allow me say 3 pieces of plywood on hinges on each side panel so that I have solid sides but can still access any section of the top of the animal I need.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="canoetrpr, post: 816535, member: 4892"] All, thank you for your responses. I was adverse to using a hot-shot but when I think about it logically, its worse for me to be man handling the cow through tail twisting or pushing with a bar behind their butt I think. I have used a black cloth (the one you use to prevent weeds) wrapped on one of the sides to see if it would help but I don't think it is working too well as it will have a tendency to move around since it is in cloth. I wish chutes were made so that the sides were solid perhaps so that you could lift out sections once the animal was in there if you needed to get access to it. More correctly - I wish my chute was built that way! I'm sure someone makes more expensive ones that do. I'm going to think about a way to get some exterior plywood on the gates / panels that I use to funnel in the cattle to the chute and to build something that will allow me say 3 pieces of plywood on hinges on each side panel so that I have solid sides but can still access any section of the top of the animal I need. [/QUOTE]
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