Feed lots and feed bunks

[cross_7]

Does anyone have pictures of your feed lots and feed bunks
I'm looking for ideas, maybe something like this

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Does anyone have pictures of your feed lots and feed bunks
I'm looking for ideas, maybe something like this

I like this style just fine.

 

[dun]

When we used that type I added a back board so they couldn;t push the stuff so far away that they couldn;t reach it

 

[sim.-ang.king]

If I was ever going to build one it would have concrete J-bunks, with guard rail fence across the top.

 

[Bigfoot]

I took mine up not to long ago, so I don't have a picture. A mine belt laid down two large pine trees laid side by side makes an inexpensive feed bunk. Needs to be on an incline so water doesn't stand in it. I tried shooting holes in the bottom of it, but it still held water. I attached the belt to the pines with some big lag screws, and square washers I scored from the local utility company. That's an inexpensive way. I have never had commercial made bunks.

 

[Craig Miller]

I like that idea bigfoot instead of buying the plastic on metal from tractor supply. How hard is it to get the belts?

 

[Texas PaPaw]

Can build cheap bunks from 55 gal plastic barrels cut in half lengthwise. Bolt the sections end to end. Use wood screws to attach a string of barrel sections to a 2x4. Pretty cheap and easy to build and quite durable. Need to use treated lumber so will not rot out and use stainless or ceramic coated screws as the treated wood will rust out regular screws in just a few years.

 

[Bigfoot]

I like that idea bigfoot instead of buying the plastic on metal from tractor supply. How hard is it to get the belts?

Around here not to hard to find. They are on craiglist quit often. I stole the idea from a gentleman one county over. I wish I had thought of it. It is also excellent to put up in a catching pen.

 

[cross_7]

Something like this wouldn't require pouring concrete and wouldn't be permanent and could be moved around if need be
But their in WI not in my area

 

[dun]

Weldy makes pretty heavy duty stuff
http://www.weldyenterprises.com/wmfg/fb.html

 

[Lucky_P]

I make mine like TX Papaw said - free plastic barrels split lengthwise, fastened to two treated 2x4s with sheetmetal roofing screws. Work like a charm and have outlasted by 2 or 3 times those plastic ones with the metal frame from TSC that we started out with. Bull won't put a foot through 'em when he steps in there, either.

 

[dun]

When we bought this place, it had been a dairy, they used 18 inch plastic pipe cut lwngthwise for all of the feeders. The plastic in them is a half inch thick and really tough. They had just lag bolted them to the parlor walls. I used a chunk of one for a front blade on the tractor for snow, dirt, gravel.

 

[Workinonit Farm]

A bunch of years ago I made a couple of the split plastic barrel type. Cut lengthwise, bolted together etc. Within a month they had them all busted up into pieces! The plastic barrels hung, used for mineral work great though. I built 2 wooden ones from old shipping crates, added some plywood for the "floor". Those have held up beautifully. I also bought (used) one of those long, one-piece heavy duty plastic ones at a farm auction for $30.00. That too has held up really well.

Katherine

 

[Lucky_P]

workinonit,
I've made some out of the white plastic barrels - they break down pretty fast; guess UV light degrades 'em. Got less than a year out of 'em.
Blue and black ones have been going strong for 7+ years now...

 

[denvermartinfarms]

I can buy 8ft concrete bunks for 95$ here, that's all I buy because They last forever.

 

[wbvs58]

Here is one I made earlier. It did not take that much to knock up and the steel was not that expensive. I am going to knock up another couple before I wean my calves at the end of March. I fed the bulls out of it last winter and proved to be durable.


Ken