Homemade Chute
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Mongoose
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Thanks for the link. One other question though I know you can build the chute out of wood but you still have to buy the actual squeeze to put at the end of the chute right? Or can you also build that some how?
Mongoose":2dt7fv3y said:
Correct. In most cases you don;t even need real squeeze. You can mount heavy panels or gates to a couple of 5x5s and hang the head gate off of the front of the posts. May not be ideal, but it works
mtncows
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Make sure you bolt the head gate to the posts. I used threaded rod through the posts.Run 2X6's overhead between the first two sets of posts to tie them together.Mongoose":12s8joky said:
Mongoose
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FlaAngus":9zge16oh said:
Yeah I know what you mean. I was at the sale barn yesterday for customer appreciation day and the local co-op had a brand new squeeze down there. It had everything! I mean you could do anything with this chute. It was about $5,000 thats with all the gadgits. Thanks for the replys, it really helped. 8)
Here is another good site that someone suggested years ago and I bookmarked.
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/beefplans.htm
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/beefplans.htm
I've used both of those websites mentioned by JW and Dun along with several others on the web. I have a wooded area on my property that I used as a small corral that then funnels into my chute. I made it out of 6x6 pressure treated posts and lined the sides with 2x12s, but you can use 2x6's. I then cross braced those and ran my cattle through to ensure that the width was tight enough so that they couldn't turn around. At the end where the head gate is located the width between the sides is only about 29 inches or so, but I can make it smaller or larger by simply removing boards that I've stacked to create a tight chute.
Mongoose
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I looked at 5465 that looks about like the one I would want, but I think it would be VERY hard to build. I think I am just going to get a headgate sometime and hang, just forget about the squeeze part of it. Also have a half gate on both sides I think that would work pretty good.
I'll try and send you some drawings of what I did for a squeeze. It's actually quite easy once you figure it out and I only needed to add a good 8' gate and some hinges to the inside of my chute. I put the hinges at the bottom so that the top squeezes towards the other side. I hold it in place with some chain and a good anchor bolt. It's hard to describe, but easy to build. Only cost about 80 bucks and it holds my 1700 lb bull when he's mad.
Horticattleman
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ERodrig":inc8e50i said:
I'd like info too if you please!
Doug in KY
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KNERSIE":3vd521ls said:
I'd be interested in your squeeze also. any help is appreciated.
Buddie of mine was in Brazil. He said the ranch there ran (30,000 as I remember it) several head of cattle and they all passed through a wood squeeze chute. It had a wood head catch and a wood flank catch that had long poles for leverage that the gouchos squeezed them with. They said it had been there for a long time. If I remember right , 90 years. I have a wood chute in a barn on a place I lease. I don't use it any more but have and it was very adequate. It has a wood head catch as well and one whole side squeezes and pins.
OK Guys. Here's the best I could do. Please forgive me for my cattle drawing. Here are a few things to remember. The size wood that I used was because that's what I had laying around. For my posts, I used 6"x6"x10'. I buried them 3' below ground leaving me with a 7' exposure above ground. I spaced them 4' from each other so that I could utilize side boards that were 2"x8"x8'.
Now, when you look through the chute I spaced mine so that the cattle couldn't get turned around, I think I used 29 inches measured from 2x8 to 2x8. Once I had that set I took a round tube gate I had and put it inside the chute. Instead of putting the mounting brackets on the side like you normally would, I mounted them on the bottom so that the gate swings from left to right hinged from the bottom.
When the cattle come through I catch them with the headgate and pull on the chains mounted at the top of the gate towards the opposite side where I latch it to a hook bolt. I have three chains so that I can hold them good. Here are the drawings I originally did. Sorry I don't have actual pics with the cattle in it. Let me know if I thouroughly confused everyone.
Now, when you look through the chute I spaced mine so that the cattle couldn't get turned around, I think I used 29 inches measured from 2x8 to 2x8. Once I had that set I took a round tube gate I had and put it inside the chute. Instead of putting the mounting brackets on the side like you normally would, I mounted them on the bottom so that the gate swings from left to right hinged from the bottom.
When the cattle come through I catch them with the headgate and pull on the chains mounted at the top of the gate towards the opposite side where I latch it to a hook bolt. I have three chains so that I can hold them good. Here are the drawings I originally did. Sorry I don't have actual pics with the cattle in it. Let me know if I thouroughly confused everyone.
