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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1683572" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>I went to a clearing sale today to buy an Isuzu tipper (dump truck) which I went to $5500 but it sold for $7500, not to worry, I bought some old concrete water troughs, 6 of them about 2.5m long complete with stands for $100. I am pretty pleased with that. I have been clearing 2ha (5acres) in my 600 acre scrub block to make a small feedlot, these concrete troughs I will set up as feed bunks. My strategy for drought or when things go belly up and there is a bit of a gap in the rainfall especially in summer is to put the cows into this 600 acres. It is low quality feed, OK for dry cows but won't sustain them with a calf on them so I feed them a grain mix, the problem is it gets bloody dangerous tipping in the feed so I need an alley way for me to be in and the cows the other side of the feed bunk. I have some steel cable to run over the top of the bunk leaving a gap for them to feed, anyhow I'm pushing ahead with building it and hope I never need it but inevitably I'm sure it will get plenty of use. The cows will always find plenty of roughage in the 600 acres.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]4663[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1683572, member: 16453"] I went to a clearing sale today to buy an Isuzu tipper (dump truck) which I went to $5500 but it sold for $7500, not to worry, I bought some old concrete water troughs, 6 of them about 2.5m long complete with stands for $100. I am pretty pleased with that. I have been clearing 2ha (5acres) in my 600 acre scrub block to make a small feedlot, these concrete troughs I will set up as feed bunks. My strategy for drought or when things go belly up and there is a bit of a gap in the rainfall especially in summer is to put the cows into this 600 acres. It is low quality feed, OK for dry cows but won't sustain them with a calf on them so I feed them a grain mix, the problem is it gets bloody dangerous tipping in the feed so I need an alley way for me to be in and the cows the other side of the feed bunk. I have some steel cable to run over the top of the bunk leaving a gap for them to feed, anyhow I'm pushing ahead with building it and hope I never need it but inevitably I'm sure it will get plenty of use. The cows will always find plenty of roughage in the 600 acres. [ATTACH type="full"]4663[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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