portable corals, are they worth it?

[hersh]

I know the pannels are costly but is it worth the cost? You could set up in whatever field they are in. Is it easy to run them into a head gate from them.

 

[MillIronQH]

We carry a bunch on the trailers for catching and have horse pens built out of them here at the house and I wouldn't want to not have any. You can configure them about any way you need them including chutes and A-pens.Z

 

[hersh]

We carry a bunch on the trailers for catching and have horse pens built out of them here at the house and I wouldn't want to not have any. You can configure them about any way you need them including chutes and A-pens.Z

how many would you figure i takes to make a good size circle?

 

[backhoeboogie]

Everything I have is portable. Sort of. You can't lift the chute and head gate by hand but the tractor, backhoe, or loader bucket can. Not matter where the cows are, or where the pasture is, I can work cattle. I like it. I can attach my 20 foot tube steel panels with pins or else I can attach the cheap cheesy ones.

The "cheap" ones are around $70 bucks each but I wouldn't pay that for them. They are way to light. I picked them up at a sale real cheap. I tie cow panel to the inside of them when I set them up.

The only thing that is really not manageable by hand is the chute. There is a 16 foot gate off of the front side and a 20 foot cut gate off of the back. It pins to loading gates. Once you attach the loading pen to the chute and head gate, it is really solid.

I like portable working pens.

 

[hersh]

Everything I have is portable. Sort of. You can't lift the chute and head gate by hand but the tractor, backhoe, or loader bucket can. Not matter where the cows are, or where the pasture is, I can work cattle. I like it. I can attach my 20 foot tube steel panels with pins or else I can attach the cheap cheesy ones.

The "cheap" ones are around $70 bucks each but I wouldn't pay that for them. They are way to light. I picked them up at a sale real cheap. I tie cow panel to the inside of them when I set them up.

The only thing that is really not manageable by hand is the chute. There is a 16 foot gate off of the front side and a 20 foot cut gate off of the back. It pins to loading gates. Once you attach the loading pen to the chute and head gate, it is really solid.

I like portable working pens.

it seem like it would be the thing to have if you were not running a bull, or you had huge pastures and running them home to do something with them is a job.

 

[MillIronQH]

We carry a bunch on the trailers for catching and have horse pens built out of them here at the house and I wouldn't want to not have any. You can configure them about any way you need them including chutes and A-pens.Z

how many would you figure i takes to make a good size circle?

Depends on the length of the panels. I have 10&12 footers here at the house and 16s on the side of my trailer. 13 ten foot panels make a forty foot round pen. It would only take 8 sixteen footers but there'd be more angle to the corners. 20 ten footers would make a 60+' round pen.Z

 

[Gate Opener]

We use the red ones that you get at tractor supply. We use them a lot. You can switch things around to fit your needs at the time. They are great. The ones we use going into the chute(alley) we put t-posts on the sides to hold them.

We first bought the flimsy silver ones for our horses and had a horse get severly injured on them(he had to be put down). I don't like those.

 

[Crowderfarms]

If you don't invest in the HD ones avoid them like a Plague.

All it takes is one Calf to get his head under one and off they go. That is of couse the case if they're not wired or tied to posts. The 12' footers that weigh about 100 lbs, are half way decent.

 

[IluvABbeef]

Portable panels are great...you can move 'em whenever you feel necessary, and you can also snug them up next to the squeeze, put a tarp over for wind protection and blocking an escapee or minimize distractions (with the tarp on, of course).

We got the real heavy-duty ones that seem like they're built to keep in a herd of bison: nothing but solid iron, 8' tall by about 20' long. Strong and tall enough to keep in flighty horses and wild, crazy bulls without worrying about anything breaking.

They're also handy if there's a real mud problem and we gotta ship cattle out. Just move em where it's dry and you got yourself a good system going.

Just my two cents.

 

[MillIronQH]

Most of our 10s & 12s are these Mostly 5' tall but some sixes. The panels on the trailer are lighter made but they're 16' and we usually need to set up pretty fast when we're using them.

http://www.portablepanels.com/index.htm

 

[twabscs]

Anybody use one of these?

http://www.rawhideportablecorral.com/

 

[hersh]

Anybody use one of these?

http://www.rawhideportablecorral.com/

Looks like a good system. Nice mix of colors too in the pic.

 

[backhoeboogie]

Anybody use one of these?

http://www.rawhideportablecorral.com/

It looks like a leaning 45 degree gusset on the right side. If so, it is anchored. If not, I'd drive in a couple of T-Posts. My brindle cow would hit the side of that and push it into a different configuration otherwise.

My big panels are 3 inch tube steel 20 feet long with sheep panel (5 foot tall 20 foot long with 4 inch grid) welded to the inside. I am going to have to get a pic some time and post it. There are bottom, top, and mid rails. Verticals risers are on the ends and middle. These panels pin to the main chute. Gates are hinged to the main chute and fold against the chute when you get ready to move it. No axle under it. You just lift it straight up with the tractor bucket and either drive off or else set it on a trailer.

If portable pens are heavy enough to hold your cattle, you can use them anywhere. That really helps if you are rotating pastures.

From the one in that link, you could always tie wire panel to the inside and drive 8 T-Posts to anchor it. That should hold most cattle long enough to work them. It would be much cheaper to build one yourself tho I am sure. That is, unless you could get one used from an auction.

Those light gauge 10 foot tube panels I bought were $10 each used.

One more thing, if you are going to build you pens like I did, but the damaged wire panels. They usually knock the price down on those and you are going to be welding them to frames anyway. It is easy to take the bends out.

 

[T-Bro]

looks like a good system.
BUT... anything that has to be folded/ hinged WILL get bent.

 

[kjones]

I use a bunch of powder river equipment for a rodeo every year. Its very tough, but even so sooner or later running bulls through it somethings gonna get bent. I cant help but wonder how bad it would be if it was cheap stuff.

 

[MrGale]

Saw a clysdale make a u-panel out of a 12 boot bull panel....there will be damage any way you look at it, but the ability to move and re configure the stuff is really useful. an occasional T post is a smart thing to do though....i use em for sure. the cheap ones are real junk....don't even bother....

 

[fit2btied]

Anybody use one of these?

http://www.rawhideportablecorral.com/

A local farm store has one similar called O.K. Corral. I'm not sure who the manufacturer is but it is priced at $9500.00. It ain't that neat to me!

 

[backhoeboogie]

Anybody use one of these?

http://www.rawhideportablecorral.com/

A local farm store has one similar called O.K. Corral. I'm not sure who the manufacturer is but it is priced at $9500.00. It ain't that neat to me!

You can build a complete system, better and stronger, for around $2K.

 

[aplusmnt]

Kind of funny how you notice stuff after someone shows you one. I saw two of those corral systems today on wheels that fold up and pull behind truck.

One was unfolded and was all folded up.

They seem pretty nice but do seem like they could get knocked around pretty good. If you had some pretty gently cattle at different locations they do look handy.