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Is there such a thing as a built in scales with the chute?

I know you can get electronic load bars that fit under most chutes. The problem is the load cells used to give a lot of problems. Also if you are using the chute w/o needing the scales that is alot of unnecessary wear & tear on the load cells. I see where Stampede offers a suspension cage for the hydraulic chutes so you can leave it on the ground till you need to weigh one. I am looking for something like that for a manual chute that, when I want to weigh, I can use a tractor or skidloader hydraulics. Maybe the cheapest and simplest solution is going to be to just put a balance beam, single animal cage behind the chute.

Could you make something that would work with a hydraulic jack?

 

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I need to see how they transfer the weight to the load cells. From there I would think you could engineer a frame to do it with a jack instead of a hydraulic cylinder.