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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1526637" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>We had a 1953 Dodge 2 ton truck with a floor starter that I used to haul all the pigs and calves in. Probably a 12 foot bed with racks.... Loved to drive that truck. But you had to have a loading ramp that you could back up to and with so many places that we rent, a trailer and portable corral panels makes it much easier to just set up a pen and get them in. See some of the old loading ramps at some of the pastures but mostly they have fallen into disrepair. Our closest stockyard has 2 trailer docks, one on the lower side and one on the upper side; but they only use one, partly due to the way they run cattle out of the ring and pen them and shortage of help. I remember when I first moved to Va 35 yrs ago, I was one of only 2 or 3 that used a horse trailer (mine was a 4 horse that had been converted to haul oxen) and only a very occasional farmer had a trailer. They had trucks that the sides would come off, or drop the top part of the racks down the side, so the truck could be used for other hauling jobs. There are still several with straight trucks that haul cattle from the bigger farms, and all the semis load out of the docks still.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1526637, member: 25884"] We had a 1953 Dodge 2 ton truck with a floor starter that I used to haul all the pigs and calves in. Probably a 12 foot bed with racks.... Loved to drive that truck. But you had to have a loading ramp that you could back up to and with so many places that we rent, a trailer and portable corral panels makes it much easier to just set up a pen and get them in. See some of the old loading ramps at some of the pastures but mostly they have fallen into disrepair. Our closest stockyard has 2 trailer docks, one on the lower side and one on the upper side; but they only use one, partly due to the way they run cattle out of the ring and pen them and shortage of help. I remember when I first moved to Va 35 yrs ago, I was one of only 2 or 3 that used a horse trailer (mine was a 4 horse that had been converted to haul oxen) and only a very occasional farmer had a trailer. They had trucks that the sides would come off, or drop the top part of the racks down the side, so the truck could be used for other hauling jobs. There are still several with straight trucks that haul cattle from the bigger farms, and all the semis load out of the docks still. [/QUOTE]
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