sweep tub and alley

[SconnieBeef]

I just got into beef cattle this year and I have a priefert premier open sweep, its the 90°, model number is S04 or S01 I think, used it yesterday and it worked to perfection. It also helped that I got it for $500 less than the price on their website from the fleet farm

 

[greybeard]

I just got into beef cattle this year and I have a priefert premier open sweep, its the 90°, model number is S04 or S01 I think, used it yesterday and it worked to perfection. It also helped that I got it for $500 less than the price on their website from the fleet farm

SO4/SO1 are numbers for Preifert squeeze chutes.

OS1 is a bare bones Premiere open 90- deg sweep-- OS2 is a bare bones 180 degree sweep. etc etc.

http://www.priefert.com/ProductGroup/ca ... eeps-1537/

 

[Dave]

I have a Big Valley 135 degree sweep. An old Powder River crowd alley with a palp cage and a Powder River longhorn chute. I got them all at a farm equipment auction. I paid roughly a third the price all the pieces would have been if new from a supplier. I don't know where the sweep came from but it was brand new. Hadn't even been set up before. The set up works pretty good. Last fall the GF, the vet, and I preg checked 63 heifers in 75 minutes.

 

[greybeard]

How sturdy is that Powder River palp cage Dave? I looked at a Preifert cage, and it seemed pretty light and shaky for what it would cost. Pretty cramped too.

Lots of distributors will knock a good bit off on units that have sat on their lot for a couple of years and have rust on them. I needed a 45 deg offset in an alley, and the local distributor let me have one they had had out on their lot for three years--sold it to me at way below their cost--about 1/2 what the catalog and website states. Said I was the 1st person who had ever asked about one and they were glad to get it off their inventory.

 

[dun]

How sturdy is that Powder River palp cage Dave? I looked at a Preifert cage, and it seemed pretty light and shaky for what it would cost. Pretty cramped too.

Lots of distributors will knock a good bit off on units that have sat on their lot for a couple of years and have rust on them. I needed a 45 deg offset in an alley, and the local distributor let me have one they had had out on their lot for three years--sold it to me at way below their cost--about 1/2 what the catalog and website states. Said I was the 1st person who had ever asked about one and they were glad to get it off their inventory.

I've got a couple of those from our old set up along with an over head sliding gate. Sure wish I could figure out a way to use them.

 

[SconnieBeef]

Oops sorry, I did mean to say that OS1 was what I got. I had to wait a month or so for the store to put together a truck load from texas so I don't think mine was cheaper because it sat (unless it sat in texas, if it did they painted it before I got it ;-) )

 

[Dave]

How sturdy is that Powder River palp cage Dave? I looked at a Preifert cage, and it seemed pretty light and shaky for what it would cost. Pretty cramped too.

Lots of distributors will knock a good bit off on units that have sat on their lot for a couple of years and have rust on them. I needed a 45 deg offset in an alley, and the local distributor let me have one they had had out on their lot for three years--sold it to me at way below their cost--about 1/2 what the catalog and website states. Said I was the 1st person who had ever asked about one and they were glad to get it off their inventory.

It is plenty sturdy and fairly roomy too. It was made to hooked up the crowd alley but not the chute so I had to do a little adapting. One of the issues with putting togethre different makes, and vintages of equipment.

 

[greybeard]

Oops sorry, I did mean to say that OS1 was what I got. I had to wait a month or so for the store to put together a truck load from texas so I don't think mine was cheaper because it sat (unless it sat in texas, if it did they painted it before I got it ;-) )

Don't remember why, but I took this pic the same day I bought the 45 deg offset. This is the entrance end of a squeeze that has been sitting on the lot of a local distributor for about 3 years now. Lots of surface cosmetic rust in places, but still sound and fully functional. The salesman and store manager told me they would make me a good deal on it because of the cosmetic damage, but I just didn't need it because they wouldn't sell it without the auto/headgate and I already had one. I probably should go ahead and get it then sell the extra headgate.



Dun, I used the 45 because I have the 90 deg sweep, and I needed to kick the working alley off at an angle so I would have room for a squeeze and still keep everything inside the outer pen containment.

 

[dun]

Dun, I used the 45 because I have the 90 deg sweep, and I needed to kick the working alley off at an angle so I would have room for a squeeze and still keep everything inside the outer pen containment.

I used them to eliminate the square corners from a U shaped chute set up. When you need them they sure are slick, when you don;t they're just another piece of equipment sitting around in storage.

 

[SconnieBeef]

This is a picture of my OS-1, at least part of it, can't see the sweep part that well I guess