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working a headgate single-handed - any ideas?
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<blockquote data-quote="novatech" data-source="post: 676100" data-attributes="member: 5494"><p>Looking at the pics it would be a no brain-er to lift the existing gate off the pens and replace with your own. This would do no damage to the owner's gate. Install your own buy welding a small piece of pipe to it that would drop over the existing pens. If you loose the lease, no harm done. Put the old one back in place and take yours with you.</p><p>You could also use some nose tongs to hold the head. </p><p>Regardless you need a pipe or gate behind them. As a matter of fact if your cattle are calm enough to work in that chute you could probably put the tags in and they would just stand there. Chute is to wide. Pipe is to far apart. No gate to hold the cow. Not high enough. Looks like they are set up to trap the head when they come to a bucket of feed in front of the head gate. :lol: </p><p>I learned the hard way that a self catching head gate can be a problem when working by yourself. If a cow happens to get her shoulders through then she ends up getting caught at the hips. Its can take a pretty good while to get an excited cow back back out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="novatech, post: 676100, member: 5494"] Looking at the pics it would be a no brain-er to lift the existing gate off the pens and replace with your own. This would do no damage to the owner's gate. Install your own buy welding a small piece of pipe to it that would drop over the existing pens. If you loose the lease, no harm done. Put the old one back in place and take yours with you. You could also use some nose tongs to hold the head. Regardless you need a pipe or gate behind them. As a matter of fact if your cattle are calm enough to work in that chute you could probably put the tags in and they would just stand there. Chute is to wide. Pipe is to far apart. No gate to hold the cow. Not high enough. Looks like they are set up to trap the head when they come to a bucket of feed in front of the head gate. :lol: I learned the hard way that a self catching head gate can be a problem when working by yourself. If a cow happens to get her shoulders through then she ends up getting caught at the hips. Its can take a pretty good while to get an excited cow back back out. [/QUOTE]
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