Meal Troughs

polod

Any one every make or use a meal trough like this http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/beefcattle/2667447

are they any good ?

cheers

Dupont

i cut 12 barrels in half like that to get 24 troughs.the man just uses them on the ground,very handy to move about and if it rains its easy to tip water out of them. and there cheap

polod

What would it roughly cost to make one ? cheers again

Dupont

i think the barrell was 12euro and 2 minutes with the consaw(or big grinder) that will get you two halfs

polod

Jays thats cheap ...would you mind pm'n me where you got them ?

bbam

We have two troughs like that, use on the ground.
Trying to move away from them, specially for smaller stock as they walk into them and lick them clean, danger of picking up allsorts from the muck.

Dupont

http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/otherfarming/2697202 this man is cheap for barrells

reilig

A handy tip for those half barrel troughs. If you can get your hands on any old 8ft shuttering pans. The barrels can be bolted right into the steel parts of them and you can just weld up legs. We had a couple lying around the place with the timber missing and made 3 troughs from them.

I have also seen 12 inch JFC Corripipes cut in half with wooden circular stoppers in the end. You can buy a 20ft pipe for Eur50 and make 4 x 10ft troughs from it - just cut out the semi circle stoppers with a jigsaw.

BeeDI

reilig wrote: »

A handy tip for those half barrel troughs. If you can get your hands on any old 8ft shuttering pans. The barrels can be bolted right into the steel parts of them and you can just weld up legs. We had a couple lying around the place with the timber missing and made 3 troughs from them.

I have also seen 12 inch JFC Corripipes cut in half with wooden circular stoppers in the end. You can buy a 20ft pipe for Eur50 and make 4 x 10ft troughs from it - just cut out the semi circle stoppers with a jigsaw.

I did that for feeding meal in the shed, instead of throwing it on the silage.
Cattle eat the last grain of meal, and are able to push it out of the way, to get at the silage afterwards.
Less waste, no nosing around in the silage and pushing it away from the barrier, in the search for last grain of meal.
Less bird activity also.

Dupont

reilig wrote: »

A handy tip for those half barrel troughs. If you can get your hands on any old 8ft shuttering pans. The barrels can be bolted right into the steel parts of them and you can just weld up legs. We had a couple lying around the place with the timber missing and made 3 troughs from them.

I have also seen 12 inch JFC Corripipes cut in half with wooden circular stoppers in the end. You can buy a 20ft pipe for Eur50 and make 4 x 10ft troughs from it - just cut out the semi circle stoppers with a jigsaw.

i like that idea for the pipe. a good long one would suit sheep

caseman

polod wrote: »

Any one every make or use a meal trough like this http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/beefcattle/2667447

are they any good ?

cheers

Didnt make them, but bought 6 meter lenght of 9 inch strom water double wall pipping.
Cut the pipe in half ie 3meter lenght, and then split in two.
Then screwed 12 inchs of 6 x 2 at each end.
4 3meter trough for e50.

polod

reilig wrote: »

I have also seen 12 inch JFC Corripipes cut in half with wooden circular stoppers in the end. You can buy a 20ft pipe for Eur50 and make 4 x 10ft troughs from it - just cut out the semi circle stoppers with a jigsaw.

do you just leave them on the ground or make a frame for them ?

Good loser

reilig wrote: »

A handy tip for those half barrel troughs. If you can get your hands on any old 8ft shuttering pans. The barrels can be bolted right into the steel parts of them and you can just weld up legs. We had a couple lying around the place with the timber missing and made 3 troughs from them.

I have also seen 12 inch JFC Corripipes cut in half with wooden circular stoppers in the end. You can buy a 20ft pipe for Eur50 and make 4 x 10ft troughs from it - just cut out the semi circle stoppers with a jigsaw.

Hi Relig

Are you sure those 12 inch corries are €50?

reilig

Good loser wrote: »

Hi Relig

Are you sure those 12 inch corries are €50?

€50 from McCorry Agri Derrylin!!!

caseman

caseman wrote: »

Didnt make them, but bought 6 meter lenght of 9 inch strom water double wall pipping.
Cut the pipe in half ie 3meter lenght, and then split in two.
Then screwed 12 inchs of 6 x 2 at each end.
4 3meter trough for e50.

Here is my Meal Trough beside old battered metal trough. Cost 12 euro

polod

good job thats surly handy alright now

bazza6195

if your just using pipes try get a good thick wall on the pipe, takes more of a battering!