home made mobile crush :)

dave747

lots of tidying up to do but have done a few trial runs and works well, built it myself from old trailor body and some scrap dat was lying round the yard. its wide enough for footbath and holds 4 or 5 ewes for dosing . cost roughly e50 to get to this stage. load sheep, dose, open ramp on the side and when sheep run out use rope to pull ramp back up, i have a gate on the back thats not in pics

Farrell

dave747 wrote: »

lots of tidying up to do but have done a few trial runs and works well, built it myself from old trailor body and some scrap dat was lying round the yard. its wide enough for footbath and holds 4 or 5 ewes for dosing . cost roughly e50 to get to this stage. load sheep, dose, open ramp on the side and when sheep run out use rope to pull ramp back up, i have a gate on the back thats not in pics

Good job, great improvisation
Often thought of using hurdles only, would they be strong enough?

Reggie.

Very nicely done Dave

dave747

Farrell wrote: »

Often thought of using hurdles only, would they be strong enough?

i used hurdles here before and found dem handy only thing trying to stop the sheep widening them if you make a narrow crush with dem and also pulling the pen around with them, used stakes to steady it up which is grand if all the sheep in the 1 field. i have fragmented farm thou and find this trailor very hand can put gates in the crush and bring them from field to field, and its sturdy can just tie the gates for pen onto it and setup in a few mins

Conmaicne Mara

Good idea Dave, well done

eire23

Nicely made dave, great satisfaction in making something and then putting it to use