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Lambing pens

  • 14-11-2017 9:52am
    #1
    brownswiss
    Registered Users Posts: 762 ✭✭✭


    Thinking of making timber lambing pens. They will be 5x5. I need something like eye bolts for joining the timber hurdles but eye bolts seem very expensive.

    Have any of you made timber pens and what timber and joiners did you use ?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    brownswiss wrote: »
    Thinking of making timber lambing pens. They will be 5x5. I need something like eye bolts for joining the timber hurdles but eye bolts seem very expensive.

    Have any of you made timber pens and what timber and joiners did you use ?

    Thanks

    How about Hinges?
    That or good old twine


  • #3
    brownswiss
    Registered Users Posts: 762 ✭✭✭brownswiss


    ganmo wrote: »
    How about Hinges?
    That or good old twine
    Maybe... A friend of mine used hinges because he had them on the place. He said if doing the job again he would use eye bolts and rod iron but I think he does not realise the price of eye bolts


  • #4
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    brownswiss wrote: »
    Maybe... A friend of mine used hinges because he had them on the place. He said if doing the job again he would use eye bolts and rod iron but I think he does not realise the price of eye bolts

    Well ya could make your own eyebolts if ya have a pile of nuts


  • #5
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    brownswiss wrote: »
    Maybe... A friend of mine used hinges because he had them on the place. He said if doing the job again he would use eye bolts and rod iron but I think he does not realise the price of eye bolts

    Use off cuts of reed bar driven into the ground and tie the gates to emm here....gather up.again at end of year when clearing out shed


  • #6
    farawaygrass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,970 ✭✭✭farawaygrass


    Get the galvanised sheep hurles instead it you can afford too. There mustn’t be w whole lot in the difference when all is said and done. We had timber ones that we tied with twine for a few years. They are heavy, they can break easily and not as long lasting. You will thank yourself during lambing time


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  • #7
    DJ98
    Registered Users Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭DJ98


    farawaygrass wrote: »
    Get the galvanised sheep hurles instead it you can afford too. There mustn’t be w whole lot in the difference when all is said and done. We had timber ones that we tied with twine for a few years. They are heavy, they can break easily and not as long lasting. You will thank yourself during lambing time

    We bought 5ft wooden hurdles for 10euro which is cheap compared to paying 30euro for steel, but when you account for hardship, the steel ones are well worth the money, no twine, no gates falling over, no heavy lifting, no boards falling off thus w'll be investing inbsteel ones this year.

    On a side note anyone any experience with buffalo steel products?


  • #8
    joe35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 468 ✭✭joe35


    Made a few here. Had steel straps left over from building the house. Just looped them round, keep the left one's up an inch or 2 higher than on the right on each one. Work grand with a bit of bar down the middle. Any sort of a strap would do rightly. Alot cheaper then the eye bolts


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