Crush Gates

We have found with our sucklers that they can be hesitant to push the semi-auto gates on into the locks after a few runs through it. After a while it becomes a struggle to get them to put their head through. Maybe an anti-backing bar would keep them going forward though. What we end up doing is placing a bucket with some meal in it at the front of the crush gate to coax them through.

The advantage of the Morris type is that the lock is out of their view and you don't need to be alongside them to squeeze them in as this makes them go backwards. If you put on the rear extension handle it would be my choice of gate.

What was the damage to your pocket and has it the cage infront

No cage at the front as was part of a mobile crush with weigh bars and sliding back gate. Came to over 4k+vat. Got tams grant on it so it made it cheaper.

Not sure of the exact cost of the gate but it was about the €500 dearer than the standard locking gate. Had my mind made up that it had to the Morris type gate after years of hardship with the Semi automatic gate.

Barrett engineering do a nice one, condons have one and clipex have a rolls Royce one.

Once you use the Morris style nothing else will do. It really helps cattle flow

@greysides From your professional experience what type of skulling gate do you like working with.

Bolted into the ground at least, I think......You'd think they'd make the gates high enough for an animal to get out under it?

Not entirely sure does Niall Barrett manufacture his own, or just resell them for another fabricator.

Have you looked at the Nugent range? I've a semi-automatic and it works well. Animals with horns can be a challenge though and not so easy dose them with the hook doser when required if they don't push through.

Which one of his did you go for?

Mighty job.

Don't rush to cut the bar. With cattle they want to move away from you. Way easier to lock the head to the wilder ones from behind the animal.

Have the condons one and it has two levers one at the front and one behind. The Barret one seems a bit different

A handy thing to do is set a pen up at the opposite side of crush wall and hang the gate that it there the opposite way. Can make it very easy and quick to sort and pull cattle out of a group

Again well done and a might job, you won't regret it

I wouldn’t cut it, I’ve the condon one and you will still get caught the odd time with a stubborn one.

something I noticed , I may be wrong but is your cage not going to catch on the gate behind it going into the field. Watch out for the gate catch it sticks out a bit and can drag against a cow racing out.

i mentioned it to condons and they came out and changed the hinge bracket to a more cranked type so it would swing further out of the way. I have to say they have a great service that way.

I need to upgrade the main crush here and want to make the job safer too.

Are lads opinions still much the same? I’ve been looking at Condon, Teemore and Morris crush’s and wondering if a manual squeeze crush is worth the extra premium, approx €1,700 extra from Condon’s over their supreme crush?

Are the morris type gates still the preferred option too?

Having a sliding gate behind the first animal in these style crushes makes the job easier. Let's you control the speed of the animal towards the head gate. Gives you time with the lively one and speeds up the job with the quiet on.

Condons one here with a squeeze, head scoop and scales done under tams.

What size pen? Do you make a pen just for moving stock or have you a mobile crush aswell ?

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couple of photos of a small pen we constructed in a field to load a couple of bullocks with eye infections

I use most of it in a yard on the new place to make a gathering area. I be putting it back up next week and will show a couple of photos then

https://clipex.ie/semi-permanant-cattle-yards/

ya I have a mobile crush as well, I have two actually both are semi permenant fixtures where they are set up

In 2020 it was around €5k but tams really soften it. Some of the other bits done in the crush with my own labour softened it further.

Cattle handling is more than a crush, it's a safe work area, it's good penning, it's loading, its drafting, it's a good forcing pen. It's about being in pen of stock as little as you can.

Its a jigsaw and when the pieces are in the correct order it's a pleasure for man and beast

That's a good system, bass.

I'm putting up some handling myself at the minute, but I've a few lifts off blocks left over from previous projects and a variety of gates, so going to cobble something permanent together with them.

If you had more than a couple of outlying farms or land straddling roads then that would be a great setup to have.

Congratulations on the new land. Did you buy much?
Not sure if I could hack the mobile penning. Done a bit of scaffolding back when I was younger. Couldn’t cope with taking something down that had just being built.

Any concerns of the mobile penning being lifted?

He's made lots at them tho he's branching away from some of them now to other breeds.

It's funny to see some of the comments here at times yapping at his posts, they don't agree with his costs v profit v Labour, think jealousy is a lot of it.

Replacing a post for a crush head gate would post mix you can buy be strong enough or would I be better mixing my own. Good solid white sand in ground good foundation.