2016 at RWG Contracts

foxbox

Member
Location
West Northants
Great to see the ridges on most of those beef sheds, surely the one with crown cranked (?) sheets on is going to struggle for ventilation though? They all look like a nice tidy job though and some cracking floors too (y)
 
Great to see the ridges on most of those beef sheds, surely the one with crown cranked (?) sheets on is going to struggle for ventilation though? They all look like a nice tidy job though and some cracking floors too (y)

It's 90' wide so nice and high in middle, open on 2 sides so should be ok :) we went and did some concreting there when cattle where in and it felt nice not stuffy
 

dannewhouse

Member
Location
huddersfield
have you seen any particularly tidy designs for splitting buildings up for cattle that stood out to you as being well thought out? /worth a mention?
some farms just run a shed such as the 60x 40 as 1 pen or even bigger sheds, I don't find this handy to handle cattle or good if you have mixed ages/bullying.
 

Wooly

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Romney Marsh
Sorry for all the questions, there's £200 between a Pro 3 and 4 is it worth the extra?
Like you it'll be pretty much be taking photos of work & a good camera is a must.

Phantom 4 has a gizmo that stops it flying into obstacles, flys further and for a longer time!
 
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Surgery

Member
Location
Oxford
Did this last year and people have mentioned it to me all year so I've got permission to have a thread this year (y)

We've done 12 buildings I think

65'x50 storage shed
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60x40 youngstock shed
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60x30 sheep shed
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100x60 machinery shed
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90x45 silo
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Industrial units
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80x40 straw shed

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150x45 beef building

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90x60 beef building

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90x50 silo

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Send us a quote on the 150-45 shed , thanks

In fact if you could do that at 140 with twenty foot bays and 18ft high , cheers
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Compared to last year as per your profile:

2015 at RWG Contracts

We've erected 13 buildings, and laid 820 cube of concrete



You're looking at 5000 cube of concrete this year to keep up that growth Rob!!
 
have you seen any particularly tidy designs for splitting buildings up for cattle that stood out to you as being well thought out? /worth a mention?
some farms just run a shed such as the 60x 40 as 1 pen or even bigger sheds, I don't find this handy to handle cattle or good if you have mixed ages/bullying.

Not really, just gates and races. I can price up Ritchie equipment for you if you wish
 

dannewhouse

Member
Location
huddersfield
Not really, just gates and races. I can price up Ritchie equipment for you if you wish
thanks I meant more the arrangement than the individual items, you go on 1 farm and use the system and think this was well thought out then go on another and spot the cock ups for example we rented a 45ft x 60 building split into 3 20ft wide pens but it had 15ft gates so they didn't meet to lock cattle back onto bedding = baler band + hurdles nightmare!!!
best thing to do before deciding on a shed layout is to view a few others which are highly recommended by others, I was cheating thinking you would have seen a lot of setups.
 

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