Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
800 feet of locking head yokes and a crush would cost me more .
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- Thread starter Gedd
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- East yorks
not knocking your purchase it looks great,
Why would you need 800ft? I've just a few barriers of yokes, where I put all the known problems, it does save a hell of lot of fathing about with crushes tbh
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
So what do you do when your not making cattle crushes ?The weigh cells possibly are more I've not bought any for years, there is 4k tops of materials in that and I cannot see 175 hours of workshop time, even as a 1 off, so on a production line (usually 40%+ labour reduction) 11k leaves a very good margin even after all the overhead costs. £40/hour is for fully equipped fabrication shop, not some bloke in a shed with a stick welder, so 175 hours is a sh*t load of work. If I could get a grant I would make myself one
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Cos I have 800 ft of feed fence in three sheds tell me how I catch 400 cattle with 20ft locking yokes ? All sheds I see with locking yokes have them all the way along and are great but ££££
The ones I have made (very basic) cost me 7 hours labour each as all the material was in my steel rack left over from industrial jobs, add some left over petrochemical primer and topcoat, job done
never made a complex one but I can assure you there is a good margin in that at 11k
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
I best not mention the 18k clipex sheep handler I bought on the scheme as well
I've not seen that, most the farms around here (including me) have a small shed with yokes where the problems are kept, the rest just ring feeders or standard barriers.
not knocking your purchase btw, definitely worth having with the grant even if it was 20k
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Every shed I have ever seen with locking yokes is 100% length of the feed fence , feed em lock em great things .
I think that's why it makes sense for us to have a separate smaller shed for the problems where the feed fence is just a few barriers, obviously not as good as having all the sheds as yokes but saves a good bit of time for a fraction of the cost, but there are always times when you need the crush whatever you do
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Iv a pall has two hundred cows with 200 locking yokes , feed em lock em , wow fantastic , they do AI scanning loads o stuff they are great like .
fermerboy
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- Banffshire
Not knocking the crush at all but thank god I'm not the only one who can't see the price in that crush.
I'm no engineer or fabricator but for the life of me I just can't see how that value is there.
Not disputing the price or the quality or indeed the usefulness to the end user but I can't help but feel that there is some serious profiteering going on on this grant aided stuff.
It's not just ag stuff either, blame covid, blame brexit, blame the lorry drivers and jack the price up and hope the punters bend over and take it.
Maybe I'm just getting old and cynical!
At first glance it does seem expensive, but remember it's not just the price of the manufacturing the item, but the cost of all the R & D needed to get it to that point.
I imagine a cheaper crush with that many moving parts would be absolute rubbish. If you're dealing with it on a daily basis, you may as well get something that works properly and lasts.
I imagine a cheaper crush with that many moving parts would be absolute rubbish. If you're dealing with it on a daily basis, you may as well get something that works properly and lasts.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Just buy a headbail......the rest is a piece of pìss.
- Location
- South wales
icanshootwell
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- Location
- Ross-on-wye
Is,nt that a case of over inflated price, even with the grant it,s expensive, i payed 3k for a manual squeeze crush before these grants were available!!
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Could easy be , who could blame them .
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Correct !Bet you wish you hadn’t bothered posting it now @Hilly
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Out of interest what make and model ?
icanshootwell
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- Ross-on-wye
I suppose every bloody thing has gone up, quite worrying really.