Crash barriers or similar round cattle shed?

Just wondering what people find tidiest/most cost effective to put round the front of cattle courts for security, currently got handling gates but could be used for better things, was thinking crash barriers possibly? is this a cheap option? wheres best to source them?
 

Danllan

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Sir Gar / Carms
Just wondering what people find tidiest/most cost effective to put round the front of cattle courts for security, currently got handling gates but could be used for better things, was thinking crash barriers possibly? is this a cheap option? wheres best to source them?
Do you mean security as in stopping the beasts being taken or keeping them in?
 

KennyO

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Mixed Farmer
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Angus
You could do a single or double row of crash barriers high up and the stock net along the bottom.
We have h beam posts then angle iron rails x2 above rylock at one bit. Been like that for years but net is knackered so going to replace with another bar or two.

Crash barriers are not cheap now.
Will it be used as a handling pen too or just to stop an escapee? Stock or deer fence might do.
 

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
Concrete panel up to 4ft high and then a crash barrier above with a 12” gap between crash barrier and panel? It adds the height, offers weather protection, you can push muck against it but still have height to stop stock jumping but a 12” gap would allow most to get out or at least climb up quickly if something went clean off or dangerous. Double height panels wouldn’t allowed this.
Panels would be best but dearer but more versatile for tipping against etc

Crash barriers add up
 
4’ panels would be about 25-30 per metre plus girders
Concrete panel up to 4ft high and then a crash barrier above with a 12” gap between crash barrier and panel? It adds the height, offers weather protection, you can push muck against it but still have height to stop stock jumping but a 12” gap would allow most to get out or at least climb up quickly if something went clean off or dangerous. Double height panels wouldn’t allowed this.
Maybe 3 barriers above for limi
 

Treecreeper

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Livestock Farmer
I'm about to do a short race ( for lims) , copying some thing I've seen elsewhere ,it will be four crash barriers high, bottom 2 stacked on each other just off ground, a gap + 1 then a top barrier at a height tbc. The yard will have three all bolted to rsj posts.
 

24/7 farming

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Location
Donegal
Surely a fence would be most cost effective?, we have fenced around the yard where cattle r using 8ft strainers for all posts, at 10ft centres, 5ft above the ground with sheep wire and 3 run barb. Put a bit of vertical panel fencing up where it passes the house
 

Henarar

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
If you use crash barriers for keeping cattle in be careful how you space them, they are an invite to an animal getting its leg or head through and not being able to get it back, mate of mine had to have a bullock shot that got its leg through them and they were more or less touching but on 20 ft spaced uprights they flexed enough to let it leg go in but not come out, that one bullock would have paid for a proper wall
Personally I don't like the bloody things, we have concreate sleepers between RSJ's round the yard, nothing is going to get through or break them and they may well be cheaper and cos its a solid wall it keeps the wind back so keeps the yard from freezing,
we use wooden sleepers in the shed as these can be cut to fit
 

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