Best way to temporarily divide shed

[valtraman]

put a new shed up last year and trying to think of way to temporarily split it up for cattle, i have feed passage down one full side .90ft need shed for storing straw/hay and couple big pens for cattle that could easily be made bigger or smaller. Needs to be sturdy and something that won’t get too buried in muck. Ideas?

 

[Ormond]

What size of cattle? Hesston bales won't be much good for big cattle...first idea..concrete logo blocks....probably far too expensive. Sockets into the ground to put posts and gates on...not very adjusting though....we'd probably use something that the cattle break through at midnight and mess up a heap of straw and hay bales!

 

[multi power]

Electric fence

 

[Bill the Bass]

Ten foot portable cattle hurdles, they will be useful for something else once you get the shed finished

 

[Goweresque]

Whats the floor made of?

 

[biggmw]

We split 100x70 into three last winter with electric wire.

Single wire from back to front ppwered.

Suckler cows that are all used to leccy outside mind you

 

[Jackov Altraids]

I'll second the idea of the cattle hurdles.
You would probably get all your money back selling them when you've finished with them but you won't sell them because they are too bloody handy.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

We split 100x70 into three last winter with electric wire.

Single wire from back to front ppwered.

Suckler cows that are all used to leccy outside mind you

Straw bale wall with electric fence a few feet off it will be safe for even untrained cattle - fence will protect the straw, bales give a physical barrier, that even if something went through the fence, wont be wrecked before you discover a problem.

 

[Yale]

How wide?

We divided a 30 ft shed with 2x telephone poles bracketed to the posts and screwed on some plywood sheets we had spare.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Those cattle hurdle things are bloody handy.

 

[JP1]

Ten foot portable cattle hurdles, they will be useful for something else once you get the shed finished

^^ This

 

[ih1455xl]

Push in rsj and use concrete panels the 1.5m tall ones are very good for this

 

[Goweresque]

My fathers pikey way of dividing up his sheds years ago in his suckler herd days, was to drive tall steel uprights into the shed floor (they were hardcore not concrete) and put gates between. Then as the straw and muck built up you just lifted the gate higher up on the poles, so they were always sat on the muck, not buried in it.

 

[DrWazzock]

Zig zag the hurdles so they are self supporting. The muck will hold them after a bit. Or back a trailer against them for a while.

 

[caveman]

Electric fence

We split 100x70 into three last winter with electric wire.

Single wire from back to front ppwered.

Suckler cows that are all used to leccy outside mind you

Some have used scaffold poles suspended from above and hotted up with a fencer.
No snapped wires.

 

[Deereone]

Some have used scaffold poles suspended from above and hotted up with a fencer.
No snapped wires.

This I like a lot!

 

[Goweresque]

Some have used scaffold poles suspended from above and hotted up with a fencer.
No snapped wires.

That was another of my fathers ways, only he used it in front of the silage clamp. Long metal pole suspended on rope in front of the clamp face and wired to the mains fencer. Allowed the cattle to be fed direct from the clamp without them trashing it.

 

[Nearly]

My fathers pikey way of dividing up his sheds years ago in his suckler herd days, was to drive tall steel uprights into the shed floor (they were hardcore not concrete) and put gates between. Then as the straw and muck built up you just lifted the gate higher up on the poles, so they were always sat on the muck, not buried in it.

Have helped a mate make temp walls in web of girder with horizontal crash barriers and 7x3 uprights and lift them up too as muck rises.

I make a lot of 4.8m gates to divide sheds.
Sockets in floor are never wasted.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Some have used scaffold poles suspended from above and hotted up with a fencer.
No snapped wires.

Have done this in the past, connected to a mains fencer, the bull won’t cross it to get to a cow bulling in the next pen. All it needs is some rope or even 6 strands of bale string and any metal bar you can get/have got.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Depends what you have in your scrap heap