Crash barriers or similar round cattle shed?

[Bossfarmer]

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?

 

[Henarar]

are they for a shed or round a yard ?

 

[Bossfarmer]

are they for a shed or round a yard ?

just round the outside of the yard incase anything gets out

 

[Fendt516profi]

Panels

 

[Bossfarmer]

Panels

concrete pannels? expensize surely would need to be 2 high

 

[Danllan]

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?

 

[milkloss]

Why do they get out? Be easier/better to keep them in the shed surely?

 

[Jdunn55]

Why do they get out? Be easier/better to keep them in the shed surely?

Just added security I'm guessing? If one sneaks out as you're going in just another level of security.
Crash barriers would do fine imo or else gates?? Got to be cheaper than panels which would probably be £300 minimum for 2 per bay!

 

[Fendt516profi]

concrete pannels? expensize surely would need to be 2 high

Yea that's what I was thinking how many crash barrier's would you need per 15/20ft. How much is a 5ft high panel wouldn't need to be the thickest

 

[Skintagain]

Panels would be best but dearer but more versatile for tipping against etc

Crash barriers add up

 

[KennyO]

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]

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

 

[Skintagain]

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

 

[Henarar]

just round the outside of the yard incase anything gets out

I put concreate sleepers round our yard but they are actually keeping the cattle in, if its just in case something gets out wouldn't some good posts and rails be good enough

 

[Nithsdale]

We use crash barriers. 3 high, spaced apart, bolted to telegraph poled - the top line of the highest barrier is about 6ft. Works very well, cattle have never tried to jump them

 

[Treecreeper]

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.

 

[Farmer Roy]

err, why not just put a fence around the shed / yard ?

 

[24/7 farming]

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]

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

 

[roscoe erf]

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?

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