Locking Yokes

Crex

Member
Location
Innse Gall, Alba
Has anyone had any prices recently for locking yokes? Currently getting prices for feed barriers, £385 for a 20ft diagonal feed barrier. I'd prefer we go with locking yokes but boss says they will be too expensive. Any idea what I'd be looking at? It is only for 5 in total.
 

DrDunc

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Dunsyre
had a price of 750 plus the vodka 20ft iae earlier in the year
LM Bateman are slightly cheaper and much stronger.

Think the iae ones need a centre post as well? Or they used to anyway, and the extra post means one fewer head space.

You're already getting fewer spaces with locking yolks compared to conventional barrier. Not a problem for big Holsteins, but a consideration with wee hill coos.
 

DrDunc

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Dunsyre
Well that knackers my plans then. In what way did they break?
They have adjustable end pieces that are clamped within the main tube. This is to accommodate uprights that aren't positioned correctly ( my Robinson's shed has a 57mm variation in upright widths in the middle three bays). The clamping force isn't large enough and the tubes become oval.

The centre of the barrier has a small drop leg designed to be concreted in to provide additional strength to the (too thin section) bottom horizontal. This drop leg clamp must be kept very tight or the whole barrier will become bowed out in the middle.

Both of these faults can arguably be prevented if you regularly check the torque of the clamp bolts.

However the diagonal divisions break off at the welding to the bottom horizontal. There just isn't enough wall thickness in this tube to cope with the force of the cows pushing against it.

The first section to be replaced didn't last three winters. The replacement Bateman sections, which are made from far thicker metal, have now attained a natural dulled colour to the galvanisation, but are completely straight by comparison.
 

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