Ordinary squeeze crush

Wooly

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Romney Marsh
How is the crush , is it up to your expectations ?


Yes, very good so far after about 700 cattle through it for ourselves and a neighbour. Long and wide enough for the cattle to just walk in easily. Vet loves the squeeze action and head scoop for TB testing.

Every panel opens easily. Alot cheaper than many manufacturers.

Not a downside for our Sussex cattle, but there is no bar or kick rail behind, but the squeeze mechanism appears to stop them moving anyhow.
 

C.J

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Devon
Priced an Ambassador manual squeeze crush with sliding rump bar today.

They've made a few and are emailing me the drawings tomorrow.
 

fbarron

Member
Location
Co Clare Ireland
I have to make my bloody mind up soon. Ive seen a cattlemaster crush recently and it is the business. big bucks though. I like the morris one, I must give them a ring. I want a manual squeeze( no hydraulics). Saw a bateman ambasador at the ploughing and it looked ok but i would'nt consider it of the manual gate cant be closed from behind the animal
 

S J H

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
I have to make my bloody mind up soon. Ive seen a cattlemaster crush recently and it is the business. big bucks though. I like the morris one, I must give them a ring. I want a manual squeeze( no hydraulics). Saw a bateman ambasador at the ploughing and it looked ok but i would'nt consider it of the manual gate cant be closed from behind the animal
@W&W Mackie have one for sale in classified. Looks a good design IMO
 

Whitepeak

Member
Livestock Farmer
We have the new design Bateman Ambassador crush, with head scoop. Great bit of kit and we get on with it really well. The back door is a sliding door that can open either side, and we close from behind the animal loads of times as we haven't built a race to go with it yet :(
 

Whitepeak

Member
Livestock Farmer
oh so you can close it from behind the animal like a morris setup. and do you think its durable.
On ours you can't catch the animals head from the back but we shut the back door and then catch the head. If that's what you mean? You can perhaps have that as an option though.
It seems pretty durable, we've only had it since the spring but we've done a full herd test through it with little trouble.
 

S J H

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
Some photos and a video on here wouldn't hurt, the manufacturer website didn't have much about this crush that i could find.

I thought it looked very good, I was tempted by it, but I don't want to buy until I know where I'm going to set a race up, I'll end up ordering the wrong side :facepalm:
 

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