Quad Bike Ramps/ Cattle Grids

[HundyMundy]

Has anyone made quad bike ramps to go over fences, next to gate ways. I would like to see some pictures and designs please to save me a lot of head scratching. Thanks

 

[Ffermer Bach]

there have been plans for these, but not to go over a fence, instead of a gate in some welsh lamb and beef booklets, I think it was a booklet about efficiency of lambing or easy care systems I think

 

[Pilgrimmick]

Saw something somewhere, where the posts on a fence were cut off short of the ground and the fence was just held up by tension from the strainers, you could just drive over the fence.
Not convinced how many times it would work, or how stock proof it would be, but seemed to work on video, you tube, I think.

 

[Wooly]

 

[Blue.]

Seen it done using an old trip loader boom,weld angle iron or pipe at 6" centres and your away.

 

[shumungus]

 

[shumungus]

 

[neilo]

I scratched my head lots last year, then decided i’d Struggle to make anything as good as I could buy for £240 from: https://www.iwanprice.co.uk/ (some useful pics on there if you want to copy too)

Very pleased with it. I’ve cut the rails out next to a gate and sited it permanently so that it looks tidy. The amount of time it saves over lambing time, running between twin and single paddocks, is unbelievable. Should have sorted it years ago.

 

[same crap different day]

4 stock stops from Iwan Price here now 3 in situ 1 that can be used anywhere when needed lambing time , Thought I was nuts at the time but they are one of the best things ever purchased to save work.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

http://www.glendaleengineering.co.uk/agricultural/atv-trailersview/atv-drive-over-grid---feeder/187

 

[Y Fan Wen]

The only one I've seen is the type in post 7 but made to be portable. It was tied between the clapping post of a gateway and the latch end of the original gate.

 

[Dan@JF]

There is an estate that has them in every fence line and they are brilliant. Simple triangle frame to the height of top of stock netting with bars welded in between to quad width. They were a copy of a design that logic did years ago.

 

[HundyMundy]

The only one I've seen is the type in post 7 but made to be portable. It was tied between the clapping post of a gateway and the latch end of the original gate.

Are these "gates" available in the uk. I like the look of them.

 

[exmoor dave]

I scratched my head lots last year, then decided i’d Struggle to make anything as good as I could buy for £240 from: https://www.iwanprice.co.uk/ (some useful pics on there if you want to copy too)

Very pleased with it. I’ve cut the rails out next to a gate and sited it permanently so that it looks tidy. The amount of time it saves over lambing time, running between twin and single paddocks, is unbelievable. Should have sorted it years ago.

I'm quite surprised that the likes of IAE, Bateman etc etc haven't picked up this idea, to manufacture (&pay the chap some royalties).

I keep thinking of making something very similar using a novel 2nd hand source of steel.
But big enough for the Landy to go over

 

[JWL]

I'm quite surprised that the likes of IAE, Bateman etc etc haven't picked up this idea, to manufacture (&pay the chap some royalties).

I keep thinking of making something very similar using a novel 2nd hand source of steel.
But big enough for the Landy to go over

A service point in every hedge, now that could be usefull

 

[exmoor dave]

A service point in every hedge, now that could be usefull

Haha! Could keep a toolbox &spares under each ramp

 

[Wooly]

Both the above from the internet.

Time yourself next time you go through a gate, especially if it is tied with string, and you will suddenly realise how much time you save by having a few grids around the farm.

Not rocket science just to make some with some 4x2 timber.

 

[neilo]

I'm quite surprised that the likes of IAE, Bateman etc etc haven't picked up this idea, to manufacture (&pay the chap some royalties).

I keep thinking of making something very similar using a novel 2nd hand source of steel.
But big enough for the Landy to go over

I was chatting about these with my agronomist last Autumn, when he saw mine in the fenceline. He told me he went to one place that had built their own, and fabricated them to be strong, and wide, enough to drive their short wheelbase Land Rover over it.
When he was over there for crop walking, he thought that would save him opening the gate, so went over it with his newish Nissan pickup. The only trouble was that the Nissan is a good bit longer and it bellied out on the top, leaving him trapped there. Luckily the farmer laughed about it when he went looking for some help getting it off.

 

[exmoor dave]

I was chatting about these with my agronomist last Autumn, when he saw mine in the fenceline. He told me he went to one place that had built their own, and fabricated them to be strong, and wide, enough to drive their short wheelbase Land Rover over it.
When he was over there for crop walking, he thought that would save him opening the gate, so went over it with his newish Nissan pickup. The only trouble was that the Nissan is a good bit longer and it bellied out on the top, leaving him trapped there. Luckily the farmer laughed about it when he went looking for some help getting it off.

Measured the landy today, centre of front wheel to back wheel is 8ft,
If the ramp is any more than a 12" rise in that space it will hit the exhaust box

 

[exmoor dave]

Another design

http://pushovergate.com