do many lie at the back ?View attachment 741912 Well the few cattle I have in already are playing the game
Yes, only got seven in that pen at the moment but they are laying front and backdo many lie at the back ?
Only scraped it once so far and it seemed to work ok, the flat bit in the centre was a mistake by my helpers. I intended to slope it right to the middle but when they dragged the former along and filled the gap it was hard to get the angle rightWill you get a clean scrape with the narrow flat middle bit? If this was bucket width would work well I'd say. At least with one slope bucket width wouldn't matter, may not get right to wall though but that wouldn't matter as much I'd say
It may lead you to your next project! A bespoke scraper shaped to suit job!Only scraped it once so far and it seemed to work ok, the flat bit in the centre was a mistake by my helpers. I intended to slope it right to the middle but when they dragged the former along and filled the gap it was hard to get the angle right
Im one step ahead of you, just collecting all the necessary itemsIt may lead you to your next project! A bespoke scraper shaped to suit job!
is that the one over by Mary Tavyfeedlot I went to had 70000 cattle on site, took 3 weeks to scrape the feed runs with a 12 ft scraper behind a JD8300
This is my theory too. Bed up at the back and clean out the front where the feed barriers are. They seem to s&@£ more where they eat.How much less straw do you use mine are all flat sheds but I bed one half and muck the other half out every 4 days now and I’m using a lot less straw than what I used to
I used to just muck the front when they looked dirty
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Pictures pleaseJust to say love a good thread like this with building and pictures ! Over the summer we acquired 120 feet of lane barriers so precast concrete blocks 2 x 2 x10, we laid them out in a 100x60 shed positioned exactly 1 Loadall bucket width plus 1 open Loadall door plus 15% for Senior Management calibration away from the barrier, with a ten foot gate allowing the cattle to move between the scrape passage and the bedded layback area. The difference is unreal, straw use is well down as their now controlled where they enter and exit, cattle are keeping cleaner and scraping out now takes less than five minutes and is a one person job. A big roads job near us was coming to its end and it costs the contractor more to haul them to the next site than buy new so just brass necked it in with a bottle for the agent and we took the lot with our own transport. Already got a deal done for the next lot.
Pictures please
Will get some of them in-situ for you , but these are the type of blocks we picked up. (Credit Google)
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Yes good news I know how you feel!!!Got through the tb test today so as very happy, pee'd down all day but was able to get a few Cattle back out for the winter and split the bull and heifer calves do things should settle down now. Promise to get some photos next time it’s not lashing it down and blowing a gale.
Chippy tea tonight to celebrate