The bulls are out!

[Cowslip]

The phone Call everyone dreads from the neighbours! I think your cows are in my garden, only to find it's worse and it's a yard off bulls!?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Your beef bulls are in our Caravan Park . Got the medal for that twice

 

[Cowslip]

They are out trying to locate them all in the dark, I just hope they haven't found my heifers.

 

[milkloss]

Must be a nightmare with a yard full. We had one escape, a youngster, and the neighbours rang from their bungalow, "I think we've got your bull in the garden and he's looking through our sliding patio doors". Me: "is the glass nice and clean?"......"ooh, yes, had them cleaned last week" the lady replied. "Hmmm, best move to the other room in case he sees himself!"

 

[Cowslip]

All located and back in, no damage apart from the gate which had been lifted off it's hinges

 

[Cab-over Pete]

My brother called me one Sunday morning.

“Have you got half an hour? my cattle are out”
That was at around 7.15am

We got home mid afternoon. No breakfast, no lunch, nothing. They had crossed three roads and several farms, visited a stud with a bunch of racehorse fillies, trampled both the West Midlands Police dog training ground and Mrs Davies’ superb prize winning garden (it’s quite some sight seeing a bullock heading towards you with a huge trellis around it’s neck) and ended up trotting down into the local small town.

We eventually got all but two home. They turned up next morning at the farm of the only man my Dad ever fell out with (because he owed Dad money) so brother had to go next day with his trailer.

Happy days.

 

[Yale]

All located and back in, no damage apart from the gate which had been lifted off it's hinges

Next job,cordless drill on top hinge and a linch pin through it.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I found with bulls you had to secure the gate . They find a way of opening latches. And bale string is more than useless. Barbed Wire wrap around if nothing else

 

[Cowslip]

Luckily they were the south devons so they didn't bother going too far. All gates now checked and bolts put through hinges.

 

[Highland Mule]

Next job,cordless drill on top hinge and a linch pin through it.

Don’t do that part in a hurry though - managed to land myself in A&E a few years ago with a bit of swarf in my eye for doing similar in the middle of the night. Minute saved not getting goggles caused no end of pain.

 

[Muck Spreader]

All located and back in, no damage apart from the gate which had been lifted off it's hinges

Do you not put the top hinge in upside down? We always used to do it, not generally for cattle lifting them but the caravan dwelling community.

 

[steveR]

Luckily they were the south devons so they didn't bother going too far. All gates now checked and bolts put through hinges.

.... Molegrips hidden and adjustable spanner locked up!!

Got two 9-10yo old suckler cows here, named as they were about when daughter Steph was still here before Uni , Patch and Blackie.... also known as the Houdini Twins! I find a chain with a D shackle has stopped them... so far!

 

[steveR]

Don’t do that part in a hurry though - managed to land myself in A&E a few years ago with a bit of swarf in my eye for doing similar in the middle of the night. Minute saved not getting goggles caused no end of pain.

Wise words...

 

[borderterribles]

A couple of Jubilee clips on the upright part of the hinge works well.

 

[Lazy Sod]

Next job,cordless drill on top hinge and a linch pin through it.

A roll pin would be more secure.

 

[milkloss]

Don’t do that part in a hurry though - managed to land myself in A&E a few years ago with a bit of swarf in my eye for doing similar in the middle of the night. Minute saved not getting goggles caused no end of pain.

The all enclosed ones. I never used to use goggles but as I aged I thought it was a good idea. Twice in the same number of months the wind caused some swarf to blow up under the goggles and land in my eye.
My eye man, who I know quite well as he does my eye injections, told me to always wear goggles to which I retorted I did. As I explained to him what happened his reply was "well they're stupid fecking goggles aren't they?" And handed me a pair of bollé goggles which I still have today.

 

[J 1177]

I found with bulls you had to secure the gate . They find a way of opening latches. And bale string is more than useless. Barbed Wire wrap around if nothing else

All our bull pens have a pin in the hinge end. Then a chain and bolt around the catch end. Used to use cow chains but they got them off.

 

[Henarar]

Best thing they did was start making gate hangers with pre drilled holes

 

[Wombat]

I tend to weld half an m12 bolt on the top of hinges, so they are easy to lift off if needed but stop the cows lifting them off

 

[DaveGrohl]

.... Molegrips hidden and adjustable spanner locked up!!

Got two 9-10yo old suckler cows here, named as they were about when daughter Steph was still here before Uni , Patch and Blackie.... also known as the Houdini Twins! I find a chain with a D shackle has stopped them... so far!

D shackles are cheap and give the illusion of security. Any of our cattle would have them licked off in a trice. Karabiners are next level and we've been using them for donkey's years. Unfortunately some people who walk the countryside like them too (resulting in cattle escapes grrrrr) so we've moved on to combination padlocks. Not had one of them nicked yet..........