Wooden Sheep Yards

[unlacedgecko]

I’m after building some sheep yards on a lease block. Thinking wood be best for price. How do I make sure they don’t rot in a couple of years though?

was going to floor them in tarmac planings as well.

 

[MRT]

I’m after building some sheep yards on a lease block. Thinking wood be best for price. How do I make sure they don’t rot in a couple of years though?

was going to floor them in tarmac planings as well.

Don't use tanalised timber

 

[Purli R]

creosote.

 

[glasshouse]

I’m after building some sheep yards on a lease block. Thinking wood be best for price. How do I make sure they don’t rot in a couple of years though?

was going to floor them in tarmac planings as well.

Would metal ones get nicked?

 

[HarryB97]

An Alluninium portable yard would be the best bet fixed ones are never quite right. Creosote timber would ensure they last but it depends on how long the lease is for?

 

[unlacedgecko]

Would metal ones get nicked?

Probably

 

[unlacedgecko]

An Alluninium portable yard would be the best bet fixed ones are never quite right. Creosote timber would ensure they last but it depends on how long the lease is for?

Ive got portable yard already. But would like a large permanent one. I intend on running 1000+ ewes and their lambs in a mob.

 

[2wheels]

Ive got portable yard already. But would like a large permanent one. I intend on running 1000+ ewes and their lambs in a mob.

use ht rylock with posts at 4mtrs for a large holding pen then wooden gates to feed your portable.

 

[unlacedgecko]

use ht rylock with posts at 4mtrs for a large holding pen then wooden gates to feed your portable.

Not a bad idea. But I’m quite lazy. If I could have it so I don’t need to use the portable id prefer it.

 

[Woolless]

Ive got portable yard already. But would like a large permanent one. I intend on running 1000+ ewes and their lambs in a mob.

@NZDan give him the benefit of your experience regarding large mobs AND save him a few quid on building his yard.

 

[2wheels]

Not a bad idea. But I’m quite lazy. If I could have it so I don’t need to use the portable id prefer it.

forgot to say you need a plain wire above the rylock and pull them bloody tight.

 

[Skintagain]

Telegraph poles and creosote poles and second hand tin sheets.

 

[Agrivator]

Ive got portable yard already. But would like a large permanent one. I intend on running 1000+ ewes and their lambs in a mob.

How do you get 1000 ewes and 1500? lambs into the collecting pen?

And what happens when the dogs spook them? Unless you dispense with dogs and just rely on the bike.

 

[unlacedgecko]

How do you get 1000 ewes and 1500? lambs into the collecting pen?

And what happens when the dogs spook them? Unless you dispense with dogs and just rely on the bike.

They’re all bucket trained pets. I just shake a feed bag and walk in, they follow like I’m the Pied Piper.

 

[Nithsdale]

I replaced our wooden pens last year... dad replaced them 30-35 years previously with creosoted Larch post and rail. The rails are mostly still in good order (I've kept the majority) but the posts were well gone.

Sadly, I expect, you'll hardly can get Larch now

 

[unlacedgecko]

I replaced our wooden pens last year... dad replaced them 30-35 years previously with creosoted Larch post and rail. The rails are mostly still in good order (I've kept the majority) but the posts were well gone.

Sadly, I expect, you'll hardly can get Larch now

I was thinking plastic posts and exterior ply for the race. Then clipex posts and stocknet for the pens.

larch avail here.

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[Nithsdale]

I was thinking plastic posts and exterior ply for the race. Then clipex posts and stocknet for the pens.

Do you mean the recycled black plastic posts?... make sure and get the ones with the steel shank in them.

Buffalo Board or the likes would be good for race yeah - can see you're taking inspiration straight from the RAPPA/Prattley/Alligator


I'm not sure how tar planings would work on the floor, I've contemplated for my yard

 

[Skintagain]

I think planings would cap over and be a shite hole.

Probably better with some crush stone that the rain will wash.

 

[Nithsdale]

I think planings would cap over and be a shite hole.

Probably better with some crush stone that the rain will wash.

Capping is the point. Creates a hard standing which rain will wash off... much like concrete.

Stone isn't great, they paddle the mud up through it and you end up in a f**king mess

 

[Skintagain]

Capping is the point. Creates a hard standing which rain will wash off... much like concrete.

Stone isn't great, they paddle the mud up through it and you end up in a fudgeing mess

My planings hold water and stir up the top layer all the time as it can’t get away. More open stone yards/hard standings are drier and I find them better, a quick scrape over once in a while and they wash off as good as new. As soon as you get mud on Planings they are a constant sesspit.