Wooden Sheep Yards

[neilo]

Their is a guy punting galv metal set ups fairy reasonable , I would not pass them for wood, if you build them out of wood today I think you will regret it fairy quick it’s sh!t honestly proper sh!t ! These metal ones on face book will be much better and always saleable wood won’t be .

We used to rent a block of grass keep back home that had a wooden handling system around a 1000 gallon dip.
I used it for everything I could, even if it meant trailering stock there.

The posts were starting to rot out, but was all easily fixed up, and layout could have been modified to suit if necessary.
The only real downside was that it was harder to keep the floor clean(ish), as nothing could be moved to do it by machine.

I’d happily build something similar for an off lying block, where movable stuff might wander.
Or probably just a holding pen to drop a mobile yard onto when necessary (which I have done here).

 

[Woolless]

Anything shiny would walk within a week. There's a site not far, and people have been punched off their quads to steal them.

Oh dear, this doesn't sound like the place for a shy, retiring type such as yourself at all!

 

[Hilly]

Sound like the sheeep might walk n all !

 

[Hilly]

We used to rent a block of grass keep back home that had a wooden handling system around a 1000 gallon dip.
I used it for everything I could, even if it meant trailering stock there.

The posts were starting to rot out, but was all easily fixed up, and layout could have been modified to suit if necessary.
The only real downside was that it was harder to keep the floor clean(ish), as nothing could be moved to do it by machine.

I’d happily build something similar for an off lying block, where movable stuff might wander.
Or probably just a holding pen to drop a mobile yard onto when necessary (which I have done here).

So what was to like about them ? Need altered to work better , rotting and can keep clean but you like them ? No accounting for taste .

 

[Hilly]

Anything shiny would walk within a week. There's a site not far, and people have been punched off their quads to steal them.

If that happens to me my temper would get the better of me and I’d slaughter the whole lot of them .

 

[Fake it ‘til you make it]

So what was to like about them ?

Maybe the fact that he knew they would still be there in the morning!

 

[2wheels]

If that happens to me my temper would get the better of me and I’d slaughter the whole lot of them .

aye the piggy in your avatar would get rid of the evidence.

 

[Al R]

aye the piggy in your avatar would get rid of the evidence.

Remove the teeth, it’s not fair on the piggies digestion

 

[Woolless]

Remove the teeth, it’s not fair on the piggies digestion

Provides calcium?

 

[neilo]

So what was to like about them ? Need altered to work better , rotting and can keep clean but you like them ? No accounting for taste .

They worked very well as they were, with just me and a dog. However, they could have been modified with a hammer and a bucket of nails, if I’d got fancy ideas of changing stuff, or wanting to fit any new equipment in somewhere.

Some of the posts were rotting, but it had been there a very long time, from the days when it was part of a bigger holding running a lot more sheep.

If we’d had it on more than an annual grazing agreement, I’d have concreted (shallow) more of the floor and fitted up a volume washer with a fruit juice barrel under a gutter on one of the old barns there.

In hindsight, we slipped up not buying it when that block came up for sale tbh. The cottage on it was worth near as much as what it made. Lots of land on the market in the mid-nineties locally though, and only so much debt you can take on comfortably.

 

[Al R]

Provides calcium?

It’s a quote from the film Snatch

 

[neilo]

Maybe the fact that he knew they would still be there in the morning!

Local farm (to here, not there) lost a metal handling set up from a yard on top of the hill, a couple of miles off a main road. They haven’t replaced it.

Back there, we had a big Gypsy fair locally twice a year. Anything that wasn’t bolted down or watched would have disappeared. Mrs NeilO’s saddles got taken by the little tikes a couple of times, the first time being 40 pony saddles from a locked container!

 

[Hilly]

It’s a quote from the film Snatch

Good film “ do ya like Dagg’s” lol