Cattle Equipment

[Peanut]

Farmers always improvise, using what you have to meet a need. Maybe other can post some of the equipment they use.

I thought this calf feeding station was neat, built by my cousin.

He came up with belting for another project long ago. He used the left over belting and made a trough.

Look at the spring grass! 3ft deep. That man knows how to grow grass! He's going to move in 75 cow/calf pairs this week sometime.

 

[Cascadian]

I used 2 ratchet straps and 2 vice grips for a field fence stretcher today. One under the bucket of the tractor and one on top of the arm for the bucket.

 

[Peanut]

Almost left off the best part... my cousin has a tow behind feed hopper. Can pull it with a truck or tractor, doesn't have to leave the road.

 

[Spikedriver]

Is that fence made from old well casing? I've only seen that once before. There was an old guy east of where I grew up that had a 1 acre horse pen that was fenced with a 2 rail fence made of old well pipe, and then had high tensile wire between the rails...

 

[Peanut]

Funny, I had another cousin call and ask me about well pipe a few weeks ago. He had it in his mind that I knew where some was located. I had no idea what he was talking about.

Obviously he had the wrong cousin in mind. He must have been referring to the above pipe which belongs to a different cousin. I have 100's of cousins. It's easy to get confused about who is doing what.

 

[Tirediron]

that is a nice simple feeder, the steel is drill stem. tubing made from spring steel.

 

[Terri9630]

Is that fence made from old well casing? I've only seen that once before. There was an old guy east of where I grew up that had a 1 acre horse pen that was fenced with a 2 rail fence made of old well pipe, and then had high tensile wire between the rails...

Oil well pipe. Its common for fencing and building barns out here.