Nicky
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Has anyone used his corral design?
www.onemancorrals.com
www.onemancorrals.com
One man corral systems
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gcreekrch
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I could use one man to get my new set put up. 
Big Muddy rancher
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They say about making your corral safer but in the picture with a string of feed trough in the middle of a working corral doesn't make much sense to me. Also a tree in the middle of things. :roll:
rancherfred
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I purchased two of his books about 10 or so years ago when I was trying to figure out what to do with our corrals. They are interesting to look at, but that was before I really started paying any attention to the ideas and concepts of Williams. I would tenatively describe the philosophy used in his plans as more in the Grandin model where there isn't a lot of emphasis placed on the skill of the handler and more is placed on the facility. This leads to the designs being more involved to build than I was willing to deal with. He suggests using high tensile on corrals and I did use that. Unfortunately I have discovered that either they have heavier high tensile wire down under or my bulls are more destructive because last time I worked bulls through it they absolutely demolished it.
The designs are, mostly, designed utilizing curves. That is fine because they work in some situations, but that also makes them more difficult and time consuming, and more costly, to build. I laid out one and couldn't convince myself to start building. Then I sat through my first stockmanship seminar. That made me reevaluate my design decisions and I gave up on all the curves and went back to straight alleyways. I suppose it all depends on how much time and money you want to put in to it as well as the help you will have in processing cattle. For operations that rely on lots of low skilled hired help the designs would work fine. If you have some decent stockmen I wouldn't waste my time building elaborate curved pens and alleyways. Sure, they work but they aren't necessary if you know cattle.
The designs are, mostly, designed utilizing curves. That is fine because they work in some situations, but that also makes them more difficult and time consuming, and more costly, to build. I laid out one and couldn't convince myself to start building. Then I sat through my first stockmanship seminar. That made me reevaluate my design decisions and I gave up on all the curves and went back to straight alleyways. I suppose it all depends on how much time and money you want to put in to it as well as the help you will have in processing cattle. For operations that rely on lots of low skilled hired help the designs would work fine. If you have some decent stockmen I wouldn't waste my time building elaborate curved pens and alleyways. Sure, they work but they aren't necessary if you know cattle.
