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I have several of these that are made out of old drill movers. Use the 3pt hitch or a hitch on the bale truck to lift one end and drive away. There are cross bars at each end and the boards have about 10% space. They have survived several major damaging wind storms without any issues. Like Grassfarmer does, they are moved often.

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Big Muddy rancher said:
Was the snow to deep to get closer? :wink: :-)
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I'll take a closer look for you this morning. They were parked there because the snow wasn't too bad and they were pulling rather hard.
 
Blkbuckaroo said:
I was thinking they look like they'd be hard to move,if ya' have to drag them through the snow.Functional though.
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Everything is hard in snow. You pick one end up with the three point hitch and the wheels take the weight. Easier than ones on skids. Either way, put enough power on the front and it will move with ease while you listen to the radio and talk on the phone.
 
Here you go BMR. You can't see the crosses under the snow but rest assured they have been tested with over 100km/hr wind gusts. As Grassfarmer pointed out the key is not to have them too high.


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This was my first one, has been in service for ten years now. The calves can get up on a platform that the cows can't access. It is about 45ft long and steers on the back.


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I have six sections I bought last fall from the man who built them and only used them 1 tear before dispersing his herd.He used lots of old grader blades and oil field tubing. and real nice round edge boards. The are movable but not as portable and Per's and Grassfarmer's.
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I like to put them at almost right angles and they chain together.
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He had extra grader blades that bolted on the feet on each side for stability but they have stood very well being joined at a angle.
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The tabs sticking out the back are what you hook your front end loader bucket onto to lift them. I can lift them to clear a 8ft fence.
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These two are in the back yard keeping snow off the road. They sure worked. :-)
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BMR Do you figure out were you want want them and just leave them there for the winter? It just looks like they would freeze down to me and you would bend them up moveing them or braking them loose. Just a question?
 
BMR Do you figure out were you want want them and just leave them there for the winter? It just looks like they would freeze down to me and you would bend them up moveing them or braking them loose. Just a question?
 
I did place them for the winter i guess. I put sets of two in a couple of pens up near the feed bunk to hopefully slow the calves if they took a run at weaning time. Seemed to work as I have had them run and hit the bunks at times in years past. It also helped break some wind that would come over the bunks at times. The two behind the house dropped snow far enough away that I could probably move them with out much trouble.
 
How do you deal with all the trapped snow when the cows are supposed to be in that place? If not on flat land, would a person place them on a ridge or in the draw? These interest me because we often have cows running on corn stalks as long as we can and lots of these fields have no shelter....just wide open. And some of those November or early Dec storms really put a stress on the animals.
 
Sundancer said:
How do you deal with all the trapped snow when the cows are supposed to be in that place? If not on flat land, would a person place them on a ridge or in the draw? These interest me because we often have cows running on corn stalks as long as we can and lots of these fields have no shelter....just wide open. And some of those November or early Dec storms really put a stress on the animals.
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If the cows are in the shelter during a storm there is not much trapped snow. Usually the wind will go down and the cows go back to work and you move them to a new spot. Can't help much with placement as it is fairly flat where I need them. We have lots of trees for shelter when the cows are in the hills.
 
Sundancer said:
How do you deal with all the trapped snow when the cows are supposed to be in that place? If not on flat land, would a person place them on a ridge or in the draw? These interest me because we often have cows running on corn stalks as long as we can and lots of these fields have no shelter....just wide open. And some of those November or early Dec storms really put a stress on the animals.
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Just like when building windbreaks, if you set the windbreak up in a "V" shape with the point towards the prevailing wind, it will direct the snow out and leave an open sheltered area inside the "V".
 

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