Faster horses said:1500 miles????? Where are you taking them?
I'd say mats would be nice. Good luck on your journey.
How many times will you unload and load them?
How long will it take to go 1500 miles?
whitecow said:Faster horses said:1500 miles????? Where are you taking them?
I'd say mats would be nice. Good luck on your journey.
How many times will you unload and load them?
How long will it take to go 1500 miles?
From Pennsylvania to TX. We plan to go half way (~12 hrs) stop/unload for the night and drive another 12 hrs the next day.
whitecow said:Faster horses said:1500 miles????? Where are you taking them?
I'd say mats would be nice. Good luck on your journey.
How many times will you unload and load them?
How long will it take to go 1500 miles?
From Pennsylvania to TX. We plan to go half way (~12 hrs) stop/unload for the night and drive another 12 hrs the next day.
BRG said:whitecow said:Faster horses said:1500 miles????? Where are you taking them?
I'd say mats would be nice. Good luck on your journey.
How many times will you unload and load them?
How long will it take to go 1500 miles?
From Pennsylvania to TX. We plan to go half way (~12 hrs) stop/unload for the night and drive another 12 hrs the next day.
From what I here, you might be the only guy hailing cattle into Texas. Good luck!
jingo2 said:If you don't know how to bed a trailer......should you even be hauling?
Lots of things can go wrong hauling....go very wrong....very fast. That's a long haul if you are inexperienced
cure said:I can't figure you guys out whitecow is asking for advise and now it has turned into your not quilified to haul cows that many miles. There is only one way to learn and that is to have enough balls to get off the couch and do it .
George said:I have never had a trailer with a metal floor either -- - - with the wood floor I tried rubber mats ( I have plenty of conveyor belting ) but I feel they get to slippery when wet so I quit them.
I use about one good scoop shovel full of sand for every 8' to 10' of trailer floor - - - not to hard to clean out, no rocks to cause hoof problems but plenty of traction.
The only thing I would try for is to make it in 3 eight hour hauls instead of 2 twelve hours. 12 hours is a long time to stand without feed or water!
I'm sure you could locate some local sale barns that would provide feed and rest for the cattle at a reasonable cost.