LVR, agreed patience and routine are key...I learned a lot from watching "Farmer Tyler Ranch" on You Tube, that guy is awesome at sorting and loading. Have you watched Tyler? You know I only have two pens..where I sort them between the two and then to the outside...i wish i had 4 pens, like you, in-case one gets out..that i need back in. Multiple pens would be great. I do have a close gate behind them on the load center...but i didn't need to use it.
My thought is...if i fail to sort properly and contain the ones i need....then i'm done for the day, i won't need to (waste time) hooking up and bringing out the livestock trailer.
Probably a better way but we'll work with what we have. Looked up ''F T R" on U Tube. Interesting but it will probably be a No Go until we
have Hi Speed available. Back to the corral. An observation I have made is, ''if a person is building a corral for the single purpose of restraining
cattle and the only time the cattle are in the corral is for the purpose of restraint, for moving, working (all facets thereof) you will discover that
it will at times be more difficult to get them in the corral and you will have heads up stock to deal with.
Due to the lay of the land where the corral needs to be I am limited as to what I can do. There is year around live water in gorge on one
side and sloping ground on the other. All dirt (clay) no rock . 2/10 of rain and it is slick as s- - t. and stay away when the frost goes out.
So within those parameters the corral was built in somewhat of an elliptical or oval ( a bit more flat on one side).
When I get through here you will understand the construction of the
Temple in the Wilderness!. All pens are contained within the oval.
There are two openings on each end, with one set side by side and at right angles on the other end to facilitate rotational grazing.
The load out entry is wide enough to back a trailer in to where the trailer tires will come against a post on either side.
As you face the trailer from the rear the swing gate opens to your right. Slide door is on left. There is a push gate on your left which will
interact with the trailer gate when it is closing. Once they are on the trailer side of the push gate they have no place to go but in the trailer.
I will use the slide door if they cooperate otherwise the push gate will prevent the swing gate on the trailer from coming open. Gates are 2 to
2&1/2 " pipe.
There is another inside barrier that runs about 10' mosa minos lateral to the out side of the corral with gates at varying distance that I use
to contain whatever comes in. The pens on the ends have gates to the center which will get you to the loadout. Or you can just bypass the
trailer and route anything on through. Just make sure the lane to the road gate is closed! Oh, I forgot there are 2 barriers when you
by pass the pen route. It is quite Spartan, if you will, I made it from 16' x 5' combination panels set on 3' centers. All from scratch by hand,
holes and all by himself. I know you are more of an accomplished
engineer so the building will be of little consequence other than
parts and labor. I guess the point of all the verbiage is to make sure you construct or add to your corral in such a way to insure the cattle
are using it on a regular basis and not as a point of trauma.
At this point I apologize for any mental anguish this dissertation may have caused.
