Cattle guards

[mbarasing]

Here is how i build them. 12" ibeams, 2 7/8 drop pipe, 4" channel for spacers and better fitup.

This one is 14' x 20' and was built onsite. Smaller ones are built offsite and delivered.

[Joegreen02]

Very nice!


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[whtbaron]

Up here we call them Texas gates... the guy from Texas calls them cattle guards... figures...nice work btw... most guys would have just welded without the saddles...

[farmersammm]

I see that gate arrangement, and I gotta think three things.

He's got some high dollar cattle, what with such a fancy gate.

He's got some high dollar cattle that he lets up in the yard to crap all over the place in front of his high dollar mansion (fancy gate, that don't look like a pasture gate).

Or, he's just plain a moron with a fancy gate into the property,, and thinks he's livin' on the ranch in Yellowstone (a tv program with Kostner)

I'm vexed..........dunno which scenario to go with

[farmersammm]

Back in 2011 I was down around Sulfur Springs Texas to get hay. We had a drought here. I saw a lot of McMansions on the county road that went to the dooooods place. Didn't look like country livin' around here

[farmersammm]

The cattle guard is nice.............actually too nice.....wouldn't pass muster here........too fancy. But it's all about that gate............that is just absolutely Kardashian.

[farmersammm]

Meanwhile, the tractor's warmed up.............stopped running on 3 cylinders......does that on a cold day till it gets warm.

And..........I gotta interrupt my only night of the week when I can in order to get some hay out for those stinkin' cows.......which I believe I've repeatedly said that I hate

And I gotta leave the house with a gate imprinted on my brain that says that the dooooooooood is too damn lazy to get out of the pickup (probably not.......probably a Lexus) to open a damn gate


OOOOOOOMPH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Joegreen02]

I see that gate arrangement, and I gotta think three things.

He's got some high dollar cattle, what with such a fancy gate.

He's got some high dollar cattle that he lets up in the yard to crap all over the place in front of his high dollar mansion (fancy gate, that don't look like a pasture gate).

Or, he's just plain a moron with a fancy gate into the property,, and thinks he's livin' on the ranch in Yellowstone (a tv program with Kostner)

I'm vexed..........dunno which scenario to go with

Don’t count out that there might be a fortune in Deer on the other side of that gate


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[Bls repair]

John Deere?

[Joegreen02]

John Deere?

Nah


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[mbarasing]

Don’t count out that there might be a fortune in Deer on the other side of that gate


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Bingo! Exotic hoof stock... the new way of the west. Why else would 14' of cattle guard be necessary?

[mbarasing]

Up here we call them Texas gates... the guy from Texas calls them cattle guards... figures...nice work btw... most guys would have just welded without the saddles...

Yup. Then they break when hauling in caliche or concrete and then you have to listen to it clang when driving over.

What do y'all call bump gates?

[Leogl]

I was wondering why 14 foot wide also lots of material in 14 foot cattle guard

[Weldalittle]

I was wondering why 14 foot wide also lots of material in 14 foot cattle guard

I don't know about cows, but I've seen horses "gingerly" cross narrow cattle grates after they've taken multiple attempts to figure it out. Doesn't happen quickly, maybe 3 months or so, but they still figured it out. Maybe the width helps with situations like that.

[mbarasing]

I don't know about cows, but I've seen horses "gingerly" cross narrow cattle grates after they've taken multiple attempts to figure it out. Doesn't happen quickly, maybe 3 months or so, but they still figured it out. Maybe the width helps with situations like that.

I try to keep horses away from cattleguards. And t-posts, and barbed wire, and anything not suitable for a one-legged, blind man to be around.

[whtbaron]

Don’t count out that there might be a fortune in Deer on the other side of that gate


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Hmmm.... and that's the only thing we let run wild...

[Bob]

Looks good as does the gate. Most people around here go with a cattle guard that just drops in the ground so you have to have sides on it to keep the dirt from falling in the hole.

[OPUS FERRO]

mbarasing

Your build would do nothing to deter a 'Tennessee
Trotting Cow' - they would jump over it . . .

They are equally adroit jumping standard pasture
fences - although not a graceful as a horse or deer,
they - 'get er done' . . .

I believe 'Cows can Jump over the Moon' . . . but,
most likely - when you're shooting one at your EX.

hth


Opus










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[shortfuse]

Huh????????????????????

[whtbaron]

Yup. Then they break when hauling in caliche or concrete and then you have to listen to it clang when driving over.

What do y'all call bump gates?

I had to Google that to see what you were talking about. I'm not a cattle guy, but all I've heard them called is automatic gates.

[WTXBTUMOVER]

What do y'all call bump gates?

A dented quarter panel.

Zach

[mbarasing]

Looks good as does the gate. Most people around here go with a cattle guard that just drops in the ground so you have to have sides on it to keep the dirt from falling in the hole.

Same here. But when it's in a paved road i cut the road and use concrete for a clean edge.

[In Utopia]

What do we call bump gates you ask?
Pain in the azz if you don't know how to use one.

[mbarasing]

What do we call bump gates you ask?
Pain in the azz if you don't know how to use one.

Everytime I've lost a fight with a bump gate was in new trucks while being careful. No problems otherwise.

[shortfuse]

What do we call bump gates you ask?
Pain in the azz if you don't know how to use one.

And, once you bump it you don't just hang around admiring the scenery...!