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NW Missouri | Here's my setup. My tub/alley/chute is the same as yours, just a different brand. I designed it to sit at at a little bit of an angle to the alley that feeds it it because I also use it as a loadout. This setup works pretty well.
Unless you plan to set it and never move it, it works good to have gates to close against it once it's in place. I do use mine on a different farm with portable panels and when I bring it back here it doesn't have to be in the EXACT same spot - as long as the back left corner of the tub is against the permanent corral post that I chain it to, the angle it sits at can vary a little bit and the gates still close it off just fine.
I wish I had a couple more man gates, and I wish I could sort 2 directions out of the alley easier. It can be done, but is kind of a process. I may add a pen to the east someday which would solve that issue.
Edit to add: We bring them in from the west pen through the north gate so they are NW of the tub. Can sort cows/calves right there, or bring them into the next pen to the east in smaller groups to sort. We also sort in the alley sometimes too. We always put cows in the SE pen, calves go down the alley, through the mangate on the east side of the tub, and then into the little pen east of the chute. If we have a big group to work, we can leave some cows north of the alley, or we can put the calves all there and put cows in both south pens, but usually everything fits in the 2 south pens. Since the pen NE of the tub is empty by that point, when pregging, breds go into big west pen through the south gate, opens go north into the NE pen and are still captured to load out if needed.
Edited by Expensive Hobby 11/12/2026 14:26
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