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Mark in NEMO

Posted 6/21/2014 10:19 (#3930010 - in reply to #3929907)
Subject: RE: Finally did the calf table thing...

Northeast Missouri

Yeah, didn't get any pics while we were using it. Here's some...put away in the back of the shed.

We set it up with 2 10' gates as a calf alley--set the ends of the gates inside the doors of my cow headgate, which made it narrow enough, and chained the other end to the calf table, which we set in place with a double-tine bale spear (that's how I transport the table & how I put it away in a the shed).

The table is well built; seems heafy. For-Most's drop gate mechanism is the only bad idea on it: The rope "often" trips the latch to drop the gate, and you can't throw the gate to the top with the rope & get it to latch--have to raise it by hand. I plan to rework that before next year.

Oh, I covered the leg peg with a piece of rubber hose to make it easier on the calves if they whack it with a leg, and there's duct tape around the rubber hose.

As I said, I painted the inside black, so if you look at someone else's ForMost it will be all yellow inside.

Edited by Mark in NEMO 6/21/2014 10:26