Need some help... please

[cswilson]

I've A.I.'ed a few thousand head or more over last dozen years in every set up imagineable-first off spend a couple hundred bucks and go take a Bud Williams or Dylan Biggs handling course there isn't a cattleman alive that can't learn something from them. The best chutes I've found are the new Stampede steel ones-Somerville's are good but a little more cumbersome. A foot of extra length saves you alot of grief over the years. If a chute is a 30 year investment an extra thousand bucks is less than a penny a day-I'd spend that to get what I want. Crowding Tubs are a nuisance if not used properly and can really slow things down. The best systems I've seen is a rectangular crowding pen and a straight alley to the chute-with some people with cattle sense running it. We run a couple thousand through our system each year and don't own a prod or a whip.

[angus1]

Don't aim to p*** in your corn flakes or rain on your parade, but money definitely is an issue. I watched a neighbor put a less than cooperative bull though his system by himself, and I was very impressed. I do not have lots of people to assist me, or I would design it differently. The tub, properly set up is the key to properly functioning system. I'll be running about 200 head / year through this system. It doesn't have to last 30 years, because I won't. ( I'm getting a little "long in the tooth" )

[cswilson]

Rain and p... all you want lol.