Rebar cattleguard

[Rock knocker]

There probably locals who could do it for the same sans freight

 

[rtimgray]

I've always built my cattle guards from scavenged pipes or tubes (which I know the OP is trying to avoid for repeatability, and I completely understand that). I've had lots of concrete (no cement) trucks come over mine with no problem, but that's because I'm not spanning a pit with it - I always placed steel beams/tubing underneath the wheel track of where large trucks tires are located, and it sets on poured concrete footers. Neither here nor there...

...another option, that some of my neighbors use, is to make them completely out of 4x6 and 6x6 treated timbers. Basically, they dig a hole, lay 6x6's parallel with the edges of the pit and spaced so that they will be under the tires of vehicles passing over them, then lay 4x6's on edge on top (perpendicular to them and lag screw them to the 6x6 sleepers. Treated 2x12's enclose the pit area and they backfill with gravel. I think some of them have a 4" pvc pipe draining the water out, others don't because they are the low point, and water just sits in them til it absorbs or evaporates. At any rate, their cattle don't cross them, and they don't seem to care if it's wood or metal or cement or concrete.

Just an alternate idea.

Good luck and take care.

 

[7879fordman]

The best thing to use is drill stem . That's what we make them with . Couple 100 bucks and ya got a super strong cattle guard .

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[blueriver]

9 out of 10 of us here in Oklahoma have these and most of us build our own .. 7' by 16' is common .. The unit is premade in the shop .. 4 pipes 6-8 inches diameter cut 7' long and spaced equally ... then 2 n 3/8 pipe 16' long placed 6" o/c ... Welded to the larger pipe ... Wala one cattle guard!!!

Yes it cost a little .. About $700 bucks plus you gotta weld it .. We drive "cement" trucks on them ... once I had a concrete truck come in !!!

 

[rsallen]

Ya'll ain't gonna let me live down my ceement truck are ya. lol

 

[7879fordman]

9 out of 10 of us here in Oklahoma have these and most of us build our own .. 7' by 16' is common .. The unit is premade in the shop .. 4 pipes 6-8 inches diameter cut 7' long and spaced equally ... then 2 n 3/8 pipe 16' long placed 6" o/c ... Welded to the larger pipe ... Wala one cattle guard!!!

Yes it cost a little .. About $700 bucks plus you gotta weld it .. We drive "cement" trucks on them ... once I had a concrete truck come in !!!

This is how ours are build also . But cheaper steal prices apparently .

We have loaded feed trucks 80,000 pounds . cross ours weekly .

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[blueriver]

This is how ours are build also . But cheaper steal prices apparently . We have loaded feed trucks 80,000 pounds . cross ours weekly . Sent from my iPhone 5 using TractorByNet

I haven't bought any 4-6 inch lately .. 2 n 3/8 cost about $1.30 a ft ... 16' would be $21 about $300 for the top .. I was just guessing on the 4/6 inch .. Yes I was probably high .. Maybe more like $500 for the project ... We have hauled dozers in on lowboys and all is well

To the OP .. If you have no place to buy used lengths of pipe check scrap yards for pipe

 

[blueriver]

Ya'll ain't gonna let me live down my ceement truck are ya. lol

Listen it's not everyday we can pick on someone for a simple play on words .. I think we all know what you meant .. Just hadn't heard "Ceeement" truck in a long time!!!

 

[CNC Dan]

Ya'll ain't gonna let me live down my ceement truck are ya. lol

That's not so bad. I once saw:
'seament' truck.

 

[rtimgray]

That's not so bad. I once saw:
'seament' truck.

I once saw somebody spell "Voila" - Wala...at least, that's what I assumed they meant..

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