Cattle yard extension

[marimus]

You can see in this photo, i'm skipping ahead a little. I have a small cattle yard here, that is growing slightly. I've already put in the new posts as you can see, but they need some rails now.

Rails are cut from ironbark logs using a chainsaw, steel wedges, a sledge hammer and some steel bars.

Below you can see some ironbark logs, and the pile of bark that I have stripped to the far right. On the left is a log marked out for ripping, and the other log has been ripped and steel wedges driven to open it out.

5 steel wedges have been driven in, so that one of the rails can be split out of the log. The final work is done with a steel bar, or sometimes two depending on how free the grain is. The picture below you can see the rail is free.

Once one of the rails is clear, you can then cut the other rails free. Working around the log, and cutting between the heart and the rail at the desired thickness.

Two rails free and clear, more to follow....

And that is how you make cattle yard rails :thumbsup:
Hopefully some of you guys find this interesting, or at least it might be something new you haven't seen before.

Cheers

 

[BeezFun]

Cool, thanks for posting that.

 

[texasjohn]

very interesting.... was wondering what ironbark was until I saw where you are....you must have access to lots of large, straight trees to do this to fence in a large area...wish I had the same..

 

[marimus]

Well I didn't get any work done today, so here are a few pics of what i've already done. Below you can see the begginings of a sliding gate for a cattle crush.

And now here is a proper gate, connecting onto the race which runs to the slide gate previous.

And here you can see where the steel race curves away from the existing timber loading ramp. The yards were just a couple of pens and the ramp. I'm heading towards a full cattle handling yard now, with steel for the close-in work and timber for the larger pens.

Might be i'll get some more work done tomorrow... :thumbsup:

 

[texasjohn]

You're going to have a proper set of cattle pens there when you are done.....looking very good:thumbsup::thumbsup: