Drive Through Gates
As farm accessories, livestock gates come in all shapes, sizes, lengths and weights. They can be made from several kinds of materials such as wire mesh, steel tubing, chain link, wood, vinyl, woven and chicken wire. The height of the gates may also vary depending on your personal needs for your farm or ranch, whether it is to keep something in or out. How you want to secure your gates is another factor to figure in when purchasing your gates.
There are many kinds of gates, from personal use for around your home or property, to out in the pasture on the farm or ranch. Whether it is to keep something or someone out and away from your home to keeping livestock, such as cattle, horses, goats, sheep, chickens, and other animals in there specific areas on the farm, there is a gate made for each situation.
There are also the electronic gates and drive through gates. These are the gates that you can drive up to in your truck, tractor, or vehicle of choice and bump them and they automatically open without you ever having to leave the warmth or convience of your vehicle. These gates are a great comfort for the elderly farmer and for those that have a lot of ground to cover. Even those that ride their horse to check their livestock might find that a bump from their horse or themselves is pretty conveinent. The great thing is you don’t have to worry about not locking the gate, for it does the job for you.
On our farm, we use tubing gates with our electric tinsel fencing. We own Longhorn cattle, Herfords, riding horses, and a Belgium, had up to four Belgiums but, recently downsized. These gates work well for us and is one of our main farm accessories. Now at the horse barn, we did things a little different; we built gates to specifically fit our stalls out of Poplar. They were built to keep the horses and cattle from wanting to climb out of the stall. Believe me, a ton Belgium is Big and when he wants to go somewhere, there’s not a lot you can do! So we built them five and one-half feet high and approximately eight feet wide. Like I said, made to fit. They are double door gates and fasten with a single hook closure with two sliding bars, made from Poplar, one at the top and one at the bottom to give them extra strength and support for when the livestock push against them. They are heavy and study and work very well for us.
So, as you can see, livestock equipment can consist of many items. If you live on a farm or ranch, you know, that one of your farm accessories will and must be a livestock gate of some make or model. Whether you purchase or build it yourself, to keep animals in and people out or whatever the case may be, it is a personal necessity in today’s world.