2004 - Volume #28, Issue #1, Page #41
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Home-Built Headgate
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The George Sim family uses salvaged combine rub bars to make the frame of a headgate. The strength of this good quality, heavy iron, and the fact that a cheap or free supply of it is readily available to farmers, makes it a great raw material to work with.
A rope runs from the headgate through a pulley, to the back of where the animal stands, and allows the operator to catch livestock from a distance. This way, one person can usually work alone to capture even rambunctious cows. (Janis Schole, R.R.#1, Pickardville, Alberta, Canada T0G 1W0 ph 780 349-3538, email: jschole@west-teq.net)
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