Crank-Up Hog Building Doors

Crank-Up Hog Building Doors HOG EQUIPMENT & IDEAS Hog Equipment & Ideas (351) 18-3-7 Opening and closing more than 30 doors on the back side of this Missouri hog confinement building is a 2 min. job now thanks to a crank-up cable system. "We drilled holes through the back of the rafters and put pieces of 1-in. pipe through them along the length of the barn, and then welded them together and put a big crank on one end," says Brad Jacobs, Drexel, Mo. "Then we drilled holes in the pipe at each door to put cable through, and attached the other end of the cable to the bottom of the door. When we turn the handle, the doors all raise or lower at once. "We put the doors by our feeder pigs and smaller hogs on different cranks from the sows and bigger market sows, so all the doors don't have to open at once. The idea saves a lot of time and hassle and was relatively easy to do." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Brad Jacobs, Rt. 1, Box 55, Drexel, Mo. 64742 (ph 816 267-3335).

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