Section16cattleco’s Blog

I wanted to post some pictures from our lastest project here at Section 16 Welding Co. Jay and I took and old squeeze chute I had that didnt work at all and revampt it into a nice working cattle squeeze chute.

First I cut off the old piece of shit self chatch head gate. I would say that if you are thinking about buying a head gate do not purchase a self catching one. There are a number of reasons I do not like them and a manual catch gate works so much better. After cutting the old gate off we welded some mounts on the squeeze chute for a used For-Most manual gate I had bought a year ago. After getting that all mounted we put new boards on the bottom to open the bottom of the chute up if we need to milk a cow or get a calf started. These doors work ver well and I will use them alot. We then welded some hooks along the top rails of the squeeze chute to hang a jug of pour on or a cattle prod, etc. We then rebuilt the old backup gate and mounted it. Jay had a good I dea to use a cable to raise and lower it, then he took the cable and attached it to tight to the bottom rail so that it always has tension it. This allows for the cable to always stay on the pulleys and always keeps it in reach to raise and lower the gate. We also welded a table onto the side to set supplies on while we are working cattle.

If you have any questions please feel free to email me. There are plenty of old chutes setting around the country that can be revamped for little money. After seeing what a new one costs I see no reason not to rebuild an old one.

Erik