I’ve been working on my loading chute, trying to get it firmed up and a little handier to back up to and load cattle out of. I got it done yesterday. It has a dirt floor in it so I extended the front out and let the dirt spill out the one side and built it up, so it can be used for a cat walk along the side. These cattle sure load good with a dirt floor and we usually don’t get enough rain for it to wash too bad. And when it does, I just drop some more in with the loader. Dirt is pretty cheap around here. 🙂
I used left over material from tearing the old corral fence down. Got a few planks left over so I suppose I will have to go patch on my poor ol’ rickity corrals.
Poor fences make good cowboys!
Dennisranch 
I tried to get rid of the lower picture but didn’t. Hmmm, I guess I will just ignore it! 🙂
I bet dirt is pretty cheap out there, but out here all you see are signs with people looking for fill (dirt)!!
I bet I could sell them some, but the freight would be pretty bad! 🙂
Wanna come and build us a new one?
Sure Linda, if it pays good enough! 🙂
Boy,
Does that bring back some memories, mostly bad. We had hogs, so our chute was a bit skinnier than that. There was also one here on my uncle’s place that I bought. Both were torn down years ago. We found it was easier to load them into the hydraulic trailer and load the hogs into the livestock truck from the trailer. Those hogs wouldn’t go up the ramp unless you goosed them with the Hotshot.
Just found your site today. I’ll have to read some of your archives. Good day!