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Jethro Tull

  • Joined Jan 2014
Mobile field shelters
« on: August 24, 2014, 10:42:14 pm »
I am thinking of buying one, and having it erected by the suppliers. Does anyone have any recommendation both as to quality and as to price? Yes I know that at the very least I should erect it myself, if not construct it myself, but in order to make a proper cost/benefit assessment I would be interested to know other people's experience of the commercial market.

farmvet

  • Joined Feb 2014
Re: Mobile field shelters
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2014, 10:56:06 pm »
mines from harvest services. On wheels so I can tow it easily around the field or if I move grazing. Its fantastic quality. No damage after 9 years of being abused by horses and sheep rubbing on it, and blown over twice! Not cheap but a good investment, it came erected on a trailer. There something about planning in some areas....ok if comes erected but can be erected on site?

Jethro Tull

  • Joined Jan 2014
Re: Mobile field shelters
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2014, 11:15:36 pm »
Thanks farmvet, looks like a good call, pity about their website but I will email them

john and helen

  • Joined Mar 2013
  • Devon
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Re: Mobile field shelters
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2014, 04:24:20 pm »
i have been working on some ideas to build them, simply because, each different breed will need something different, for example, the goats shelter will have doors on, as the sheep or calfs will be open fronted,

the biggest problem is getting the construction right to be strong enough to move, i am hedging more to a sliding design , than wheels


clydesdaleclopper

  • Joined Aug 2009
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: Mobile field shelters
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2014, 11:00:43 am »
One problem with a sliding design is if your fields are at all bumpy. The structure can easily twist as it is being pulled unless it is phenomenally well made. You then find that doors no longer close as it doesn't go back to square afterwards.
Our holding has Anglo Nubian and British Toggenburg goats, Gotland sheep, Franconian Geese, Blue Swedish ducks, a whole load of mongrel hens and two semi-feral children.

 

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