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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: vfr400boy on February 25, 2022, 03:52:26 pm
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They is a local on line farm sale and they is 2 4ft hay rack on wheels i bid one up to £40 and I was out bid, how much is a new one roughly amd how much is a second hand one worth ? Thanks
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Quick look IAE £212 or £280 or £366 other make £ 475 so maybe should have bid 100+ if in good condition . An 8ft is way cheaper per ft the 366 one is only 419 in 8ft , the 212 is 372 in 8ft
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Quick look IAE £212 or £280 other make £ 475 so maybe should have bid 100+ if in good condition
Ok thank you
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There is a 10ft rack on ebay at stratford -upon -avon @ £225 but open to offers so maybe 150-200
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Wow maybe more than I afford
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They have increased quite a bit in price recently. I bought 2 x 6ft racks for £90
each in a sale a couple of years ago but they’d be £150ish now.
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Stuff has gone up loads,
I can't justify paying £100 , I will just carry on feeding it on the floor for now
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Can you make your own - we did. Or use a couple of old wheelbarrows depending on the number of sheep. Less wastage than just chucking it on the ground.
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The last 2 I bought were £220 + Vat each, that was late 2020. They are a handy size and to buy 2nd hand around here is near impossible.
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We had put enough in our budget for the current financial year for 2 small hay hecks.
Prices for agri steel things have literally doubled since Brexit, and I cannot now source a 4' or 6' wheeled hay heck. The 8' and 10' are too heavy to move on our mud.
Wish I was nearer. [member=27335]vfr400boy[/member], I would be snapping that up!
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They is alot of good stuff but am very surprised how much alot of it is already
I will try put a link up ,
https://auctions.dee-atkinson-harrison.co.uk/auctions/info/id/28/Timed-Online-Retirement-Sale-Of-Grassland-Machinery-Sheep-Livestock-Equipment
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Maybe I am just been a tight Yorkshire man ha
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Put a hurdle, or a piece of weld mesh, across a corner of your field. Or between two fence posts, flush at the bottom and wider at the top but not so wide they can go behind.
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Ah, it's a retirement sale. Lots of items will go for more than market value then, as neighbours will want to buy things they can use as a way of making sure their friend has a good pot of money to see him into his retirement. Unless he was very unpopular, in which case bargains are still possible, lol.
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From every thing said it sounds like buying a hay rack is going to rise in value faster than shares and certainly better than money in a current account :trophy:
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10 ft for sale on Gumtree Harwich Essex £200 just needs a new wheel which you can easily buy
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Given that you've only got a few sheep, I'm sure you can make an effective hay rack. If I just have say half a dozen in a field, I attach a metal hurdle to a fence (or gate). Metal is better than wooden because it has rails and easier for them to pull the hay out. Tie the bottom rail of the hurdle tightly to the fence, but let the top rail hang about 2 foot out - so looking at it from the side you have a triangle of which the hurdle and fence form 2 sides and the third side is the top, which is open. Make a sort of net from baler twine at each side, connecting the hurdle to the fence - to stop them pulling hay out the side - and fill with hay. :excited:
Alternately buy a sheep hay ring. Much cheaper than a hay rack on wheels, and splits into 2 halves so easily portable. I have on occasions used just one half tied up against the fence, when using small bales.
Feeding hay on the ground to sheep is extremely wasteful. They will not eat anything they have trodden on, unless they are starving, and you do not want pregnant ewes to get that desperate. You may therefore think that because there is plenty of what appears to you to be fresh hay on the ground, that there is sufficient. They will believe otherwise.
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Just been to a small farm sale to day and stuff was making silly money 8k for a furgie 135 , they was 8 used wooden hurdles they made £60 pluss auction tax there only £9 each new ,,,,
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I have 18 sheep, half are lambs that I really need gone.
Afew week ago I bought a big bale sheep ring off a neighbour, I thought it was a lot of money, but hay saved will pay for it. I only use one half with 2 hurdles that i climb over, I have a ring of sheep netting within the ring, and top that up, hardly any waste.
Hoping if I look after it, it will have a resale value.
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another possibility is an ibc cage, either as ring feeder or use a sheet / or the right sized pallet to angle the hay to the bottom
Cheap and much better than wasting hay - which is only going to get more expensive