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Smallholding => Equipment => Topic started by: Backinwellies on August 20, 2014, 08:28:53 am

Title: 101 uses for hurdles?
Post by: Backinwellies on August 20, 2014, 08:28:53 am

Ok what do you use yours for?  (apart from penning sheep!!)

So far we have mini gates, temporary hedge hole mending, a lamb creep feeder, .........

Title: Re: 101 uses for hurdles?
Post by: Bionic on August 20, 2014, 08:39:45 am

I use 2 as gates across the driveway to stop the dog getting out. OH did promise me nice wooden gates for christmas (this was last year) but didn't say which christmas I would be getting them  ;D

Title: Re: 101 uses for hurdles?
Post by: Bramblecot on August 22, 2014, 10:05:34 pm

Ladder to reach the  :chook: eggs laid at the top of my hay stack. ;D

Title: Re: 101 uses for hurdles?
Post by: bigchicken on August 22, 2014, 10:43:01 pm

A pen for my geese and a pen for my turkeys

Title: Re: 101 uses for hurdles?
Post by: jaykay on August 22, 2014, 11:12:24 pm

Oh blimey, where to start. Every lambing I have to buy new hurdles cos last year's ones for lambing pens have now become an integral part of the place.

Pens for: lambs, chooks, geese, feral cats
Anti-escape devices for goat kids (Ha Ha, waste of time that!)
Race and holding pens, with gates.
'Temporary’ fence so I can take the quad bike to the hay barn without the tups escaping onto the road.
Creep feeders
Temporary yard gate (works so well I am not getting round to mending the proper one

Title: Re: 101 uses for hurdles?
Post by: cloddopper on September 01, 2014, 05:19:54 am

I used to have four almost rusted through with rusted through at the bottom connector/hinge  plates .
They ended up as inverted " V's "' through which I grew my runner and tall telegraph  peas up them  till I binned them  and stated using 5 mm electro plated  100 x 150 mm gav weldmesh arches instead.

Title: Re: 101 uses for hurdles?
Post by: shygirl on September 01, 2014, 07:54:39 am

temporary hay feeder . divider in the trailer.

Title: Re: 101 uses for hurdles?
Post by: HappyHippy on September 01, 2014, 12:46:18 pm

farrowing rails for pigs  ;)

Title: Re: 101 uses for hurdles?
Post by: devonlady on September 05, 2014, 10:04:34 am

Lashed across the bottom of a field gate to stop lambs/little pigs escaping :fc: