Author Topic: Overweight Ewes!!! (Read 5356 times)

shep53 · « **Reply #15 on:** January 23, 2017, 12:54:37 pm »

Womble have just put in sheep load bars uk and up came lots of sites

Womble · « **Reply #16 on:** January 23, 2017, 01:17:13 pm »

OK, I tried "animal weigh plate", and was somewhat less successful. The ones in WBF's link seem pretty good actually, if still a bit pricey for sheep only.

Fleecewife · « **Reply #17 on:** January 23, 2017, 04:41:56 pm »

We have a (mostly) home made weighing device. We already had the actual spring scales which weigh up to a lot, but I can't remember how much, probably 50kgs. Two wooden 'A' frames joined at the top with a strong cross pole. Scales suspended from that, then a rope and sling for the sheep attached to the bottom hook of the scales. Our sling was just a polyprop sack, but the whole thing, minus scales, would easily take the weight of a man - we have the pics to show it.
It's all a bit Heath Robinson, but for those of us who are financially challenged, for the occasional weighing of a small lot of meat lambs, it works well.

Dans · « **Reply #18 on:** January 24, 2017, 11:19:01 am »

Do you have a pic FW? I would so like a set of sales but the price new is just too much and there aren't many second hand sales near here.

Dans

Fleecewife · « **Reply #19 on:** January 24, 2017, 12:32:24 pm »

Quote from: Dans on January 24, 2017, 11:19:01 am

Do you have a pic FW? I would so like a set of sales but the price new is just too much and there aren't many second hand sales near here.

Dans

I knew someone was going to ask that

. It's somewhere deep in the bowels of our computer but I'll have a delve. The main cost is the spring balance, which you might be able to source second hand online.