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Pole barn roof pitch/4H hog load/unload facility

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mswb

02-21-2007 16:50:40




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Drawing up a hog loading/ unloading facility for the county fair. What is the usual roof pitch used on Morton,FBI,Cleary, etc. buildings?
Tenative plan is for 3 pens,side by side.10'wide and 30'deep with divider gates in each pen, so we can have 6 pens and be able to unload 3 trailers at a time. A chute at the back of the pens that will be used for check in, ear tagging and weighing and for routing the hogs into the barn.Trying to incorporate some of Dr. Temple Grandin's ideas on this as far as using dead heads in the chute,etc. Any suggestions appreciated. No matter how hard we try, there is always someone that thinks unloading takes too long.It seems like they(parents/ grandparents) settle down a bit if we can get the hogs unloaded.lol.Usually receive and process about 400 hogs in 6 hours.

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Janicholson

02-21-2007 19:12:02




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 Re: Pole barn roof pitch/4H hog load/unload facili in reply to mswb, 02-21-2007 16:50:40  
Aproximately 4:12. Four feet of drop for 12 feet of horizontal run. Some could be more, but I think this is close. They are walkable. JimN



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IaGary

02-21-2007 17:24:35




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 Re: Pole barn roof pitch/4H hog load/unload facili in reply to mswb, 02-21-2007 16:50:40  
When my kids were in 4H we use to let everyone unload and get the hogs in their pens then we would bring the hogs up to the scale.

All hogs were in the pens by 8:00in the morning and we started weighing.We were done weighing by 11:00 or so.Instead of ear tags we used paint numbers on the back. No head catching that way.

There was a holding chute ahead of the scale where every hog was ultra sounded also.

Only about 300 hd.

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