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They have a sale for the gates right now, $160 cheaper. But I was trying to figure out how to get them home...🤔
Would need to rent a trailer just to get the long panels home, so I'm looking at alternatives again.
The 4×4 inch goat panels are 4ft×16ft, $55.
If cut in half to be 8ft barn dividers, it's more than 50% cheaper than a bar gate. Much lighter & lamb safe, too.
For the outside span of panels, I could put a tpost at the center of either end of the rows and string a wire at top & bottom to keep them secure from moving around. Then I'd only have the one tpost to remove every year. Or get anchors with a ring at top to clip the bases of the panels to.
Its still not long enough at 16ft, but I could cut a spare panel to attach to the ends to reach the paddock walls.
10× goat panels
Have a few spare tposts laying around.
So, went from $2,272 custom delivered, to 1k gates, to $840 sale gates, to about $550 goat panels.
Guess with that amount of savings, I can't complain about tposts!
Would need to rent a trailer just to get the long panels home, so I'm looking at alternatives again.
The 4×4 inch goat panels are 4ft×16ft, $55.
If cut in half to be 8ft barn dividers, it's more than 50% cheaper than a bar gate. Much lighter & lamb safe, too.
For the outside span of panels, I could put a tpost at the center of either end of the rows and string a wire at top & bottom to keep them secure from moving around. Then I'd only have the one tpost to remove every year. Or get anchors with a ring at top to clip the bases of the panels to.
Its still not long enough at 16ft, but I could cut a spare panel to attach to the ends to reach the paddock walls.
10× goat panels
Have a few spare tposts laying around.
So, went from $2,272 custom delivered, to 1k gates, to $840 sale gates, to about $550 goat panels.
Guess with that amount of savings, I can't complain about tposts!
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