Livestock transport

Whoa dude, leave my girlfriend out of it!

 

You jave to follow them in and keep them in until you can get various gates and/or ramps latched shut... Then to inload they dont always wany to come ouy so you have to wade into the herd and get them turned around and headed out the door. My worst nightmare is to have the very last animal hang up inside alone and not want to come out. You have to go in and convince him to go out. Often times thus last animal is scared and on the fight, and you become its #1 enemy... This is when you are Most likely to get hurt bad.

No one else loads or unloads your trailer for you... You do it yourself. There May be a man or 2 on the ground sorting and operating gates in the Corrales. But anything to do with that trailer is up to you the driver.

Edit: oh yeah a standard bull rack has up to 8 separate compartments inside: the nose (that can be double decked to create 2), the doghouse (a small compartment in the upper right rear corner of the trailer), upper deck (can be gated in the center to create 2), the belly (can also be gated in the center to create 2), and the tail.

 

@J Rich here is a couple posts from another thread in which I recount what I considered my worst day as a cattle hauler...

 

To load the bottom of a pot you take them across the top, through 2 gates then down a chute you raise and lower in the front top deck (some trailers use a counter balance to do this. It always gets bent and loves to hurt you) to the bottom front deck. Through another gate to the bottom middle. Bare in mid cattle are not crazy about confined space or dark areas. They have fight or flight instincts some times you are simply in their way. They are not trained or tame so to speak. The quieter and more calm you can keep them the better. Some breeds are more apt to hook you than others. A long ear is the first sign they are looking for trouble. I had a brahma get my feet out from under me 3 years ago. When she was done dancing on me I had 3 broke ribs, and sore as hell all over. Nothing I could do really but continue on. I can tell you that is harder at 40 than at 20 or 30.

It never fails around the chute is always muddy and slick, when you track that up in an aluminum trailer floor your odds decrease of being able to make a brake for a trailer wall to climb lmao. Like has been said you load and unload your trailer. No one does it for you. Dont get me wrong it's not life or death every day or James Bond dangerous. But a cake walk is something it ain't. The fun doesn't stop at loading or unloading hauling live animals isn't like hauling #### that's strapped down or wrapped to a pallet

 

Do you remember the old trailers that had the escape hatches in the top? You always knew things werent going Well when one of those flew open.

 

All good info! I knew the trailer had 2 decks, but didn't know about all the gates and dividers. Sounds like a good challenge that I'd like if I wanted to be gone all the time.

 

I still have one out behind the barn. You would be surprised how fast a short fat guy can get out one of those

 

Been my experience you will be surprised at what you can do with a pissed off cow chasing you.

 

Uh you might get trampled because you're the guy with a flag on a stick doing his impression of a rodeo clown, and then you've got to close the gates behind them.