Genius improvements. The bevel will keep it wedged in place.
@TaylorWelding4 ай бұрын
i hope so
@Truth2Truth7774 ай бұрын
Those are AWESOME Chris!!!!
@Beauacadian3 ай бұрын
If you stopped your fence about 4' shy of that gap and had a 4' " wing" welded to that pivoting section it would block animals from trying to pass under it. Kind of like a E sticking out from that pivoting section. Just a thought. Another well designed project by Taylor Welding! I enjoy your videos very much. I've been welding since 1979. Fab shops, construction, oil field high pressure pipe, and now aerospace. You are one of the few youtubers that actually know what you are talking about. Great stuff!
@SFS13-014 ай бұрын
Fantastic job! Don’t understand what keeps calves from going under the wings but still allows one to ride their horse through it but maybe I’m just not thinking about it correctly. You’re 100% correct about your crossmember placement. I put them on 8’ centers. Like everything about it. It’ll more than likely outlast you by a long shot.
@gunnerlrr3 ай бұрын
They will never give me the time that it takes to build a cattle guard that nice. Great job brother
@Blackopsmechanic3384 ай бұрын
Love seeing what you come up with! Makes sense. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@TaylorWelding4 ай бұрын
thank you sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't l o l
@bransonred14 ай бұрын
Man, that is a beautiful cattle gap! Nice work brother!
@TaylorWelding4 ай бұрын
Thanks 👍
@landonschad44794 ай бұрын
Very nice design
@TaylorWelding4 ай бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
@bobroberson92864 ай бұрын
Great idea for the horses 👍
@clarasorchard883 ай бұрын
Nice work Chris. You go above and beyond. A true craftsman! 👍
@rogertaylor86154 ай бұрын
Nice job good idea
@commietube42733 ай бұрын
Please show it installed. Great work!
@samuelscragg70524 ай бұрын
Looks like a good build to me. After it been in place for a couple of years go see how it held up. On the road semi are allowed 80,000 lbs. off road it whatever we feel like so eighty thousand pounds maybe just a starting place hauling feed or hay out to cattle.
@TaylorWelding4 ай бұрын
Seems like 80,000 pounds would tear up anything
@MadGunner4 ай бұрын
Built like a tank!
@vorsprung23304 ай бұрын
Hello Chris Very glad to see you. Please keep teaching us.
@johndeninger89054 ай бұрын
Great video
@TaylorWelding4 ай бұрын
Thank you John
@JonDingle4 ай бұрын
Here in the UK we call them a "cattle grid". I have repaired quite a few. Back in the 1950's and through to the early 1970's some were made from old railway track which also breaks. I have repaired them with a strip of 4inch by 3/8th (100mm by 10mm) flat bar across the tops and as you rightly say, at the width of a truck so the weight is spread over the bars. The "C" section channel half way up the bar is a good idea too. It keeps the bars in place, stiffens them and keeps the grid quiet. Noisey grids have broken welds! Too allow livestock, horses and walkers safe passage, we usually put a swinging gate at the side of a grid where required. Another good idea is to put in a wildlife ramp. Here in the UK, small mammals (hedgehogs) and even frogs and toads get trapped and die in the well under the bars. Having a ramp at each end internally to help them escape save the life of a wild animal.
@TaylorWelding3 ай бұрын
I bet railroad iron made a great cattle grid. The problem with the old railroad iron imo is you never know if it’s going to weld good or not. I don’t think they had very good quality control at the foundry back in the early 1900s . They just did the best they could. Thanks for being here JON Dingle. I always like having the seasoned fellas in the comments.
@ElwoodEarly-r9j3 ай бұрын
I wish I had seen this video thirty years ago when I built two cattleguards at my ranch. I would not had to clean them out so often and make the repairs that you described. Get info. on placement of I beams for tires . Keep these coming even us old ranchers are learning. Thanks
@grounded-beef4 ай бұрын
Dang man that is awesome. I need one of them up here.
@TaylorWelding4 ай бұрын
I can build you one
@andyhillis67793 ай бұрын
Well done
@mandeladams47934 ай бұрын
Great design, same idea and design is great for shaker plates on a construction site entrance/ exit, keeps the dirt localized and throw a sling or chain on it and yank it out of there to muck it out. Round pipe is more gentle on equipment and backs than angle iron on point.
@sonofbr4 ай бұрын
I didn't know the wings were for horses. In my area, the wings are fixed and there is a (usually flimsy bob wire) gate next to it for horses and cattle.
@TaylorWelding4 ай бұрын
same here. I think people don't use them like they were intended in the beginning
@bransonred13 ай бұрын
They're for anything that needs to pass by the cattle gap/guard, we use them to move the cows past...though ours aren't fancy like that, just barbed wire looped over a post lol
@KevinsDisobedience4 ай бұрын
Looks like you’ve thought of everything. Bomb proof.
@liljoe89524 ай бұрын
Love it
@Beadlayer693 ай бұрын
Hey Chris. Big fan of the channel, I’m 21 and got introduced to stick welding in secondary school. Got certified in mig last December and going to school to get the rest of my fabrication certs in November. I’m wondering if you’ve got any advice on getting into the industry where there’s no real oil and gas work. Most of the work here in Ireland is automotive and agricultural. The plan is to move to Australia and get into the mines or onto a rig but I need some big experience first. Thanks again
@tubeonline6293 ай бұрын
They build them around here with 2 7/8" tubing on oilfield locations with concrete footings for them to set on.
@TaylorWelding3 ай бұрын
Yes, sir, this one have concrete footings as well
@zonexton43984 ай бұрын
I always wondered why they don’t build a flip up gate that comes up in the middle so you could lock closed for no trespassing
@TaylorWelding4 ай бұрын
That's a great idea... we could sure do it
@TaylorWelding4 ай бұрын
Most people don't want to pay for something like that
@acs66562Ай бұрын
In Arizona it’s a cattle guard
@bransonred13 ай бұрын
My wife walks by "what are you watching?" "uhh...a welder I subscribed to, explaining how he built this awesome cattle gap!", wife "oh good grief, ...well, I guess your man card is firmly in-tact!" lol
@michaelgeary93563 ай бұрын
I have a question, I'm wanting to start a little welding business in my shed. I'm looking at the titanium flux 125, or the titanium stick 225. Which one should I get or which one can get me the most jobs? Any advice would greatly be appreciated.
@OneTon6774 ай бұрын
The one thing I despise is half-assed work. This is most definitely not half-assed. Meant to last for years, and this one will. The little details matter.
@bransonred14 ай бұрын
"never half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing" -Ron Swanson
@TaylorWelding4 ай бұрын
I agree 100%. If the customer balks at the price. Answer is... I want to build nice things not cheap things
@TaylorWelding4 ай бұрын
100%
@mikewilber28864 ай бұрын
What’s the spacing on the pipe?
@geraldtaylor10353 ай бұрын
I believe 4”
@shadowx1rider3 ай бұрын
Loving the videos but I don't believe that only took you 2 days to fabricate and weld
@koreywhitt94844 ай бұрын
I don’t even put any I beam on the ends. You dont drive on the ends.
@bransonred13 ай бұрын
You must have never had any timber cut inside of a cattle gap, there is a reason they no longer call them log truck drivers and instead call them steering wheel holders. lol We had some cut 15 years ago and those idiots drove off the side of the cattle gap and it was made from railroad track and was over a 3 foot deep creek. When we built that massive thing 30 or 40 years ago my grandpa insisted we put railroad ties out on the ends (equivalent to his I-beams) because he said somebody one day might drive out on the edge. Man was he right.