At last, a stock proof Ride Over Gate. Now you can cruise the farm without leaving your 4Wheeler saddle!
Great for moving mobile troughs and calf feeders. Even farm needs at least one of these.
Phillip MacDonald demonstrating the Ride Over Gate at NZ Agricultural Fieldays.
"Having a Ride Over Gate gives awesome flow to the farm. We loved our first one so much we bought another – one for the employees house, and one for between the tanker track and the main farm race. They can be used even if cows are on the race, and the cows won’t beat you through the gate. We find it really useful when bringing up cows and calves as you just drive over the gate with the trailer and the gate quickly closes behind you leaving the cows on the race. You can just drive up to it, slow down a little and continue riding knowing that it will open and then close behind you. It is as simple as riding straight through it. No stopping. Ours get used multiple times a day."
Richard & Christine Lansdaal
Waikato
ROG owners for 8yrs
"We run a South Waikato Dairy unit Milking 800 cows. There is alot of stock movement during the day and 1 key area we had problems with was the 14ft tanker track gate onto the main farm tracks. This gate would be open and shut 23 times a day on average. So to save time and effort staff would leave the gate open, the result being 1 mob (400 cows) would end up down the tanker track onto or near the road.
When we installed the new motorbike gate the problem was solved. Also saving lots of time and effort not having to get on and off the bike was great. The 14ft gate only has to be opened and shut 2x a day now for the tractor and wagon or the pk troughs. Since the gate installation the cows have not been on the tanker track once.
After having the gate for about a year we put a second gate into the main calf feeding paddock. The calf rearer was having trouble trying to beat the calves through the gate with the feeder. When the gate was installed the problem was solved.
We have had the gates in for over 6 years now and i would not do without them. The gates have easily paid for themselves with the time saving and the 40,000+ times between all staff over 6 years we did not have to get off & on the bike to open the gate."
Nick & Lisa MacDonald
Mac D Farms Ltd
South Waikato
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Best purchase I've ever made in my cowshed. You don't put off treating a lame cow cause of the ease of it. Staff are happy to use it. Also doing tagging in it and use it for everything. After initially dynabolting it down I have now concreted thru the floor frame.
Scott Taylor