I moved my first hogs to the market yesterday. I don't have fancy tractors, but I had a utility trailer that I put some extra tall sides on. I backed that trailer right up into their pen, and let down the loading ramp. It took a few days, but I had them all quite excited to eat once they figured out I was throwing the food in the trailer. Then on the day I moved them, I just simply had to throw a little food, then put the ramp up. They were so happy to go on a road trip.

We love supporting y’all! Supported Farm 57 in Southwest Indiana while we were on vacation last week too!! Thank y’all so much for all the hard work you put into all of your animals, they’ve got a great life with y’all!

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! We really appreciate the business but more importantly the friendship. Thanks for supporting a local farm on your trip. Tell JP we said “hey”.

Another very nice video. I think your loading shoot had a lot of us enviously admiring that rascal! 🙂

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Haha. Glad you like it!

Cut a 2x4 a little longer than your highest peg. Screw a hinge on the 2x4 and fasten to the underside of the floor. Now you have a kickstand to hold the weight while you make peg height adjustments.

@SheratonParkFarms

3 жыл бұрын

That's a good idea. Simple fix for a little problem. Hard to hold that thing up and insert the stop bolts. Thanks!

@jbaker4900

3 жыл бұрын

@@SheratonParkFarms Anytime, really enjoying the channel. I admire your passion for farming.

Materials cost probably wouldn't be super accurate anyways with how hard stuff is to come by. Thanks for the video! Gonna have to look at building one for my farm as well.

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Great point! Overall it wasn't that expensive to build. Materials are pretty basic and not a ton of hardware. Appreciate y'all watching!

Looks Great. I want to make my own. My pigs will not be ready until October. I still need to get a set of forks for My Mahindra 1633 to make this work. Thanks.

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Forks are the most used thing we have here. You'll not regret getting them!

Awesome video. Thank you.

@SheratonParkFarms

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Appreciate y'all watching.

We have a similar setup but it’s not mobile. So when it’s processing time we have to “ call the hogs home “ lol depends on which paddock their in and how far away they are. Thanks for sharing !

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Its really made a difference for us when it comes time to load. We never know where they will be when its loading time so we decided to make it portable. Thought about building a stationary handling facility, and still may sometime in the future. Appreciate ya'll watching.

The loading chute has made your life so much easier! We supported a local farmer in Julian by purchasing feed for our horse from him.

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Nice! Thanks for buying local!! I bet we use the same mill.

Visited Garner's Produce up here in Virginia and bought beef from Monrovia Farm

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for buying local. Appreciate y'all watching.

Like the way you built in adjustability into the loading shute. I enjoy watching and getting ideas.

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Howlinhairy! You are the winner of our drawing. Please send me your mailing address so I can send your amazon card to you. Chucklewis8946@gmail.com Thanks and congratulations!!

Thanks for your video! Really learn a lot from them.

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! thanks for watching.

Bought some field peas at pineview peanut

I didn't get the names, but Saturday afternoon we stopped by a stand that has these tie-dye tomatoes that my wife likes and then we dropped by the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market and got a bunch of stuff from 3 or 4 local (local to NC, not as local to the Triad as I would have preferred). If we could have made it to High Point, I would love to have gone ahead and bought some very local pork and chicken this week, but that will have to wait until next week ;)

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Appreciate y’all supporting local. Come and see us at here market if you get a chance.

Congratulations on 1000 subs! I got to go pull garlic at our local garlic farm. Thanks for promoting local farmers.

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for supporting local farms. Appreciate y’all watching

As always, great info! Thanks for sharing Chuck. Just ordered my chicken feed from a local source! 27 days til we start.

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome!! Keep supporting those local folks!!! Appreciate ya'll watching.

Great video

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

This is great, I really could use something like this for my hogs. We buy from Minter's Farm here locally with their vegetables that we don't grow here ourselves.

Thanks very much for the video need to put one of these together for my homestead/farm going to have it pull double duty for pigs and for milk cows Bruce's Berries.

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Good luck! Appreciate y'all watching.

Terrapin farms has a nice farm stand. We just got home from getting melons from them!

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

That is AWESOME!! Thanks for supporting a local farm! Appreciate y'all watching.

I really like the Chute the portability is awesome. If you don't like the extra length at the end of the ramp why not cut off the boards? I will be supporting Honeycomb Farms Shinnston WV.

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

We may end up doing that. Appreciate you supporting Honeycomb Farms! Tell them we said "hey"!!

@honeycombfarms8111

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent video! Thanks for the idea. I built my own livestock trailer from a utility trailer with sides similar to those on your chute. After the first hogs we loaded, I wish I had thought of the sliding gate for it. Sounds like I’ll be reworking it soon. Thanks for the mention! Keep up the good work, the videos are very informative!

As created feeds ,Leetonia Ohio 600 lbs swine mix and 200lbs chicken feed. All organic non GMO verified products. Like the video probably I'll shrink the width to 28 or 30inches. Thanks again.

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Agree it could be more narrow. Appreciate y'all watching.

@barryweigle1356

4 жыл бұрын

You know Chuck I really tip my hat to you that takes a lot of work to do some filming in videos.

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

@@barryweigle1356 Thanks. I appreciate it. Its enjoyable and has given us the opportunity to meet and interact with a lot of great folks like yourself!

@Skashoon

Жыл бұрын

How wide is one of those red sorting boards? I’d want to be sure that it would fit squarely and not have to be angled as you move pigs up the ramp.

Awesome , thanks for the video! I hope you get tons of new subscribers because of this video. Question , have u used it to load into a pickup truck ? I will be making this . You can keep your plywood side shoot boards in it for storage while not in use , just a thought. Hurry up and make your e- book in your free time before some one else does. Well thank you again for making the video. I look forward to the next one from ya. Great job ! Todd

@SheratonParkFarms

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Todd. Have not tried loading into a truck but with the floor adjustable, it shouldn't be a difficult thing to do. Yeah......I need to get that book written. Maybe I can do it while I sleep! hahaha. Appreciate you watching!!

Very nice. How is your drop gate on the back attached?

@SheratonParkFarms

Жыл бұрын

It just slides between 2 slats on Ritter side of the rear. Like a small channel

Perhaps you built it 6’ high to load sheep or goats, but since I just have pigs, I would think 4-5’ height to be adequate. I understand that there could be a trailer with a big step-up, or loading into a pickup truck, just wonder whether the pigs will go up that much of an incline angle. Or am I neglecting to consider something else? I’m trying to make one that’s lighter and more compact with skids, to pull into position with my lawn tractor, since I don’t have a farm tractor. Thanks

What size gap are the spaces in the floor? I’m building one similar.

@SheratonParkFarms

3 жыл бұрын

I think they are 1/2 - 3/4". I'll measure and get back to you for sure.

Is the shute still in use?

@SheratonParkFarms

8 ай бұрын

Not any longer.

@lisabobbystamey7953

8 ай бұрын

@@SheratonParkFarms How do load them now in the field?

Buy half a cow 😂

@CliffsideStables

3 жыл бұрын

I'll buy the steak half of the cow if you buy the hamburger half! :-) Tim @ Cliffside Acres

@JPLawnsMore

3 жыл бұрын

Cliffside Acres I already have a half in my freezer! Steaks and burger.