How to build a Texas Gate
The Texas Gate, also called a Vehicle Pass, is a very convenient way to confine livestock but allow tractors, trucks and cars to pass through a feedlot or field fence. Rubber-tired wheels roll easy across the grid (spaced steel pipes) but cattle, sheep and horses will shun the round smooth piping over a pit. If used at the entrance to a feedlot, add a swing gate at the feedlot side of the pipe grid to prevent animals from being accidentally crowded onto the pipes
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