yea they are bateman crushes, im going to have another lok at them. Was looking at the ambasador at the ploughing, the one with the manual yoke and i asked the salesman could it be closed from behind the animal and he just fecked off. had,nt a clue. was'nt bothered. I spoke to one of batemans own reps and he was excellent ad very helpful. I dont think id buy a manual closing gate that had to be closed from beside the animal as that would be like having to put a longer rope on the old type gates. That means it would have to be the one with the auto gate. I will look again to see how strong they are as they are not gaga money.
I dont want to be welding a crush after dowing a few cracked heifers,