Our Yard Design

1. Our aluminium hurdles all have curved edges.
This we achieve by bending the tube before welding and finally heat treating it to harden the hurdle. It is more expensive to make this way, but worth it. The curved edges allow you to drag several connected hurdles across rough ground. This is both easier and much more time efficient than carrying them.

2. Our hurdle tops are vertical rather than horizontal.
Sheep jump. It’s a fact we are all aware of. Hurdle height is always a compromise between keeping them in and your ease of use. That’s why we put verticals in the top of our hurdles. Firstly, the vertical discourages sheep from jumping, the opposite of a horizontal. But more importantly, should they jump, then it avoids them getting the legs caught and potentially broken.

3. All our hurdles are heat treated.
This means we can bend and weld the aluminium accurately and efficiently when it is in a relatively “soft” state. The subsequent heat treatment vastly increases the stiffness and strength of the product.

4. By placing drafting doors at the front of the yard base.
This can help improve the efficiency of the system. When drafting left and right you may wish to temporarily halt proceedings without having to remove all of the hurdles or even the drawbar, wheel arm or wind bridge. In fact we designed the front drafting gates to work beneath the wind bridge, particularly useful as it stops flighty sheep jumping the front drop in gate. You can utilise the drafting doors as an exit for small jobs, you can leave the draw bar, wheel arm and winch bridge on meaning a very quick deployment.