Is the platform long enough at 56"? A full grown cow and stand on it? I am thinking this might be a good investment, since we have no scale and you could use it to weigh calves (versus the hanging method we use, very laborious!)pjkjr4 said:I bought a set of scales just like the one pictured almost 2 years ago. I bought them from www.palletscales.com I believe. Very helpful. It is either a VS 2000, or a PS 2000. Can't remember. Very helpful bunch of folks. As someone mentioned above, it does set a little higher off of the ground, but that's not an issue for me. I don't put it in any kind of chute. We start weighing ours when we get them halter broke, at first monthly, then every other week, and finally every week when we get to the last 90-120 days. Once they get used to what your doing, it's not an issue whatsoever. My only problem with it, is the platform is not big enough, so I screwed 2 3'X6' pieces of 3/4" plywood on it to make the platform bigger for the calves to walk up on. A friend of mine is an aluminum welder by trade, and is going to build me a platform the size I need, and put the load cells on it, where it's a little easier to load and take to shows. It is vary accurate, and it allows you to adjust where zero is so you can be the same as official scales, whether they're right or not. I believe it cost somewhere around $600.00 with shipping, and I got it within a week of ordering.
firesweepranch said:Is the platform long enough at 56"? A full grown cow and stand on it? I am thinking this might be a good investment, since we have no scale and you could use it to weigh calves (versus the hanging method we use, very laborious!)pjkjr4 said:I bought a set of scales just like the one pictured almost 2 years ago. I bought them from www.palletscales.com I believe. Very helpful. It is either a VS 2000, or a PS 2000. Can't remember. Very helpful bunch of folks. As someone mentioned above, it does set a little higher off of the ground, but that's not an issue for me. I don't put it in any kind of chute. We start weighing ours when we get them halter broke, at first monthly, then every other week, and finally every week when we get to the last 90-120 days. Once they get used to what your doing, it's not an issue whatsoever. My only problem with it, is the platform is not big enough, so I screwed 2 3'X6' pieces of 3/4" plywood on it to make the platform bigger for the calves to walk up on. A friend of mine is an aluminum welder by trade, and is going to build me a platform the size I need, and put the load cells on it, where it's a little easier to load and take to shows. It is vary accurate, and it allows you to adjust where zero is so you can be the same as official scales, whether they're right or not. I believe it cost somewhere around $600.00 with shipping, and I got it within a week of ordering.
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