Turret Gate

Potentially, the area of highest danger for the operator during cattle handling is experienced when pressuring a group of animals. It requires the operator to be anywhere from 20-feet to a few inches from the animals when swinging an old, traditional gate closed. Many things can happen to the operator in the crowding area: the old, traditional gate can be kicked open with great force and flung back into the face of the operator; the operator can become sandwiched between the alleyway fence and the old, traditional gate by the excited, stressed animals resisting being forced into smaller spaces; the old, traditional gate may be knocked open, the animals can run by the operator at a very high rate of speed, and the operator can be trampled. Any of those situations can lead to serious injury or possibly death.

Shuttle Turret Gate through--no need to swing gate back open into waiting cattle.

Current livestock handling practices involve the use of the old, traditional 10-12 foot crowding gates which are the most commonly used apparatuses for crowding cattle today. These crowding gates are used to move livestock from sizeable pens into narrowed single or dual alleyways. Smaller pen size causes animal stress and is to be expected. Therefore, all other stress needs to be minimized.

The quick motions often required of an operator to control the old, traditional crowding gate stresses the livestock. Another thing experienced is the age old practice of opening a closed gate back into the face of waiting livestock which sends a message that the correct direction is now not the way to go! This is sending mixed messages to the livestock which creates stress.

The powered Turret Gate reduces the animal's stress by eliminating the need for humans to go into the cattle's flight zone, because the gate operator is able to wait patiently from a distance for the cattle to enter the gate instead of having to physically walk up, and swing the gate, and stress the livestock.

Turret Gate allows operators--even inexperienced help--to remotely control the Turret Gate to maneuver cattle into smaller areas. Turret Gate requires no human physical exertion for good cattle flow.

"The Moly Turret Gate gives me 3 huge advantages, any one of which will justify the system:

1. safety of employees, virtually eliminates people being in with cattle
2. easier on the cattle, cattle automatically go where we want them, no pressure or prodding
3. less labor, one or two people are eliminated from the processing crew"

--Richard Porter, 2006 Distinguished Alumni Award from KSU Department of Ag Economics