Gutter Stanchion Dairy Barn

Early manure gutter cleaners ran behind cows in traditional tiestall or stanchion barns.

Gutter stanchion dairy barn.

Super tough powder coated finish resists chipping acids chemicals and rust. All sections are in 60 and 120 lengths and are constructed of 5 8 solid steel bars and 1 1 2 x 3 8 cross bars. All doors of the barn should lie flat against the external wall when fully open. Many old stanchion barns have a gutter down the middle so that gutter had to be filled in and leveled with the rest of the floor.

Sizes are available for 16 18 20 and 24 gutter widths. Floor height was also an issue and roden had two barns where the difference in the floor height was 30 inches so that had to be fixed. And it is helpful to have the gutter flow to the outside if flooded. The gutter should have a gradient of 1 for every 10 length.

My last video inside explaining the stanchion barn with the dairy cows. Smoother finish also stays cleaner. Excuse myself i wasn t as comfortable in front of a camera then as i am today. Barn floods caused by cows breaking water lines are not that uncommon and it is very important that the water can drain to the gutter and not pool under the cows.

While tiestall and stanchion barns are no longer the norm gea has experienced a 10 percent increase in barn cleaner installations in the last three years.