SAFE ONE-PERSON CATTLE HANDLING SYSTEMS
Any cattle handling system where you and 700kg of burly beef are kept separate is a good idea. An accident when you're working cattle alone can have serious consequences. Especially in the pen which feeds cattle into the chute (forcing pen).
I've worked in hundreds of different cattle handling systems when disease testing cattle in New Zealand, and saw many accidents in badly designed forcing pens where handlers had to get in with the cattle.
One day I drew 11 ideas for safe gates, gates latches and chutes and sent them to a magazine that was offering $10 for a good farm idea. I thought they might use a couple of the ideas. They called me and said they'd like to use all 11 ideas for a feature article, and they pay me $150 for it! I started taking corral design a little more seriously.
A few years later I designed a quite simple forcing pen that you could control from a centre platform. This proved so successful that it has since been the subject of many magazine articles in several countries.
I've received many testimonies from experienced cattlemen, and also a number of beef industry designers/experts who have viewed or worked in my corrals (see testimonies at OneManCorrals.com.
Cattle flow is also vital in a one-man system and I use 8 ways to draw cattle into and through cattle corrals. I've added over 100 "ideas" (150 diagrams) including some that can save you hundreds on material costs - all available online at OneManCorrals.