Title: Hydraulic cow catch-carrier

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Abstract: A fully vehicle mounted hydraulic-actuated cow catch-carrier having a frame mountable cantilever fashion on a vehicle and including a back wall arrangeable adjacent and transverse to the vehicle and spaced, substantially side walls extending substantially perpendicularly from transverse ends of the back wall. A pair of gates are pivotally mounted each on a respective one of the side walls at points thereon spaced from the back wall and arranged for being independently swung by, advantageously, hydraulic motors into planes substantially parallel to the back wall for forming an enclosure in conjunction with the back and side walls. The frame is preferably provided with a floor arranged for receiving an animal gathered by the gates with the floor being arranged forming a bottom to the aforementioned enclosure. The floor is advantageously movable relative to the frame for being lowered to ground level in order to facilitate loading of an animal onto the floor, or platform, by means of the hydraulically powered gates. This movable floor also serves as a jack for facilitating attachment of the frame to and removal from the front end of a pickup truck, or similar vehicle.


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