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Portable corral - charging towards the finish

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I am now about 80% finished with the welding work on my portable corral system.  All panels ( sheeted and not sheeted ) and the two 10' gates are finished.  Two of the five specialized gate-holding panels are completed and the remaining three are tack-welded.  Nine six-foot-wide gates have been welded together and are ready for sheet attachment.   An image of my corral panel mover captured with my bodycam.  The panel mover, which is basically just two "J"-shaped hooks welded to a length of quarter-inch angled steel, attaches to the top of the backrest of my custom forklift attachment .  The forklift attachment itself (not attached to tractor in this photo) was modified last fall so that the forks could be quickly removed and replaced with a detachable bale-spear .  When the panel mover is in use both the bale-spear and the forks are detached.  To move the giant panels I recently developed a fairly simple attachment for my front-end loader (see above photograp