Tire “Cattle Rub” Helps Fight Flies

Tire “Cattle Rub” Helps Fight Flies LIVESTOCK Miscellaneous Don Boggs Pickens S C used old tires and T-posts with insecticide-saturated carpet strips to make a low-cost cattle “rub” “I’m 83 years old and have severe asthma so I recently rented out my 100-acre livestock farm to a doctor ” says Boggs “One day I noticed that cattle had torn the oiler down I watched as the cattle rubbed themselves on trees which gave me the idea to stack up several tires so the cattle could rub on them instead of the trees Then I decided to cover the tires with carpet strips and pour insecticide onto them to help keep flies off the cattle ” The cattle rub is made from 7 stacked tires and 2 old split wheel rims with one rim at the bottom of the stack and the other at the top The tires are held in place by 4 T-posts that set inside holes in the rims The entire stack of tires is covered by four 12-in wide carpet strips that Boggs screwed to the bottom and top tires “I made the cattle tire rub last summer and it’s working great ” says Boggs “I already had everything I needed to make it My son-in-law operates a tire shop so I always have access to plenty of old tires ” He says he used split wheel rims because that’s what he already had but ordinary wheel rims would work by just placing a single T-post through the center hole “The carpet strips could be cut to any width ” notes Boggs Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Don Boggs 619 Amberwood Rd Pickens S C 29671 ph 864 787-4596; donboggs1937@gmail com

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