We took a tip from the truck escape lanes you see on the highways. You know the ones. The soft gravel side road is supposed to slow the runaway tanker down, but the water filled barriers at the end are what get it to stop without too much danger. Well, we figured that approach would be just as useful to stop our goats from going where we didn't want them to be. Does that seem strange? It shouldn't. The concept was not really inspired by the idea of a huge, deformable collision pad but had more to do with the portability of the barricades. Being so easy to move around makes them a good choice when you don't have heavy lifting equipment. Most barricades fall into two categories. They are either temporary and flimsy things like the construction sawhorse style, or they are massive chunks of concrete. There are more portable solutions which contain sand or gravel, but that material is nowhere near as easy to transport. You can't just turn on a hose and watch little rocks come out. The sawhorse idea was cheap and efficient, but the goats just went under it. The bigger goats shouldered it aside or trampled over it. Sure, they were easy to set up and reposition, but we might as well have used string for all the good it did us. The water filled barriers idea worked like a charm, though. When they are empty they weigh as much as an equivalent sized plastic garbage can, but when they are full you can't shove those things over for anything. They're tall enough that even the bigger goats can't just leap over them, either. When they need to be moved, we just drain them and pick them up. They can be stacked inside each other and stored quite easily, as well. Safety Barriers Corporation (http://www.waterbarriers4safety.com) is about water filled barriers from Alco are the traffic barricade solution of today. Our heavy duty polyethylene barriers are the superior choice over traditional concrete barriers, offering cost effective benefits for traffic control and security applications.
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