Kadee HO 437 Cattle Guards (3-Pack)

A cattle guard is a type of obstacle used to prevent livestock from passing along a road or railway which penetrates the fencing surrounding an enclosed piece of land. It is a transverse grid of bars or tubes, normally made of metal and firmly fixed to the ground on either side of a depression, such that the gaps between them are wide enough for animals' legs to fall through, but sufficiently narrow not to impede a wheeled vehicle or human foot. This provides an effective barrier to animals without impeding wheeled vehicles, as the animals are reluctant to walk on the grates.

Cattle guards are usually installed on roads where they cross a fenceline, often at a boundary between public and private lands. They are an alternative to the erection of gates that would need to be opened and closed when a vehicle passed, and are common where roads cross open moorland, rangeland or common land maintained by grazing, but where segregation of fields is impractical. Cattle guards are also used when otherwise unfenced railways cross a fenceline.

3 guards per pack