Australian Steel Station Trading Pty Ltd - Goodna, Queensland

Craig C.

Buyer beware!! This stuff is cheap rubbish.
We bought our first Steel Station vet crush in 2022. Bolted it to a concrete slab, and promptly found that the head bale mechanism had seized up. The local dealer arranged for it to be swapped over with an identical unit. Guess what? Exact same thing occurred. It's been greased, oiled, and sprayed with all sorts of lubricants but you can still damn near do a chin-up on the operating handle.
When I again complained to the local dealer (Norco) about it's stiffness their response was along the lines of "well, they're a pretty cheap supplier, so what do you expect"?

The head bale mechanism is rubbish, as the two neck-bars have a curved shape that allows most younger cattle to simply lift their heads and slip backwards out of the head bale. The toothed ratchet-plate that governs the catching mechanism needs to be of a much finer 'pitch' to allow more control when catching younger cattle, but like I said this stuff is a cheap knock-off of better brands and you get what you pay for.

We bought the Steel Station chin-bar that they offered, to fit to their vet crush. Wrong again. It didn't fit and had to be drilled out on-site to make it fit. Once that was achieved, we realised the actual chin-bar itself was nowhere near long enough, and that cattle simply had to turn their head & neck to the right to let themselves slip under & away from the bar. That's actually very dangerous for the operator, as the thrashing beast can then drive the inward end of the chin-bar upwards from underneath, which sends the handle end downward with great force. We threw the chin-bar away and fitted another brand that actually works.

A Steel Station vet crush was without a doubt the worst purchase I've made in my lifetime.

Daniel C.

very good quality

Sandy W.