What a great visit with Jim Dyer about his cattle and trailer company!  Such a friendly man with a great sense of humor.  Jim not only tells a great story, but he tells a story with great content! Jim Dyer started their transition to raising Akaushi cattle in 2010. They were one of the first producers to purchase bulls from Heartbrand. After years of carefully selecting for desirable genetics, we now sell our own Akaushi bulls as well as females.

We raised El Padrino, the first heterozygous polled bull in the Akaushi breed, and are very excited about his progeny so far.

Big Bend Trailers was founded in 2003 after I identified a real need for a tough, user-friendly ranch trailer. I had spent years using various brands of stock trailers on my family’s ranch in the rugged Big Bend area of Texas, and I found that they all fell short in terms of durability and efficiency. Throughout the years of working with cattle, I developed a mental checklist of improvements I would like to see on a stock trailer. For instance, there was one trailer my family used that had rectangular tubing sides; we welded on every part of that trailer except the sides. I told myself that if I ever built a trailer, I would use square and rectangular tubing, and that is one of the features that sets our trailers apart today. It just so happened that in 2003, I was introduced to a family that owned a manufacturing company. I asked them if they could build livestock trailers, and they told me they could build whatever I could come up with. With their expertise in manufacturing and my experience in ranching, we developed a product that makes my life easier on the ranch, and it has slowly evolved into a business that we operate as a family. We have incorporated several ideas into these trailers to make them more durable and user friendly including the clean out gap to prevent rust, the handle to unhook from outside the truck bed, the slam latches on our rear and center gates as well as options such as the roller pins on the back bumper and the floating center gate. We constantly innovate and improve our trailers because we use them ourselves and figure out what works and what doesn’t. I think you will find the Big Bend to be a very tough and practical trailer that you can use in the harshest conditions, and it will hold up for you.

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