Calf Transport Cage 3D Design

I need a complete engineering package for a cage that slips straight onto my telescopic loader forks and safely carries six calves of about 140 kg each. Total combined mass—cage plus animals—must not exceed 1,100 kg, so every millimetre and every kilogram counts. I want you to push the footprint as large as possible within that limit equivalent load through both static and dynamic FEA.

Material on hand is steel, and I’d like you to stick with carbon steel sections and plate that a typical farm workshop or scrapyard stocks. Feel free to mix profiles, but make sure everything you specify is realistically available and note each item in the bill of materials.

Loading and unloading will be through a gate, so incorporate a safe, calf-friendly gate arrangement and check clearances. Fork pockets must match a standard telescopic loader, and the whole assembly needs sensible lifting points, kick-bar protection, and no calf-snag hazards.

Deliverables (all by Monday morning):
• 3D model in STEP plus your native CAD format
• Fully dimensioned fabrication drawings
• Detailed BOM
• Short calculation report summarising assumptions, boundary conditions and FEA results (images + safety factors)

Use whatever combination of SolidWorks, Inventor, Fusion 360, ANSYS, Abaqus, or similar you’re comfortable with, as long as the files open without extra plugins.

I’ll sign off once the model opens cleanly, the drawings and BOM match, and the report shows the required safety margin.