Northern Ireland Milk Price Tracker
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Must be a supply issue.
What’s it called?
Looks stronger than a Bobman (which hasn’t really changed much over the years), & given the price of one of those, it can’t be cheap!!
Suckndiesel
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- Location
- Newtownards
- Location
- Northern Ireland
I know of 2 on farms locally. Both are happy with it, I know one had to get a replacement battery under warranty. I can get you contact details if you want to speak to them.
surprisefarmer
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- Location
- North West NI
At that sort of money is it not expensive? I think currently a Plant Mec Q-bed is 14-15K
Stuart1
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Are they robot farms? I’d really appreciate it if you could get me in contact with them. Thanks
Stuart1
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Has a plant mec on demo & it’s too big and bulky for a robot herd I think. Like the idea of the battery powered one also.
surprisefarmer
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- Location
- North West NI
I only asked because of personal experience. Usually have 130 cows in the shed milked by robots and use my Q-bed. First couple of times it was a nightmare, but after that it was the same problem as any other regular chore you do in the robot shed, they just will not move.
- Location
- Co. Antrim
Our cows hear the bobman coming and know it’s time for milking hardly have to get a cow out of the cubiclesI only asked because of personal experience. Usually have 130 cows in the shed milked by robots and use my Q-bed. First couple of times it was a nightmare, but after that it was the same problem as any other regular chore you do in the robot shed, they just will not move.
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- Northern Ireland
I'd be curious to know how robot people get on with those machines that depend on having basically the whole house up on its feet at one time, and away out of the road. I've been doing it for over twenty years now, and it's a matter of working in and out through the cows with a hand scraper, rising whatever cows look dirty underneath. We bed once a week with a shelbourne along the cubicle heads and then pull back as necessary twice daily with hand scraper. It tends not to be a huge job though. 15 minutes is usually sore on 200 cubicles. Just wondering if there's actually a time or practicality benefit over what I'm currently doing.
- Location
- Co. Tyrone
We've been doing it for nearly 15 years now and changed ways a couple of times. Currently scraping cubicles morning and evening and bedding sawdust once a day with a push along dispenser. Wait until we feed out in the morning and then usually 80% of cows are up out of cubicles so you don't have to rise too many cows going along with the dispenser. Still don't think it would pay to have a ride on machine because with the stop start nature of it I wouldn't be saving much time. Could be wrong though
Stuart1
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That’s really interesting. Maybe with a bit of time a ride on would work. My cows went mad soon as the engine was going and it up the cow house. How wide is your passages. I’m 15ft on one and 13ft on the otherI only asked because of personal experience. Usually have 130 cows in the shed milked by robots and use my Q-bed. First couple of times it was a nightmare, but after that it was the same problem as any other regular chore you do in the robot shed, they just will not move.
Stuart1
Member
Are you allowing for using the shelbourne machine within the 15 minutes?
- Location
- Northern Ireland
The shelbourne goes in once a week-ish. Half an hour does a lot with it. The slowest part of that is clearing the cows one passage at a time to get in with the handler. It really just takes minutes to actually dump out a week's worth of bedding.
jay
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- Location
- Co Down NI
It's a lot of money for a glorified wheelbarrow, the repayments are a lot easier on one of these.
- Location
- Co antrim
- Location
- East Tyrone
Unless you have a teenager on site
