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- M6 Hard shoulder
Robotic milking
- Thread starter newholland
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wasted years
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- Cumbrian born and bread
Refurbing a robot is a complete con, they won't be doing anything anyone of us couldn't do with 2 adjustable spanners.
What do you think they do , replace the PCB's and the glass jar?
A few cheap plastic bushes and some short bits of pipe will be about what.
- Location
- South Molton
Ball cocks.
I could show you the quote that was way above any other and states "does not include refurbishment " but included the Lely back hander.
The refurbishment we had was sensors seals rubberware etc. The skill was knowing what to refurbish not how to do it.
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- M6 Hard shoulder
When we bought in 2014 I wouldnt have a clue about servicing and maintaining a milking robot but 2 yrs in my confidence has grown and will now tackle things I wouldnt have even considered back then, hopefully when I have had robots as long as yourself I will only need two adjustable spanners.
- Location
- South Molton
Sorry @Sid you are obviously an expert on all brands of robot and the do s and donts associated with them, I shall bow to your vastly superior knowledge
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- M6 Hard shoulder
Presume that would be an off farm robot ? Not a factory refurb,we were quoted for three a3 taurus which were from the factory or the 3 new a4s we have, the price quoted was installed and operational for both, 60k difference between the two deals, was your lely dealer independant or franchised ?
- Location
- South Molton
Off farm installed by a Lely dealer. Still tens of thousands the most expensive before refurbishment costs without all the peripheral equipment like sort gates etc. I couldn't believe it.
Should be called Lely astronomical price robots.
Edit franchised dealer.
Well yes water & power are equal but once you become (as Lely put it) an XL dairy, other stuff does get cheaper such as servicing & chemicals. Still chuffing expensive mind
Hanspree
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- Location
- Lancashire
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Lely wanted ADHB to run their discussion group just for Lely users so the ADHB guy said no and we had the first three counties AMS discussion meeting last week and was really good. Was a even spread of fullwood, lely and Delaval aswell which was good.
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- South Molton
All you robot regulars.how often do you change your milk filters?
Once a day
Twice, more less?
Once a day
Twice, more less?
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- M6 Hard shoulder
Just have two filters, change 1 after am wash and one after pm wash, if no soiling will just swill off, bacto rolling at 8
Chips
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- Location
- Shropshire
Filters are free on Lely contract ,so twice/day
DocPhil001
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- Location
- Holsworthy, Devon
2x a day.
Filters ........... I hate them.
Do 3 changes per day and still run in to blockage problems even with 70 gauge cartridges as we are doing 6.3%+ butterfats.
I suppose the answer is to run more washes or more filter units even though we have the XXL units.
Wanted to install rotary type filters but been told that the milk pump(s) aren't strong enough to push the stuff through.
Any ideas?
Do 3 changes per day and still run in to blockage problems even with 70 gauge cartridges as we are doing 6.3%+ butterfats.
I suppose the answer is to run more washes or more filter units even though we have the XXL units.
Wanted to install rotary type filters but been told that the milk pump(s) aren't strong enough to push the stuff through.
Any ideas?
Jd Everytime
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- Location
- lanarkshire scotland
In the morning once, before wash at 8am.
does anyone have an emergency back up air compressor of some kind? In case the main atlas sf4 goes down?I just had to quickly plumb in the workshop one 3hp/150L but was just short of puff so when robots were using alot of air at same time it wouldn't keep up so robots kept shutting down. So had to stay up till lely arrived to swap to wires about on pressure switch.
was thinking bigger workshop compressor or 2nd hand atlas one or similar, so I couls just turn taps to swap over.
does anyone have an emergency back up air compressor of some kind? In case the main atlas sf4 goes down?I just had to quickly plumb in the workshop one 3hp/150L but was just short of puff so when robots were using alot of air at same time it wouldn't keep up so robots kept shutting down. So had to stay up till lely arrived to swap to wires about on pressure switch.
was thinking bigger workshop compressor or 2nd hand atlas one or similar, so I couls just turn taps to swap over.