Today at work

Getnthair

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
SW Scotland
Not all Today at Work - but I think it is now ready for cattle. Erected the shed 3 years ago but run it as a loose box until ready to put in the cubicles and slurry channel. Will now hold 80 cattle as opposed to 50 on straw. Picked a good year to move away from straw? Conventional layout. Lost count of the number of nuts I tightened after over 1200.

OK - will need to fit barriers around the scraper motors. Hate putting them outside and wall mounts weren't going to work in this shed because the winch drums are too wide for the wall between the doors. Probably need gates too to shut the cattle off each passage if we need to work with them or need access.

When do you actually say - "Finished that Shed" ? :scratchhead:
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Got fuel pump and injectors back and fitted to this beast
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Hopefully a nice box of parts will turn up tomorrow for it(y)
Also Xmas present wrapping practice took place
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And also unwrapping to that's that best(y)
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Looks about different now @Landyman

A couple coats of clear on in the morning and it will be literally be better than new this 550 is going to be lovely when finished

Thought I'd got some more pics of other jobs
But :banghead: no :rolleyes:
 

Landyman

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Got fuel pump and injectors back and fitted to this beast
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Hopefully a nice box of parts will turn up tomorrow for it(y)
Also Xmas present wrapping practice took place
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And also unwrapping to that's that best(y)
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Looks about different now @Landyman

A couple coats of clear on in the morning and it will be literally be better than new this 550 is going to be lovely when finished

Thought I'd got some more pics of other jobs
But :banghead: no :rolleyes:
You wouldn't know it was the same one i saw (y)
 
Not all Today at Work - but I think it is now ready for cattle. Erected the shed 3 years ago but run it as a loose box until ready to put in the cubicles and slurry channel. Will now hold 80 cattle as opposed to 50 on straw. Picked a good year to move away from straw? Conventional layout. Lost count of the number of nuts I tightened after over 1200.

OK - will need to fit barriers around the scraper motors. Hate putting them outside and wall mounts weren't going to work in this shed because the winch drums are too wide for the wall between the doors. Probably need gates too to shut the cattle off each passage if we need to work with them or need access.

When do you actually say - "Finished that Shed" ? :scratchhead:View attachment 589190 View attachment 589192
never worked a cubical shed do you bed with sawdust? how do u clean the bit under where the stalls are?
 
Got fuel pump and injectors back and fitted to this beast
View attachment 589232
Hopefully a nice box of parts will turn up tomorrow for it(y)
Also Xmas present wrapping practice took place
View attachment 589234

And also unwrapping to that's that best(y)
View attachment 589236
View attachment 589238
View attachment 589240
View attachment 589242
Looks about different now @Landyman

A couple coats of clear on in the morning and it will be literally be better than new this 550 is going to be lovely when finished

Thought I'd got some more pics of other jobs
But :banghead: no :rolleyes:
credit to you she's shining(y)
 

Getnthair

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
SW Scotland
never worked a cubical shed do you bed with sawdust? how do u clean the bit under where the stalls are?

We bed with sawdust, yes - on to the rubber mats that are fixed to the concrete beds. Sawdust doesn't add much to their comfort - we use so little - but keeps the bed dry. We then scrape down the back of the bed, every day, with a hand scraper. Head rail (or neck rail) - you can just see it on top of the of the cubicles forces the cattle to lie to the rear of the cubicle bed. Also when they stand up they are forced back off the bed. Result should be that all the muck is at the back of the bed or on the passageway.

Other people use other products on the mats - eg lime - and others have deep beds filled with sand or recycled bedding. Huge labour and cost savings over a straw system - but capital cost of putting it all together.....

Can't win....:sneaky:
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
New calves survived the night
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Peas and grass coming up, so put up some scarers to keep the dratted birds off them
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(just pigtails and shopping bags)

Then the milk powder arrived, unloaded him, and went fixing paddocks
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Then this broke
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...because the thread is stuffed, and it's Black Friday, and I was only about an acre off finished...
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so I stuck a mighty blob of weld on top and got it done (y)
 

Pan mixer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
New calves survived the night View attachment 589290 View attachment 589294
Peas and grass coming up, so put up some scarers to keep the dratted birds off themView attachment 589300(just pigtails and shopping bags)

Then the milk powder arrived, unloaded him, and went fixing paddocksView attachment 589302
Then this broke View attachment 589306
...because the thread is stuffed, and it's Black Friday, and I was only about an acre off finished...View attachment 589308so I stuck a mighty blob of weld on top and got it done (y)
It is bizarre you having Friday 13th before we are really started with it - plenty of time for stuff to go wrong here too - but then it goes wrong on many other days too.
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
It is bizarre you having Friday 13th before we are really started with it - plenty of time for stuff to go wrong here too - but then it goes wrong on many other days too.
Yes! Time zones do make things a little weird at times, especially some Saturday mornings (local time)
You can tell who's come home from the pub, put it that way!!
Today has been a right mess up here, have had so many things I could have been doing but the milk powder was coming "after lunch" = 3.25pm :mad:
So, got very little achieved, for a fine day with no kids at foot :rolleyes: grease on my seat, to top it all off :facepalm::(
Tomorrow's not used nor mended yet :)
 
We bed with sawdust, yes - on to the rubber mats that are fixed to the concrete beds. Sawdust doesn't add much to their comfort - we use so little - but keeps the bed dry. We then scrape down the back of the bed, every day, with a hand scraper. Head rail (or neck rail) - you can just see it on top of the of the cubicles forces the cattle to lie to the rear of the cubicle bed. Also when they stand up they are forced back off the bed. Result should be that all the muck is at the back of the bed or on the passageway.

Other people use other products on the mats - eg lime - and others have deep beds filled with sand or recycled bedding. Huge labour and cost savings over a straw system - but capital cost of putting it all together.....

Can't win....:sneaky:
Fair bit of work walking round with hand scraper though? Do many people use this system for beef cattle im all straw befded courts
 

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