Ducati899
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- Location
- north dorset
Mobile robot?
- Thread starter Slowcow
- Start date
Sharp as a tack this morning..
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
I think the robot bit of your plan is a winner, the mobile bit
- Location
- South Molton
I am sure someone once said this once a day , rotary, housing cows 24/7, robots are all gimmicks.
Robots allowed the time spent with cows to be more flexible.
There is no right or wrong system its what works for individuals
Robots allowed the time spent with cows to be more flexible.
There is no right or wrong system its what works for individuals
- Location
- South Molton
The concept will work, the financials?
Talking of gimicks, hows your parlour.
Parlour working fine.
Robots are going well as well thanks.
- Location
- South Molton
Yeah cows are out both farms.
Traffic is good . Still averaging nearly 3 milkings on AYR.
- Location
- South Molton
Yeah sure. They will be in today as we have had a lot of rain.
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
This has got nuts while I was milking!
Sid has hit the nail on the head, different strokes for different folks. I was considering mechanical engineering as a career, even got the right a levels.
Then realized, soon enough thankfully I didn't want to spend life indoors working for someone else. Most of the gear on our farm has something in it I made, even the PCB in the tank washer.
Just to give folks a idea about the way I think. All the things mentioned are in consideration big herringbone , do nort and milk once a day, static robot, movable robot. The question I was asking was is it possible and what issues might be faced.
A second hand robot can be sold quite easily if I decided to stop, a 20/40 sounds great but on our place just the shed for it to live in would need some major rebuilding, I love concrete but can't sell it 2nd hand!
Cheers
Sid has hit the nail on the head, different strokes for different folks. I was considering mechanical engineering as a career, even got the right a levels
.Then realized, soon enough thankfully I didn't want to spend life indoors working for someone else. Most of the gear on our farm has something in it I made, even the PCB in the tank washer.
Just to give folks a idea about the way I think. All the things mentioned are in consideration big herringbone , do nort and milk once a day, static robot, movable robot. The question I was asking was is it possible and what issues might be faced.
A second hand robot can be sold quite easily if I decided to stop, a 20/40 sounds great but on our place just the shed for it to live in would need some major rebuilding, I love concrete but can't sell it 2nd hand!
Cheers
Farmer1001
Member
Do it, reading your comments its obvious you have the right mindset and creativity. Whereabouts are you out of interest. Go look at loads of robots (probably have) as these operators will know the challenges you need to consider when making them mobile. Perhaps think about a self contained unit on a trailer with rear hydraulic axle (pictured) for easy moving, set up some serviced points (water) and then go down every day with transfer tank for milk, washings, feed.... Best of luck.This has got nuts while I was milking!
Sid has hit the nail on the head, different strokes for different folks. I was considering mechanical engineering as a career, even got the right a levels
Then realized, soon enough thankfully I didn't want to spend life indoors working for someone else. Most of the gear on our farm has something in it I made, even the PCB in the tank washer.
Just to give folks a idea about the way I think. All the things mentioned are in consideration big herringbone , do nort and milk once a day, static robot, movable robot. The question I was asking was is it possible and what issues might be faced.
A second hand robot can be sold quite easily if I decided to stop, a 20/40 sounds great but on our place just the shed for it to live in would need some major rebuilding, I love concrete but can't sell it 2nd hand!
Cheers
- Location
- South Molton
ABC
Feed first in winter, milking first in summer.
Cake usage minimal.
Visits are controlled by VMS settings and grazing permissions.
We could have spent couple 100k on various things at home , sheds, concrete, replacing a perfectly usable parlour whilst increasing reliance on labour.
VMS have given us flexability. Which we all like.
Moveable Robots at home? Maybe one day
- Location
- South Molton
This has got nuts while I was milking!
Sid has hit the nail on the head, different strokes for different folks. I was considering mechanical engineering as a career, even got the right a levels
Then realized, soon enough thankfully I didn't want to spend life indoors working for someone else. Most of the gear on our farm has something in it I made, even the PCB in the tank washer.
Just to give folks a idea about the way I think. All the things mentioned are in consideration big herringbone , do nort and milk once a day, static robot, movable robot. The question I was asking was is it possible and what issues might be faced.
A second hand robot can be sold quite easily if I decided to stop, a 20/40 sounds great but on our place just the shed for it to live in would need some major rebuilding, I love concrete but can't sell it 2nd hand!
Cheers
Many want to chase numbers and turnover thinking it will lead to profit....some of us just want to chase profit.
I also want to work smarter not harder!
Euro dairy systems do a portable Dairymaster based 10/20 that you can take to the field. It isn't cheap, I think £40-60k all in but is quite a nice simple system, and it has the advantage that most of the issues will have been sorted. They are designed to be dropped in a farmyard off a lorry and used as a temporary parlour whilst renovating, but I know of at least 1 used as a portable system.
newholland
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- Location
- England
I quite like this rapid exit self contained unit which is the baby sister to what @Agrispeed mentions above
davedb
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- Location
- Staffordshire
Getting feed too and milk away from the bot shouldn’t be too tricky you’d just need a make a trailer with a feed hopper on it and a auger along with a stainless steel tank for milk
Have the robot on a trailer that drops to floor along with the generator and maybe solar panels on the roof, this would then have a small milk tank on it and a feed hopper, use the second trailer to bring a couple of ton of feed at a time to the robot and leave it there letting the robot fill the tank with milk, when your tanker is due to come go fetch the trailer and switch the robots milking into the other tank,
Fill the feed bin up again while your waiting for the tanker to come then take it back again, if you could do this every other day that would be ideal, trailers would need to be on good tyres and you’d want a good track through your farm
A hell of a lot of work for 60 cows
Have the robot on a trailer that drops to floor along with the generator and maybe solar panels on the roof, this would then have a small milk tank on it and a feed hopper, use the second trailer to bring a couple of ton of feed at a time to the robot and leave it there letting the robot fill the tank with milk, when your tanker is due to come go fetch the trailer and switch the robots milking into the other tank,
Fill the feed bin up again while your waiting for the tanker to come then take it back again, if you could do this every other day that would be ideal, trailers would need to be on good tyres and you’d want a good track through your farm
A hell of a lot of work for 60 cows
Pretty much what I thought, although, have a ice bank to cool the milk, a couple of old DX tanks on wheels with no cooling, ~2.5 t hopper on the bot for cake. We're organic so are feeding 2kg in the parlor now their out so then makes it cake every two weeks, swap tanks every two days, take away nasty wash water the other every two days, still a lot of work but isn't it always
I'm mid Devon in answer to other questions if anyone would like to show me their robot's locally that would be great!
Cheers
I'm mid Devon in answer to other questions if anyone would like to show me their robot's locally that would be great!
Cheers
davedb
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- Location
- Staffordshire
It’s just weather you make it very movable between fields or just had a location in the middle of your grazing to set it up and one in the yard for winter, you could bury a pipe back to yard for milk?