New milk silo

Headless chicken

Member

Location

West Wales

• Oct 17, 2020

• #1

Sadly we are going to have to bite the bullet and go new.

ive asked for prices on fullwood, deleval, exchanger and roka any others worth looking at?

 

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Dragon

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Location

Cornwall

• Oct 17, 2020

• #2

Headless chicken said:

Sadly we are going to have to bite the bullet and go new.

ive asked for prices on fullwood, deleval, exchanger and roka any others worth looking at?

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Mueller,
Although we do find the control panel quite complicated.

 

dinderleat

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Location

Wells

• Oct 17, 2020

• #3

Why does it have to be a silo?

 

stablegirl

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Location

North

• Oct 17, 2020

• #4

Liscarrol.

 

Headless chicken

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Location

West Wales

• Oct 17, 2020

• #5

dinderleat said:

Why does it have to be a silo?

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Space or lack of

 

dinderleat

Member

Location

Wells

• Oct 17, 2020

• #6

Keep your old one and put a horizontal one out side? With block calving having The choice of a smaller tank would be handy surely.

 

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vantage

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Pembs

• Oct 17, 2020

• #7

Delaval. Simply because it was cheapest and backup is local and outstanding with GNE Phillips.

 

Headless chicken

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Location

West Wales

• Oct 17, 2020

• #8

dinderleat said:

Keep your old one and put a horizontal one out side? With block calving having The choice of a smaller tank would be handy surely.

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Even outside the dairy we’ve not that much spare room but we may well try and keep our old one too as a buffer tank. With that said we’re fairly convinced that it’s the source of a niggly bacto issue due to its inability to cook the milk quick enough

 

Holsteinfriesian90

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Location

Cornwall

• Oct 17, 2020

• #9

Fabdec?

 

Will Blackburn

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Location

Cheshire

• Oct 17, 2020

• #10

GEA, two coolant circuits, floor and wall. Don’t need much milk for the floor one, we turn it on at start of first milking with only a 20 minute delay start.

 

Scholsey

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Location

Herefordshire

• Oct 17, 2020

• #11

Mueller, got a packo silo here, don’t recommend it.

 

Headless chicken

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Location

West Wales

• Oct 17, 2020

• #12

Scholsey said:

Mueller, got a packo silo here, don’t recommend it.

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interesring why not?

 

Scholsey

Member

Location

Herefordshire

• Oct 17, 2020

• #13

Replaced more parts in 5 years on a packo silo than 20 with a mueller tank, Agitator motor, wash pump, chemical pump, water solenoids, numerous parts on compressors.

 

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farmboy

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Location

Dorset

• Oct 17, 2020

• #14

Not silo but got mueller tanks here and very good. Added an ice bank recently and now milk goes in the tank at 5’C so tank really not having to work

 

Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Anglesey

• Oct 18, 2020

• #15

GEA here.
Good luck get in to any of them if you need to and are, er, chunky.

You will either need to site manway built in to a room or have a cabinet made (suppliers usually source and fit but make sure it's included in price along with light and wash basin).
Also make sure you can washdown around them as milk seems to like traveling all around the circumference
Oh, and ask how it cleans. Wash balls vary and the ability to put a third chem in is useful.
Don't get hung up on price as recovering bacto bonus will cover any extra

 

Headless chicken

Member

Location

West Wales

• Oct 18, 2020

• #16

Bald Rick said:

GEA here.
Good luck get in to any of them if you need to and are, er, chunky.

You will either need to site manway built in to a room or have a cabinet made (suppliers usually source and fit but make sure it's included in price along with light and wash basin).
Also make sure you can washdown around them as milk seems to like traveling all around the circumference
Oh, and ask how it cleans. Wash balls vary and the ability to put a third chem in is useful.
Don't get hung up on price as recovering bacto bonus will cover any extra

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How do you get along with cooling? Think you put a snap chiller in?

 

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Keep On

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

SW

• Oct 18, 2020

• #17

30k mueller here. Go bigger than an artic, the extra cost is negligible. Cooled through a 3.5t Ice bank, 2 compressors on the silo but don’t rely on silo to cool much

 

Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Anglesey

• Oct 18, 2020

• #18

Headless chicken said:

How do you get along with cooling? Think you put a snap chiller in?

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As with post above, you need an alternative cooling source as silos have limited surface area compared to conventional.
Point about capacity is valid too in terms of future expansion plans, ability to hold extra milk if tanker doesn't come and cost being relatively negligible assuming no cooling plates.

Yes we have a snap chiller plus a borehole fed plate cooler so milk enters tank at between 6-7 degs and 9hp of dx cooling on silo takes out the rest.
Chiller is cheaper to run than ice builder unless you have a very cheap overnight power rate

 

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dairyrow

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• Oct 18, 2020

• #19

liscaroll silo going in next week. I'll take some pictures for you when it's in if you want.

 

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dairydurham

Member

• Oct 18, 2020

• #20

Mueller here replacing a p poor fabdec that had a two stage plate cooler , but still all four comps seemed to run most of the day and regularly needed replacing.Pleased to see the back of it !