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Does anyone know if the redrock all round shear buckets are any good or not? Seen a tidy 2nd hand one for sale that would just do us, same size as our redrock shear grab but never really heard much about their bucket grabs

We’ve installed 2 storth hydraulic systems in the past few years, one shed is 2x 120ft lanes and the other 4x 60ft lanes, both cost roughly 12k including installation. IMO the best investment we have made, saves a hell of a lot of Labour and so far haven’t had any issues with them!

With minimal debt too may I add..

Totally agree with you and can see it from both sides. Yes, I would like to be in a position where I can stick to a tight routine and be able to contract certain jobs out, but I do enjoy doing things myself and I also enjoy not having to pay someone else. All I’m saying is, is that it’s not that...

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Because when you’re milking 80 cows and keeping all the young stock and doing the majority of the work yourself sh!t happens and things go wrong. Being a young business you can’t afford to pay people to come and fix breakdowns that you’re capable of doing yourself etc...We’re not all fortunate...

Very true! But getting into that routine and sticking to it is harder than it sounds..

50/60 with all the work being done by yourself.

Hi, I have a 1000l Jarmet sprayer with manual controls and the new style type nozzles (the ones with the anti drip diaphragm than unscrews) The problem is not all the nozzles are working, when you play about with the screw on diaphragms they start to work but then stop again and so forth. I...

Thank you @newholland ? if anyone else has the davlec auto ID system please let me know what you think of it.

Thank you, do your milk metres connect to the feed system automatically, if so what make are they? We currently don’t have metres but we record once a month with manual hook on metres so was just planning on changing the feed rates each month after recording, untill we splash out on metres...

Does anyone use this? We already have the davlec control box and display for our auger master feeders, so would only need to buy the readers and tags. Can it be set up to auto feed to yield? Any suggestions and input appreciated.

4Kg a head and milking 70 cows so 280kg.

Crimped 120t of Barley last month and ensiled it in a clamp by itself. Plan is to feed 4kg per head a day to our cows in the feed passage. Only snag is we don’t have a feeder/mixer wagon and don’t intend on buying one either. What would be the easiest/most cost effective way of doing this. Until...