Making milking easier on the body

Clay52 · Aug 23, 2017

Rossymons said:
In my experience the best have no experience and tend to be girls. They're much better and more interested than young lads who are more interested in being steering wheel attendants than farmers.

Noticed the same here but even though the girls are miles better dad doesn't like them because they can't do the physical stuff. Problem is neither can the guys we have working at the moment. One is too old and one is too frail from all the drinking and smoking. He doesn't complain about them though.

Agrispeed · Aug 23, 2017

Rossymons said:
We had a French lad...how they feed themselves I've no idea.

In my experience the best have no experience and tend to be girls. They're much better and more interested than young lads who are more interested in being steering wheel attendants than farmers.

I digress...

Couldn't agree more. French approach to working hours is interesting if nothing else.

One was from a farm and was very much the young farmer stereotype. The other was an IT student, and apart from nearly breaking him in the first week, he was very keen and quite thoughtful about why and what we were doing. Both were pretty keen and very helpful.

I always like to remember that I was in a similar position once, with virtually no experience, and it was only someone giving me a chance that led me to where I am now.

Rossymons · Aug 23, 2017

Clay52 said:
Noticed the same here but even though the girls are miles better dad doesn't like them because they can't do the physical stuff. Problem is neither can the guys we have working at the moment. One is too old and one is too frail from all the drinking and smoking. He doesn't complain about them though.

I agree about the physical side of things - the girls have struggled where the boys get on with it. So I'm working to get rid of them because even though I can do it, I just don't want to anymore.

Why in 2017 is it still acceptable to be lugging around umpteen bags of feed everywhere? Crazy.

Clay52 · Aug 23, 2017

Rossymons said:
I agree about the physical side of things - the girls have struggled where the boys get on with it. So I'm working to get rid of them because even though I can do it, I just don't want to anymore.

Why in 2017 is it still acceptable to be lugging around umpteen bags of feed everywhere? Crazy.

I find the young blokes useless with the physical stuff anyway. For extra work one of the girls milking for us went to cart small square bales of hay for someone inbetween milkings. From what I herd she outlasted 3 roughly 20 year old guys.

FonterraFarmer · Aug 24, 2017

Clay52 said:
I find the young blokes useless with the physical stuff anyway. For extra work one of the girls milking for us went to cart small square bales of hay for someone inbetween milkings. From what I herd she outlasted 3 roughly 20 year old guys.

That's not hard to beat

, I've seen 70 year olds that could pick up hay better than teenagers or 20 year olds

Also seen 20 year olds complain about the hay I baled too

Dead Rabbits · Aug 24, 2017

In a swing parlor, do most people use valves in the milk line, or just pinch the hose?

multi power · Aug 24, 2017

Dead Rabbits said:
In a swing parlor, do most people use valves in the milk line, or just pinch the hose?

Just pinch the hose

Dead Rabbits · Aug 24, 2017

multi power said:
Just pinch the hose

Does the claw have a valve then? If we didn't have valves in-line, the only way to sh!t the unit off would be the vacuum pump.

Dead Rabbits · Aug 24, 2017

FonterraFarmer said:
That's not hard to beat, I've seen 70 year olds that could pick up hay better than teenagers or 20 year olds Also seen 20 year olds complain about the hay I baled too

One of my favorite things to do in high school was get the big football players out to haul hay. Most were almost twice my size and thought they were tough sh it. Till the first two hours in 95 degree heat. They had zero stamina, even had a guy pass out once.

Clay52 · Aug 24, 2017

Dead Rabbits said:
One of my favorite things to do in high school was get the big football players out to haul hay. Most were almost twice my size and thought they were tough sh it. Till the first two hours in 95 degree heat. They had zero stamina, even had a guy pass out once.

Big guys are not made for endurance.

Have someone throw a ball to you while they tackle you. Lol. They would probably seem reasonably tough then.

jondear · Aug 24, 2017

http://www.easimat.com/acatalog/SPORT-MATS.html
Just get some Eva interlocking sports mats there excellent.

FonterraFarmer · Aug 24, 2017

Dead Rabbits said:
One of my favorite things to do in high school was get the big football players out to haul hay. Most were almost twice my size and thought they were tough sh it. Till the first two hours in 95 degree heat. They had zero stamina, even had a guy pass out once.

Picking up hay is 75% technique and 25% strength

, always ammusing watching others pick up hay, and not those poncy under 20kg bales either normally 25-30kg or clover at more like 50kg

Clay52 · Aug 24, 2017

We used those gravel bags when we did pit silage. By half way through most of those helping had faded away to doing nothing. That's one of my biggest reasons for not wanting pit silage and just doing bales.

multi power · Aug 24, 2017

Dead Rabbits said:
Does the claw have a valve then? If we didn't have valves in-line, the only way to sh!t the unit off would be the vacuum pump.

Either hang the cluster with the shells hanging down to pinch the short milk tubes, or shut off valves in the claw

Dead Rabbits · Aug 24, 2017

multi power said:
Either hang the cluster with the shells hanging down to pinch the short milk tubes, or shut off valves in the claw

We milk with these antiques

multi power · Aug 24, 2017

Dead Rabbits said:
We milk with these antiques

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Bou matic ? They are the dogs rubbish, if you hang them the other way up won't the pipes bend and stop vaccum?

Dead Rabbits · Aug 24, 2017

multi power said:
Bou matic ? They are the dogs rubbish, if you hang them the other way up won't the pipes bend and stop vaccum?

Yeah and a few knock off universals. '70s vintage. Cows can flat out go to town on them, may have to file a few side windows down, bullet proof though.
With the junk ass conwango liners they won't. The brackets they hang on aren't the right angle either. We just hang then by the hook on the rare occasions they aren't on a cow.

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