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Bald Rick · Jan 1, 2020

Bald Rick said:
OK ... I am not overly excited at the moment either as the clock wasn't set up correctly and it ran when it shouldn't and has already picked a fight with the tub mixer. And although the installer hasn't finished (back tomorrow), they didn't leave the destructions so we are having to guess how to manually drive it

To date the pusher is not going well.
Install not completed although there has been issues with staff sickness so going to let that pass as promised all will be done tomorrow
However, it seems incapable of completing a circuit of the existing route without stopping as it is far too sensitive to a cow butting it or trying to bite it as it passes. Brings it to a total stop and it alarms itself. Could solve it by making it run further off feed face but then it wouldn’t push at all

Therefore, does anyone know how to desensitise it so it ignore the cows?
(There are already tooth marks in the plastic

)
The Lely had an electrified ring to stop this

Beef farmer · Jan 1, 2020

What was the reason for not having another lely? I bet the cow that killed killer is now biting ya pusher. Some fiery cows you've got there

Barmyfarmer · Jan 1, 2020

Are they honestly worth the mither? We will push silage up 7/8 times a day, last time usually 10.30 at night so thats the big stint with no pushing up until morning milking then, would I see a yield increase on a pretty mediocre system?

Martyn · Jan 1, 2020

Bald Rick said:
To date the pusher is not going well.
Install not completed although there has been issues with staff sickness so going to let that pass as promised all will be done tomorrow
However, it seems incapable of completing a circuit of the existing route without stopping as it is far too sensitive to a cow butting it or trying to bite it as it passes. Brings it to a total stop and it alarms itself. Could solve it by making it run further off feed face but then it wouldn’t push at all

Therefore, does anyone know how to desensitise it so it ignore the cows?
(There are already tooth marks in the plastic )
The Lely had an electrified ring to stop this

Is there now way you can turn your feed faces into concrete troughs, bunkers and spew tmr into them, we have changed to this this winter and now cows hardly leave any waste and has saved us much time pushing up silage, yet to clean troughs out as cows lick clean just about, just leave stones and any foreign objects!

Headless chicken · Jan 1, 2020

Bald Rick said:
To date the pusher is not going well.
Install not completed although there has been issues with staff sickness so going to let that pass as promised all will be done tomorrow
However, it seems incapable of completing a circuit of the existing route without stopping as it is far too sensitive to a cow butting it or trying to bite it as it passes. Brings it to a total stop and it alarms itself. Could solve it by making it run further off feed face but then it wouldn’t push at all

Therefore, does anyone know how to desensitise it so it ignore the cows?
(There are already tooth marks in the plastic )
The Lely had an electrified ring to stop this

For Sale 600 careful lady owners.

On a serious note if you find a way to stop the biting do let me know. We’ve a toddler who I’d be more afraid of her biting the cows than them hurting her.

Ducati899 · Jan 1, 2020

Barmyfarmer said:
Are they honestly worth the mither? We will push silage up 7/8 times a day, last time usually 10.30 at night so thats the big stint with no pushing up until morning milking then, would I see a yield increase on a pretty mediocre system?

Yes they are,wouldn’t be without mine,same as you used to push up nearly every hour from 8 am till pm milking them last thing at night,nearly 4 years now and it’s been no bother

yin ewe · Jan 1, 2020

Perhaps robotics are just not for you ???

Grassman247 · Jan 1, 2020

Martyn said:
Is there now way you can turn your feed faces into concrete troughs, bunkers and spew tmr into them, we have changed to this this winter and now cows hardly leave any waste and has saved us much time pushing up silage, yet to clean troughs out as cows lick clean just about, just leave stones and any foreign objects!

Did the same here for youngstock and going to do the same for milkers, works brilliant.

On another not we have got some metal and some wooden feed troughs and are forever forking those out, I think correct design is key

Martyn · Jan 1, 2020

Grassman247 said:
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Did the same here for youngstock and going to do the same for milkers, works brilliant.

On another not we have got some metal and some wooden feed troughs and are forever forking those out, I think correct design is key

We made exactly the same profile from 40ft shutter ply, have filled them 6 times, lot of effort 3/4m of concrete for 20ft, delighted now with it.

pappuller · Jan 1, 2020

Grassman247 said:
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Did the same here for youngstock and going to do the same for milkers, works brilliant.

On another not we have got some metal and some wooden feed troughs and are forever forking those out, I think correct design is key

did you ever use an resin type product in your troughs ?

pappuller · Jan 1, 2020

Grassman247 said:
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Did the same here for youngstock and going to do the same for milkers, works brilliant.

On another not we have got some metal and some wooden feed troughs and are forever forking those out, I think correct design is key

troughs can very quickly become full of shitty feed, we clean all ours out twice a week and probably don't get more than a small wheelbarrow full every fortnight but it still makes a difference to intakes. looks a smart job, whose troughs ?

Stuart1 · Jan 1, 2020

Can anyone recommend a bolus for cows in the dry period carrying twins, cows that are on the fatter side and/or cows at risk of retaining cleansings. Thanks.

Grassman247 · Jan 1, 2020

pappuller said:
troughs can very quickly become full of shitty feed, we clean all ours out twice a week and probably don't get more than a small wheelbarrow full every fortnight but it still makes a difference to intakes. looks a smart job, whose troughs ?

West Country concrete, not the nicest finish on the outside but good enough and I haven’t found any others similar in design that I like, also had some panels from them but there nowhere near as nice as the Jones brothers panels just a shame they don’t make troughs. on the resin front I could never get a company interested in coming to do it so we are waiting until summer and then we are going to fibreglass them ourselves I think

Holsteinfriesian90 · Jan 1, 2020

Stuart1 said:
Can anyone recommend a bolus for cows in the dry period carrying twins, cows that are on the fatter side and/or cows at risk of retaining cleansings. Thanks.

Kexxtone?

vantage · Jan 1, 2020

Grassman247 said:
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Did the same here for youngstock and going to do the same for milkers, works brilliant.

On another not we have got some metal and some wooden feed troughs and are forever forking those out, I think correct design is key

I just noticed, you’ve given that shed some interesting surgery!

Stuart1 · Jan 1, 2020

Holsteinfriesian90 said:
Kexxtone?

Had a quick google and they might be what I need. I’ve quite a few cows scanned with twins so I want to do them with something.

Stuart1 · Jan 1, 2020

Holsteinfriesian90 said:
Kexxtone?

Had a quick google and they might be what I need. I’ve quite a few cows scanned with twins so I want to do them with something.

Bogeyman · Jan 1, 2020

A twin post from Stuart 1!!

Grassman247 · Jan 1, 2020

vantage said:
I just noticed, you’ve given that shed some interesting surgery!

Original plan was to put up with the steels in the back of the beds but when it came to it I couldn’t bear to look at that for the next however many years so go onto my shed builder and we came up with that. It’s an old shed we’ve inherited which was structurally sound just needed the internals updating

Bald Rick · Jan 1, 2020

Beef farmer said:
What was the reason for not having another lely? I bet the cow that killed killer is now biting ya pusher. Some fiery cows you've got there

Beginning to wonder that myself. Put off by the strips as we would have to cut into the concrete to embed them this time whereas the Joz was a simple matter of drilling holes every 2m.

Jerseys are by nature curious. Bite, butt, lick, rumble with pleasure in that order

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