Alfa leval update

[Henry3901]

Got a 8/16 jars and acrs going cheap

Where are you based ??

 

[meekers]

Got to laugh at all the people saying rip it out and put a bigger one in. Decide how many cows your farm can handle and how many you want to milk and chose your parlour size from there. I took out our 12/24 3 years ago and put in a 20/40 because I thought it would save time and make life easier. Have ended up milking an extra 100 cows so back to same milking time and life certainly not any easier!

 

[Tarw Coch]

Got to laugh at all the people saying rip it out and put a bigger one in. Decide how many cows your farm can handle and how many you want to milk and chose your parlour size from there. I took out our 12/24 3 years ago and put in a 20/40 because I thought it would save time and make life easier. Have ended up milking an extra 100 cows so back to same milking time and life certainly not any easier!

But milking an extra hundred cows is your choice, did you intend doing that anyway but the old parlour wouldn't have coped?
Of course it does raise a valid point, by time you factor in all the extra costs and workload, is it really worth it?

Ultimately it's down to the OP what he wants to do and you're quite right to say look at how many the farm can handle and what personal ambitions are, he may well also be constrained by finances. All we can do is offer our personal opinions/experiences and hopefully he will be able to use them to decide what is the best course of action for him but it certainly doesn't do any harm to consider all the options before committing to spending money.

 

[Sid]

Got to laugh at all the people saying rip it out and put a bigger one in. Decide how many cows your farm can handle and how many you want to milk and chose your parlour size from there. I took out our 12/24 3 years ago and put in a 20/40 because I thought it would save time and make life easier. Have ended up milking an extra 100 cows so back to same milking time and life certainly not any easier!

this is what you ended up with not a parlour.

 

[Einstien]

Sell all the Barroners and the pets...

Swap them for Livery ££££

Live happy every after....

LoL

 

[dinderleat]

Where are you based ??

Somerset near shepton mallet

 

[organic antares]

hi we've got a 20 year old Alfa 5/10 swing over , we're thinking about doubling it up to make a 10/10 to save time milking . ideally we'd like to find a used similar parlour to uses as a donor , does anyone know where the best place to source one would be ?

We milk in a 10/10 and I would think doubling up your parlour will speed milking up quite a bit, if I was to change ours I would now go longer and swingover

 

[Henry3901]

Somerset near shepton mallet

Oh ideal I'm near Exeter

 

[Henry3901]

Anything has to be a step up from 5 at a time !! If money was no object I would be building a greenfield site with all the mods , but wouldn't we all

 

[awkward]

Anything has to be a step up from 5 at a time !! If money was no object I would be building a greenfield site with all the mods , but wouldn't we all

agreed but it's better to do it right first time if at all possible do. the best thing to do is cost doing the job every way . no point in being busy fool plenty have including me

 

[lazy farmer]

this is what you ended up with not a parlour.

trouble is i have both. i just like my food too much..................