All things Dairy

[Spudley]

No gym needed for you!

 

[Tim G]

Was watching Tom Pemberton with the boy last night where he was looking at auto scrappers and said that at least he could put his scrapper on another tractor.....

 

[sidjon]

Thankfully have 3 tractor which can scrap out ,bugger doing by hand

 

[Jdunn55]

Thankfully have 3 tractor which can scrap out ,bugger doing by hand

Yes, I think another scraper tractor is rapidly moving up the list, if there's one thing I hate using its the hand scraper - bad enough using it at the end of milking

 

[Jdunn55]

I don’t think you’ll be the first or the last to of done a full scrape with the squeegee

I wish I was wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy, good job no one was around as I was swearing more than usual

 

[pine_guy]

Power is all fine luckily, loads of rain though and about 30 seconds of snow

See your 30sec of snow and raise you five min and counting after a keen frost last night.

 

[Blue.]

How do robots cope with older generators regards voltage spikes etc?
Had a call off a lad at 4amasking for a genny because his power went off at 10pm on Friday and he was tearing his hair out.

 

[pine_guy]

How do robots cope with older generators regards voltage spikes etc?
Had a call off a lad at 4amasking for a genny because his power went off at 10pm on Friday and he was tearing his hair out.

I don’t think they do. Spot up the road blew there’s up when they ran them off the genny that powered the farm fine. Think it was the installers fault as there should have been another box of protection between the two

 

[TheRanger]

How do robots cope with older generators regards voltage spikes etc?
Had a call off a lad at 4amasking for a genny because his power went off at 10pm on Friday and he was tearing his hair out.

There was someone on here recently that didn't have a generator at all, claimed he could milk once a day in an emergency and the power has never been off for long.

Neighbouring village was just turned back on last night after a 30 hour power cut.

 

[Blue.]

I don’t think they do. Spot up the road blew there’s up when they ran them off the genny that powered the farm fine. Think it was the installers fault as there should have been another box of protection between the two

I don’t want to hook up a 40 year old pto genny and fry the robot.

 

[Blue.]

There was someone on here recently that didn't have a generator at all, claimed he could milk once a day in an emergency and the power has never been off for long.

Neighbouring village was just turned back on last night after a 30 hour power cut.

We very rarely have power cuts nowadays and I haven’t used my genny till mid summer this year when we were off for near 2 days,about half a milking paid for the genny so it’s very cheap insurance.

 

[TheRanger]

We very rarely have power cuts nowadays and I haven’t used my genny till mid summer this year when we were off for near 2 days,about half a milking paid for the genny so it’s very cheap insurance.

We fitted a new one two years ago now and haven’t used it once.

 

[Blue.]

We fitted a new one two years ago now and haven’t used it once.

I’d use it just to keep it working,neighbours pto genny had seized up unbeknown to them,hitched up the tractor and it ripped it off the concrete and wrapped the wires around it.

 

[pappuller]

How do robots cope with older generators regards voltage spikes etc?
Had a call off a lad at 4amasking for a genny because his power went off at 10pm on Friday and he was tearing his hair out.

Our a4s are fine on our Cowell pto genny, I think a5s are a little more difficult to deal with

 

[pine_guy]

There was someone on here recently that didn't have a generator at all, claimed he could milk once a day in an emergency and the power has never been off for long.

Neighbouring village was just turned back on last night after a 30 hour power cut.

We don’t have one, but I have a family run hire place up the road that can supply when needed, agreement in place. We should have a hard wired plug in theory, to plug it into, and it’s in the plans when the new tank room gets built as we have to pull a new power supply through the buildings from the meter. But it’s a long time since we’ve had a power cut for more than a few hours in the last 20 years. But never say never.

 

[vantage]

I’d use it just to keep it working,neighbours pto genny had seized up unbeknown to them,hitched up the tractor and it ripped it off the concrete and wrapped the wires around it.

Bet they wished the pto shaft had a shear bolt!

 

[Farmer Keith]

Bet they wished the pto shaft had a shear bolt!

Or they’d checked it turned as they put it on?

 

[Fergieman]

Is the need for a genny or an agreement to have one available at short notice just an Arla thing or is it in red tractor now as well. Good standard, ours hasn't stopped since 7pm Friday night.

 

[upnortheast]

How do robots cope with older generators regards voltage spikes etc?
Had a call off a lad at 4amasking for a genny because his power went off at 10pm on Friday and he was tearing his hair out.

Our ex Aggreco must be 30 years old (we have had it 16 years ) Runs the robots & the rest of the farm no problem.

Just run 20 hours . 1st time it`s been in serious use for over a year

Biggest problem is remembering to run it for 15 minutes every few weeks to keep the battery awake.

 

[upnortheast]

Is the need for a genny or an agreement to have one available at short notice just an Arla thing or is it in red tractor now as well. Good standard, ours hasn't stopped since 7pm Friday night.

Just common sense IMO.
Say 100 cows @ 30 litres a day is near enough £1000 day

Soon covers the cost of a genny. especially an event like the last few days

Power networks do seem to be more robust now. My views were hatched in the 70`s & 80`s when power cuts were common & then we had the 3 day week when power was turned off for (I think ) a number of 4 hour slots every week