All things Dairy

[frederick]

Spoken like a man who has never owned one. The stuff you can do with it and time you can save ( probably wouldnt pay for it's in saved time but we need it to load the Keenan. Need a tractor 250 hp tractor to fit a large enough loader too)

Once the dairy cows go it's going to be a massive over capitalisation having one but I won't go with out it.

I've owned one for 5 years in a farm that's sheds wouldn't take anything else. It was fine but always wished I could replace it with a tractor.

A 120 hp t5 will do most things a 2.5 ton handler will do. Agreed if you start wanting 4 ton lift.

Which is why we borrowed a neighbour's to move a shipping container.

 

[betweenthelines]

Most farmers want a telehandler but really just need a tractor and loader

 

[easy farming]

You’ll never go back to tractor and loader after owning a handler

We had one 20 years ago, a Matbro, maintenance costs were horrendous unless they were changed regularly. Moved over to a tractor loader which now does all the work. We changed the way we do things to make system work. Fert spinner on a bogey so can be loaded by tractor, silage dropped into feeders not barriers, contractors do all silage, slurry etc.
It works for us, and we could never justify a telehandler again.

 

[More to life]

Machinery inflation is the next big hit for the industry,be it replacement cost or contractor rates it's all the same.

 

[yin ewe]

Most farmers want a telehandler but really just need a tractor and loader

It essentially means having an extra machine in the yard, can't put a slurry pump, fertiliser sower, tanker etc on the back of a telehandler.
I'd rather have a smaller and bigger loader tractor that could could be swapped around depending on the job.

 

[Scholsey]

Who can guess what I am doing for a fair chunk of today…….

 

[Martyn]

Who can guess what I am doing for a fair chunk of today…….View attachment 1071508

If it makes you feel any better, I'm about to spend the next few hours splitting our platecooler in to bits as I have a major bscan issue!

 

[Conrod96]

It essentially means having an extra machine in the yard, can't put a slurry pump, fertiliser sower, tanker etc on the back of a telehandler.
I'd rather have a smaller and bigger loader tractor that could could be swapped around depending on the job.

We went the opposite way and have a big and small telehandler we’ll the big one isn’t that big compared to some

 

[lazy farmer]

If it makes you feel any better, I'm about to spend the next few hours splitting our platecooler in to bits as I have a major bscan issue!

Don’t forget to measure where the Bolts s are done up to. Your very brave doing it alone.

 

[FarmerWasty]

If it makes you feel any better, I'm about to spend the next few hours splitting our platecooler in to bits as I have a major bscan issue!

That is hell on earth. Good luck getting it back together nicely.

 

[yin ewe]

We went the opposite way and have a big and small telehandler we’ll the big one isn’t that big compared to some

No right or wrong way I suppose. If I'm at slurry I'd put the pump on the smaller tractor and tanker on the bigger one so I don't need to yok on and off and I can still put grabs into the cows with the pump on. I can't justify a handler for 65 cows although it would be nice to have one.

 

[Conrod96]

No right or wrong way I suppose. If I'm at slurry I'd put the pump on the smaller tractor and tanker on the bigger one so I don't need to yok on and off and I can still put grabs into the cows with the pump on. I can't justify a handler for 65 cows although it would be nice to have one.

Ah I know exactly what you mean we were running up serious hours on one machine so the 2nd one cut that down a fair bit

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

Don’t forget to measure where the Bol s are done up to. Your very brave doing it alone.

And on a Sunday

 

[TheRanger]

Who can guess what I am doing for a fair chunk of today…….View attachment 1071508

Many problems since you changed from EB to Collinson?

 

[Martyn]

Don’t forget to measure where the Bolts s are done up to. Your very brave doing it alone.

Family is away so peace and quiet iv done two before so hopefully should be ok, just a steady job.

 

[Scholsey]

Many problems since you changed from EB to Collinson?

Was a bit of hassle converting the Collinson boot to fit then EB bin (that’s what the wooden piece is) but works a treat, got quite a few pipes which are wearing through now so will probably replace with Collinson now.

 

[paddler]

Was a bit of hassle converting the Collinson boot to fit then EB bin (that’s what the wooden piece is) but works a treat, got quite a few pipes which are wearing through now so will probably replace with Collinson now.

We recently replaced our parlour pipes. Bildabin were less than a third of Collinsons quote. Very happy with the speed and quality of the work.

 

[som farmer]

You’ll never go back to tractor and loader after owning a handler

son worked out the cost of paying for, and hours used of the handler, already having a decent loader tractor, and needing a replacement feeder wagon tractor, swopped the handler for a second-hand loader tractor, helped by being faced with a big bill on the handler, - electrics.

So having gone from, l don't know how we managed before we had a handler, to managing very well without one, but the main loader tractor is 2yrs old, and a vast improvement to what we had, prior to handler.

 

[som farmer]

72mm of rain in the last 3 days. Cows still coming in as clean as a whistle. The vale is sucking up all the moisture it’s getting.

31ml last night, loud enough to wake me up, before the thunder and lightning.
ours total 74ml in 3 days, to go on top of the 37ml, already had this month. Be nice to have a dry couple of weeks now.

 

[som farmer]

perhaps those that responded, how little kit they need, would like to say how much machinery they have on farm.