We have cowcare rope scrapers that scrape onto slats in front of the robots. I'm wanting to put slat mats down to help with white line as cows always seem to bull on the slats. Has anyone successfully got a scraper going from concrete passage up onto slat mats without it jamming or damaging the mats? A metal strip had been mentioned as a ramp, but thought that might come loose in time and cause more problems. Wondered about grinding the concrete down so the last mat finishes flush with the concrete, sounds easier said than done.
Auto scrapers onto slat mats.
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Fraserb
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We used to do something similar, and as you say the metal strips were never a success, I would go for Grinding the concrete down, one of those Grinding disks in a 9" grinder can fairly remove it.
Was thinking about continuing the mats into the passageway which is not slatted.
Does the scraper run far onto the slats? If not, you could leave a couple of feet of the slats without mats where the scraper ends?
Would the cows not lie on the mats
Tends to be lots of cow movement around robots so maybe less opportunity for cows to lie on the slats?
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