12ft eves?
Cubicle shed costs
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How thick is the steel?
On the cubicles? Wouldn't a clue. They arrive in May.
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Yes 12 ft to the eaves , 12 ft cubicle passage, 15 ft feed and 17 ft Central feed passage. They aren't super high like some of these sheds with 22 degree pitched roof but they do have gaps in the sheeting.
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- North West
Bloody heavy, don't want to carry them too far. Not like the teemore junk.
The tale of a local farmer getting more “identical” cubicles springs to mind. Said farmer thought the new cubicles were a bit light so chopped one apart, was 1.5 mm less than his original ones. Rang the rep, “ Probably only the one at the end of a production run”, farmer said “I’ll keep cut till I find one the right spec!” All cubicles were changed!
Were going 3 row then feed on one side. 14ft feed passage 9ft passageway. 14ft head to head and 8ft 6 against the wall
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Builder put the shed up and we did all the rest.
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- North West
I take it you aren't self feeding on these cows. On our system it pays to only be 2 - 1 but push stocking rates. I don't think we'd get away with it 3-1 without more feed space.
No, can't see how it would work with spring calving. Too many groups
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- North West
My neighbour does it by splitting the shed and feeds the dry cows on bales one end then puts the milkers the other and lets them self feed a silage pile that end. He moves the gates up as the group sizes change.
Cubicle shed cost come down a lot to weather you wish to house 8 months 4 months or 12 months. 6k liters or 12k liters
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- North West
Another farm close by bolted the uprights to a roof on the back of the individual post mounted cubicles. High enough to get a scraper in with a 8 inch gap. 360 cubicles like that and a short single run of 40ish with just a roof over the bed. Massive pile of silage next to them for self feeding.
This & breed of cow. We’ve got 14’ head to heads & they’re just not long enough for our holsteins. New ones going in at 17’. So wider shed & more concrete for wider passages before you even get started on comfort.
Thank you all. It seems there is no rule of thumb.
For those that asked, we have around 120 cows at present, but a bit of scope for expansion wouldn't hurt. The site lends itself to three double rows up to 36m long, maybe 144 beds depending on whose sizes one follows. Feed on outsides, have had problems with too much maize this year, so self feed has stopped. New building required, but hard standing already down. Used to be able to keep cows grazing for a good part of the year, but have had several years of drought, followed by monsoon, so inclined to be fairly generous with space and mattresses, as we may be housed for quite a while, and I don't want to risk fertility, although they will have access to a good outdoor loafing area.
I'll keep getting quotes and work it out for myself. It's been an interesting discussion. Thank you.
For those that asked, we have around 120 cows at present, but a bit of scope for expansion wouldn't hurt. The site lends itself to three double rows up to 36m long, maybe 144 beds depending on whose sizes one follows. Feed on outsides, have had problems with too much maize this year, so self feed has stopped. New building required, but hard standing already down. Used to be able to keep cows grazing for a good part of the year, but have had several years of drought, followed by monsoon, so inclined to be fairly generous with space and mattresses, as we may be housed for quite a while, and I don't want to risk fertility, although they will have access to a good outdoor loafing area.
I'll keep getting quotes and work it out for myself. It's been an interesting discussion. Thank you.
From memory storth rope is a ridiculous price, over £7 a metre (some years ago) and we were only getting a couple of years out of it. Switched over to 20mm polysteel rope from rope direct. Only £1 a metre. A big saving every time we change a rope. Seems to last just as long.
I’ll have a look into it. Had some problems with there rope.
I use dyneema rope. It's 10mm and have 12 tons break strenght. I pay about £3,7/m. It last about 15-18 month on average. We splice it once, and second time it breaks we swap. My passage is 112 meters. It would probably last longer on a shorter run. My pulleys doesn't accomodate 20mm rope, so i can't try something else.
dairydurham
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Just a couple of months here, but only around £3/m
Haven’t run my Harrymatic scrapers for a number of years, but rope life expectancy was many years , not months.