De Laval or Milfos 40pt Rotary???

emyrbods

New Member
We are switching from beef and sheep to spring calving dairy next year and are a bit undecided on which make rotary to go for.

Swaying a bit towards De Laval but Milfos is another contender. Starting at 400 cows and scope to expand at some point.

Anyone with experience of a De Laval Rotary? Good local backup with a Milfos but price is not as competative as De Laval. Plenty of De Laval herringbone parlours around also with all with good feedback.
 

emyrbods

New Member
Putting 480 through a 40pt waikato at peak milk in 2 hours at work so think its big enough. Max numbers for us would only be 450 so 40pt is enough i believe. And need to keep things within budget
 

vantage

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Pembs
@Walwyn has a new delaval rotary.
I have a delaval h/b,not a lot to go wrong,when needed back up from our local dealer Dairycare is first class.
Where are you based?
 

daijd

Member
Location
South wales
if You want to do at least 200 cows/hr thats 5revolutions per hour (12 minutes per revolution) if your cows are in peak milk you maybe waiting for them to finish milking at the exit unless you spec the parlour with retention bars. Just something for you to consider
 

emyrbods

New Member
if You want to do at least 200 cows/hr thats 5revolutions per hour (12 minutes per revolution) if your cows are in peak milk you maybe waiting for them to finish milking at the exit unless you spec the parlour with retention bars. Just something for you to consider
We have asked for both acr's and retention bars and teat spray to be added to the parlour. Must be a 1 man operation after calving and AI period. Thats why we are opting for a rotary instead of a 40:80.
 

daijd

Member
Location
South wales
If your doing minimal teat prep and have acrs with some sort of auto post dipping (we got adf) should be achievable but if you want push the numbers in the future you’ll want a bigger rotary or go 3 times a day so cows are getting off parlour in time.
 

emyrbods

New Member
Yeah min teat prep and spring calving so yeilds will be aprox 5000ltrs so 3 times a day wont be happening. Do you have any experience with a De Laval Rotary or Milfos? Just want some feedback from guys so we can make a decision which make to go for
 

daijd

Member
Location
South wales
Ours is a gea (he’s own milfos). Milfos seems a popular choice around here. The dealer is pretty good so that’s a consideration. Got no experience of a deleval. My idea would be go see the parlours with existing customers and see what they say.
 

Turboman

Member
Location
N.I.
if You want to do at least 200 cows/hr thats 5revolutions per hour (12 minutes per revolution) if your cows are in peak milk you maybe waiting for them to finish milking at the exit unless you spec the parlour with retention bars. Just something for you to consider

Surely even the highest of yielding cows will be milked within 12 minutes, with the exception of slow milkers which you can get at any yield band.
 
50 point external fullwood is what your needing

That’s definitely not what he needs, an Australian platform with full wood stuff bolted to it?!

People don’t do near enough research when buying parlours.

I know of a dairy disaster rotary same size as my 50 point costing the guy 70k a year in dairy engineer bills. I know of a full wood guy who’s spent years pushing his parlour by hand it breaks so much.

Mines a waikato 50 point. Hasn’t broken down in 10 years. Costs 4K a year service costs. No brainer really. Buy the right parlour and then local backup isn’t even an issue.
 

Stinker

Member
We can have nearly every cow coming round still milking and that's with pre wiping on our 40 point rotary at peak yield. I would sooner buy a 60 with no tech than a 40 with some pointless tech which will just break.
 

rusty

Member
50 point Deleval rotary been in about 4 years near me that has been quite a lot of bother. I think it's the bells and whistles side that has caused the problems but the dealer or Deleval has not been very swift at sorting the issues.
 
I know a farm that put a de larval rotary in and it was a complete disaster resulting in a court case, they are now milking in a second hand herringbone.

Listening in on a conversation between a dairy engineer and a builder who specialises in dairy work a few years ago and the dairy engineer was saying if a farmer wanted de larval equipment they'd be better off putting it on anyone else's platform.
 

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