It's hard to know which is best. There's something fairly modern milfos in South Scotland that is giving nothing but trouble. From what my cousin tells me the deck and running gear are fine but all the electrics have stopped such as auto Id shedding gates milk meters etc. Causing a right pain for the staff having to manually sort out cows in a large herd.
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De Laval or Milfos 40pt Rotary???
- Thread starter emyrbods
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We had a removal rotary long story. But it was scrapped after 7 years. Never finished and was continually breaking down. They took the money and just ran off. Got a 2nd fullwood herringbone. I don't think I'd go rotary again. Did they take you to the parlour in forden?
Cuthbert
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250 an hour?
Give an idea of cost? 1 man parlour?
£4K per stall and up unless very very basic
With Acrs and walk over teat sprayer?
Up nudging 5 with those on. Milfos do their “pud” sprayer for each stall which can be spec’d wit led colour coded lights
Went with the Delaval. 40pt with ACR, bail retention and deck spray. Been milking in it for 2 weeks now and couldn't be happier. Cows took aprox 5 milkings to adjust, some older cows are still a bit stubborn. Its the new E100 type rotary and it was the first for Dairy scope to fit so a few niggles which slowed the job down, but all in all happy
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What were you milking in from calving till then?
Also.....4k a point cover the plant?
multi power
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- pembrokeshire
What is the output like ?
14/28 fullwood, neighbour who we have gone into partnership with's parlour
Under 2 hours in the afternoon, just over in the morning but in the middle of AI atm so should speed up the mornings once done. 70% of the herd are in their 1st lactation doing 20ltrs/dat
£4050
So should be a comfy 200/hr fir 1 person after ai...
With test sprayer and acrs that's reasonable. 24/48 is 100k now from a recent quote
Yep definitely, that was our aim from the start. Would you be happy with that kind of throughput for the cost?
Depends on what the shed and ground work cost. 24/48 will do 180hr 1 man comfortably. Today's prices...100k parlour 20k shed/concrete. Did the rotary need 200k spent on a shed and builders? Genuine question, you hear people say the rotary is only half the spend. But either way, Sunday afternoon when you wanna go beach with the kids, output is key. Everything else going well? You feed on the deck?
Waw good going on 180/hour, couple around here would be around the 150 mark i think. Yep unfortunately a complete new build, so 200k for building work. Yep feed on the platform, everything is going great, fantastic spring to start milking at between 800-1050ft asl lol!!