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De Laval or Milfos 40pt Rotary???

Turboman

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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.
 

Cuthbert

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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.
250 an hour?
 

emyrbods

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What did you decide on @emyrbods ? Just visited a guy in our discussion group,installed a 40 point Milfos deck and GEA equipment. Very pleased he was too!
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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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
What were you milking in from calving till then?
 
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
Also.....4k a point cover the plant?
 

multi power

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Location
pembrokeshire
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
What is the output like ?
 
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?
 

emyrbods

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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!!
 

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