De Laval or Milfos 40pt Rotary???

[Agrifool]

Nice job, any more photos of the setup?

 

[vantage]

So should be a comfy 200/hr fir 1 person after ai...

300 cows ,1 man , 29l autumn block,1.5 hours done!

 

[PDB]

Rotary looks good. Who have you got a milk contract with?

 

[Blue.]

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?

No chance.

How many litres/hr?

 

[Beef farmer]

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!!

No chance.

How many litres/hr?

6k cows.

 

[Agrispeed]

Big herringbones are as cheap as you can get Several around here built in the 90's very basic with galv pipe all bent locally, block built pits done by the farmer and buy the dairy kit as you want. The ones I know are still running and its what I'd probably do on my next parlour.

 

[Beef farmer]

Big herringbones are as cheap as you can get Several around here built in the 90's very basic with galv pipe all bent locally, block built pits done by the farmer and buy the dairy kit as you want. The ones I know are still running and its what I'd probably do on my next parlour.

How close are you to the real big one?

 

[Agrispeed]

How close are you to the real big one?

Can see his place from the top of the hill here.

Used to milk in a smaller one built the same way at the same time, cheap, basic, but perfectly pleasant. Designed by a Kiwi called Jan Fox.

 

[Beef farmer]

Can see his place from the top of the hill here.

Used to milk in a smaller one built the same way at the same time, cheap, basic, but perfectly pleasant. Designed by a Kiwi called Jan Fox.

20k will build the shed and pit/concrete for them. Its ideal

 

[Homesy]

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?

A shed which 120ft long including concrete, laying and building pit for £20 K ?

 

[Beef farmer]

A shed which 120ft long including concrete, laying and building pit for £20 K ?

Why such a long shed? 80ft covers mine

 

[Grassman247]

Big herringbones are as cheap as you can get Several around here built in the 90's very basic with galv pipe all bent locally, block built pits done by the farmer and buy the dairy kit as you want. The ones I know are still running and its what I'd probably do on my next parlour.

Makes me laugh when I see people put these in, 2 men to operate but what happens when second bloke doesn’t turn up?

At least with what the OP has done one man can fetch the cows and milk on his own no problem is the help isn’t available. So much flexibility to this idea and it can provide a good work life balance and the cost over 25 years is nothing in the scheme of things

 

[multi power]

No chance.

How many litres/hr?

Not comfortably
Not leagly
Not within the terms of the milk contact
Probably not safely either