Evanza milking cluster

[Farmer_1994]

Being released in Canada Monday. Anyone using them across the pond yet with feedback?

 

[vantage]

Being released in Canada Monday. Anyone using them across the pond yet with feedback?

Nice design, speed and ease of liner change, but £££!

 

[Farmer_1994]

Nice design, speed and ease of liner change, but £££!

Is it worth the dollars though? More to it than just ease of changing they say, more milk possibly, faster milking. They make those claims with all new designs it seems though. The concept is very intriguing to me, changing liners is nobody’s favourite job so it always gets pushed off. This would be definitely easier and half as often.

 

[Blue.]

They look expensive,designed to make de-laval more money,anything that twists to fit will inevitably wear and need replacement.

https://www.delaval.com/globalassets/inriver-resources/document/brochure/evanza-brochure-uk1.pdf

 

[vantage]

Is it worth the dollars though? More to it than just ease of changing they say, more milk possibly, faster milking. They make those claims with all new designs it seems though. The concept is very intriguing to me, changing liners is nobody’s favourite job so it always gets pushed off. This would be definitely easier and half as often.

I can see if you have a parlour working most of the day the Evanza claw would be a blessing as liner “cassettes” can be changed in seconds, they also apparently last twice as long. If not then I’d say they are too expensive for the benefits, even though I hate changing Harmony liners.

 

[vantage]

They look expensive,designed to make de-laval more money,anything that twists to fit will inevitably wear and need replacement.

https://www.delaval.com/globalassets/inriver-resources/document/brochure/evanza-brochure-uk1.pdf

They are expensive, I think I was told £500 each! The liner cassette is also expensive .
There doesn’t appear to be anything to wear that you wouldn’t change routinely, it’s just way overpriced.

 

[Barmyfarmer]

£400 each

 

[Agrifool]

My cousin got to try 2 clusters for a week that his dealer sent him. He said he loved them, very light and easy to attach with virtually no slippage. Haven't been speaking to him since to ask him the price but what concerned him was that while the cartridges were easy to change the short milk tube needed changing every other time the cartridge was changed and hes not sure how time consuming that was.

 

[vantage]

My cousin got to try 2 clusters for a week that his dealer sent him. He said he loved them, very light and easy to attach with virtually no slippage. Haven't been speaking to him since to ask him the price but what concerned him was that while the cartridges were easy to change the short milk tube needed changing every other time the cartridge was changed and hes not sure how time consuming that was.

My dealer showed me, it just screws in, about 5 seconds total!

 

[Agrifool]

My dealer showed me, it just screws in, about 5 seconds total!

does the short milk tube also contain the outershell as one piece or can you screw the short milk tube into both the claw bowl and the liner shell?

 

[vantage]

does the short milk tube also contain the outershell as one piece or can you screw the short milk tube into both the claw bowl and the liner shell?

It’s two piece. I just looked on YouTube, short milk tube and outer shell are one.
Correction it’s actually 3 pieces, cartridge, liner and tube, liner and tube connect with a half turn, tube to claw with half turn.

 

[Farmer_1994]

We bit the bullet and are going to put them in. We were told $450 CAD per unit. Time will tell if the price is worth it, if they perform as well as they say, and talking to the test farms they do. Then it pays back for us in 2 months.

 

[Milkcow365]

We bit the bullet and are going to put them in. We were told $450 CAD per unit. Time will tell if the price is worth it, if they perform as well as they say, and talking to the test farms they do. Then it pays back for us in 2 months.

How do you come to that pay back?

 

[Farmer_1994]

How do you come to that pay back?

Increase in milk production, and shorter milking and service times

 

[Jasper1992]

We bit the bullet and are going to put them in. We were told $450 CAD per unit. Time will tell if the price is worth it, if they perform as well as they say, and talking to the test farms they do. Then it pays back for us in 2 months.

@Farmer_1994 how are you finding the evanza cluster?

 

[Beef farmer]

@Farmer_1994 how are you finding the evanza cluster?

Just booked his 3rd holiday in a month with the time he has saved and the extra milk.

 

[Farmer_1994]

@Farmer_1994 how are you finding the evanza cluster?

Still waiting on install

 

[Farmer_1994]

Just booked his 3rd holiday in a month with the time he has saved and the extra milk.

Interest rate savings has done all that ?

 

[Jasper1992]

Still waiting on install

Will be interested to know how you get on

 

[Farmer_1994]

Will be interested to know how you get on

Will let you know