Hauling your own milk

kiwi pom

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Location
canterbury NZ
It's possible you're not allowed to cart your own too?
Fonterra has to pick up milk from all its farms using its own tankers and its owned employed and trained staff. Subbies can only be used for factory tranships or transfer station work.
One of the many rules they have, I think its in the contract with some of their customers.
 

fgc325j

Member
Anyone hauling their own milk in to their processor?

Pros/cons?
But you know what farmer's are like with kit, years ago i used to happily pull a
Grays roller, on hilly land, with MF 135, nowadays the same roller needs 120+
hp in front. You will probably start off with any tractor from the shed, but, pretty
soon you'll be looking at the leaflets for 250+hp machine, which will be
permanently attached to the milk tanker. Any savings on paper will soon be
swallowed in HP/lease deal:) Who needs fast women or slow horses when
you've a quiet evening in, reading tractor porn.
 

Ducati899

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Location
north dorset
Perfect for you rickster
 

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Spud

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Arable Farmer
Location
YO62
Perfect for you rickster

Careful. If its registered as a special vehicle, you need either special vehicle of hgv license to drive it, and it cannot haul goods. My shunter wagon is registered as a special vehicle so we can move it around on the road. It can tow the taty washer trailer ok (its an appliance) but we cant use it to haul goods.

@Spud used to do haulage if I recall correctly. Not always a bed of roses.

You are quite correct sir, on both counts.

My advice is do it right, or don't bother. Taking your own may fit ok for part of the year, but how will it fit in with the peaks of silaging etc? Tanker would need keeping in top order, inside and out. At times, I'm sure it'd pay fine, at others, it may compromise other, more important work. Imagine waiting two hours to tip while the silage gang are screaming for you and the tractor......

Forget tractor drawn tankers. If you can get a few of you together and run a truck full time, then it'd work ok - use the same one for feed, straw, milk etc. A good driver would about do it himself.
 

Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
Update:

Had the milk buyer in for a cup of tea and chocolate cake as we do every 4-6 months and ran it passed him.
In principle no objection was raised but we would have to be accredited to carry milk

Arsed?
 

Blue.

Member
Livestock Farmer
My b litres have a haulage charge of 1.2p/litre,my dairy is circa 27miles away,gripes me that they are already picking up my a litres with the haulage built in.
 
Would only work if you had a driver who loved the job and could organise his work to make the most of having a truck. Get a couple of other guys tooled up with HGV ticket to act as relief. Could cart straw, feed, maize or slurry with the truck to keep it busy.

Trouble is 36K a year doesn't seem a big enough cherry for buying a truck and the trailers to go with it, plus finding a bloke?
 

multi power

Member
Location
pembrokeshire
Tractor towed yes. Less than 30 mins in to dairy and could haul 28000 litres every other day. Say 2 hour round trip including off load and wash out. Could pick our time too (for a premium if they want it after midnight :pompous: )

Not a massive issue but the local collection only has 18000 litre tankers so having to part load every other day which can be a minor nuisance as we need to insert a T piece so they can collect if we’re milkng
Collecting milk while you are still milking is a major no no
 

yin ewe

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Co Antrim
Would only work if you had a driver who loved the job and could organise his work to make the most of having a truck. Get a couple of other guys tooled up with HGV ticket to act as relief. Could cart straw, feed, maize or slurry with the truck to keep it busy.

Trouble is 36K a year doesn't seem a big enough cherry for buying a truck and the trailers to go with it, plus finding a bloke?

36k is just the saving on the milk haulage part of the equation, bound to be savings on the other parts as well.

Just make sure the milk tanker and slurry tanker don't get mixed up ?
 
36k is just the saving on the milk haulage part of the equation, bound to be savings on the other parts as well.

Just make sure the milk tanker and slurry tanker don't get mixed up ?

I dunno about the savings, I seem to remember Rickster on about taking on a farm of 400 acres but 20 miles away so assumed the 36K was largely incidental. This time next year and all that. Good timing mind considering a nationally sized haulage business just went under though? Reckon his pornhub subscription expired and so been using his brain a lot more recently.
 

vantage

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Pembs
Contanamin, antibiotics etc
Image you are milking, tanker comes, takes sample, you carry on milking, you accidentally milk an antibiotic cow, the sample will be ok, but not the tanker load

I'm not saying milk doesn't get collected during milking but it breaks every rule in the book
Wouldn’t happen with most modern tankers with sampling taking place from the milk flow. Also I think @Baldrick has a snap chiller to cool the milk instantaneously.
 

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ
Update:

Had the milk buyer in for a cup of tea and chocolate cake as we do every 4-6 months and ran it passed him.
In principle no objection was raised but we would have to be accredited to carry milk

Arsed?

Depends how much extra they will give you for hauling your own.
Cant see it paying if you do it properly.
Might work if its a dodgy farm job, but you might want to keep it quiet (y):unsure:
 

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