How do you concrete a parlour floor ?

[Blue.]

Hi any you guys know if there is difference in gaskets for a straight 6 john deere and a turbo'd on

Try the machinery forum.

 

[TomB]

Sounds rather like my ATL pegasus drawing gate. When you're watching and testing it, it seems to start off fine then when you actually try and use it, it catches about half the cows you tell it to. Did you put a shedding gate in too @countryman765?

Our atl gate goes well, wouldn't be without it. The main issues with it come from helpful people - compressor unplugged so no air, foot trimmer tying gate shut with string etc...

 

[MickMoor]

Shall I have a word with them? http://redbarrows.org/

 

[Gulli]

Isn't that all shedding gates?

I wouldn't have bothered with mine if I knew how crap it was going to be.

Even the manual ones in my experience

Depending on the parlour layout and widths etc I would either get a tracked dumper or a skid steer and run it in with that. Or a loadalll if you can get it in. Barrowing is crap, I know everyone can barrow in 20 metres in a couple of hours without breaking a sweat but no point nackering yourself to save a few quid

 

[the_fixer]

Weld mesh to legs etc to help earth too. Why need to earth modern parlours so well I don't know. We spent 50 years in old herringbone without any weldmesh in floors and know problem s

Still waiting for some fitting to Be done. Auto id panel s are in on entrance to parlour but not been finnsh ed yet.there is a beeper on them beeps as ear tag goes past works great on first side then crappie after. I thought it was interference from milk pump but turned it off when second side came in with no improvement

The use of grounded mesh in the floor will have structural benefits, but I would say it is more about the creation of an equipotential surface. This offers greater safety to the operators & livestock in a fault situation but also provides a much "nicer" environment for modern electronic systems (such as Auto-ID) so that they can operate as intended; less chance of failure and problems.

 

[Lazy Sod]

When I had a new parlour years ago, the builders mixed some carborundum dust into the top screed of the cow standings. It really made a difference. The floor had a smooth surface, but the cows had a good non slip surface.

 

[MickMoor]

Back to the original question, just get a pump. Just three of us can lay a slurry tank floor, level and tamped with a magic screed, pokered under the base angles, including the fillet round the outside, in a day. The most recent was a 62' diameter one, a total of something approaching 40 cubic meteres. Just order pumpmix, and don't get a cheapskate pump operator who wets it down. Think that pump was £450.00 for the day, and you just grout the pipeswith abag of cement first.
Cheaper is one of those pumps that just lay pipes out.

 

[Blue.]

I never bothered with carborundum dust,I laid rubber matting down,cost £3.5k for the cow standing and exit area,trouble is they don't like to step back onto the concrete after milking.

 

[BAC]

£300 for an inline pump

You might get it cheaper if you go with a volumetric company which have their own pump as well as supplying the concrete

 

[Davy]

Our parlour pit is 65ft long. when we done it we could get the telehandler in to do the rear of the standings then wheeled it in with 4 barrows. Took a lot less time than you'd think. Quicker than manouvering a mini dumper about with a drop into the pit if you wernt concentrating

 

[BobbySusie]

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How do you dot he concrete kerb on top of the blocks.