@upnortheast
We will give it a try atleast, sawdust absolutly works, but straw considerable cheaper if it works.
We will give it a try atleast, sawdust absolutly works, but straw considerable cheaper if it works.
Lely discovery slurry collector
- Thread starter Chips
- Start date
I’ve been thinking about these,they should have a swap battery so it’s not stopped while charging,surely it could cope with far more area then.
- Location
- Northumberland
Last I heard he was still pleased with it
Sorry for the late answer.. we have been using the Collector fot about 7 months and I cannot complain what so ever... It does its job. It gets stuck once in a while but that is due to the layout of the barn... Been planning on modifying route that it gets stuck in...
The Lely guys has been over once and replaced the drives for the wheels... Factory recall from Lely.
I need to take a picture before and after, but we are really satisfied with it.
Shep
Member
- Location
- The Orchard County
I have mine 3 years, brilliant when it's going, but extremely frustrating when it stops.
I dread the beep beep beep in the mornings, that means it has got lost in the night, it has to be driven manually to the charger which takes ages, then the battery is down to 30% which means it will sit at the charger til the afternoon and it has been out of action for 12 hours and the house is swimming in slurry and the cows are filthy.
After some fettling from lely and a bill for a few hundred, it will work almost flawlessly for a few weeks and it is amazing when it is working, the water spray is very good for stopping the concrete getting slippy especially in the summer. After a period of time it will start to break your heart and there are times when you could set fire to it, it is never obvious what goes wrong as you need an engineer to diagnosis with a laptop and so the cycle starts again, another visit from lely and another bill, it will go brilliant for another while and all will be forgiven and forgotten.
It also only seems to give bother when you are under stress, at weekends and before bed time. There are two ultrasonic sensors that the engineers will insist you keep clean, this involves getting down on your knees in the sh!t to wipe every hour, as the dung dries and is impossible to wipe, in fact they are literally impossible to keep clean. Their biggest flaw in my opinion.
I dread the beep beep beep in the mornings, that means it has got lost in the night, it has to be driven manually to the charger which takes ages, then the battery is down to 30% which means it will sit at the charger til the afternoon and it has been out of action for 12 hours and the house is swimming in slurry and the cows are filthy.
After some fettling from lely and a bill for a few hundred, it will work almost flawlessly for a few weeks and it is amazing when it is working, the water spray is very good for stopping the concrete getting slippy especially in the summer. After a period of time it will start to break your heart and there are times when you could set fire to it, it is never obvious what goes wrong as you need an engineer to diagnosis with a laptop and so the cycle starts again, another visit from lely and another bill, it will go brilliant for another while and all will be forgiven and forgotten.
It also only seems to give bother when you are under stress, at weekends and before bed time. There are two ultrasonic sensors that the engineers will insist you keep clean, this involves getting down on your knees in the sh!t to wipe every hour, as the dung dries and is impossible to wipe, in fact they are literally impossible to keep clean. Their biggest flaw in my opinion.
Interesting.
The "slat" Discovery for want of a better term also goes awol from time to time but other than cleaning sensor/wheels are pretty reliable unless the slats get a build up of solidified poo which causes the wheels to skid. Make a hell of difference to the barns TBH and would be up the creek without them
- Location
- Northumberland
Clearly female
owen r
New Member
- Location
- west wales
Any update on Lely collector. How are people getting on with them, biggest issue. We are currently looking at lely and the joz
Ducati899
Member
- Location
- north dorset
s line
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire uk
Where i work the lely collector has been spot on last winter.
Just the tyre's need replacing.
Fantastic machine.
Just the tyre's need replacing.
Fantastic machine.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Ours been in 2 months now and as long as you adhere to lelys routine checks it will be fine, it makes a great job of cleaning and has saved us alot of time, don't need the water spray on all the time as it tends to leave pools in places.
ollie989898
Member
Has anyone invested in the lely automatic mixer wagon thing?
Foregoneconclusion
Member
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Foregoneconclusion
Member
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
I've got Joz. 2 years in. Slats and solid floors.
It's as dumb as a door but does the job reliably enough. Wing springs, scraper rubber should be kept on farm.
Operating system/ software is dire and 1990 style.
More recent models may be better...
Pretty bomb proof really
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Pleased with it?
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
@Stuart1 is yours in yet?
Foregoneconclusion
Member
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
very..
been in since nov 19 and not missed a beat.
Easy to program. Just complicated enough to prevent over confident dairyman attempted repairs..