Milk silos

[Headless chicken]

Any to be avoiding? Or anything we should know before committing?

most importantly anyone thinking of getting out wanting to find a new home for one?

 

[pappuller]

Any to be avoiding? Or anything we should know before committing?

most importantly anyone thinking of getting out wanting to find a new home for one?

Why a silo ?

 

[More to life]

Why a silo ?

They don’t need a roof

 

[Beef farmer]

Baldys caused him some sleepless nights i remember

 

[Bald Rick]

Any to be avoiding? Or anything we should know before committing?

most importantly anyone thinking of getting out wanting to find a new home for one?

Yes to the first
Key decision will be how much cooling to install as the surface area is much smaller than a tank. Can get around that with a snap chiller

 

[Headless chicken]

Why a silo ?

As below don’t need a roof and because it has a smaller footprint. Basically just a big tank wouldn’t work where our dairy is

 

[Milkcow365]

How much milk do you want to store?

 

[Headless chicken]

How much milk do you want to store?

20k litres probably to be safe.

 

[pappuller]

20k litres probably to be safe.

Daily or eod ?

 

[Headless chicken]

Daily or eod ?

EOD. Currently not penalised for daily collection but we need to be able to fit 5 milkings incase of collection issues.

 

[Milkcow365]

20k litres probably to be safe.

My dairy would sit a barrel at the door for any more than 12/13k a day and just lift it as and when, all you need is enough storage for a milking and a pump.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Are you still block or have a production bias?

They have a larger minimum volume than a conventional tank I believe.

 

[Devon lad]

Be careful where the agitator is our Kristal 20,000L needs to have 2500L in it before agitator fires up due to mechanical seal needs to be submerged it also doesn’t cool until the either, challenging in a block calving system

 

[Beef farmer]

@Devon lad what do you do?

 

[Devon lad]

@Devon lad what do you do?

our plate cooler takes it down pretty cool, and it’s usually a time of year when the ambient temperature is low as well, doesn’t really effect bacto’s too much. I have re-wire it so you can manually override the cooling so it cools before level switch is triggered but you have to open hatch on side to manually agitate. We wouldn’t go for this type again and didn’t realise the issue when we bought it. Our old vacaar silo’s agitator was mounted on the roof/top so didn’t need to be completely sealed unlike ours at 20% from bottom.

 

[Headless chicken]

Are you still block or have a production bias?

They have a larger minimum volume than a conventional tank I believe.

yes still autumn block so this would need to be carefully considered

Be careful where the agitator is our Kristal 20,000L needs to have 2500L in it before agitator fires up due to mechanical seal needs to be submerged it also doesn’t cool until the either, challenging in a block calving system

when did you buy your tank? Just wondering if they’ve changed since then ?

 

[TomB]

Have a roka silo, it’s been in just over two years, does the job.

 

[Scholsey]

Had more problems with my packo silo in 4 years than my mulluer Horizontal in 20........

 

[Fergieman]

Was there not someone on here that had a lot of problems with a silo and was going to remove it? Was the supplier or manufacturer not on here as well to defend their case?

 

[YELROM]

Was there not someone on here that had a lot of problems with a silo and was going to remove it? Was the supplier or manufacturer not on here as well to defend their case?

There was i think it was @New holland or @newholland