milk vending machine

[upnortheast]

Batch pasteuriser or cont flow ?
Batch you could fill it direct from thecows
Cont flow you probably need a holding tank
Depends also on when the tanker comes . & your layout
Whichever way is easiest to operate,

 

[Agrifool]

Small volumes so a batch pasteurizer is the call of the day. Just trying to suss out how to direct a couple of hundred litres to a separate tank or direct to the pasteurizer without disrupting the milking routine.

 

[farmboy]

Small volumes so a batch pasteurizer is the call of the day. Just trying to suss out how to direct a couple of hundred litres to a separate tank or direct to the pasteurizer without disrupting the milking routine.

We just welded a stainless tap in the line after the filter but before the plate cooler. Then just run the required amount straight in to the batch pasteuriser, obviously got to stand there and watch it but doesn’t take long depending how fast the milks coming from the parlour! That way you’re heating it up in the pasteuriser from like 35’C rather than the 5’C it would be from the bulk tank

 

[farmboy]

Should have said we only put one tap T’d in to the line, didn’t put another one in to stop it going straight on through the plate cooler as it normally would. Still seem to get enough flowing out in to the pasteuriser

 

[Whitewalker]

Small volumes so a batch pasteurizer is the call of the day. Just trying to suss out how to direct a couple of hundred litres to a separate tank or direct to the pasteurizer without disrupting the milking routine.

id direct it straight to the pasteuriser then it’s one less thing to clean.we were lucky to just take the elbow off the last corner into the tank and drill a hole through the wall and attach a straight joiner through the wall .

 

[upnortheast]

Get a 3 way valve in the milk line. Then you can direct the milk to tank or pasteuriser. Bit of mental arithmetic while you are milking will tell you when you are close to 200 litres.

 

[Tim G]

Get a 3 way valve in the milk line. Then you can direct the milk to tank or pasteuriser. Bit of mental arithmetic while you are milking will tell you when you are close to 200 litres.

Or be posh and fit a flow meter.

 

[Whitewalker]

Get a 3 way valve in the milk line. Then you can direct the milk to tank or pasteuriser. Bit of mental arithmetic while you are milking will tell you when you are close to 200 litres.

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[upnortheast]

Or be posh and fit a flow meter.

or go for it with a camera to watch the level in the pasteuriser & get an electric or air driven 3 way vale then you don`t need leave the parlour pit

 

[onesiedale]

or go for it with a camera to watch the level in the pasteuriser & get an electric or air driven 3 way vale then you don`t need leave the parlour pit

Nah. Just stick a level sensor in, wired through a plc panel to switch the air valves

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[upnortheast]

We are getting carried away now boys, the OP is only wondering how to shift 200 litres.

 

[onesiedale]

Here is what I use .
100% reliable.

 

[Agrifool]

Thanks, theres a lot of ideas here I could use. What way do buffer tanks on robot farms work ? Presumably they hold a small volume for a set time and then automatically dump back to main tank?

 

[upnortheast]

Thanks, theres a lot of ideas here I could use. What way do buffer tanks on robot farms work ? Presumably they hold a small volume for a set time and then automatically dump back to main tank?

Usually set so the tank gives a "finished wash " signal to empty the buffer tank.

In our case we use the raw milk holding tank in the processing shed as the buffer tank.
Initially worked fine with the "tanker driver " switch on the CRS box. Then Lely altered the software so the max time to buffer tank was 2 hours which knackered our arrangement. Handy thing with that was there was a record of how many litres had gone to the buffer tank
Needed a bit of rewiring to create a seperate manual change over switch.

 

[dinderleat]

 

[upnortheast]

Where was that advertised @dinderleat

 

[dinderleat]

Where was that advertised @dinderleat

Facebook just type pasteuriser In market place

 

[upnortheast]

Facebook just type pasteuriser In market place

Found it, thanks

 

[dinderleat]

Does anyone make their own cheese? Thinking of having a crack

 

[upnortheast]

Does anyone make their own cheese? Thinking of having a crack

No
If you can not find anyone your way to pick their brains can send you a couple of contacts