New cubicle shed and parlour

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These are photos from last year when we built a new cubicle shed and parlour at work. Some people will have looked at them on the other site but for those that didnt here goes.

Scraping the site

This shed was originaly built as a straw shed and converted to cubicles

First job was digging the slurry channel

 

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How many cows on site?

Looks an impressive setup

 

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We then moved on to forming the passage ways

The compaction crew

Little

and large

Foundatios for walls

We got through a few of these

 

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How many cows on site?

Looks an impressive setup

We're milking 600 at this farm

 

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The steel for the overhangs on the cubicle shed

and in place

The water troughs are all a low pressure system with one ballcock in the parlour building controlling all 8 troughs, this needed large pipe work

90mm pipe

90mm water fitting, that is a real mobile phone

Starting on the walls

 

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Laying the concrete passage ways

Concreting in posts for carrying the cubicles

concreting the cubicle beds

 

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Then the fun started, trying to put all this together

While we were busy putting that together the shed builders arrived and started on the parlour

 

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More steel work

and more boxes of stuff

 

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The water beds arrived

Installing panels

digging another slurry channel

They got started digging foundations in the parlour building as well

 

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The start of the parlour walls going up

brushes for the cows

The feed passage ready for concrete

Installing the water beds

 

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Water beds filled

Feed passage concreted

Step in the feed passage

Fitting the water troughs

Tipped for cleaning

 

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First of the cubicles on

External walls on the parlour

 

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Digging the pit for the parlour

sump for the parlour washings

Rubber alley mats down

Cubicles all done

 

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Feed rail

Foundation ring for the parlour

Start of building

 

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We extended the calf houses as well last year

The cubicle shed ready for cows

Cows in

 

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With the cubicle shed done the parlour became the priority

 

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Where are the cows sourced?

 

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Various bits for the parlour

Feed bins

The start of building the parlour

 

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Where are the cows sourced?

How do you mean sourced?

 

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We were away at silage for a bit so things jumped on