wouldn't that depend on the size of the cows?If going for 50 degree then 2 m width standing and approx 7600mm pit length
Thank you for that but I’ll be able to get some from the parlour supplier on Monday. I was just wondering how long parlour would be so I can get on with working a quote out for the building work. Perhaps I’ll take Sunday off instead !!I can email you some plans if you want @BobGreen
Good god. Customer only has 80 cows on 100 acres. Highly unlikely he’ll ever need any bigger !!!!A 10/20 he'll be wishing he'd put a bigger parlour in before he finishes his first milking in it
80/160 1 side bish bash bosh. Pub timeGood god. Customer only has 80 cows on 100 acres. Highly unlikely he’ll ever need any bigger !!!!
I haven’t milked a cow in 30 years. I build buildings. I only want some ideas of dimensions so I can price the job up over weekend
Wished I’d never asked !
100 extra cows, is that an opportunity or an extra millstone? I keep going back to saying how I'm milking 100 in a 10 unit and I can have it all done and dusted in 100 minutes. And I'm happy out with that.I know someone who went from 80 cows to 180 cows overnight .you just don't know what opportunities are round the corner be it in 1 year 5 years or 10 years
Only need washing down once a day[emoji106]80/160 1 side bish bash bosh. Pub time
I get so fed up with people thinking they are experts on everyone else's farm. Bob has said how many cows the farmer has and his acreage. He also mentioned it is putting a parlour into an existing building. Not everyone has wonderful expanses of open yards or handy places to put parlours in and expand magically overnight to 500 cows. We upgraded from a 6/6 abreast to a 12/12 herringbone nearly 4 years ago. I was also told umpteen times we should be going bigger. Even though we were putting up a new shed we did not have the physical space to go bigger without building a whole green field unit from scratch. With our 80-90 cows a 12/12 is perfect and as a s/h purchase was dirt cheap as no one else wanted to buy that size of parlour. We will not be expanding as we just don't have the space and in our 50's with no kids will be quite happy to stop milking when we want to without feeling we have to get on the more cows treadmill. But we needed to change from that 6/6 (60 cows) or quit then. Perhaps the farmer who is having a 10/20 feels the same way. It's not our farm so we don't know.
10/20 is so 1960'sA 10/20 he'll be wishing he'd put a bigger parlour in before he finishes his first milking in it