Parlour build

[BobbySusie]

I had gone sale agreed to buy a larger parcel of land, which has fallen through. no agreement among siblings!! Im not a happy camper.

I have bitten the bullet and will start milking next spring on my own small farm, Low cost system, grazing as much as I can. Going to start with 60 cows, work part time and see how it goes. I have bought a 2nd hand parlour that's in bits in my dads garage.
Im just installing 10 units, 2" Milk line, Vac line, no feeders.
I have some one to fit it. He can do it first week of October.

I HAVE A MILK BUYER, before anyone asks.

I have some cubicles, and will have to bed some of the cows on straw. I have plenty of straw. The land is set up in paddocks and i have only 100 meters of laneway to add on. The rest in in.

All water pipes are above ground, and need to be upgraded to 1", I can do it myself.

All I need to sort out is the parlour building and collecting yard. Needs to be cheap. I'm going New zealand style with parlour, just a roof no walls, Pit, concrete collecting yard with small tank joined to existing slatted tank. all washdown water will go into same tank. I can get a decent concrete contractor to start in September. He is going to do the pit first, I am going to build a small simple room for bulk tank.

Any one any idea how much the pit will cost, collecting yard will be 50ft x 20ft, with a 8ft deep tank x 10x 10 connected to existing tank.
I can do the digging myself, I have a 3ton digger and 9 ton dumper. Would you build the pit from blocks and run a 4" pipe straight into slurry tank.

 

[Bald Rick]

Good for you.

Best answer would be to go & look at as many set ups as you can before starting building as you will get ideas or see that something may not work.
With any building project, you generally only get one chance and for a start I wouldn't put in anything less than a 6" waste/slurry pipe. Oh, and spec the tank big. Even bigger than you think you need as regulations & weather don't give a monkeys what a farmer thinks

 

[Blue.]

I had gone sale agreed to buy a larger parcel of land, which has fallen through. no agreement among siblings!! Im not a happy camper.

I have bitten the bullet and will start milking next spring on my own small farm, Low cost system, grazing as much as I can. Going to start with 60 cows, work part time and see how it goes. I have bought a 2nd hand parlour that's in bits in my dads garage.
Im just installing 10 units, 2" Milk line, Vac line, no feeders.
I have some one to fit it. He can do it first week of October.

I HAVE A MILK BUYER, before anyone asks.

I have some cubicles, and will have to bed some of the cows on straw. I have plenty of straw. The land is set up in paddocks and i have only 100 meters of laneway to add on. The rest in in.

All water pipes are above ground, and need to be upgraded to 1", I can do it myself.

All I need to sort out is the parlour building and collecting yard. Needs to be cheap. I'm going New zealand style with parlour, just a roof no walls, Pit, concrete collecting yard with small tank joined to existing slatted tank. all washdown water will go into same tank. I can get a decent concrete contractor to start in September. He is going to do the pit first, I am going to build a small simple room for bulk tank.

Any one any idea how much the pit will cost, collecting yard will be 50ft x 20ft, with a 8ft deep tank x 10x 10 connected to existing tank.
I can do the digging myself, I have a 3ton digger and 9 ton dumper. Would you build the pit from blocks and run a 4" pipe straight into slurry tank.

Build the pit using concrete panels,I built my 1st 12/24 using blocks 2nd parlour built using 20’ long panels,it was miles easier.

4” drain pipe out of the pit will be fine.

 

[onesiedale]

Presumably you are putting the 10units in a line to make a 10:20 swing over. In which case a 30' pit would be ideal. Make it out of 4x15' concrete panels.
If buying new, spec them as flat tops then you can concrete on top and attach kerb easily.
Pit 5' wide , all falling to one end, a 4" drain should be ample for wash down water.
Cost? Say 4panels @ 120, 4m³ concrete @ 100, 20 tonnes stone base @ 15, maybe a land drain underneath if you have possible ground water issues. Roughly£1000 plus labour and digging. That's for the pit, then you'll have standings to concrete and stallwork/building to set.
Kerbing could easily be another £500 on top unless you already have that in the garage. . . if not then you can pm me
Where are you? You are more than welcome to come and see our parlour we put up last year. No feeders, no walls, no frills.

 

[BobbySusie]

Presumably you are putting the 10units in a line to make a 10:20 swing over. In which case a 30' pit would be ideal. Make it out of 4x15' concrete panels.
If buying new, spec them as flat tops then you can concrete on top and attach kerb easily.
Pit 5' wide , all falling to one end, a 4" drain should be ample for wash down water.
Cost? Say 4panels @ 120, 4m³ concrete @ 100, 20 tonnes stone base @ 15, maybe a land drain underneath if you have possible ground water issues. Roughly£1000 plus labour and digging. That's for the pit, then you'll have standings to concrete and stallwork/building to set.
Kerbing could easily be another £500 on top unless you already have that in the garage. . . if not then you can pm me
Where are you? You are more than welcome to come and see our parlour we put up last year. No feeders, no walls, no frills.

Im in Ireland, would you be so good as to put up[ pics of your parlour.
The parlour i have is second hand. Dairy master from 2011. I had thought of going to a 4ft pit to ease movement, no swing over, just old school centre hanging. My man that is installing the parlour is putting in new standings and welding the original stall work to them.

What did you use for kerbing.

 

[yin ewe]

Make the pit longer than you need, so you can add more units to the parlour at a later date, you WILL need to extend it at some point.

 

[celtis man]

Oh I watching this thread, as I think we have to go through this trauma [emoji853]

 

[dairyrow]

make the exit big as well. good sort pen and race

 

[Beef farmer]

60 cows in a 50ft x 20ft will be snug wont they?

 

[onesiedale]

Im in Ireland, would you be so good as to put up[ pics of your parlour.
The parlour i have is second hand. Dairy master from 2011. I had thought of going to a 4ft pit to ease movement, no swing over, just old school centre hanging. My man that is installing the parlour is putting in new standings and welding the original stall work to them.

What did you use for kerbing.

Here's in the pit. The kerbing has an overhang of 100mm

Here's a leftover piece of kerbing (dug out of the scrap corner)

Looking towards the front. AI race under the overhang of the roof.

 

[Blue.]

I had gone sale agreed to buy a larger parcel of land, which has fallen through. no agreement among siblings!! Im not a happy camper.

I have bitten the bullet and will start milking next spring on my own small farm, Low cost system, grazing as much as I can. Going to start with 60 cows, work part time and see how it goes. I have bought a 2nd hand parlour that's in bits in my dads garage.
Im just installing 10 units, 2" Milk line, Vac line, no feeders.
I have some one to fit it. He can do it first week of October.

I HAVE A MILK BUYER, before anyone asks.

I have some cubicles, and will have to bed some of the cows on straw. I have plenty of straw. The land is set up in paddocks and i have only 100 meters of laneway to add on. The rest in in.

All water pipes are above ground, and need to be upgraded to 1", I can do it myself.

All I need to sort out is the parlour building and collecting yard. Needs to be cheap. I'm going New zealand style with parlour, just a roof no walls, Pit, concrete collecting yard with small tank joined to existing slatted tank. all washdown water will go into same tank. I can get a decent concrete contractor to start in September. He is going to do the pit first, I am going to build a small simple room for bulk tank.

Any one any idea how much the pit will cost, collecting yard will be 50ft x 20ft, with a 8ft deep tank x 10x 10 connected to existing tank.
I can do the digging myself, I have a 3ton digger and 9 ton dumper. Would you build the pit from blocks and run a 4" pipe straight into slurry tank.

Reading again your milkline isn’t big enough,you want 3”.

 

[O'Reilly]

Here's in the pit. The kerbing has an overhang of 100mm

Here's a leftover piece of kerbing (dug out of the scrap corner)

Looking towards the front. AI race under the overhang of the roof.

Nothing jump the breast rail @onesiedale ?

 

[onesiedale]

No problems at all. It's set at 800mm and I reckon another 50mm lower would be ideal for our herd of small kiwi cross cows.
The gap under the scissor gates though is an issue. Should have been nearer the ground, it draws the first cow's head underneath rather than them turning to and over the breast rail.

 

[upnortheast]

You will need a high spec wooly hat in there on a January morning ! Or are you all dry then ?

 

[onesiedale]

You will need a high spec wooly hat in there on a January morning ! Or are you all dry then ?

No January milking

 

[DairyGrazing]

Here's in the pit. The kerbing has an overhang of 100mm

Here's a leftover piece of kerbing (dug out of the scrap corner)

Looking towards the front. AI race under the overhang of the roof.

How far does the rain get in when the winds behind it?

The snow got to the 8th cow in ours one spring!

 

[onesiedale]

How far does the rain get in when the winds behind it?

The snow got to the 8th cow in ours one spring!

No further than the cows heads on LHS and nowhere else. We spec'd the whole shed to have an overhang roof.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

How far does the rain get in when the winds behind it?

The snow got to the 8th cow in ours one spring!

Snap. Without doubt the worst week of my life.

 

[Happy hillbily]

Snap. Without doubt the worst week of my life.

soft southeners

 

[BobbySusie]

Here's in the pit. The kerbing has an overhang of 100mm

Here's a leftover piece of kerbing (dug out of the scrap corner)

Looking towards the front. AI race under the overhang of the roof.

Hell of a parlour. Well done. My cows will be kiwi cross and some danish jersey. What are the dimensions of your pit. Where did you get the steel kerbing.