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Why not put a rapid exit in with feeders? Maybe to much extra cash involved
Farm up the road has a 50:50 fastexit with feeder. Would milk quicker by hand.
Why not put a rapid exit in with feeders? Maybe to much extra cash involved
Was only a suggestion neighbour has a 36 a side fast exit with feeder putting 400 through in less than 2 hoursFarm up the road has a 50:50 fastexit with feeder. Would milk quicker by hand.
Easy to achieve 300+/hr on an appropriately sized rotary.
Work out how much time is considered about right to milk and go from there
How do you get on with yours? Do you have 2 or 3 people on it?
Thank you, I’ll take you up on that once the maize in and we’ve silaged.2 in the parlour then AM TMR guy fetches cows whilst mixing and PM me fetching/cleaning beds/bedding up etc.
We are strongly considering automating the wiper side of things to just leave a cupper on
Milfos/GEA 64 point - 1 "on" stall, 3 "off" and comfortably doing 330+ per hour on 9 minute rotation. No one really minds milking for a couple of hours
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One here got knocked off its tracks in an earthquake with cows aboard.That’s not the worst that can happen to a rotary…….
Have you asked your staff what they think?460 milking depending on culling through the summer. Keen to start milking at 3pm and have everyone in their cars leaving by 5.30pm. So probably will need to milk more than 200/hr.
Is there a commercial automated wiper for a rotary then?2 in the parlour then AM TMR guy fetches cows whilst mixing and PM me fetching/cleaning beds/bedding up etc.
We are strongly considering automating the wiper side of things to just leave a cupper on
Milfos/GEA 64 point - 1 "on" stall, 3 "off" and comfortably doing 330+ per hour on 9 minute rotation. No one really minds milking for a couple of hours
Welcome to come & have a look. PM me if interested
Either a spray arm or adf depending on your prefences.Is there a commercial automated wiper for a rotary then?
That sounds very familiar. We put in our 32:64 for 400 but very quickly found ourselves milking 550+.We're nearly at the same position. Put in a 30/60 for 400 cows....now at 480, heading for 520 next year. Morning mklkings 3.5 hrs. Spot rates of 200/hr. But by the time you've mucked about with the cronk group, treated etc. Time soon runs away.
If we went rotary (50/60 point) then numbers could climb up comfortably to 700+.
Nothing is guaranteed but on today’s price if it went up a litre then yes. Same equation could be done on many other parametersIs that guaranteed?
Unfortunately, easing back isn't an option for us with new commiments. In reality, within 2 yrs something's going to have to give.That sounds very familiar. We put in our 32:64 for 400 but very quickly found ourselves milking 550+.
We've since eased back to 520 which is 16 rows plus half a dozen in a red group. 16 rows feels like a breeze compared with 18/19, those extra rows were always really painful and added a lot or time. I don't plan on upping numbers without extending the parlour first
60point, 700 cows , sounds ideal!We are just about to (she says, having been told “3 weeks away” for at least the last 3 months) start milking through a 60pt rotary from a 27:54 herringbone (previously 22:44 but extended 5 years ago due to numbers). We milk 700 and milking is an absolute marathon not to mention the length of the pit being an absolute killer when you’ve walked up and down it a few hundred times. Should probably have gone for a larger rotary for our cow numbers, but the extra cost and the extra requirement for staff didn’t make for the most economical picture. Should make milking much more bearable and still only need the 3 (with extras as and when they can be bothered). We considered all sorts from almost everyone but none really added up speed/cost wise in comparison with the Pearson rotary.
We are hoping it should be. RMS felt the need to serve everything with beef a while back so that will have slowed the usual “keep everything that can milk” expansion. Hopefully!60point, 700 cows , sounds ideal!
Just don’t go expanding to 2500 and have the 60 pointer going almost every hour of the day!