Parlour pit pump

[Fergieman]

What type of pump do people use to pump the wash water/slurry out of the parlour pit sump?

 

[Tarw Coch]

A half decent size submersible.................but they don't last long, cow hair will soon ruin one as will any foreign objects.

The electrical factors convinced me a heavy chopper pump was the answer, it lasted 2 days the electrician took one look and said no way send it back.

So i don't know the answer but as it's coming up 12 months since i last changed a pump i'll be needing a new one soon.

 

[jerseycowsman]

We must be lucky being on a slope and allowing gravity to do all our dirty water and slurry work by the sounds!?

 

[Philip Watkins]

We must be lucky being on a slope and allowing gravity to do all our dirty water and slurry work by the sounds!?

All the pits I've worked in drained naturally.

 

[J B]

All the pits I've worked in drained naturally.

Me too

 

[Will Blackburn]

All my dirty water goes through one of these

http://www.mpcservices.co.uk/pedrollo-mc-3050-single-channel-submersibe-pump-415v-i5235.html

No chopping just capable of moving up to 50mm solid objects.

 

[Muddy Boots]

Could use the vacuum pump to rise the waste to drain away if you had a sump big enough and a vessel to suck waste into at the end of milking. Once waste in vessel,stop pump and let it drain out.

 

[Blue.]

I know a couple of pits with no pump,one is emptied at the end of milking using a 5 gallon drum cut in half. The other had a sump with no lid,it sort of woke you in the morning when you trod in it and it went over your welly.

Bought a 2nd hand parlour a couple of years ago and it had a Stewart sub pump,don't know how good it is but its in the shed waiting for a rainy day.

Have seen parlour pits full of slurry when the reception pit ran over.

 

[jimmer]

get a cheap and cheerfull plastic submersible (draper or some sort ) and expect to replace it periodically , make all connections easy to take on and off

js pumps are good but will block up with hair and the like

 

[whynot2]

make sure you put a good one in.ours has been going 3 years. don't know what make it is but is very heavy, not a cheap plastic thing, was around £350 I think. We made the sump by concreting in a 200 litre drum with a bar across the top to tie the pump to them made a home made concrete lid to put on top of it. The cable comes from the pump up some 4 inch soil pipe as ducting and into a socket mounted on the pit end wall. We put this to low though and recently kept tripping leccy off and when we looked had gone rusty inside so have moved it up to above the milk receiver vessel.

 

[simplesimon]

make sure you put a good one in.ours has been going 3 years. don't know what make it is but is very heavy, not a cheap plastic thing, was around £350 I think. We made the sump by concreting in a 200 litre drum with a bar across the top to tie the pump to them made a home made concrete lid to put on top of it. The cable comes from the pump up some 4 inch soil pipe as ducting and into a socket mounted on the pit end wall. We put this to low though and recently kept tripping leccy off and when we looked had gone rusty inside so have moved it up to above the milk receiver vessel.

Pretty much the same as ours. Its been in 6 years with no issues. We have a plastic grid at the end of the pit which flows into a 200l drum. The grid catches all the hair etc. so perhaps thats the secret in making them last.

 

[multi power]

i used to milk one place n it was a cheap draper pump but always giving trouble, he then went shopping for another pump but came back with a big secondhand pump, know nothing about it except it was as heavy as i could lift into sump on my own, i never ever had to touch it again

 

[Insane Ubolt]

We have used whisper pumps with some success , they advertise in FW the one you want costs about £270 and wil handle parlour washings no problem. The pumps can also be repaired, depending on the fault. We have used similar cheaper pumps , but if they stop you have to scrap them , the man we buy them off says it's not worth taking them apart.

 

[Conrad]

Have a dab pump in mine going 5 years. Have it siting on a concrete block in bottom of 200 ltr barrel. Keeps it away from grit. Would suck out barrel twice a year with tanker.