Real Life, installed, running, new parlour cost.

[Will Blackburn]

I don't understand auto wash. I wash down whilst the parlour is washing,

I go home when the parlour is washing.

 

[Liam]

I built a new parlour 2 years ago. 16:32 in a new shed, dairy in a renovated young stock building. It currently has feeders, a dump line and a seg gate installed and there are milk meters, auto ID, acrs and swing over arms sat in a loft waiting to go in.

Up to now I have spent 50k on it however this has only been achieved by building it almost entirely in house (it was built in 10 weeks start to finish and I lost 2 stone doing it). All of the kit that has gone in to it has been 2nd hand aside from a new feed tower. You will find that nothing depreciates faster than milking parlours so if you have the time look around. My bulk tank, water heater and plate cooler all came off eBay.

I was quoted 24k just for the stall work for a Dairymaster parlour. In reality it took 1k worth of steel, a couple of days of welding and a few hundred pounds to galvanise it all

My electricians bill was 7k, this included a new power line to the dairy. Buy absolutely everything yourself and chase all the wires in yourself, just get a sparky to hook up at either end.

Hope that helps

Thanks cookie, Would you mind putting up some pictures some time? Sounds like you've worked hard and done well to have that running for that cost.

 

[jondear]

Looks like it will be dependent on electricity metre installation. Had to wait 10 weeks for 3 phase. Then and only then you get your mpan. Then you can apply for metre, 8-10 week wait atm.
So looking like end of November.
De laval robots and the reasonfor expansion is because my middle son wants to farm. Secondly and more importantly i have a market demand for the produce.

Well done looks like you'll be there soon .I know how much if a ball ache getting electric sorted takes !I think it took us 10 month's to get it live!

 

[Cookie]

Thanks cookie, Would you mind putting up some pictures some time? Sounds like you've worked hard and done well to have that running for that cost.

No problem. It is worth noting that I built the parlour with half the cows I have currently. If I did it again I could probably do it quicker but I would have to budget for extra labour to either help me with the build or look after the cows. Doing it in 10 weeks was a bit of a stupid idea in hindsight!

 

[Liam]

Thank you for those. How did you source the parlour itself?

 

[Blue.]

Fitted/built my own 32/64 last spring,never seen a builder, dairy engineer or an electrician.

Metatron 12 milk meters,copied wesfalia swing arms.
101mm milkline copied off fullwood same with slug wash.
Rubber matting cow standing and exit area.
No feeders,swing back head rail.

I basically bought a very tidy 8/16 for the front and back gates and meters,copied the stallwork,swing arms etc... and used my existing 24 meters,hardest job was doing it all while milking in my existing parlour that was sited where the new one was going.

I built a 15/30 at the front then dug out and milked down one side while I finished the other,no fitters would have done what we had to do,it was very hard going but worth it in the end.

I've never worked out the cost but it certainly didn't come in over £50k.

 

[Cookie]

Thank you for those. How did you source the parlour itself?

I bought 2 parlours, one from a farm sale and one privately. The first one was for the clusters, milk pumps, droppers and slug wash. The second one was for the feeders, seg gate, acrs etc. Don't think I'll put the acrs, milk meters or auto ID in tbh, it's working an absolute treat with one man in as it is

 

[More to life]

Fitted/built my own 32/64 last spring,never seen a builder, dairy engineer or an electrician.

Metatron 12 milk meters,copied wesfalia swing arms.
101mm milkline copied off fullwood same with slug wash.
Rubber matting cow standing and exit area.
No feeders,swing back head rail.

I basically bought a very tidy 8/16 for the front and back gates and meters,copied the stallwork,swing arms etc... and used my existing 24 meters,hardest job was doing it all while milking in my existing parlour that was sited where the new one was going.

I built a 15/30 at the front then dug out and milked down one side while I finished the other,no fitters would have done what we had to do,it was very hard going but worth it in the end.

I've never worked out the cost but it certainly didn't come in over £50k.

I'm being to think you live in a parallel universe with 36 hour days.

 

[Beef farmer]

I'm being to think you live in a parallel universe with 36 hour days.

He has @Flossie she does all the graft.

 

[Ducati899]

the price of these parlours frighten me,when we built our unit in 2000 the whole lot cost 224k,that included new westfalia 16/16 parlour,new cubicle shed for 150 cows,new shed for collecting yard and parlour & loose boxes,2 x silage clamps and dug a new slurry lagoon

 

[Flossie]

He has @Flossie she does all the graft.

You look back, and can't remember it being so bad Must be like childbirth
Then you look to the future........."one day Rodney"












I love it really

 

[buffalo_soldier]

the price of these parlours frighten me,when we built our unit in 2000 the whole lot cost 224k,that included new westfalia 16/16 parlour,new cubicle shed for 150 cows,new shed for collecting yard and parlour & loose boxes,2 x silage clamps and dug a new slurry lagoon

Threads like this kinda show how returns from this job aren't keeping up with everything else.

If i wanted to push on again it would be a 240 cow shed, 3500ish ton of silage clamps and a big slurry tower.
Recon i would need to budget £400K+ and be back to working for the bank again.

 

[Ducati899]

the parlour is just a direct to line 16/16 with metron 12 controllers and acr's and that was 18k,when we built it we put pipes through wall for extra feed hoppers and have all the stall work to take it upto a 20/20,looked at doing that last summer and they wanted 15k

 

[Dragon]

Also includes acrs.

Which brand was that then??? Wasn't expecting you to say acrs aswell

 

[More to life]

Which brand was that then??? Wasn't expecting you to say acrs aswell

Lego













Sorry

 

[rusty]

In 2002 I put a new building up for 20/40 parlour, large collecting yard and calving area and pens for 20 cows. Fullwood parlour with auto I'd, 2 seg gates auto plant wash and 300 collars and 100 pedometers came to 69k. Total project cost came to 220k not including the second hand bulk tank .Elecrticians always seem very expensive to me. New 3 phase supply at the time was about 3.5k which felt a lot at the time. It's the building work that racks up the cost. This is where Robots benefit as generally very little extra building work is required.

 

[Blue.]

I'm being to think you live in a parallel universe with 36 hour days.

I eat sleep and breath the job

 

[Dragon]

Lego













Sorry

I'd go 1up and say mechano, do they still make that?

 

[More to life]

I'd go 1up and say mechano, do they still make that?

I'm glad you replied I felt I'd sunk to a new low with "lego"

 

[Clay52]

We have a rotary at the moment but if I had to build a new parlour today I can't see it being a good investement putting one in these days. They are just so expensive.

I'll just keep up the maintenance and repairs on this one and hope i can get it to last another 20+ years.