Robotic milking

[upnortheast]

.they mentioned the analogue copper phone network will start being shut down in 4-5 years

That`s good if they have provided you with a fibre optic service instead of copper

 

[Spear]

Just had BT renewing my broadband and phoneline contracts and trying to get me to swap the phoneline to cloud based system........they mentioned the analogue copper phone network will start being shut down in 4-5 years which would surely make anyone landline autodialler obsolete and extremely expensive to upgrade to a cloud based autodialler? Great.

Will be a long time coming. They still haven’t found a way to connect landlines that go direct to exchange to fibre yet. Let alone get the work done.
There’s to many areas that are just uneconomical to replace existing infrastructure.

 

[Hanspree]

Got the dreaded middle of the night alarm last night, of course it had to happen when I’m away on holidays. A nice expensive call out no doubt to add on top of cost of holiday and paid help, wee cheap break is suddenly becoming costly.

It was VP MVR fault or system leak. Any idea what would cause that on a VMS. Has happened couple times before but usually turning vacuum pump on and off sorted it, didn’t seem to work this time.

Could be regulator sticking, check how hard vacuum pump is running. Maybe not sealing inside teat cleaner vessel??? Who knows what it could be with a VMS

 

[Wishful Thinker]

Could be regulator sticking, check how hard vacuum pump is running. Maybe not sealing inside teat cleaner vessel??? Who knows what it could be with a VMS

Funny you say that. About a month ago they uppedthe vacuum speed a bit because I have some fast milking cows and when they were fully going cups kept falling off. Ok since vacuum was increased but I think that alarm started shortly after that was done.

 

[Milkcow365]

Anyone with a upstairs office in the cow shed what have you cladded the outside of it with? I was going to use the plastic that you get for the parlour walls but would work out quite expensive?

 

[upnortheast]

We lifted a portacabin that we already had .Has some sort of metal cladding Don`t know what it is called
Would recommend something washable as there is a bit of dust about
What about the plywood with plastic venneer. Not sure on price

 

[Bald Rick]

We lifted a portacabin that we already had .Has some sort of metal cladding Don`t know what it is called
Would recommend something washable as there is a bit of dust about
What about the plywood with plastic venneer. Not sure on price

+1 for a portacabin sat over the cleanroom

 

[NI farmer]

+1 for a portacabin sat over the cleanroom

Timber frame ply board inside and out
Windows we had
And painted

 

[Stuart1]

Built ours out of block and plastered it.

 

[Milkcow365]

Just started cladding it today looks the part

 

[YELROM]

View attachment 812210 Just started cladding it today looks the part

That would look smart in a garden never mind a cow shed

 

[Fossi]

Someone whould not happen to have all the service material to Delaval VMS that are newer then 2007? We are talking about 600MB of material.. everything from parts numbers, installation of the robot, etc.

We are planning on doing most of the installation on our own, but Delaval does not really like to share it. And it whould make it abit easier.

 

[Spear]

Someone whould not happen to have all the service material to Delaval VMS that are newer then 2007? We are talking about 600MB of material.. everything from parts numbers, installation of the robot, etc.

We are planning on doing most of the installation on our own, but Delaval does not really like to share it. And it whould make it abit easier.

I’d say a better way would be to have dealer supply 1 man to assist you. That way you could do most of the work. There’s a lot you could get wrong and once it’s up and running there’s not time to correct any major mistakes if they rear they’re head.

 

[Fossi]

@Spear
Absolutly we are gonna have a Delaval maintenace guy with us for parts of the installation. Electrical work and such.

But the quote Delaval gave for installation is insane, Lely was not much better if we had choosen an Lely robot,

But in the end it is far from complicated of you had the documents. I have them for the earlier model. And it whould be nice to have when it is Up and running too. Just to make life easier when something breaks down...

 

[YELROM]

@Fossi are you fitting new or second hand robots

 

[Fossi]

@Fossi are you fitting new or second hand robots

I am fitting a second hand robot. It is a VMS maufactured in 2010, I think it is a 2011 model.

 

[Macus3]

Has anyone had any experience or is it even possible to replace collars (qwes?) on lely a4 to a Eid eartag reader and stand alone heat such as cow manager? 6 years on and out of warranrty and quite a few of mine are starting to fail. They seem to lose heat detection first and eventually Id... just thinking thought options before I ask lely for a price!

 

[nonemouse]

Has anyone had any experience or is it even possible to replace collars (qwes?) on lely a4 to a Eid eartag reader and stand alone heat such as cow manager? 6 years on and out of warranrty and quite a few of mine are starting to fail. They seem to lose heat detection first and eventually Id... just thinking thought options before I ask lely for a price!

Try ringing Tim Gibson ltd for some prices of alternatives (smartbow I think he’s selling)
Personally, we swapped to the hr long distance collars last year when lely had a part exchange deal on plus the grant scheme.

 

[upnortheast]

Changed our IR tags last year for the radio Qwes-HR ones
Claimed in the small grant scheme ( Heat detection ) & Lely had a buy back scheme so got changed for a modest sum of money

 

[pappuller]

Try ringing Tim Gibson ltd for some prices of alternatives (smartbow I think he’s selling)
Personally, we swapped to the hr long distance collars last year when lely had a part exchange deal on plus the grant scheme.

You happy with them ?