Robotic milking

[Sid]

Nothing against delavals at all, but couldnt comment as A: I know no-one with one, but B: I hear nothing about them, good, bad nor ugly.

Hear plenty about lelys with most reports being positive, hear a bit about boumatics, mostly negative, and the one fullwood farm who is mixed - but that could be a dealership thing rather than a robot thing from what I can gather.

Down here as in west cornwall. Know plenty of people from the penzance area and beyond that, but dont know anywhere near as many to the east of helston admittedly.

Depends on dealer and farmer.

Know of a farm that's putting in new Delaval and they won't entertain the local dealer!

 

[Jdunn55]

Depends on dealer and farmer.

Know of a farm that's putting in new Delaval and they won't entertain the local dealer!

To me, that sounds like a recipe for disaster personally...
Guess it depends on location of the dealer they are using

 

[Sid]

To me, that sounds like a recipe for disaster personally...
Guess it depends on location of the dealer they are using

Location of engineers can be a challenge along with how many machines they are looking after!

 

[happycows]

Location of engineers can be a challenge along with how many machines they are looking after!

And number of engineers that are willing to grasp the 24hr emergency system for a robotic milking system. Some of the conventional milking parlour engineers don't want it.

 

[Sid]

And number of engineers that are willing to grasp the 24hr emergency system for a robotic milking system. Some of the conventional milking parlour engineers don't want it.

Thank god for spare capacity!

 

[Jdunn55]

Looks like a gea setup judging by the wall colour!

 

[Sid]

Looks like a gea setup judging by the wall colour!View attachment 923463

1st rule of sales don't run down competition?

 

[sidjon]

1st rule of sales don't run down competition?

That looks like the setup close to you?

 

[Jdunn55]

1st rule of sales don't run down competition?

That was my thoughts, but they havnt actually named the competitor atleast (not that it takes a genius to work it out) but I wouldn't have said anything about them either, something along the lines of "second hand lely replacing another make" would have been more than enough

 

[Sid]

That looks like the setup close to you?

No is a rotary going in there.

 

[Wesley]

1st rule of sales don't run down competition?

I wouldn’t class “not performing well” as running down the competition. I’m sure the farmer has far worse things to say if he’s going through the hassle & cost of changing colours.

 

[Sid]

I wouldn’t class “not performing well” as running down the competition. I’m sure the farmer has far worse things to say if he’s going through the hassle & cost of changing colours.

Fine for the farmer not for sales team.

Heard of one farmer blaming robots for not getting cows in calf WTF is that about!

 

[sidjon]

Fine for the farmer not for sales team.

Heard of one farmer blaming robots for not getting cows in calf WTF is that about!

Could take a educated guess who than was , Mr P

 

[Sid]

Could take a educated guess who than was , Mr P

Was it a posh school you went to ?

 

[Jdunn55]

Fine for the farmer not for sales team.

Heard of one farmer blaming robots for not getting cows in calf WTF is that about!

Why havent lely thought of that already! Robot with an ai glove installed! I reckon they'll be putting the patent application together as we speak!

 

[Scholsey]

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Fine for the farmer not for sales team.

Heard of one farmer blaming robots for not getting cows in calf WTF is that about!

We had a less than ideal start up, silly default settings in the computer were stopping cows getting OOPF allocation, pedometers were worse than useless so terrible activity data, wouldn’t say it was the fault of the robot but would put large portion of the blame to fullwood for not having system to place to help during and after start up, might be better now but hardly got a cow in calf for 6 months!

 

[Jdunn55]

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We had a less than ideal start up, silly default settings in the computer were stopping cows getting OOPF allocation, pedometers were worse than useless so terrible activity data, wouldn’t say it was the fault of the robot but would put large portion of the blame to fullwood for not having system to place to help during and after start up, might be better now but hardly got a cow in calf for 6 months!

What was stopping them from getting in-calf, lack of cake (energy) or missed heats? Or combination of the two?
6 months is a bloody long time for them to have not sorted it!

 

[Scholsey]

Combination of the 2, knock on effect, fresh cows calving in on half the cake they should have been and crappy pedometers was a rubbish combination, hear all the horror stories about start up and how horrendous it is, the training cows was the easy bit it was the training the farmer nobody ever mentioned! There were a lot of lessons learnt from everyone involved, just at my cost.

 

[Jdunn55]

Combination of the 2, knock on effect, fresh cows calving in on half the cake they should have been and crappy pedometers was a rubbish combination, hear all the horror stories about start up and how horrendous it is, the training cows was the easy bit it was the training the farmer nobody ever mentioned! There were a lot of lessons learnt from everyone involved, just at my cost.

That's one thing you can guarantee it's never the companies cost...

 

[s line]

Looks like a gea setup judging by the wall colour!View attachment 923463

They have had a crap 6 years with someone else.Old robots are now going on the scrap heap.

Fair play to lely,they have installed 10 year old A3.Lely center Yeovil will do a good job looking after that farm.

Best of luck to them.