Robotic milking

[Jdunn55]

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.

Do you know if they bought the other robots brand new? If they did that a hell of depreciation even at £50,000 a robot!

 

[s line]

Do you know if they bought the other robots brand new? If they did that a hell of depreciation even at £50,000 a robot!

Yes they did. It's been a nightmare for them.

@Beef farmer and me know a chap who knows a lot about moaning on Twitter!

 

[Sid]

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.

Buy a robot, it milk cows.....what can go wrong?

 

[ollie989898]

£8500 average for the 5
Don't know who gets the software or computer.
Fight over the pipe work?

I'd have had two or three of those away and put in a shed for future plans if nothing else!!

I'd sooner be on call 24 hours a day than be tied to having to milk twice a day.

 

[Sid]

I'd have had two or three of those away and put in a shed for future plans if nothing else!!

I'd sooner be on call 24 hours a day than be tied to having to milk twice a day.

If you dont service them they will call you 24/7 which ever brand you have!

 

[nonemouse]

Yes they did. It's been a nightmare for them.

can’t be many of the multi box green ones still working on farm, the new ones look much better, but how some users of the old ones were abandoned would put me off the new ones.
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[ollie989898]

If you dont service them they will call you 24/7 which ever brand you have!

Absolutely.

 

[s line]

can’t be many of the multi box green ones still working on farm, the new ones look much better, but how some users of the old ones were abandoned would put me off the new ones.

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I see they come with a 5 years warranty part's and labour!

 

[Jdunn55]

I see they come with a 5 years warranty part's and labour!
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Is that worth the paper it's written on though?

 

[happycows]

2 Fullwood Merlin M2’s for sale on Facebook at Bristol.
4 years old a nd he’s gone back to milking in his parlour. Wasn’t keen on expanding why.

 

[Beef farmer]

2 Fullwood Merlin M2’s for sale on Facebook at Bristol.
4 years old a nd he’s gone back to milking in his parlour. Wasn’t keen on expanding why.

Chem use, power usage, night time calls, overall running costs and the yard never being quiet.

Id guess one of the above.
Anyone can milk in a parlour, few can milk with robots

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

2 Fullwood Merlin M2’s for sale on Facebook at Bristol.
4 years old a nd he’s gone back to milking in his parlour. Wasn’t keen on expanding why.

Wasn’t there boumatic robots advertised on kivells website a while ago?

 

[pappuller]

Wasn’t there boumatic robots advertised on kivells website a while ago?

I think the farm was sold if I remember, we looked at boumatic robots before lely.

 

[Scholsey]

How are boumatic robotic systems getting on? Guy who helped design my shed layout suggested getting a quote for them, guy near here had SACs, that didn’t go well.

 

[s line]

Chem use, power usage, night time calls, overall running costs and the yard never being quiet.

Id guess one of the above.
Anyone can milk in a parlour, few can milk with robots

I had a nice head scratcher to deal with yesterday. Check this, check that.... Where the cable tie was, it had rubbed and damaged the cable!!

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

I think the farm was sold if I remember, we looked at boumatic robots before lely.

@Beef farmer is that the farm you bought?

 

[Real cool]

Why not put a 12/24 in better through put

 

[happycows]

Why not put a 12/24 in better through put

I’m leaning that way when time comes.

 

[happycows]

Chem use, power usage, night time calls, overall running costs and the yard never being quiet.

Id guess one of the above.
Anyone can milk in a parlour, few can milk with robots

I can live with most of those. Night time calls would be the exception and multiple night time calls drive me wild!

 

[dinderleat]

Why not put a 12/24 in better through put

20/40 well atleast put a big enough pit in