Robotic milking

[Chips]

Living life lely

To be fair to Lely problem solving stuff can take a lot of time and at least I could leave that to them being on master contract while I got on with milking . They had to get Holland on the phone in the end to solve it .

 

[pappuller]

My eldest boy loved it , all he wants in the world is a parlour [emoji230][emoji230][emoji230]

Our daughter is the same

 

[Sid]

My eldest boy loved it , all he wants in the world is a parlour

Stick in a 6/6 abreast.....He'll learn

 

[Sid]

To be fair to Lely problem solving stuff can take a lot of time and at least I could leave that to them being on master contract while I got on with milking . They had to get Holland on the phone in the end to solve it .

Why does it take so long?
Must have been extremely technical....or something so obvious it was missed

 

[Slowcow]

Is the blower on the side of the robot to keep the flies off in summer?

We had the water stop for a bit this morning, made me think, do any of you robot chaps have a water buffer tank and pump, keep things moving while the waters out?

 

[nonemouse]

Is the blower on the side of the robot to keep the flies off in summer?

We had the water stop for a bit this morning, made me think, do any of you robot chaps have a water buffer tank and pump, keep things moving while the waters out?

We use mains water on robot, but could if needed switch to bore hole water, only a couple of pipes to swap round. Not had to do it in the last 11 years

 

[Chips]

Is the blower on the side of the robot to keep the flies off in summer?

Correct

 

[Chips]

Stick in a 6/6 abreast.....He'll learn

We have one of sorts , a Somerset milking bail underneath a ton of cobwebs , it was concreted into the ground and big steps put in to save your back , trouble is it's no good for a back up as you would cause mayhem trying to get the cows into it and up the steps , where as I was really surprised how quiet they were being milked in the yokes .

 

[Chips]

Why does it take so long?
Must have been extremely technical....or something so obvious it was missed

Water ingress into a control box which made it look like numerous other issues , thus replaced a lot of other things but would just run into another problem each time

 

[Chips]

Milk them once a day and the milk turns into Jersey Milk !

 

[Sid]

Water ingress into a control box which made it look like numerous other issues , thus replaced a lot of other things but would just run into another problem each time

Simple when you know what it is
Sounds like when the hard drive corrupted on one of ours.
would throw an alarm , replaced loads of stuff then 6 hours later swapped hard drives over and the issue moved to other robot. UK or Sweden had never come across it before.

 

[Slowcow]

@Chips
Fat wasn't shoddy before, you fully housed or are they grazing?
Do you have the blower running all the time or just when a cow comes in?

 

[Chips]

@Chips
Fat wasn't shoddy before, you fully housed or are they grazing?
Do you have the blower running all the time or just when a cow comes in?

Blower runs all the time when flies are bad .
Cows access grazing 24 hr but also adlib buffer in shed

 

[Slowcow]

Do they hang around in the robot when its hot because they like the blower?

 

[Chips]

Do they hang around in the robot when its hot because they like the blower?

No but I do !

 

[Chips]

One thing a big break down like the other day does is make you appreciate just how well a well oiled machine robot milking is , calm is all back in the shed as cows just mosey back and fore to the fields and robot at there leisure . I think the reliability making breakdowns like this pretty rare makes you take things for granted a bit.

 

[s line]

1st time it's come to this in 12 years, 12 hrView attachment 959434 breakdown but all sorted now thankfully

I would of thought Woj would of sorted it out for you from Technical control.He was marvelous when he was a service tech.

 

[MickyMook]

What happens in the event of a power cut or routine line work by the electric company? Does anyone install backup gennies?

 

[upnortheast]

What happens in the event of a power cut or routine line work by the electric company? Does anyone install backup gennies?

Here is ours.

 

[Sid]

What happens in the event of a power cut or routine line work by the electric company? Does anyone install backup gennies?

Yes used it once to check supply issues with multiple alarms deriving from a phase issue on oncoming supply! That took 8 hours to sort out.