Robotic milking

Scholsey

Member
Location
Herefordshire
Which robots do you have and how many do you have?

What yields are you you getting and whats your feeding program?

My worry with robots is having to feed too much expensive concentrates through the robot. Limiting the ability to to feed cheap feed like caustic wheat, brewers grains etc.

Dont be afraid to feed expensive feed just make sure your getting the milk in return! Its better to feed 14kg of expensive feed to the right cow in the robot than 14kg of cheap feed to the wrong one
 

pappuller

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Livestock Farmer
Location
M6 Hard shoulder
16% nut in the robots 26% blend at the trough keep the robot nut the same all year round and balance through the wagon, been looking at oopf but not sure if I would gain a great deal with still having to put the silage out through a machine
 
What are the Lely A2 owners thinking as far as spares go in the future with particular regard to PCB's?
According to the Lely Engineers , Lely no longer are offering support to repair PCB's and haven't made new ones for some time.
I got the one under the feed trough repaired locally but I had a POS 5 card went this morning. As it happened I had one but usually they are replaced via exchange .
If the PCB's are not going to be fixed by Lely has anyone found somewhere that can fix the more complex ones such as the POS5?
Be interesting to hear what other users are thinking,maybe buy a few cheaply from abroad to break?
 

Aircooled

Member
Location
co Antrim
What are the Lely A2 owners thinking as far as spares go in the future with particular regard to PCB's?
According to the Lely Engineers , Lely no longer are offering support to repair PCB's and haven't made new ones for some time.
I got the one under the feed trough repaired locally but I had a POS 5 card went this morning. As it happened I had one but usually they are replaced via exchange .
If the PCB's are not going to be fixed by Lely has anyone found somewhere that can fix the more complex ones such as the POS5?
Be interesting to hear what other users are thinking,maybe buy a few cheaply from abroad to break?
:eek: (n) old robot vs old parlour.no contest yet then? Is there no good dealers established in used robots,aftermarket parts etc to open up the market a bit.I refuse to sponsor the big names from my small portion.
 

Aircooled

Member
Location
co Antrim
Just wondering if robots will become more affordable before spending money on my parlour.no knowledge of robots hence my questions.no harm in keeping an open mind about options and decisions.
 

upnortheast

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
What are the Lely A2 owners thinking as far as spares go in the future with particular regard to PCB's?
According to the Lely Engineers , Lely no longer are offering support to repair PCB's and haven't made new ones for some time.
I got the one under the feed trough repaired locally but I had a POS 5 card went this morning. As it happened I had one but usually they are replaced via exchange .
If the PCB's are not going to be fixed by Lely has anyone found somewhere that can fix the more complex ones such as the POS5?
Be interesting to hear what other users are thinking,maybe buy a few cheaply from abroad to break?

The world famous Mr G the man to ask ? @No1 Yorkshire Farmer
 
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Sid

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
Is anyone milking with robots and a parlour on one site? If so is it a transitional arrangement or permenant? How's it working?
I heard of someone doing that with robots for fresh and parlour for stale. I will have a think through the soup and see if i can remember.
We are bots and parlour but on two separate sites
 

Ducati899

Member
Location
north dorset
i went to farm what runs 8 robots and a normal parlour on one unit literally a stones throw from one another but they still might be run as 2 totally separate herds of cows,ill find out
 

DairyGrazing

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
North West
Which is better?

I've heard of similar situations seems like a good way off drying them off moving one to the other.

340 milking at the moment 38:38 parlour 3.5 hrs am 3 pm.

Extremely profitable but looking to make life easier for loads of reasons. Two 25:50 are going inlocally with similar cows and system to us. Also next door is putting in a 54 point rotary and his brother is putting in robots. It will be interesting to see how they all get on. I'm 30 so maybe get as well get it done now.

Is there a Deleval with an arm that does 4 boxes?
 
Just wondering if robots will become more affordable before spending money on my parlour.no knowledge of robots hence my questions.no harm in keeping an open mind about options and decisions.
Sorry , thought you were piddle taking.
The older A2's are very cheap at less than 10k a piece but Lely are a ruthless company and are enforcing obsolescence or trying to.
With the number of A2's sold you would think that someone would crank up supplying the PCB's etc.
Most bits are makeable or fixable making the A2's a very cheap way to milk but you can't codge a PCB in the workshop.
Or at least I can't.
 

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