Robotic milking

[surprisefarmer]

2 robots and 2 vacuum pump's here

 

[thewalrus]

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A lot of talk of a number of robots being pulled out in the locality. After weekend I have had, I understand why. 1 niggle after another, been playing about as past couple of weeks but this last few days would put any mans head away.

a lot of the talk is coming from salesmen who sell.....milking parlours!

 

[Spear]

Do all the delaval robots use one vac pump per robot?
All the ones I've seen do, seems overkill as I would have thought one dvp900 would run two bots at least?
Or are they really vacuum hungry?
Thanks

Yep has to be 1 per robot to allow vacuum levels to rise and fall. But if placed near each other they can be linked to allow 2 robots to run off 1 pump temporarily if problems or servicing require it.

 

[Slowcow]

Yep has to be 1 per robot to allow vacuum levels to rise and fall. But if placed near each other they can be linked to allow 2 robots to run off 1 pump temporarily if problems or servicing require it.

Thanks, that makes sense!

 

[Peter]

Yep has to be 1 per robot to allow vacuum levels to rise and fall. But if placed near each other they can be linked to allow 2 robots to run off 1 pump temporarily if problems or servicing require it.

Thanks, that makes sense!

Lely A4 or A5 use one central unit with one vacuum pump and washing system (boiler, chemical pumps and water valves) per 2 robots. Vacuum level is maintained at each robot by a valve. Pump is vfd controlled by vacuum sensor in central unit.

 

[Sid]

Full service for VMS including parts labour and travel time £500.
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[Scholsey]

Full service for VMS including parts labour and travel time £500.
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double that for a m2

 

[pappuller]

Full service for VMS including parts labour and travel time £500.
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per robot ? how many milkings ?

 

[Barmyfarmer]

Full service for VMS including parts labour and travel time £500.
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That's the sort of figures I like to hear, I looked into the service costs on the new VMS and they were astronomical in comparison to that

 

[Sid]

double that for a m2

Another full service was 331.
Few extras on other it seems, looking for an intermediary service

 

[Sid]

per robot ? how many milkings ?

Yeah few extras like grippers, does pump runners etc.
We service each one every month and check the other one for faults whilst out.
How many milkings roughly 6500

 

[Sid]

That's the sort of figures I like to hear, I looked into the service costs on the new VMS and they were astronomical in comparison to that

These are 2nd hand not on a contract, tempting fate but breakdowns on well serviced are ?????

 

[ollie989898]

Full service for VMS including parts labour and travel time £500.
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Bargain.

 

[pappuller]

Bargain.

It doesn't seem that way to me £500/robot/month ?? Or am I totally missing something ?

 

[Sid]

It doesn't seem that way to me £500/robot/month ?? Or am I totally missing something ?

Serviced every other month. So £250/month

 

[pappuller]

Serviced every other month. So £250/month

Per bot ?

 

[Hanspree]

On service contract with delaval as no dealer for vms in the north west now,
£2100 per month for 3 robots that's chemicals and consumables, call outs are extra and delaval won't service compressor so that's an extra cost else where.

 

[pappuller]

On service contract with delaval as no dealer for vms in the north west now,
£2100 per month for 3 robots that's chemicals and consumables, call outs are extra and delaval won't service compressor so that's an extra cost else where.

Coars not in your area ?
We are paying £225/bot/mnth for all service time,travel and consumables.
Compressor is extra but a scroll compressor is an easy on farm service, but we need to replace one imminently which will be another £5k

 

[pappuller]

On service contract with delaval as no dealer for vms in the north west now,
£2100 per month for 3 robots that's chemicals and consumables, call outs are extra and delaval won't service compressor so that's an extra cost else where.

Jeez that sounds bloody heavy

 

[pappuller]

Yeah few extras like grippers, does pump runners etc.
We service each one every month and check the other one for faults whilst out.
How many milkings roughly 6500

How come such a short service interval ? Our a4s are roughly 30000 between services and the a5s are cheaper to service due to us having a silicone bladder as a milk pump which costs circa £200 a pop and they sometimes do