Robotic milking
- Thread starter newholland
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jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
In English please
BELOWAVERAGE
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Doesn't he mean he earns more putting in a 40/40 herringbone than a 20/40 herringbone, as twice as many units.In English please
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
Feck knows, couple of commas would help
Needs to borrow some from som
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
But the 20/40 is more efficient???
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
Thought you sold parlours not bread and wine
dinderleat
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- Location
- Wells
How does a parlour fitter know what’s more efficient?
BELOWAVERAGE
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I'll keep my nose out next time.
Quite,I’ll keep my nose out next time.I started life as a farmers son,milking cows in what most people all a cowshed.
I then left to pursue my own career I then trained with Alfa Laval but in the mean time I relief milked, I did this to buy my first house
I did this for 4 years working in a 6x12 herringbone eventually up to a 8x16 ,there was a good through put on that,but when numbers increased it was doubled to 16x16 that was a disaster it terms of through put.
I left doing the relief milking to concentrate on the dairy side, I was approached to set up the milking machine side of what is now known as kristal kooling domestic and dairy
Well that was an eye opener, Then Bob Miller came back to me to ask if I would come back to now known as De Laval this I did and oversaw their new franchise in Somerset
I sold my first rotary there and still to this day are involved with rotaries but now in west wales.
I now run a company called Real Cool Dairy Company in west wales last week we serviced a nice 12x24 herringbone milking 150 cows all done in 2 hours washed up and gone
We did a late night breakdown a couple of weeks ago,milk pump had gone,we got him milking but he said it was taking him 4 hours just to milk 250 cows plus washing up in a 12x12 herringbone.
So you say how does a dairy engineer know about through put on milking parlours,
It makes me laugh when people say o he’s only a tractor driver but the skill in what they do is lost on people
I then left to pursue my own career I then trained with Alfa Laval but in the mean time I relief milked, I did this to buy my first house
I did this for 4 years working in a 6x12 herringbone eventually up to a 8x16 ,there was a good through put on that,but when numbers increased it was doubled to 16x16 that was a disaster it terms of through put.
I left doing the relief milking to concentrate on the dairy side, I was approached to set up the milking machine side of what is now known as kristal kooling domestic and dairy
Well that was an eye opener, Then Bob Miller came back to me to ask if I would come back to now known as De Laval this I did and oversaw their new franchise in Somerset
I sold my first rotary there and still to this day are involved with rotaries but now in west wales.
I now run a company called Real Cool Dairy Company in west wales last week we serviced a nice 12x24 herringbone milking 150 cows all done in 2 hours washed up and gone
We did a late night breakdown a couple of weeks ago,milk pump had gone,we got him milking but he said it was taking him 4 hours just to milk 250 cows plus washing up in a 12x12 herringbone.
So you say how does a dairy engineer know about through put on milking parlours,
It makes me laugh when people say o he’s only a tractor driver but the skill in what they do is lost on people
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
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.
i asked the reason and to see if he had a grazing/seg gate to sell ,
was informed due to milk contract , bereavement, and herd relocation.
Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
Very well. The most cows where used to it after only four days, pretty much all of them after a week. No single problem with attaching cups, while our fleckvieh crosses don't have the prettiest udders. Salesman did say that but I didn't believe it.
I still haven't attached a single cow by hand.
One idiot cow now has decided not to go in anymore so I have to fetch her.
The thingy that goes on the milktank for cleaning and al does have it's issues though and haven't been fully resolved yet. That part is from fullwood, not gea(also another company installed it). I've only had a few calls from the robot yet, 4 or 5 times. 3 of those have been nighttime calls and two of those was my own fault as I hadn't cleaned the camera.
All in all very happy and while I certainly didn't hate it, I don't miss milking.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Clean team on point as always smorning
