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Chips, Happy cows, Kevin and everybody else who is Robotic milking - your updates, thoughts, experiences and ideas were much appriciated. Please feel free to continue!
There really is a fountain of information gone if BFF is finished. Everything from the debates/advice to pictures, the info on those servers had the pulse of what was going in farming at any particular time.Just a shame that all that archive material is gone (?)
Chips, Happy cows, Kevin and everybody else who is Robotic milking - your updates, thoughts, experiences and ideas were much appriciated. Please feel free to continue!
Is there no way of retrieving some of the threads and transferring them to this site?Just a shame that all that archive material is gone (?)
Okay here goes , I was about to post the following the other morning but alas the site was down and I was unable to share my excitement at having manually attached my first cow after over four years of struggling with wild heifers or hard udders on fresh calvers ,and it's so simple Just like we were discussing before the site crashed you just wait until the arm starts scanning the teats and simply slide the little collar up on the air shut off and all the cups go loose with vacuum and pulsation on ,whats really good is that it actually acknowledges that the cups are on once attached and records the milking , the arm still moves so can follow the cow if she moves , you can slide the sleeve back down as soon as the cups are on but it did leak air then so I left it off and pulled each cup off when the x link said to and turned air back on at the end . I did this with a random cow who came in just to try it out but can see no reason why it would not work the same with first time milking , what I plan to do with 1 st milkings now is allow arm to scan and try to attach and then if it can't get attached after loads of tries just slide the collar up and attach before it fails her ,this way it should have some idea of teat coordinents to help at next milking when heifer should be calmer .
This firmly reestablishes in my mind that Lely have the best robot , I had started to have mad ideas about trading it one day for a delaval but no more , it was so simple I can't believe I haven't worked it out sooner , I cannot remember who posted how to do it , was it 'cows4milk' ? A Big Big thankyou to them
Okay here goes , I was about to post the following the other morning but alas the site was down and I was unable to share my excitement at having manually attached my first cow after over four years of struggling with wild heifers or hard udders on fresh calvers ,and it's so simple Just like we were discussing before the site crashed you just wait until the arm starts scanning the teats and simply slide the little collar up on the air shut off and all the cups go loose with vacuum and pulsation on ,whats really good is that it actually acknowledges that the cups are on once attached and records the milking , the arm still moves so can follow the cow if she moves , you can slide the sleeve back down as soon as the cups are on but it did leak air then so I left it off and pulled each cup off when the x link said to and turned air back on at the end . I did this with a random cow who came in just to try it out but can see no reason why it would not work the same with first time milking , what I plan to do with 1 st milkings now is allow arm to scan and try to attach and then if it can't get attached after loads of tries just slide the collar up and attach before it fails her ,this way it should have some idea of teat coordinents to help at next milking when heifer should be calmer .
This firmly reestablishes in my mind that Lely have the best robot , I had started to have mad ideas about trading it one day for a delaval but no more , it was so simple I can't believe I haven't worked it out sooner , I cannot remember who posted how to do it , was it 'cows4milk' ? A Big Big thankyou to them
Not had to manually attach for a few months, but it certainly beats having to start up the old parlour
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In an unrelated topic - those of you with multiple A4 Lelys - have you ever taken the time to measure the position of the 3D camera on one stall in comparison to the camera on the others? My one camera is over an inch difference in position from the other stall, a friend of mine who just spent a week in Lely school said a lot of guys are finding this to be a cause of failures when cows have access to two bots that the cameras are not mounted in synch. Confuses the position data the robot starts from when a cow decides to visit the 'other' stall. I'm going to try to get my cameras more in line today and see if it reduces the random failures. Remember - if you mess with the camera mounting to do a recalibration of the 3D camera before milking or things will really be screwed up!
Oh i could cry! So much information (probably the most discussed robot discussions in the world) and knoledge on robots and robotic milking gone in a puff of smoke. Quite a few of the discussion we had on there have shaped the way i farm today. Bouncing new ideas around and getting feedback from people who are in the thick of it and not a sales man telling you what he wants you to hear.
Hope to see some more friendly faces soon.
have an A3 interested in this manual attach where exactly is this collar that you move for air shut offOkay here goes , I was about to post the following the other morning but alas the site was down and I was unable to share my excitement at having manually attached my first cow after over four years of struggling with wild heifers or hard udders on fresh calvers ,and it's so simple Just like we were discussing before the site crashed you just wait until the arm starts scanning the teats and simply slide the little collar up on the air shut off and all the cups go loose with vacuum and pulsation on ,whats really good is that it actually acknowledges that the cups are on once attached and records the milking , the arm still moves so can follow the cow if she moves , you can slide the sleeve back down as soon as the cups are on but it did leak air then so I left it off and pulled each cup off when the x link said to and turned air back on at the end . I did this with a random cow who came in just to try it out but can see no reason why it would not work the same with first time milking , what I plan to do with 1 st milkings now is allow arm to scan and try to attach and then if it can't get attached after loads of tries just slide the collar up and attach before it fails her ,this way it should have some idea of teat coordinents to help at next milking when heifer should be calmer .
This firmly reestablishes in my mind that Lely have the best robot , I had started to have mad ideas about trading it one day for a delaval but no more , it was so simple I can't believe I haven't worked it out sooner , I cannot remember who posted how to do it , was it 'cows4milk' ? A Big Big thankyou to them
under the pannels, take the middle pannel off and its at the right hand side, hope this helps, will take a photo if i remember when I check round the cows laterhave an A3 interested in this manual attach where exactly is this collar that you move for air shut off