Slurry suckers

[Headless chicken]

Just curious if anyone has compared what as far as I can see are the only two offerings on the market, the joz and the lely.
I know @pappuller has the lely but not many joz’s about so welcome any input

 

[Spudley]

Not a sucker but we have a joz robotic scraper. We've had it since November. It seems well built, the only two problems we've had are a loose cable inside between the control pad and the computer and getting the parking program right - although to be fair 99%of the issue with this is we haven't given it a big enough parking area. Overall we are very pleased with it. Speak to Tom Allison (Gareth Howells), they are importing them.

 

[pappuller]

Just curious if anyone has compared what as far as I can see are the only two offerings on the market, the joz and the lely.
I know @pappuller has the lely but not many joz’s about so welcome any input

Not sure any joz barn e been installed yet

 

[Barmyfarmer]

@Scoobyscotlad should have had his installed by now I think? Joz that is
P.s don't you graze for like 10 months of the year?

 

[Headless chicken]

@Scoobyscotlad should have had his installed by now I think? Joz that is
P.s don't you graze for like 10 months of the year?

Yes graze a fair proportion of the year, we have issues where the automatic scrapers push the sh!t over the slats and what will become a big loafing yard that can’t be tractor scrapped. Plan was to put a big slatted tank in but it creates a big timing difficulty in that the window to complete the works is quite small so just considering all options.

also auto scrapers aren’t the cheapest things in the world to run.

 

[Scoobyscotlad]

Nope- not arriving for a month or 2 yet

 

[Headless chicken]

Nope- not arriving for a month or 2 yet

What was the thought process of going for the joz over the lely?

 

[Scoobyscotlad]

Bigger capacity model and price

 

[O'Reilly]

Lely say that theirs won't do such a tidy job on an open yard, because it likes to have walls, kerbs etc as reference points, and it may leave little lines once it gets too too far away from them, probably not a big deal. Also, if have a large area, it means more traveling, so the robot can look after fewer cows. Each one can look after 120-140 cows, but there's a function of how much slurry it has to collect, and how much ground there is to cover, both cleaning, and going back to the tip point. At a bit over £30k each, you don't want to stretch it too much

 

[Spudley]

That's another reason we didn't buy a lely, it needs walls or curbs to navigate from but the joz can use chips drilled into the floor.

 

[Bald Rick]

I have to say that we've been disappointed in our Joz silage pusher.
They tell me the Mark II is better but once bit, twice shy

 

[Headless chicken]

I have to say that we've been disappointed in our Joz silage pusher.
They tell me the Mark II is better but once bit, twice shy

Have you bought another Juno now?

 

[Bald Rick]

Have you bought another Juno now?

No. We are "supposed" to be getting a price to swop to the Mk2 but that was months ago.
Should have bought the Lely in the first place

 

[pappuller]

Lely say that theirs won't do such a tidy job on an open yard, because it likes to have walls, kerbs etc as reference points, and it may leave little lines once it gets too too far away from them, probably not a big deal. Also, if have a large area, it means more traveling, so the robot can look after fewer cows. Each one can look after 120-140 cows, but there's a function of how much slurry it has to collect, and how much ground there is to cover, both cleaning, and going back to the tip point. At a bit over £30k each, you don't want to stretch it too much

£26500

 

[John1975]

Been going a week just at nights, brilliant machine

 

[O'Reilly]

£26500

Inflation, or you have a better dealer up norf

 

[Boysground]

Been going a week just at nights, brilliant machine

Sawdust?

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[pappuller]

Been going a week just at nights, brilliant machine

how much water do you have switched on ?

 

[John1975]

how much water do you have switched on ?

I've never looked at the amount it just comes out front and rear and it only sprays certain passages which tend to dry fast in summer

 

[John1975]

Sawdust?

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? Sand no good to us in our channels, straw no good in dribble bar