What dairy foot trimming crush

Milkcow365

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Everyone with this crush still happy? Might buy one. A manual one is half as expensive but this isn’t that wild money compared with hydraulic,
I’ve 400 cows just want to be able to lift lame cows straight away and hopefully keep up with routine trims.
 
View attachment 838580Everyone with this crush still happy? Might buy one. A manual one is half as expensive but this isn’t that wild money compared with hydraulic,
I’ve 400 cows just want to be able to lift lame cows straight away and hopefully keep up with routine trims.

Very pleased. I can't really see why any farm would need anything more than this.

I'm less pleased about the amount I'm having to use it at the moment due to endless lame cows.
 
Very pleased. I can't really see why any farm would need anything more than this.

I'm less pleased about the amount I'm having to use it at the moment due to endless lame cows.
Have had to block 4 cows here for WL I was disappointed with this and I suppose I still am but am hearing a lot of stories of track failures lame cows .cows stooping on tracks which always used to stress the hell out of everybody here and dirty cows in the parlour.
So I suppose it’s all relative.
 
Very pleased. I can't really see why any farm would need anything more than this.

I'm less pleased about the amount I'm having to use it at the moment due to endless lame cows.

We have an electric on 300 cows and a hydraulic on 700, do about 70 routine trims coming up to drying off for the larger herd and it really makes a difference having the hydraulic one, it really is worth the extra money once you’ve used one
 

Dead Rabbits

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'Merica
Yeah starting to wonder where the £300 each is would of been better going to a local farmer and learning. But hey ho

I’d still like to go through a course. Largely self taught by watching YouTube. Had a professional in to catch us up and learned a lot just by watching and asking questions. The difference between right and wrong is only a few mm. Still have a lot to learn.

I ask who is teaching the course because the trimmer we used has been on several courses in the UK.

What I would really like is if someone else on the farm took an interest. Zero interest so far.
 

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