What size parlour, how many cow's and how many people milking?

[multi power]

20 40
340 cows
Extensive routine and no skimping on attention to detail, how can I make it a one person job ?

 

[Agrispeed]

Does your prep take longer than the opposite side takes to milk?

 

[Wee Willy]

Grow an extra set of arms.

 

[Will Blackburn]

Acrs and autodipping?

 

[Will Blackburn]

340 is a lot to cup. Really need to milk 250 or less to make it a 1 person job.

 

[lazy farmer]

20/40 milk around 270 at peak.
mornings I usually milk 10 rows on my own before help arrives to help with any issues. minimal route when there out and tracks are good 7.5 min rows at the moment 10 mins when we are going for it.
without mechanical help there's no way you should milking 17 rows on your own. seem to remember you getting very tired previously. what's the reason for the question ?

 

[bobk]

8 / 16 , NONE

 

[multi power]

Does your prep take longer than the opposite side takes to milk?

Not sure how to answer that, there are always clusters hanging up

 

[multi power]

20/40 milk around 270 at peak.
mornings I usually milk 10 rows on my own before help arrives to help with any issues. minimal route when there out and tracks are good 7.5 min rows at the moment 10 mins when we are going for it.
without mechanical help there's no way you should milking 17 rows on your own. seem to remember you getting very tired previously. what's the reason for the question ?

Lack of an assistant making me ask the question, but I think I have already answered it myself and would be making a rod for my own back

 

[DairyGrazing]

20 40
340 cows
Extensive routine and no skimping on attention to detail, how can I make it a one person job ?

Why would you want to? life is too short to milk on your own.

 

[Davy]

340 is a fair bit of walking and cupping on for one man.

 

[Agrispeed]

Not sure how to answer that, there are always clusters hanging up

What I was getting at is it prep time or cow flow that is slowing you down?

I would look at something like an auto teat sprayer or ADF. That would cut down one walk up and down the parlour, but I appreciate that isn't something you can necessarily do.

I seem to remember you're block calving. Could you use less clusters in the shoulders of the year to cut down walking and speed up milking, if you have prep taking longer than cows milking.

Dairy NZ had a relatively helpful video on speeding up milking, a lot of the changes they suggest are free too.

 

[multi power]

What I was getting at is it prep time or cow flow that is slowing you down?

I would look at something like an auto teat sprayer or ADF. That would cut down one walk up and down the parlour, but I appreciate that isn't something you can necessarily do.

I seem to remember you're block calving. Could you use less clusters in the shoulders of the year to cut down walking and speed up milking, if you have prep taking longer than cows milking.

Dairy NZ had a relatively helpful video on speeding up milking, a lot of the changes they suggest are free too.

It's a bit of everything slowing it down
Using less clusters isn't an option due to auto id and feeding the entire row at once
I have already tweaked the spray routine after watching one of those videos
Adf could possibly be a useful tool

 

[sidjon]

Think once you have gone past 10 rows in a 20 cup shed you are going to lose efficiency with one man , have helped for a few days put 750 through a 20/40 with two in shed , they where good bosses but far to much time in pit getting bored, Adf may help but too many cows for one man for anything other than a odd milking.

 

[farmboy]

280 in milk, 20:20, one man with a bit of help depending whAt else is going on

 

[Sparkymark]

320 cows through a 24:24 here. Thats with 2 men milking. Extending to a 32:32 next year to make it a proper 2 man parlour rather than 1 and half man parlour.
I think 250 is about a max for one man to milk on his own.

 

[spin cycle]

how long is 'a milking' typically....start to cleaned up?

 

[multi power]

how long is 'a milking' typically....start to cleaned up?

3 hours milking, then half an hour washing

 

[Devon lad]

330 24:48 non acr here, found out it was too much for 1 person doing 5 consecutive milkings as especially 1 was a woman, aching knees. Fitted parlour matts, wash drops, bigger wash down pump. Am milking milk them out, pm milking max t, no prep, 5x teat sprayers, am milking 2-2.25 hrs, pm milkings now 1hr 45.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

My favourite was what y'all would call a 30:30 (I think) with 420 peak cows, 5 teatsprays on curly cords.
What's your prep routine, is what I'm asking, we had 400kg/MS cows but it didn't take long to poke them through.
2.5hrs in the morning with 2 people
2hrs in the afternoon with 1
(Including a hose out and wash)
Organic place had 540 through a 30as in about the time you describe, hour cleaning though
So, what's the rest of what you do, not trying to be smart, just establishing where the time goes and what to polish.
(You might be feeding your cows a bit better than we did )
But, little is wrong with a pit you can handle yourself in a crisis - I could put as many cows/hr thru them, as my cohorts could manage in a 54 rotary.
No "prep" other than petting the cows though. love my cows..
What's the prep routine at multi power towers?

(silly f ing kiwi)