You spin me right round, baby

[Bald Rick]

You say gea electronics if it isn't too late insist on the scr pulsation and not gea If you want to know why get a pulsator from each and get Emrys to strip them on the kitchen table. Nothing wrong with the gea one just 4 times as many parts.

Been looking at the spec sheet & I think we are getting Milfos's own pulsators - something called "Auto Pulse S" ?

 

[Bald Rick]

Marking out the final position for the inner wall before the last bit of pecking & digging of the hole (which is/was today's job)

 

[pappuller]

Marking out the final position for the inner wall before the last bit of pecking & digging of the hole (which is/was today's job)

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take it that's not your booty rearing by the digger ?

 

[countryman765]

Been looking at the spec sheet & I think we are getting Milfos's own pulsators - something called "Auto Pulse S" ?

Not sure what they are called now but talked to Emrys last week and they have dropped scr. Pity very simple , reliable pulsator

 

[Bald Rick]

Not sure what they are called now but talked to Emrys last week and they have dropped scr. Pity very simple , reliable pulsator

Simple is good. Would be happy with Reed but will take whatever so long as they are reliable & relatively maintenance free because running costs are key

 

[Bald Rick]

take it that's not your booty rearing by the digger ?

Can't bend down like that, Paps. Gut gets in the way. Leave it to da kidz, innit

 

[TomB]

Simple is good. Would be happy with Reed but will take whatever so long as they are reliable & relatively maintenance free because running costs are key

Any idea what your long term maintenance costs will be, hear some fairly scary stories of teenage rotaries taking some serious upkeep. I would hope if I were putting in a rotary that it would have a decent lifespan. Or perhaps you need to budget for a full re fit/build at 10-15years old?

 

[Bald Rick]

Any idea what your long term maintenance costs will be, hear some fairly scary stories of teenage rotaries taking some serious upkeep. I would hope if I were putting in a rotary that it would have a decent lifespan. Or perhaps you need to budget for a full re fit/build at 10-15years old?

Too early to say what they will be but we have tried to mitigate where we can and will try to keep on top of maintenance using the stitch in time theory. Provided that the deck is well built & concreted, then i would expect it to last 20 years or more.
Robots would probably be replaced before a rotary was kaput?

 

[DairyGrazing]

Any idea what your long term maintenance costs will be, hear some fairly scary stories of teenage rotaries taking some serious upkeep. I would hope if I were putting in a rotary that it would have a decent lifespan. Or perhaps you need to budget for a full re fit/build at 10-15years old?

There’s a guy on twitter who spent 38k on his 8 year old dairy disaster rotary last year.

He’s talking about stripping it back to the deck and refitting it with another manufacturer.

 

[stablegirl]

It would appear so at your place!

 

[TheRanger]

There’s a guy on twitter who spent 38k on his 8 year old dairy disaster rotary last year.

He’s talking about stripping it back to the deck and refitting it with another manufacturer.

https://twitter.com/ludchurchfarm/status/958106912612143106 ?

 

[vantage]

There’s a guy on twitter who spent 38k on his 8 year old dairy disaster rotary last year.

He’s talking about stripping it back to the deck and refitting it with another manufacturer.

Funny one that.Farmer North of here had a milfos and between milkings replaced every thing from the deck up with dairymaster. @Headless chicken may know more,I even think there is a time lapse film of it on youtube.

 

[Davy]

Have you got all the robots sold? @Bald Rick

 

[Grassman247]

Any idea what your long term maintenance costs will be, hear some fairly scary stories of teenage rotaries taking some serious upkeep. I would hope if I were putting in a rotary that it would have a decent lifespan. Or perhaps you need to budget for a full re fit/build at 10-15years old?

My Waikato 50 point costs me 3.5k per year in maintenance including 4 liner changes. I made my own service sheet which the guys do monthly and my parlour tech says it’s the reason he never has to come out to mine for any breakdowns. I’ve just had to replace my colinson auger after 10 years use but estimated it had done 4 million feed drops in that time and it only cost me £1800 so a good return on investment.

 

[Dead Rabbits]

My Waikato 50 point costs me 3.5k per year in maintenance including 4 liner changes. I made my own service sheet which the guys do monthly and my parlour tech says it’s the reason he never has to come out to mine for any breakdowns. I’ve just had to replace my colinson auger after 10 years use but estimated it had done 4 million feed drops in that time and it only cost me £1800 so a good return on investment.

A Waikato 50 point here fell off the rollers last summer(with cows). I-beam buckled on it. The other was repaired last month to prevent the same. Ten or eleven years old. Overall both are pretty badly worn, busted welds and rusty. Have you had anything similar? Is yours stainless?

 

[countryman765]

There’s a guy on twitter who spent 38k on his 8 year old dairy disaster rotary last year.

He’s talking about stripping it back to the deck and refitting it with another manufacturer.

One not far from me spent close to 350k on disastr upgrade on Milfos platform two years ago is now putting six robots in

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[Headless chicken]

Funny one that.Farmer North of here had a milfos and between milkings replaced every thing from the deck up with dairymaster. @Headless chicken may know more,I even think there is a time lapse film of it on youtube.

One not far from me spent close to 350k on disastr upgrade on Milfos platform two years ago is now putting six robots in

You may well be both speaking of the same person here

is the person @vantage js thinking of though. All I can say is you can’t judge anything’s performance based on what happens on that farm. I don’t know enough of the guy to comment but money isn’t an issue making him mind up is though.

 

[countryman765]

Same one

 

[Bald Rick]

Have you got all the robots sold? @Bald Rick

3 gone for definite and the other three we are waiting for final confirmation but if you want one, two or three jump in now as your money is as good as the next guy's

 

[Grassman247]

A Waikato 50 point here fell off the rollers last summer(with cows). I-beam buckled on it. The other was repaired last month to prevent the same. Ten or eleven years old. Overall both are pretty badly worn, busted welds and rusty. Have you had anything similar? Is yours stainless?

That’s because they aren’t true Waikato platforms. Mine was the first proper Waikato platform in the UK had zero trouble with it. Be interested to know what platforms they actually are, any ideas?

A lot of rotarys in New Zealand the platform was built by the local engineering firm and then the milking machine equipment was bolted to it. It’s only in the last 10 years have they been building there own platforms in house.