DUMP LINES

keep going

have many of you dump lines and are they good .at the mo i keep the ones i dont want until last but reckon its too slow sorting them and the cows may be over milked inside.its either that or put in some sort of drafting on the way in before milking starts andthink it might be to troublesome to run a separate bunch.would it be hard/expensive to fit retrofit and how do they work anyway.thanks

st1979

Can be done cheap enough. No need for electronics. I have a pinch clip sort of thing with a lever type arm on each line. So each cluster has 2 pinch clips one for dump line and one for milk line. You just close the milk line and open the dumpline. Then the milk goes straight to the smaller receiver jar thats for the dump milk then pumped to the dump tank. So basically you need a lenght of stainless with whatever number of units you got welded inlets on it. 2 pinch clips per point a plastic T for you to T off the long milk tube. Then an old receiver jar and milk pump (which should be got easy enough from old redundant milking parlours around the country) and a liquid level control of some sort.
Other way is a few milk churns with tops that you can milk the dumpmilk into. Even with a dumpline you need one of these to put a fresh cow into so you get undiluted beastings.

Enderol

st1979 wrote: »

Can be done cheap enough. No need for electronics. I have a pinch clip sort of thing with a lever type arm on each line. So each cluster has 2 pinch clips one for dump line and one for milk line. You just close the milk line and open the dumpline. Then the milk goes straight to the smaller receiver jar thats for the dump milk then pumped to the dump tank. So basically you need a lenght of stainless with whatever number of units you got welded inlets on it. 2 pinch clips per point a plastic T for you to T off the long milk tube. Then an old receiver jar and milk pump (which should be got easy enough from old redundant milking parlours around the country) and a liquid level control of some sort.
Other way is a few milk churns with tops that you can milk the dumpmilk into. Even with a dumpline you need one of these to put a fresh cow into so you get undiluted beastings.

That's exactly the way we did and was great!

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sounds simple enough,how do you wash it, thanks

st1979

Easy to wash you open the dump line pinch clip (the milk line pinch clip is always left open unless you are actually dumping milk) then some of the wash water goes into dumpline and some into the milk line. It works just fine as the milk line is bigger than the dumpline. Then at the wash barrel you put both your dumpline and milk line in so it circulates.
Its a cheap easy way to do a dumpline.

John_F

other options are the electronic solenoid type or a moveable type. i wouldnt be too gone in the electronic ones... cant see if it has changed over or not and can be prone to human error. on the movebale type, there are connections on the dumpline and a cluster with its own pulsator has a connection on the other end that is pushed into the dumpline connection. hard to explain. but its probably the most fool proof option there is