milk tank

whelan1

going to change my milk tank, have 2 at the minute, very handy if theres a problem with antibiotics etc but hard on electricity when i am using the 2 of them at the same time... looking to get a 2000-2500 gallon tank, what type would ye reccommend and what price?

delaval

We bought a new Kilkenny tank last year for €8 per gallon. The bigger you go the cheaper per gallon. Really fast to cool and clean. The one we got rid of was a beast on power, it was about 20 yers old and had an ice builder attached.
We also have an Alfalaval my father bought in 1982 excellent tank even after all this time.

If I recall people used say €1 per gallon for weter troughs and €10 for milk tanks

Fermec

Iv Done Alot of Research Lately on Tanks. & If Your Looking For Quality & Relibity its Hard To Beat Packo. We Just Installed a 6,ooo Lt DX one Brand New. It was over 3 Grand More than the Cheapest Make, But you Pay for What you Get, & its a Long Term Investment. The tank we Took out was a 40 year old Packo Ice-bank. & it gave Very Little Trouble.

whelan1

i have a 550 gallon kilkenny tank that i bought when i started up , bought it new, also have a 1000 gallon ice bank tank with a davey washer bought in 1988:eek:

kevthegaff

i bought a dairycool last year 12000 litre, flooded evapourator. it cools the milk in about twenty minutes. u have the option for a water heating off the compressors in the future. im getting the 40% grant on it fingers crossed:). my father has a bigger one the last 8 years and no trouble either. 27000 before grant and vat back

Timmaay

http://intercoolireland.com/ I was talking to this crowd at the ploughing, they had alot of very nice looking 2nd hand fully refurbished Mueller DX tanks in stock, very reasonably priced, I think 1000gls tank was about 5/6k. Up your direction also!

Also Whelan, I don't know what you are planning with the old tanks but scrap stainless is making very good money now, I think one of the tank salesmen told me its over 1euro/gls for a tank.

Kev, what are you hoping yours will work out after the vat and grant? 27k - 10k for the grant (assuming you get the max), 17k, knock 23% vat off that, about the 14k? (if my totally 1/2 arsed maths is correct ha). Very cheap if that is the case! I've just got the grant form done now, I threw in for a 10k L tank, even though I'm not going to need that much anyday soon but it makes sense if I can get the grant.

whelan1 wrote: »

have 2 at the minute, very handy if theres a problem with antibiotics etc

:eek: Certainly not something that I'd be ever banking on ha! Any offending cows are well marked, and never have anyone in the palour who is liable to let one into the tank ha!

John_F

any more news on this grant? are people who did apply getting in or are ye left in the dark?

Timmaay

Bit in the middle of the IFJ this week, supposedly its under subscribed this year, so more people will get their grant approved. 2012 put a total halt on many planned new parlours!

whelan1

Timmaay wrote: »

:eek: Certainly not something that I'd be ever banking on ha! Any offending cows are well marked, and never have anyone in the palour who is liable to let one into the tank ha!

i wasnt banking on it either:mad::mad::mad::mad: brother put dry cow tubes in wrong cow

whelan1

i see dairymaster are doing tanks, anyone deal with them?

td5man

whelan1 wrote: »

i wasnt banking on it either:mad::mad::mad::mad: brother put dry cow tubes in wrong cow

Wife was helping me dry cows and did the same,cow would have milked for at least a month more.

whelan1

td5man wrote: »

Wife was helping me dry cows and did the same,cow would have milked for at least a month more.

we always put red tape on cows before drying them off, brother was hungover and put tubes into a cow with no red tape.... then got a call from milkman next day that load was positive:mad::mad: had to sample whole group-lucky there was only 20 in that group- and got positive one

TEAT SQUEEZER

whelan1 wrote: »

going to change my milk tank, have 2 at the minute, very handy if theres a problem with antibiotics etc but hard on electricity when i am using the 2 of them at the same time... looking to get a 2000-2500 gallon tank, what type would ye reccommend and what price?

the old teagasc formula was peak yield of peak no. of cows by 3.5 days when i bought in 2009.... bought a delaval 9700lt for 20k ex vat then. no grant.

dont know how relevant that price is now

well happy with cooling speed

one of the tank company reps at the time asked me was i getting a grant and did i want the grant or non grant price..:eek:

cant remember the difference but it was substantial ,so as always someones got their greedy paws on whats yours before you do...

td5man

Timmaay wrote: »

http://intercoolireland.com/ I was talking to this crowd at the ploughing, they had alot of very nice looking 2nd hand fully refurbished Mueller DX tanks in stock, very reasonably priced, I think 1000gls tank was about 5/6k. Up your direction also!

Gene might even sing you a song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mroKfsL5sN8 :cool: :rolleyes: :eek:

whelan1

what is the scrap value of stainless steel at the minute?

kevthegaff

whelan1 wrote: »

what is the scrap value of stainless steel at the minute?

a euro a gallon when i got rid of my old one i think

keep going

one thing to note-a new compressor(5hp) can usually be fitted for 3k so if a tank for 20 k =3 for compressor and 17 for tank.

whelan1

do kilkenny still do bulk tanks?

delaval

whelan1 wrote: »

do kilkenny still do bulk tanks?

Yes we bought one last year no bother so far

loveta

muller hi per form Dx tank new 9000Lts cost E20k plus vat. E8k grant total cost to me E12k

Tipp Man

Lads n lassies

What the story with the bulk tank grant? Is Jan 31 the closing date?

How long do the applications take generally?

whelan1

Tipp Man wrote: »

Lads n lassies

What the story with the bulk tank grant? Is Jan 31 the closing date?

How long do the applications take generally?

Doing my application in teagasc on monday, yup jan 31st is the closing date in this run, dunno how long it takes, you have to get a cert from your creamery of your quota also

dar31

whelan1 wrote: »

Doing my application in teagasc on monday, yup jan 31st is the closing date in this run, dunno how long it takes, you have to get a cert from your creamery of your quota also

what ya applying for

whelan1

dar31 wrote: »

what ya applying for

grant for a milk tank:eek:

John_F

will reopen for applications again and closing dates for next tranches are

31st May 2013

31st August 2013

31st December 2013

http://debates.oireachtas.ie/dail/2012/02/08/00144.asp

whelan1

bumped up

case885

Applied for grant in july got back a few weeks got the full grant 26k for parlour and tank.. you should put in for 10750 litre tank and plate cooler which is supposed to save a lot of power in cooling the milk, thats what i put in for dairymaster tank