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Freezing milking machine

  • 21-01-2013 8:00pm
    #1
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭


    Now that we have some hardy weather maybe it might be helpful to post your tips re. stopping machine from freezing


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  • #2
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,672 ✭✭✭stanflt


    milk 3times a day- it wont get a chance to cool down:D


  • #3
    Farfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭Farfield


    My experience - Make sure the vacuum regulator does'nt take its air from outside or it could freeze, all will overload and fall off!! :)


  • #4
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    stanflt wrote: »
    milk 3times a day- it wont get a chance to cool down:D
    Did it years ago when we were milking US Holsteins I would rather let it freeze and milk once a day:rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • #5
    grazeaway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭grazeaway


    my dad made up ducting with a diverter valve on it for the compressor air. In summer he would send it out to the yard and in winter he would send it back into the dairy to keep the heat in the room. I know a few lads that went down to munster jionery during the summer and bought seconds windows and doors for the dairy and then picked up some second hand insulated calldign for the roofs. Was up at a friends place last night. He reroofed teh whole parkour durign teh year with insulated caldding he picked up in a scrap yard. Does winter milk so has had problems with freezing in the past. Has made a huge difference. Grand and cosy. He has knocked out holes in the walls of the dairy and fitted windows with fly nets, these open in so in the summer, he can open the window to get the hot air out.


  • #6
    grumpyfarmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭grumpyfarmer


    Hard to beat letting the clusters and jetters hang down abduction drain everything fully. usually works for me and I've a fairly exposed parlour, no doors and open to the rear...


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  • #7
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    machine was fine, but the snap hooks i have on chains on doors and gates where frozen solid


  • #8
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    Another thing is for a day like today. -2 here at the moment, you'd be shocked the number of parlours that freeze during the day because they're not drained during the day.


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