milk tanks

jjmoly

Has anyone installed a new bulk tank lately. I must upgrade my tank as my old one is too small, mueller and dairymaster look good and are around same price but dairykool are a few grand cheaper has anyone any advice.

whelan1

had a thread on this recently , will bump it up

kevthegaff

i have a dairycool with flooded evapourater while my brothers is like it. he has his in for 8-10 yrs while this is mines second year. no problems so far and cheaper

B25

We had the same problem 18 months ago. Couldn't decide what to buy. We eventually bought a Dairymaster tank. We are very pleased with it. The tank has a display which tells you how many litres of milk you have. You can set the temperature and it is connected by computer to Dairymaster in Causeway in Kerry and they text us if there is any problem with the tank. If it is not cooling properly or if the electricity goes off and it is idle. It is really handy.

6270red

Bought a Dairymaster tank this year so far so good, build quailty is excellent and seems to be the best insulated tank on the market. The Daricool is a Fabdec tank made in the uk, by far the cheapest but have a read of some posts on the British Farming Fourm about them before making your decision. Mueller are also a nice tank. Ask plenty of farmers what their experiences of each make are because the salesman only gives you one side of the story. Best of luck.

aidanki

B25 wrote: »

We had the same problem 18 months ago. Couldn't decide what to buy. We eventually bought a Dairymaster tank. We are very pleased with it. The tank has a display which tells you how many litres of milk you have. You can set the temperature and it is connected by computer to Dairymaster in Causeway in Kerry and they text us if there is any problem with the tank. If it is not cooling properly or if the electricity goes off and it is idle. It is really handy.

you must have broadband in the yard so do you for it to connect to Causeway

B25

You don't need broadband in the yard. You just need mobile phone coverage. Dairymaster put up a little antenna on the outside of the shed to get a better reception and it worked perfectly.

Freejin

B25 wrote: »

You don't need broadband in the yard. You just need mobile phone coverage. Dairymaster put up a little antenna on the outside of the shed to get a better reception and it worked perfectly.

Often wondered how that worked. do you have to pay a monthly fee to a mobile company? I assume there is a sim card somewhere in the setup?

jjmoly

thanks for all the help daircool is almost €5500 cheaper than dairymaster and muell

st1979

jjmoly wrote: »

thanks for all the help daircool is almost €5500 cheaper than dairymaster and muell

Thats why i went with the darikool. That sort of money buys a lot of other stuff.

Timmaay

Anyone able to give me a ballpark figure on a 10kLitre tank?

kevthegaff

i think i paid 26 plus vat for a 12000 litre i got the 40% grant back 6-8 months later it doesnt cost much more going bigger

delaval

Wondering did any of you finance these tanks over 5/7 years with any finance companies the way one would do a tractor or machine.

kevthegaff

i financed it over 4 yrs, 2 left. interest rate with boi wasnt great at the time

maxxuumman

delaval wrote: »

Wondering did any of you finance these tanks over 5/7 years with any finance companies the way one would do a tractor or machine.

The coop I'm with ( centenary thurles) did a financing deal on tanks and cooling equipment. 4 yrs at 3 percent out of April-sept milk cheques. Last payment this September. A pretty painless way of paying for it. Maybe Glanbia do something like this??

maxxuumman

Any of ye looking at Packo. Great tank IMO

delaval

maxxuumman wrote: »

The coop I'm with ( centenary thurles) did a financing deal on tanks and cooling equipment. 4 yrs at 3 percent out of April-sept milk cheques. Last payment this September. A pretty painless way of paying for it. Maybe Glanbia do something like this??

The only thing Glanbia does is its suppliers!!!!!

delaval

I financed my tank with AIB finance €19/k/mth for 5 years

freedominacup

delaval wrote: »

I financed my tank with AIB finance €19/k/mth for 5 years

F**k when I read that the first time I thought you were saying 19K/month for five years. Was thinking exactly how many cows is he milking?:eek: It'd be some tank 19k/month

whelan1

do you orgainise your own finance or do the tank company do it for you?

delaval

whelan1 wrote: »

do you orgainise your own finance or do the tank company do it for you?

I would organise my self

Timmaay

Milk lorry showed up today out of the blue to collect 3milkings, and told us we are on 5milking collections from now on :eek: Really going to be a squeeze to get 5milkings in the tank, will probably have to put some into the mobile tank (messy) for the next few wks till we are over the peak.

loveta

Bought a new muller last year 2k gal "hi preform" model 20k plus vat got the 40% grant leaving it costing me 12k there was a loan going through aib then at a extra low rate funded by the EIB think it was 1-2% above cost of funds has to be paid by march 2014 as it expires then. Looked at all the models and dari cool were a bit cheaper but not 5k but all the other reps were seriously down on them i forget there reasons something to do with the way they "flood released" the gas into the tank for cooling which at the time when explained to me seemed like not a great way of doing it.

kevthegaff

might have to change me dairycool!

loveta

kevthegaff wrote: »

might have to change me dairycool!

If its not broke i would not be that worried ya know sales boys and there pitchs

kevthegaff

loveta wrote: »

If its not broke i would not be that worried ya know sales boys and there pitchs

only joking father has a dairycool in for the last 10 yrs no problems, mines in 2 no problems so far. when i was buying a tank each seller was knocking the other ones so i just went for what we had at home which was cheap and reliable. time will tell...

milkprofit

Timmaay wrote: »

Milk lorry showed up today out of the blue to collect 3milkings, and told us we are on 5milking collections from now on :eek: Really going to be a squeeze to get 5milkings in the tank, will probably have to put some into the mobile tank (messy) for the next few wks till we are over the peak.

So the lorry driver runs your co -op

kevthegaff

im only putting 4000 litres into my 12000 tank at the moment but with expansion and maybe 3-4 day collections i went for a bigger one. They cost very little extra for size.

kowtow

On the subject of bulk tanks and extra space, what's the minimum practical amount of milk we can put in a tank? I recall someone saying that you need a certain % so the agitator/stirrer can function properly?