Working on a dairy farm.

exercise is the antidote

Hey, neighbour of mine has asked me would I be interested in doing a few jobs for him on the weekends. He is dairy farmer and looking for someone that will milk(120 cows) and drive a mantou and a fairly new tractor and diet feeder, thing is i have never done these jobs before or drove such modern machinery!.....in college and could do with the few pound... Any help or advice on doing such jobs??

Reggie.

exercise is the antidote wrote: »

Hey, neighbour of mine has asked me would I be interested in doing a few jobs for him on the weekends. He is dairy farmer and looking for someone that will milk(120 cows) and drive a mantou and a fairly new tractor and diet feeder, thing is i have never done these jobs before or drove such modern machinery!.....in college and could do with the few pound... Any help or advice on doing such jobs??

Inform him of your lack of experience and concerns and take it slow at the start and you will pick it up in no time i reckon. Dont forget he came to you so he must have heard something good or witnessed ya in action

delaval

exercise is the antidote wrote: »

Hey, neighbour of mine has asked me would I be interested in doing a few jobs for him on the weekends. He is dairy farmer and looking for someone that will milk(120 cows) and drive a mantou and a fairly new tractor and diet feeder, thing is i have never done these jobs before or drove such modern machinery!.....in college and could do with the few pound... Any help or advice on doing such jobs??

Very simple, he asked you so wants you. Tell him straight that you need some training. He'll have no bother training you as he's looking at you being available while in college.

Great thing about tractor driving and milking is that they're skills you can travel the world with. A good milker could earn 150/ day and 200 every Sunday for the summer

bob charles

Reggie. wrote: »

Inform him of your lack of experience and concerns and take it slow at the start and you will pick it up in no time i reckon. Dont forget he came to you so he must have heard something good or witnessed ya in action

I was going to say the exact same thing. Give me a guy who openly admits that he can't do something but is willing to learn, instead of a fellow that has driving everything up to a space rocket, and has only his way of doing things and breaking things. You wont have much free time with that workload if he is expecting you to milk 120 cows and do all the feeding so you would want decent wedge

loveta

delaval wrote: »

Very simple, he asked you so wants you. Tell him straight that you need some training. He'll have no bother training you as he's looking at you being available while in college.

Great thing about tractor driving and milking is that they're skills you can travel the world with. A good milker could earn 150/ day and 200 every Sunday for the summer

E200 a day?? any chance of the start??

mf240

loveta wrote: »

E200 a day?? any chance of the start??

Used to work as a relief Milker, good money if you work hard. Regurlaly did two herds morning and evening. My record is seven milkings one Sunday. Three in the morning and four that evening.

loveta

mf240 wrote: »

Used to work as a relief Milker, good money if you work hard. Regurlaly did two herds morning and evening. My record is seven milkings one Sunday. Three in the morning and four that evening.

Use to have a guy that did some milking's years back and would be at the same doing two and three milkings morn/evening broke my fcuking heart to the point only for the now wife id of decked him was in to much of a hurry to do anything right said it to him and he told me he was obliging me :eek: how did ya manage guys with set milking times or what size of herds were ya working with??

Greengrass1

mf240 wrote: »

Used to work as a relief Milker, good money if you work hard. Regurlaly did two herds morning and evening. My record is seven milkings one Sunday. Three in the morning and four that evening.

Used to do the same my self. Milk in one lads place at half 5. Finished there at 7 and milk in next place and be home for breaky by half 9. Off again then at 3 to do it again.
God ye would be ****ed. Couldn't complain about the big wad of money at the end of the week though

Greengrass1

loveta wrote: »

Use to have a guy that did some milking's years back and would be at the same doing two and three milkings morn/evening broke my fcuking heart to the point only for the now wife id of decked him was in to much of a hurry to do anything right said it to him and he told me he was obliging me :eek: how did ya manage guys with set milking times or what size of herds were ya working with??

Lads I milked for didn't mind as long as they were milked before 9 in the morn and 7 in the evening. They knew I had work at home and knew I'd do it the right way

mf240

loveta wrote: »

Use to have a guy that did some milking's years back and would be at the same doing two and three milkings morn/evening broke my fcuking heart to the point only for the now wife id of decked him was in to much of a hurry to do anything right said it to him and he told me he was obliging me :eek: how did ya manage guys with set milking times or what size of herds were ya working with??

ah sure like everything you'd have the odd fussy lads but most wouldn't be too bad. Mostly small herds 40 to 80. Big lads wouldn't pay you any more and you'd be able to do less.

if you done it right lads would get over the Times.

rs8

haha used to do it too. sat and sunday 8 milkings! they never really minded what times but sure its not that hard to milk a few cows and throw calfs milk! was good money! i think whealan was on about a forgin lad thats milks for €25 or less and is mad busy in another thread!

jaymla627

bob charles wrote: »

I was going to say the exact same thing. Give me a guy who openly admits that he can't do something but is willing to learn, instead of a fellow that has driving everything up to a space rocket, and has only his way of doing things and breaking things. You wont have much free time with that workload if he is expecting you to milk 120 cows and do all the feeding so you would want decent wedge

Its all pie in the sky though a well set-up place with a big parlour and good equipment is a totally different animal to a lad with a wreck of a small parlour and the place falling down around with say the same amount of cows on both units.
Going by the amount of adds in the journal this week re lads looking for farm managers theirz a serious shortage of skilled dairying labour out their.

Timmaay

Only thing I'd say against doing 4 milkings in a row etc, I've seen milkers here utterly flat to the boards racing through the cows and cutting corners as they are trying to get onto the next farm.

Brown Podzol

I know a lad that milked 24 hours straight the weekend of an all Ireland final.:D

biddy2013

lad that milks here now is here at 5.30 am, i was saying theres no need to be here that early, he said he would prefer to be in early and get job done right. he starts his day job at 8.30am, these mornings he would be gone shortly after 7

MFdaveIreland

I'm reading here that there is rates of 200 euro, I'm getting £20 a milking, going rate here I think, also Re times, is there ever a time when u think it's too late to start to milk in the evenings, issue here with relatives not wanting to start til 5 and nt red up til 8 , unsocialable hours wouldnt be in it but what can you do ,