secondhand robotic milking machine!!

exercise is the antidote

anyone in the market for a secondhand robot ? :eek:


http://www.donedeal.ie/milkingparlours-for-sale/fullwood-milking-robots-for-sale/6396575

maxxuumman

If you were putting in a new parlour, you'd have to consider it.
Go on greengrass man up. The uncle could look after it for you.

onyerbikepat

Not good for advertising if they were only 5 months in the last place.

Reggie.

Not in dairy but I'll give it a shot :eek:

Greengrass1

maxxuumman wrote: »

If you were putting in a new parlour, you'd have to consider it.
Go on greengrass man up. The uncle could look after it for you.

Considering parlour is already built and I'll need two of them

moy83

onyerbikepat wrote: »

Not good for advertising if they were only 5 months in the last place.

Id say he would deal fairly handy alright , he couldnt give too many reasons for getting out so quick . Unless he is going for more .....

Viewtodiefor

exercise is the antidote wrote: »

anyone in the market for a secondhand robot ? :eek:


http://www.donedeal.ie/milkingparlours-for-sale/fullwood-milking-robots-for-sale/6396575

Why sell them after only 5 months???

stanflt

onyerbikepat wrote: »

Not good for advertising if they were only 5 months in the last place.

i wonder are lely involved;);)

Timmaay

stanflt wrote: »

i wonder are lely involved;);)

The story I heard is thats what they were replaced with! Anyways I was at an open day during the week, with a local farmer who has two lelys working on his 120 grazing block, I'm in fairness a hell of alot more convinced now that they offer a very realistic solution in an Irish grass based system. The price is the huge stumbling block yet, but if they can be got 2nd hand for the above sort of money I would seriously consider them.

Sam Kade

Timmaay wrote: »

The story I heard is thats what they were replaced with! Anyways I was at an open day during the week, with a local farmer who has two lelys working on his 120 grazing block, I'm in fairness a hell of alot more convinced now that they offer a very realistic solution in an Irish grass based system. The price is the huge stumbling block yet, but if they can be got 2nd hand for the above sort of money I would seriously consider them.

If your man pulled out them fullwood milkers to replace with lely after 5 months it should set alarm bells ringing.

John_F

Timmaay wrote: »

The story I heard is thats what they were replaced with! Anyways I was at an open day during the week, with a local farmer who has two lelys working on his 120 grazing block, I'm in fairness a hell of alot more convinced now that they offer a very realistic solution in an Irish grass based system. The price is the huge stumbling block yet, but if they can be got 2nd hand for the above sort of money I would seriously consider them.

came across this today, its the greenfield farm that dairy nz (our teagasc) set up in 2001.
53ha farm
180 mixed breeds and age cows
two robots
1km max distance between robot and paddock
spring calving

a bit of a different set up in that more grant funding etc was given. it closed in 2008. think the main aim was to prove it can be done on robots. just like what teagasc are trying to do in moorepark now i guess :rolleyes:

maybe i should have posted this in greenfield thread

http://www.dairynz.co.nz/page/pageid/2145869713/The_Greenfield_Project

C0N0R

stanflt wrote: »

i wonder are lely involved;);)

I think you know what I know!!

Timmaay

C0N0R wrote: »

I think you know what I know!!

Should someone ring up about them and see how genuine the ad is or what???

jack o shea

Anyone who thinks a robot to milk their cows is a good idea should be locked up.

C0N0R

Timmaay wrote: »

Should someone ring up about them and see how genuine the ad is or what???

The add is 100% genuine and there are no problems with the robots if its what I think it is.

Viewtodiefor

jack o shea wrote: »

Anyone who thinks a robot to milk their cows is a good idea should be locked up.

Well there's a few mad guys around here so 14 robots bought in last few weeks locally

Greengrass1

jack o shea wrote: »

Anyone who thinks a robot to milk their cows is a good idea should be locked up.

Why?

Timmaay

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Why?

Best to ignore that chaps posts.

mf240

Timmaay wrote: »

The story I heard is thats what they were replaced with! Anyways I was at an open day during the week, with a local farmer who has two lelys working on his 120 grazing block, I'm in fairness a hell of alot more convinced now that they offer a very realistic solution in an Irish grass based system. The price is the huge stumbling block yet, but if they can be got 2nd hand for the above sort of money I would seriously consider them.

I wonder if you would get the same back up as you would with new ones, if your going to get rode for repairs and niggling problems it could end up very dear in the long run.

A cow called Daisy

C0N0R wrote: »

I think you know what I know!!

Did anyone move from fullwood to lely recently.

bbam

jack o shea wrote: »

Anyone who thinks a robot to milk their cows is a good idea should be locked up.

I bet that was said in the 1940's when bucket plants first appeared !!

bbam

A few things spring to mind here. It's a major f-up for Fullwood to allow this happen.
If they've been displaced by another vendor so quickly then they should have taken the equipment back themselves. The bad PR for them from having these robots out on DD after 5 months is shocking.

I would agree with a previous poster about install and future service costs. Any Ind Fullwood dealer would probably charge steeply for install and commissioning these and hardly do you any favours down the line if you were in a jam. €45k is allot to spend and them whee is your warranty?? I doubt Fullwood would honour it unless they install and commission it !!
Caveat emptor !!

jack o shea

will the robots put a tube in a cow with mastitis? will they change the wire to let them into fresh grass?

Deepsouthwest

jack o shea wrote: »

will the robots put a tube in a cow with mastitis? will they change the wire to let them into fresh grass?

No, but the milking machine I have at the moment won't do those jobs either. Does yours?

jack o shea

whats the point of it so?spending a fortune on it and you still have to be there, youd swear you could be lying by the pool in lanzarote while mr robot does his stuff the way some lads here are going on about it.

Greengrass1

jack o shea wrote: »

whats the point of it so?spending a fortune on it and you still have to be there, youd swear you could be lying by the pool in lanzarote while mr robot does his stuff the way some lads here are going on about it.

Ye have more time to dedicate to cows and grass and calves in the spring. instead of spending 3 hrs every day in a parlour

Damo810

jack o shea wrote: »

whats the point of it so?spending a fortune on it and you still have to be there, youd swear you could be lying by the pool in lanzarote while mr robot does his stuff the way some lads here are going on about it.

I heard of increased yields with it before, not sure how true that was. But it still takes a large amount of work off the farmers hands, no one is expecting to be 'by the pool' but if you can cut out a large portion of the day to day labor required on a dairy farm, it's a good thing, no? It won't break any farmers back to put in a tube or move a fence.

You'd swear it was 1900 and we were still milking by hand..

jack o shea

a lot less money would pay for a relief milker to milk every wkend.

sheebadog

Damo810 wrote: »

I heard of increased yields with it before, not sure how true that was. But it still takes a large amount of work off the farmers hands, no one is expecting to be 'by the pool' but if you can cut out a large portion of the day to day labor required on a dairy farm, it's a good thing, no? It won't break any farmers back to put in a tube or move a fence.

You'd swear it was 1900 and we were still milking by hand..

Yes there is an increase in yield because they are milked from 2.8 to 3.1 times per day.

bogman_bass

jack o shea wrote: »

a lot less money would pay for a relief milker to milk every wkend.

If it saved on a full time labour unit it wouldn't be long paying for itself