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milk parlor building project

  • 28-06-2014 9:19pm
    #1
    Mongo76
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    Hi . First time on boards. Has anyone any ideas on using Pig slats in a drafting system and collecting yard. Are they safe enough to take cows weight.. I would cut 300mm pipe in half under to take water and slurry away. It would be much cheaper than gang cattle slats and concrete flow channels.


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  • #2
    sandydan
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    not exactly sure of what drafting system you have in mind.but as a milk collection driver and ex dairy farmer i would be wary of putting in shallow channels for taking surface slurry from cows, channels work because their ends are slightly higher than base level and usually sloped base as well so solids run in direction required, shallow trenches ive seen mostly required ages washing with yard pump and gallons of water to remove solid dung after milking daily and a whole lot of irritation


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    Mongo76
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    Mongo76 wrote: »
    Hi . First time on boards. Has anyone any ideas on using Pig slats in a drafting system and collecting yard. Are they safe enough to take cows weight.. I would cut 300mm pipe in half under to take water and slurry away. It would be much cheaper than gang cattle slats and concrete flow channels.

    Yard is only 100m sq . So hand scraper and hose should only take 5 mins. Drafting is 800mm.i want to put the pig slat between the posts and bury the posts in concrete rather than rawl bolt to top of the cattle slat .how long will the pig slats last with the 600kg cows passing over daily.?


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    sandydan
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    Mongo76 wrote: »
    Yard is only 100m sq . So hand scraper and hose should only take 5 mins. Drafting is 800mm.i want to put the pig slat between the posts and bury the posts in concrete rather than rawl bolt to top of the cattle slat .how long will the pig slats last with the 600kg cows passing over daily.?
    well officially there is one way of getting definitive answer ring a slat manufacturer and ask about weight bearing capability they know. and ring Teagasc. if covering a 300mm pipe that's one foot, if cow just walks on it ,fine however if 2 decide they need to settle an argument and use it for grip well you could have equivalent to 1 ton on piece of slat.
    however if by drafting area you mean walkway into milking head-feed area to be milked beside pit they are ideal, maybe a little wider than most ive seen.
    until i saw the 800mm i thought you were referring to standing area outside parlour where some slat a central channel to remove slurry to a slatted tank away from milking parlour area,ive seen this done in holding yard after milking as well and in my opinion is better than putting slatted tank outside parlour in case you need to extend parlour at later date


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