Piece to hold cluster in place

TossL1916

Hi lads,
Quick question for the dairy men.
Have a bit of cluster slippage going on at the minute.
Saw a parlour in the UK a few years ago that had cluster slippage issues due to the parlour design (cows were a couple of inches too far from the pit). The remedy was a simple plastic piece on the milk line and pulsation tube of each cluster, which gripped the milk line. Once the cluster was put on the cow this plastic piece was adjusted to sit against the small steel rail at the cows feet. Problem solved.
Have looked on the websites of a couple of the parlour manfacturers but cant find anything similar.
Anyone able to help me out where I might find them?
Cheers.

_Brian

Cluster slippage could easily be a machine issue.
Has this always happened with your parlour or is it new??

Either way it can have serious consequences and should be sorted.

alps

Bought them recently from Dairyspares, but paid for and delivered through Clippers Ireland in Cork...

I'll get the part no for you later and maybe a pic...great job...cost a little over €7 a piece..

kowtow

alps wrote: »

Bought them recently from Dairyspares, but paid for and delivered through Clippers Ireland in Cork...

I'll get the part no for you later and maybe a pic...great job...cost a little over €7 a piece..

Do Clippers Ireland have all the dairy spares stuff?

There is also a farm and dairy spares in Athy but I don't know if they are connected.

Lots of great stuff in the Dairy Spares Catalogue.

alps

kowtow wrote: »

alps wrote: »

Bought them recently from Dairyspares, but paid for and delivered through Clippers Ireland in Cork...

I'll get the part no for you later and maybe a pic...great job...cost a little over €7 a piece..

Do Clippers Ireland have all the dairy spares stuff?

There is also a farm and dairy spares in Athy but I don't know if they are connected.

Lots of great stuff in the Dairy Spares Catalogue.

I contacted dairy spares for the parts and they said I would have to order through their "irish agent". I just quoted the part number from the catalogue and it was here in 3 or 4 days.

The catalogue is mad...better than an argos catalogue...or a penthouse magazine..

alps

Cluster positioner

C0N0R

We would have used a bit of bull wire bent into an S shape and hooked onto the rump rail and the milk line set on it, worked a grand job

TossL1916

alps wrote: »

Cluster positioner

Thanks a mill for that

TossL1916

_Brian wrote: »

Cluster slippage could easily be a machine issue.
Has this always happened with your parlour or is it new??

Either way it can have serious consequences and should be sorted.

Waiting on the parlour man to service it, happens mainly with heifers and cows with smaller front quarters