auto palour cycle wash

kerry cow

Hi .
I was thinking of a auto washer for the milking cycle .
Would you have to stick to the palour manufacturer or could you install from Any manufacturer.
Like if it's a dairymaster you could buy your auto washer from pearson or Delaval etc .
Same with the vacuum pumps .I was thinking of getting rid of two and replacing with one newer unit. The prices dairymaster are quoting for a vacuum pump and motor is from Mars.
Any pointers on the above . Experiences or thought's. thanks

Sam Kade

Ring around and ask them, what size pump from dairymaster and what was the price? I got a quote to revamp the parlour 8 units to 8 units but could expand to 12 only extras were 3" milk line new vacumn line and wash line jet wash and troughs (no feeders) 10k was the price. He had some crazy price on the 3" milk line without the jet wash.

Timmaay

Retrofitting an autowasher won't be that straightforward for many parlours, I'd say you'd get alot more bang for buck by using detergent that doesn't need to be rinsed out. I've had tbcs very well under control here the last year or do so have started not even bothering with any detergent the morning wash, just rinse out the machine and turn it off.

Sam Kade

Timmaay wrote: »

Retrofitting an autowasher won't be that straightforward for many parlours, I'd say you'd get alot more bang for buck by using detergent that doesn't need to be rinsed out. I've had tbcs very well under control here the last year or do so have started not even bothering with any detergent the morning wash, just rinse out the machine and turn it off.

What detergent is that? I had a high reading for chlorine last test.

Timmaay

Sam Kade wrote: »

What detergent is that? I had a high reading for chlorine last test.

Ask keep growing, fairly sure he uses it. Most tank autowashers you can reduce the amount of detergent used, or increase the length of the rinse at the end, try reducing the detergent in the parlour wash also. Can be a fine balancing act, if it results in tbc issues. You can also get a chlorine free detergent I'm fairly sure, if you have persistent problems, more expensive and doesn't do as good a wash job though.

And having said all of the above, the one or 2 excess chlorine readings here I could usually put down to me doing something stupid like not closing the wash trough fill lever which means the detergent in the autowasher didn't get fully drained out, so one single excess chlorine reading I wouldn't read into too much 2bh.

Sam Kade

Timmaay wrote: »

Ask keep growing, fairly sure he uses it. Most tank autowashers you can reduce the amount of detergent used, or increase the length of the rinse at the end, try reducing the detergent in the parlour wash also. Can be a fine balancing act, if it results in tbc issues. You can also get a chlorine free detergent I'm fairly sure, if you have persistent problems, more expensive and doesn't do as good a wash job though.

And having said all of the above, the one or 2 excess chlorine readings here I could usually put down to me doing something stupid like not closing the wash trough fill lever which means the detergent in the autowasher didn't get fully drained out, so one single excess chlorine reading I wouldn't read into too much 2bh.

I passed the test last year only thing I've done different this year is not use a hot wash with descaler, maybe that's the reason.