Chain Scrapper supllier

jus_tin4

Anyone know anyone that would supply the chain for these? Our local business that did these insist they cant be gotten mainly as tey want us to buy new hydraulic scrappers?

Thanks,
justin

Mooooo

Alfco do them I think?

Mulumpy

I think it's mainly steel rope as an alternative to hydraulic now. I think Delaval can get chain but they import it from England so it'll cost you the price of a new system to get it.

freedominacup

jus_tin4 wrote: »

Anyone know anyone that would supply the chain for these? Our local business that did these insist they cant be gotten mainly as tey want us to buy new hydraulic scrappers?

Thanks,
justin

There's a marine supply outfit in kilmore quay in wexford who should be able to sort you out. Large range of heavy chains. Nothing that special about scraper chains. Atkins machinery in cork have sprockets to suit chain system motors. Also do chains but I think they buy from the likes of the crowd in wexford and add a nice margin for themselves.

Bog Man 1

Contact some of these guys .

https://www.chainandrope.ie/

https://hoistequip.ie/product-category/chain-accessories/

Odelay

Chain can easily be got. There will be stamps on the side of it. Take good photos or bring a sample in. Absolutely no scraper system will have their own specialty designed chains, just no. These things are easily bought.
Where in the country are you?

jus_tin4

Odelay wrote: »

Chain can easily be got. There will be stamps on the side of it. Take good photos or bring a sample in. Absolutely no scraper system will have their own specialty designed chains, just no. These things are easily bought.
Where in the country are you?

Chains are well worn at this stage so i would find it surprising if the stamp was still there tbh... will have a look though!

Based In north Kildare

jus_tin4

Thanks for all the information!

Alfco pretty much said the chains and sprockets couldnt be got as they wanted us to put in new scrappers for €10K +and in truth not sure if the farm will be continuing to justify that type of investment at the min..

_Brian

I’m not surprised chain/sprockets are hard got.
Back in the 90’s it was only hydraulic scrapers we were fitting and parts for chain scrapers were getting hard found and the advice was move to hydraulics.

jus_tin4

_Brian wrote: »

I’m not surprised chain/sprockets are hard got.
Back in the 90’s it was only hydraulic scrapers we were fitting and parts for chain scrapers were getting hard found and the advice was move to hydraulics.

Yeah would be an old system in fairness. we have hydraulics in with the dairy but it gives far more trouble than the chains really ever did as long as the maintenance/yearly service/keeping the chain tight is kept up. The hydraulic system alway seems to have something wrong with it, from a seal gone to a pipe bursting for some reason. Its serviced yearly too but defo racks up more additional costs

IS the steel rope now the more used scrapper system?

tabby aspreme

Try Chains limited, Richmond Road Dublin, for either chain or steel rope

_Brian

jus_tin4 wrote: »

Yeah would be an old system in fairness. we have hydraulics in with the dairy but it gives far more trouble than the chains really ever did as long as the maintenance/yearly service/keeping the chain tight is kept up. The hydraulic system alway seems to have something wrong with it, from a seal gone to a pipe bursting for some reason. Its serviced yearly too but defo racks up more additional costs

IS the steel rope now the more used scrapper system?

One problem we had early on with hydraulic scrapers were lads not running them often enough to save money 🙄
They would weight down the nose so it would push more dung without tripping back up the passage.

This in my opinion caused excess pressure on the whole system.

The more reliable systems I worked on were ran frequently.


Scrapers are a pain in the hole to work on, literally every time there is a call out you can be sure everything is covered in shiit

jus_tin4

_Brian wrote: »

One problem we had early on with hydraulic scrapers were lads not running them often enough to save money 🙄
They would weight down the nose so it would push more dung without tripping back up the passage.

This in my opinion caused excess pressure on the whole system.

The more reliable systems I worked on were ran frequently.


Scrapers are a pain in the hole to work on, literally every time there is a call out you can be sure everything is covered in shiit

I guess there was more grazing farms back then than now hence the reason they would be stopped? During the winter here they are going about every 4/5 hours. Is that enough?

Surely that kinda a fundamental build issue of the hydraulic scrapper no? If that is a main issue(cant say we had that issue but i could be wrong). the chain /rope(never seen a rope in action)seems more robust if that is the case



No offence but is it not kinda reasonable expect that they would be covered in **** if its during the winter?...

Mooooo

Have dairymaster hydraulic scrapers in here with 30 years and tbh they are grand. Change the scrapers last year anbdpart of the tracks rest of tracks due to be done. Added one in 09 and it hasn't been touched since. Certain amount of issue are our own doing an odd cow down and loader can't get in and scraper may be used to push her out. They would be in 50 ft long passages with 22 cubicles and tank in front would run 6 or 7 times in 24 hour period or thereabouts.

_Brian

jus_tin4 wrote: »

No offence but is it not kinda reasonable expect that they would be covered in **** if its during the winter?...

Usually when you go out to a broken scraper it’s been off for 12 or 18 hours and the shiit has built up everywhere. It made for horrible work.