alps wrote: » A friend had to have a card replaced in his bulk tank. It blew 18 hours after the electricity came back after Ophelia. He used a generator during the outage. The service contract company claim they are not responsible for any damage caused during and subsequent to the storm.... Has anyone had any experience with a situation like this?
whelan2 wrote: » Milk goes to lough egish. A good hour away. Drogheda plant is 5minutes away from all of us
whelan2 wrote: » What age is the tank? I had to get the card replaced on my tank, it was about 2 years old, gaurantee is for 1 year but service company went back to packo as the card shouldnt go so soon. I didnt pay anything, how much does the card cost?
Never wrestle with pigs wrote: » Your milk fits their spec. Transport cost difference between going to the two plants are more or less nothing. Fecking around with a few million quid worth of a plant because of out of spec milk, labour costs, extra washing, dumping milk etc is far more expensive than transport. Correct spore count will allow the plant to run for a few hours longer between washes so more efficient. Daily collection is to keep the bacteria count down and increase the chance of milk making grade for uht.
George Sunsnow wrote: » All the more reason for them to honor their 1c a litre extra payment committent The let’s throw €600 at a large enough supplier who goes the extra mile (absorbing the cost too) in quality for them is symptomatic of a disgraceful lack of respect for the supplier I mean for heavens sake,what sort of company is this? And it with a chairman and a lot of its board also on the co op board supposedly the voice of the farmer It would make you sick
Never wrestle with pigs wrote: » Fully agree just saying the reason why it travels. Did any group of dairy farmers get together to try secure a deal on power charges before or would it be a waste of time?
Signpost wrote: » You must have huge capacity to carry 4 days do you? Were on 3 here for a few weeks and it was a struggle for a start, def would never manage 4!
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » Off now on a 14hr drive with my young girl and ponies. She's representing a country that she's not a citizen of with ponies that are immigrants also.
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » All Kerry suppliers should have three and a half days peak supply in their tanks but it isn't enforced. I doubled the tank size about 10 years ago with the last grant scheme so I'll be good for a long time to come. And we are spring calving only, mostly:rolleyes:, so we would be well off peak supply. Very few split/Autumn calving herds around so no capacity issues at all.
alps wrote: » I just don't understand this requirement, if it is across the board regardless of scale. I can understand it on tanks up to say 10,000 litres or a little bit more, which might be typical of a 100/120 cow farm holding 3 days milk at peak. A 240 cow farm would need 20,000 litres capacity to hold for 3 days, so you can see the issue if the milk lorry fills at this farm, where I'd he going to find 6,000 litres to fill him up. I can see the efficiency working in collecting from tanks of 10,000 litres where most loads could be put together with 3 or 4 stops which can be arranged close by, but trying to combine tanks of 20k to corresponding smaller collections will incur huge mileage...
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » Not really. About half my neighbours are in one collection and half in another the following day. As milk volume drops, contract drivers get dropped and their suppliers allocated to other collections in the same area. There are some collected twice in one day, once to fill one load and the second time to fill another load and empty the tank. And Sunday collections are finished now as well so back to a more 'normal' working week for the drivers. The routes are generally well developed at this stage so they know roughly who gets transferred and to whom to keep the loads filled and minimise transport costs. And there are certain farmers collected on the way to the factory to top up the loads regularly but all emptied every 2-3 days regardless.
alps wrote: » That's exactly as I would see it work, but how messy is this for suppliers? Are tanks finished washing when you want to go milking, are samples taken at each collection, particularly when uneven numbers of morning or evening milking are collected, do you have to milk into a half emptied tank with already stained sides.... That carry on would drive me nuts....
kowtow wrote: » My co-op are telling me that as I count as a new supplier the milk lorry has to be able to swing around completely without reversing (we are at the end of the boreen). I did suggest a mobile tank but they would prefer we had a static one. Not sure what the turning circle (with steerable axles) is but I'm guessing 12m or more - which means taking out a building. And if it comes down to a choice between my cubicle shed and the farmhouse, I know which is first for the chop.
kowtow wrote: » My co-op are telling me that as I count as a new supplier the milk lorry has to be able to swing around completely without reversing .
alps wrote: » An artic truck can turn in a distance a fraction longer than the length of the trailer....steering axles make no difference in the area needed to "swing around" , however I would hate to be paying for tyres...
kowtow wrote: » Any idea what the length of a big milk truck would be? I agree on the reversing, on the other hand this yard is a nightmare anyway so we are going to have to do something. Unfortunately as the yard is a perched on a fairly steep slope it's difficult to create decent space without going overboard on earthworks. I'll try and make just enough space and I reckon he'll end up reversing once anyway - happy to do anything we can to accommodate them since they'll only be taking a relatively small amount of milk.
whelan2 wrote: » Oh is always giving out when doing deliveries if a farmer says the milkman gets in no bother. It usually means an artic won't get in. Google maps is great as he can see where he's going in to
Base price wrote: » OH is the same when delivering or collecting with the lorry and drag. I never thought of looking at google maps.
whelan2 wrote: » Just ask for their postcode and type it in to google maps
Attie wrote: » Google earth will let you see the entrance from the road.
