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Warm/hot water for rinse down hoses in the pit

  • 08-07-2024 09:07PM
    #1
    G-Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭


    My neighbour who is getting on and not internet connected wanted to know if there was an easy way to have warm water for the rinse down pipes in the milking parlor pit ( the haning down low pressure ones). He has a hot water taps in the dairy.

    I dont want this to turn into very expensive thin.

    Would it work to put a thermostatic mixer and pipe out some warmed water.

    OR

    I was thinking of maybe just routing the water from the heat exchanger to go out to the pit first before it goes up to the overhead tank.. What sort of water flow through the heat exchanger - could I pipe it all out or just a side divert

    Probably have to have a cold rinse thru at end of milking too so that there is no festering warm water.



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  • #2
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,060 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    These are the pipes used for washing a cow's udder and rinsing off the outside of the clusters I take it?

    I've just a manual mixing junction in the dairy. So the hot water is turned so much and the cold water so much in a valve and both go into one pipe that feeds the drop pipes in the pit. You adjust the temperature of the water by how much you turn either the cold or hot water valve.



  • #3
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,757 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    problem with running it via the plate cooler you’ve a few rows milked before you get warm water.

    Back in the day I fitted plenty of mixers, you’ll get an automatic mixer and plumb it in cheaply. For the difference in price I wouldn’t bother with manual mixing.



  • #4
    G-Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭G-Man


    Thanks.. Sounds like thermo mixer teed off hot and cold makes sense...



  • #5
    cjpm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭cjpm


    It all depends if he wants the warm water for free from the milk or if he prefers the convenience of hot water right from the start of milking, and he doesn’t mind paying to heat it.



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