No because it weighs a bit over a kilo and the frame bypasses your hips to your lower back and belly. So the pressure comes off your hips and the motors lifting your legs saves your knees too. So it attached on your lower back/belly down to just above your knees.
This is controlled by an app on your phone. I had it over my overalls and under my wet gear. The trouble with it on two layers of clothes was it was slipping ever so slightly and then it would stop sending power to the motors as it said it needed reconfiguration. So then I was trying to root for my phone in my trousers pocket and it covered up in the exoskeleton. I put the phone then in my breast pocket of the overalls. (not a fan of this, having the phone near to my heart). The battery takes nearly a whole day to charge though and you'd use about 40% of the battery in milking.
Will it cause more wear with extra weight on the hips
Great stuff, I have seen ones for shoulders but hadn't seen any for the bottom half. Mike Birmingham must be paid per appearance with all the Teagasc Podcasts appearing, Same speel, Different Year
Not sure if posted here last year that I bought a Hypershell xoskeleton for my legs.
My legs were getting a bit achy in the last few days between milking and carrying buckets of milk to calves.
So I put it on yesterday morning for the milking.
I have a milk cart that I wasn't using that I brought back into service yesterday evening and for this morning.
11,357 steps, 6814.2m, 509m elevation gain. Basically 6.8kms. Yesterday morning.
4,163 steps, 2497.8m, 87m elevation gain. Basically 2.5kms. This morning.
I was covering 13.6kms every day milking and carrying 30 litres doing so. Climbing 1000m up a hill.
No wonder my legs and hips were starting to feel achy.
Yes . I'd even go higher depending on the level of silage your feeding. If your not feeding any silage and are on just grass only that's another discussion
Would 18% be needed when grazing twice a day? I know you probably using what you have
Plenty good enough if out day and night
Out by day here since yesterday. Still on 50:50 maize ,79 dmd grass silage and 4 kgs 24% nut in parlour
It's alot more than mine are getting anyway.
Out day and night here the last few days and giving good quality silage (72% dmd) and 6kg of an 18% nut. Is it a good enough diet for freshly calved cows ?
Well what are it's bad points
palm is a very underrated feed ….no where near as bad as some make it out
I wouldn't feed it to someone else's cows never 😁😬😬mind me own .......
Palm kernel??
That's good. still a high rainfall area though.
Well actually thats nice dry land they have. Not big but good.
Nice herd. 80 good cows. Was always a system i would have aspired to.
4kgs of silage I'd say. Cant see them having top quality silage in brosna. Beet maybe…
I'd say they're on slightly more than 4kgs...
Ya, no spring rotation planner there. Wonder what the diets are like....
brosna would be be a long way from the golden vale
Not maize anyway. There was an issue there with maize from GR that had toxins a few years back.
What's greenlawn feeding them to get all the milk out of them? Maize I presume. Tricky enough area to be grazing....
a strong 4 k or very near for cows anyway I’d say ,some super stock tbf
what was the average price in curtins sale today would any one know
in fairness lads buying them would be fairly well up on the breeding and feeding of such stock ,I bought 2 last year and were cracking cows ,already calved back in and both had. Sexed heifers .had a few lots picked out I was interested in but money far too strong
Ye I poked my head in for half an hour, everything was making big money. Saw a calf make 2700 I think. Very well presented stock in fairness, wouldn't suit current system here, probably a bit too showy as well, but wouldn't mind milking a herd of them all the same.
Who would be the typical customer there, other pedigree breeders?
The crazy thing is the lads buying them think they will do the same in their herd. Those heifers will get a shock when they leave Curtins. Was there. Thought I might pick up a few. Came away half way through.
quality dairy stock still making big of not crazy money going on green lawn sale sale today ….few lots made over 9 k
I have 4 genomic tags left over from last year, plus this year's supply. I went onto ICBF to get the numbers off the tags to copy and paste into excel worksheets tabs. Last year's 4 are missing from the list. Could this mean that if you dont use up all last years tags you cant use them this year.
