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cluster removers

  • 13-11-2010 07:20PM
    #1
    bt12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭


    was looking at a second hand parlour up the north yesterday, there was
    kee auto cluster removers on it, hav never seen them before. any
    advice would be greatly appreciated


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  • #2
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    we have westfailia ones they are grand , handy when you go out of the parlour


  • #3
    kay 9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭kay 9


    Excuse the ignorant question lads, but what are cluster removers:confused:


  • #4
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    they take the cluster off the cow when she is milked


  • #5
    djmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭djmc


    I have heard of new ones that wash cluster with a petric acid and water mix
    every time it comes off a cow to stop spread of scc between cows.
    Dont know who makes it


  • #6
    st1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 936 ✭✭✭st1979


    Be careful about buying s/h parlour as I bet you can get as cheap new if you look in the right place. Talk to gary stinson in aughnacloy as he will supply any make new and some s/h stuff. Cluster removers are old technology and every manufacturer does them and as such can be got very cheap. In Ireland we have a few major manufacturers and if u need the latest technology your better sticking to them but if you go over the water there are so many smaller manufacturers with good stuff but might be 5 yrs behind the big boys. My parlour is a mix and match and i like to think that the basic gear is as good as you get cause i need reliability as i am 3hrs from the parlour supplier (fullwood q4 pumps expensive milk pumps and waikato pulsators which run 2 units and i have a spare 1 if 1 goes wrong and high quality milk line connectors). The extras are from small manufacturers and if something goes wrong with them i can still keep milking. As you can by pass acrs, milk meters, auto washer etc.
    An acr is only a vaccum ram, solenoid and flow meter connected together.


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  • #7
    5live
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭5live


    djmc wrote: »
    I have heard of new ones that wash cluster with a petric acid and water mix
    every time it comes off a cow to stop spread of scc between cows.
    Dont know who makes it
    Dairymaster are advertising one heavily at the minute


  • #8
    vincenzolorenzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    whelan1 wrote: »
    they take the cluster off the cow when she is milked

    How do they work though? How does the milking machine know when the cow is milked?


  • #9
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    it works on the volume of milk coming through, if we have a slow cow in we normally milk her on manual


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