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Robotic milking at the ploughing.

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  • #62
    silly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭silly


    mahoney_j wrote: »
    Silly I'd be having a chat with hubby,absolutely no need to be working till that late.i start milking in morning at 7 so I can have breakfast with wife and daughter before she goes to work and daughter to childminder.evening milking starts at 4.30 and I'm done and dusted and in house for 5.45 or 6 at the latest.evening is my own after that.working late is like a bad habit.obe or two guys round me see it as a badge of honour to work 12 or 14 hours a day and have every light in the place and tractor raring round the yard when it gets dark.im only a part time farmer to them and often the butt of a few jokes,I'm the one laughing at them no point been a slave to the job

    He's want to be milking fairly early to have breakfast with me, i leave the house at 7.30. We dont live on the farm either and his farm is in 2 halves, so he needs to tend to heifers and what not a few miles away some evenings.
    I am enjoying him getting home earlier these evenings, we actually got out of the house at 7.30 on friday night!
    He comes down for breakfast on saturdays and sundays and he spends all day sunday with us. I doubt he is working long hours if he didnt have to.


  • #63
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    Went to see the robot at moorpark today and have to say i was impressed with the grazing system they have devised but not impressed with the overall idea.the costs in the system are huge and from what I can see is it just changes the type of work you do and its timetable but imnot sure it actually saves alot of time or work.yes your hhands are nice and clean but you spend alot of time checking stuff and you have to be on call for issues.the cows looked really happy in the system


  • #64
    20silkcut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭20silkcut


    keep going wrote: »
    Went to see the robot at moorpark today and have to say i was impressed with the grazing system they have devised but not impressed with the overall idea.the costs in the system are huge and from what I can see is it just changes the type of work you do and its timetable but imnot sure it actually saves alot of time or work.yes your hhands are nice and clean but you spend alot of time checking stuff and you have to be on call for issues.the cows looked really happy in the system


    Fair play for the balanced informed opinion so rare on this thread.


  • #65
    jfh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,418 ✭✭✭jfh


    keep going wrote: »
    Went to see the robot at moorpark today and have to say i was impressed with the grazing system they have devised but not impressed with the overall idea.the costs in the system are huge and from what I can see is it just changes the type of work you do and its timetable but imnot sure it actually saves alot of time or work.yes your hhands are nice and clean but you spend alot of time checking stuff and you have to be on call for issues.the cows looked really happy in the system

    hi keep going, was it an open day? or can you just turn up?


  • #66
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    jfh wrote: »
    hi keep going, was it an open day? or can you just turn up?

    Discussion group day out


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  • #67
    Pacoa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭Pacoa


    Any facts, figures you can share? Are they still only getting 1.8 visit per cow?


  • #68
    st1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 936 ✭✭✭st1979


    One false fact on this thread is that you require 3 phase. I asked lely and it is untrue. The compressor is 3 phase but they fit an inverter to work single phase. Everything else works as normal. You can have 4 robots on a single compressor on single phase. Never bothered asking if you can work more than 4 on single phase I get the impression you can


  • #69
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    Pacoa wrote: »
    Any facts, figures you can share? Are they still only getting 1.8 visit per cow?

    Hope it comes it out.it s set up in 3 grazing blocks for each 8 hours more or less the trick is to give the right amount for 8 hours so to encourage them to pass the parlour.they have a second gate which preselects the cows for milking rather than going through the robot which i thought was a good idea.only one water trough on the farmlet which also encourage s cow traffic but I like to see qit working during the summer.while we were there I timed the cows taking between 5 and 6.5 cows to milk.much more interesting to see how set up for grazing than the ploughing


  • #70
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    And this. By the way it a fullwood and costs 120k depending on the bells and whistles


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