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loveta · 27-04-2014 04:43PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Washing two milk tank's everyday is some pain in the hole.

Done it for 9 years fair pain in the hole in the summer time with one outside and the lid left open in the sun baked into it if you were away the day the lorry was collecting

whelan2 · 27-04-2014 05:10PM

whelan2 wrote: »

its a white can with red and green writting on it, mac is the brand

scrap that, can broke my heart this evening, the can i used before that was called tell tail and was alot better, can kept getting blocked up

frazzledhome · 27-04-2014 05:11PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Washing two milk tank's everyday is some pain in the hole.

Grand to be filling them

whelan2 · 27-04-2014 05:12PM

frazzledhome wrote: »

Grand to be filling them

last year i didnt use my second tank at all, this year is different thank god

Greengrass1 · 27-04-2014 05:37PM

whelan2 wrote: »

last year i didnt use my second tank at all, this year is different thank god

Ye ditto that. Think we only filled two tanks once for 3 days.
This year were filling the two in 2 days. Had to go every day collection now

whelan2 · 27-04-2014 05:44PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Ye ditto that. Think we only filled two tanks once for 3 days.
This year were filling the two in 2 days. Had to go every day collection now

there is an automatic washer on my kilkenny tank but its not working must ring the lads tomorrow to fix it. The other tank i get into it once a week

Greengrass1 · 27-04-2014 05:50PM

whelan2 wrote: »

there is an automatic washer on my kilkenny tank but its not working must ring the lads tomorrow to fix it. The other tank i get into it once a week

Ah mine have lids on them. Fullwood told us they would give us a loan of a tank if we were buying off them until we got grant sorted so might call in on that offer

kevthegaff · 27-04-2014 06:37PM

best thing i ever bought bulk tank with low tbc, saving electricity and no worries about filling it!

Timmaay · 27-04-2014 07:24PM

I'm putting milk into a mobile tanker at the minute, I don't even have capacity for 2day collection anymore. Again a good complaint!

Timmaay · 27-04-2014 07:26PM

whelan2 wrote: »

there is an automatic washer on my kilkenny tank but its not working must ring the lads tomorrow to fix it. The other tank i get into it once a week

Is it one of them kilkenny washers? We have one, I don't know how it still goes, the circuit is fried on it, I've bypassed that with a normal switch that lets you manually washout the tank at least.

whelan2 · 27-04-2014 07:39PM

Timmaay wrote: »

Is it one of them kilkenny washers? We have one, I don't know how it still goes, the circuit is fried on it, I've bypassed that with a normal switch that lets you manually washout the tank at least.

ye, the other tank has a davey washer, the washer has a sticker on it from the spring show of 1983:D

keep going · 27-04-2014 08:26PM

Reading this thread is starting to get scary with all you guys pu ping out themilk this year, same hear filled our tank for the first time since we bought it 13 years ago

Greengrass1 · 27-04-2014 08:27PM

keep going wrote: »

Reading this thread is starting to get scary with all you guys pu ping out themilk this year, same hear filled our tank for the first time since we bought it 13 years ago

And next week looking very good too. Grass will be hopping

mahoney_j · 27-04-2014 08:30PM

keep going wrote: »

Reading this thread is starting to get scary with all you guys pu ping out themilk this year, same hear filled our tank for the first time since we bought it 13 years ago

Until till August orcseptember when super levy deductions start .still it's great to have good weather loads of good grass and cows busting with milk.

Brown Podzol · 27-04-2014 08:33PM

Figures for April will be interesting, with all the milk brought in from March and the excellent conditions in April.

whelan2 · 27-04-2014 08:35PM

Brown Podzol wrote: »

Figures for April will be interesting, with all the milk brought in from March and the excellent conditions in April.

i will supply nearly double what i supplied last April

mahoney_j · 27-04-2014 08:35PM

Brown Podzol wrote: »

Figures for April will be interesting, with all the milk brought in from March and the excellent conditions in April.

Arrabawn supplies up to last Wednesday were up over 30% on same stage last year !!

Mulumpy · 27-04-2014 08:51PM

mahoney_j wrote: »

Arrabawn supplies up to last Wednesday were up over 30% on same stage last year !!

Yep first time I saw lorries queued out the gate in ere in April.

Milked out · 27-04-2014 09:01PM

I'd be comparing to '12 really seeing as spring '13 was such a right off for me anyways, April is looking like i'll be down a collection on 12 s, however it does show if any sport of a summer turns up, superlevy could be crazy unless Coveny pulls something out of the bag

Timmaay · 27-04-2014 09:09PM

whelan2 wrote: »

i will supply nearly double what i supplied last April

Are you accounting for April is a 5wk period for Glanbia this year, last year the 5wks was March instead. But in any case, I've supplied about 1 1/2times the amount for the same 4weeks in April last yr.

frazzledhome · 27-04-2014 09:25PM

Do ye have a service contract for ye're tanks?

Greengrass1 · 27-04-2014 09:27PM

frazzledhome wrote: »

Do ye have a service contract for ye're tanks?

My tanks only get looked at when something goes wrong. Usually once or twice a year.
TBC 5 last collection. Getting fed up scrubbing everyday and ye end up getting lazy at it and things slip then

C0N0R · 27-04-2014 09:27PM

whelan2 wrote: »

the ones that havent had a heat will have a few colours on them

What we do is three weeks before mating we will paint everything red, as they cycle we will paint blue and then as they get mated we paint them green. Real easy way to spot cows that havent cycled etc.

mahoney_j · 27-04-2014 09:28PM

frazzledhome wrote: »

Do ye have a service contract for ye're tanks?

Yep,it includes them comming out once a year to inspect and supply a cert for the gas used in compressors.covers call outs and parts

trixi2011 · 28-04-2014 12:40AM

Cups on 4.45 and 2 pm here radio on 24/7 in the parlour keeps the birds away .my cows dont like coming in to the shed when the radio isn't on As for the sticks theres no place for them in a milking parlour in my opinion have had one guy that every time I wasn't milking he would bring in a stick and use it to push the cows nearly bet him with the stick the day I caught him with it.

trixi2011 · 28-04-2014 12:58AM

frazzledhome wrote: »

Paint, sorry but can only load 2 pics at a time?

Have they still not got the litre bottles in Ireland yet ? I think them small bottles are water base the bigger bottes are oil base and last longer on the cow. Your doing well to get 60 cows out of them bottles I would only get 80-100 out of the bigger bottles

whelan2 · 28-04-2014 04:54AM

frazzledhome wrote: »

Do ye have a service contract for ye're tanks?

yes think the money comes out in april

frazzledhome · 28-04-2014 05:49AM

trixi2011 wrote: »

Have they still not got the litre bottles in Ireland yet ? I think them small bottles are water base the bigger bottes are oil base and last longer on the cow. Your doing well to get 60 cows out of them bottles I would only get 80-100 out of the bigger bottles

Yes they have and it's what we generally use. That's one in the jeep with ai gear to mark the odd heifer,

RightTurnClyde · 28-04-2014 06:14AM

They're forecasting a hape of rain for Wednesday, would ye chance going out with fert today.

trixi2011 · 28-04-2014 06:45AM

frazzledhome wrote: »

Yes they have and it's what we generally use. That's one in the jeep with ai gear to mark the odd heifer,

last time I done breeding season at home you couldn't get the bigger bottled by the time you had 400 cows painted there were bottles everyware

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