Markcheese wrote: » Possibly a daft suggestion but could you install a second 6 unit cheapo machine ( including vacuum pump, lines , milk pump the lot - ( basically 2, 6 unit machines working in tandem in the one pit ) You'd pick up a basic 6 on done deal for buttons- and it'd do till you get the real deal up and running -
mf240 wrote: » GG what about a big slatted tank in front of your straw sheds and continue to bed them for a few years. Youd cut the work and straw in half.
Greengrass1 wrote: » Main route to fields and alot of the yard is past the shed silage pit and straw shed Wouldn't like traveling over a tank with trucks and tractors. The ways I'm thinking ill be able to widen out yard so cows walk and out straight and not meandering around the whole place. Whole yard could be scraped into the chanel then aswell as water from washing parlour. That's ultimately the grand plan of course won't happen the one day
Greengrass1 wrote: » that's the only way I can get cubicles into shed properly was thinking of getting a little small Ford or mf for the job of scraping
Greengrass1 wrote: » The way I'm thinking of putting cubicles in this shed they will run vertical to the feed passage 2 double rows In middle and single row each side of them be 10 cubicles to a row 15 ft bays so passage will be 6 ft if I put in 8 ft bed. feed passage would be near 15 ft. Be hard get a cow out if it got stuck now that I'm thinking of it Would passages be too small at 6 ft?
cute geoge wrote: » Get in experienced farm yard planer before you start ,otherwise what you build this year will be in the wrong place next year when you get another brainwave
Greengrass1 wrote: » I know a parlour would be lovely but imo it's a toss between that and 60 cubicles and a 150 cow lagoon. I'm young and able I'd prefer that than milking cows up in dirty straw beds dry cows are A1 on straw beds
td5man wrote: » Ford scraper tractors have a habit of overheating. ;-)
Greengrass1 wrote: » Nothing is being built for what I have now it's being built for what I hope to have. We've been thinking for last ten yrs what we'll do and had loads of ppl give there opinion. nothing is going to be put in wrong place !!
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » Power tripping in and out this morning so have to wait on electrician to sort it. Last years storm wrecking my buzz again:-(
whelan2 wrote: » that sort of crack fooked up my compressor motor a few weeks ago, better having no power than half power
Greengrass1 wrote: » Meal bin- who makes the best ones?
Milked out wrote: » Crowleys in cork seem ok anyway
Greengrass1 wrote: » Any point in going fir those fibre glass ones?
Greengrass1 wrote: » Would a 10t be more than adequate 130 cows easy get it refilled if your using alot of meal
orm0nd wrote: » crowley's or mcaree (v mac)
mf240 wrote: » They recomend a nice bit of concrete under them. Might be know harm to check with manufaturer before you pour the base. We have a six ton and we were told to put 10 inches of concrete under it. Probably overkill but we done it anyway. Spirofeed in mallow is where ours came from.
Greengrass1 wrote: » Uncle said 9x9 and 9 inch deep.
Greengrass1 wrote: » Where would you buy a big white board? will have loads of wall space in dairy when it's extended and a white board to write things down on is something I want
