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  • #7142
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,890 ✭✭✭mf240


    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.


  • #7143
    White Clover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,911 ✭✭✭White Clover


    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 -


    Know a man in North cork with 2 x 8 units joined like this. Milking similar cows to GG too !!


  • #7144
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    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.

    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


  • #7145
    cute geoge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,409 ✭✭✭cute geoge


    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
    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


  • #7146
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    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

    Ford scraper tractors have a habit of overheating. ;-)


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  • #7147
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    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?

    Cubicle design for dairy cows: http://youtu.be/QOrfMi-PmOc


  • #7148
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    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

    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 !!


  • #7149
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    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

    You've 2 labour units as well GG so while one is milking the other can be doing other stuff I presume. If you were on your own that would be a different story...


  • #7150
    Markcheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,995 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    td5man wrote: »
    Ford scraper tractors have a habit of overheating. ;-)

    4 wheel drive kubota mini tractor - some of the ones on done deal even have front loaders - ideal would be a scraper rigged on front and transport box on the back -

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • #7151
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    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 !!

    Get yourself some graph paper at the same time gg and draw it out. Let each square equal 2m for example. You can chop and change very quickly with the graph paper.


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  • #7152
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Power tripping in and out this morning so have to wait on electrician to sort it. Last years storm wrecking my buzz again:-(


  • #7153
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,789 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    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:-(
    that sort of crack fooked up my compressor motor a few weeks ago, better having no power than half power


  • #7154
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Cows in here for the morning at Least. They would only be standing under a ditch other wise. No point in that


  • #7155
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    whelan2 wrote: »
    that sort of crack fooked up my compressor motor a few weeks ago, better having no power than half power

    Sorted, thank god.

    A bad earth connection on the transformer was burning through and being put out by rain and started again when it rained and cooled again.

    All rosy again.


  • #7156
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Meal bin- who makes the best ones?


  • #7157
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Meal bin- who makes the best ones?

    Crowleys in cork seem ok anyway


  • #7158
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Milked out wrote: »
    Crowleys in cork seem ok anyway

    Any point in going fir those fibre glass ones?
    ordering concrete to extend dairy getting enough for slab for bin base too


  • #7159
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Any point in going fir those fibre glass ones?

    Have no experience of them gg. Have standard ones here


  • #7160
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Meal bin- who makes the best ones?

    V mac seem to be the most popular.


  • #7161
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Would a 10t be more than adequate 130 cows easy get it refilled if your using alot of meal


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  • #7162
    orm0nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Meal bin- who makes the best ones?

    crowley's or mcaree (v mac)


  • #7163
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Would a 10t be more than adequate 130 cows easy get it refilled if your using alot of meal

    12 that wy you can get a 10 tonne load, better value before it empty. Other wise your empty before you can order


  • #7164
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    orm0nd wrote: »
    crowley's or mcaree (v mac)

    Depends on which part of the country you're in. Spiro and crowley popular round here. Haven't seen any v - mac but the rep cold called late last year.


  • #7165
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,890 ✭✭✭mf240


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Would a 10t be more than adequate 130 cows easy get it refilled if your using alot of meal

    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.


  • #7166
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    new spiro bin here today, 6 ton ,to replace a read 10 ton, 2350 with a bagger.


  • #7167
    Brown Podzol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Brown Podzol


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Meal bin- who makes the best ones?

    Vmac. Don't have one but if there wasn't much in the price I'd get one for the enclosure underneath. Would be very handy for storing minerals etc.


  • #7168
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    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.

    Uncle said 9x9 and 9 inch deep.


  • #7169
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Uncle said 9x9 and 9 inch deep.

    Will probably put it down 18x9 now that I'm thinking fir a second meal bin some time


  • #7170
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    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


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  • #7171
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    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

    Viking direct or a similar office supply company.


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