Check your figures there think you’d get back around 23.5 k with vat at 13.5 and getting back 40% of the ex vat price. As in your new parkour would cost you 26.5.I got a price today from fullwood for a new 12 unit milking machine with dumpline and acrs €50,000 vat included. Can get 40% grant on new machine and vat back so roughly I would get back €15,000.
That's option 1.
Option 2.
Put dumpline into existing milking parlour (which is a 12 unit dairymaster jar plant),and cluster removers cost = €17,000
All thoughts welcome.
I can’t offer any other help, never milked a cow in my life.Sorry about that my figures were wrong, yes west cork boy you are right !
I got a price today from fullwood for a new 12 unit milking machine with dumpline and acrs €50,000 vat included. Can get 40% grant on new machine and vat back so roughly I would get back €15,000.
That's option 1.
Option 2.
Put dumpline into existing milking parlour (which is a 12 unit dairymaster jar plant),and cluster removers cost = €17,000
All thoughts welcome.
Put in a second hand 20 unit here at 2 foot 2 inch centres. Straight rump bar and straight troughs. Manual gates front and back that will be upgraded to air eventually. The only thing is there is always more than 20 in the row, usually 24 or 25. Would have to put in sequential bailing to fix that. Not a big deal at the moment as usually 3 rows and finished. The units are 3 spans long with a span at the front for them to walk out.Are you planning on going from an existing 12/24 to a new 12/24? If you are it would be a pointless move imo. Put as many units in as possible, regardless of existing cow numbers. You could buy a secondhand unit and salvage a lot of your existing parlour, do away with the jars. I'd put in 20 units and leave room for further units to be added. Personally I wouldn't bother with a dump line unless it's coming at handy money.
I have yet to meet someone that wishes milking took longer. Also don't listen to anyone that says one man can't handle anymore than 12-14 units.
Put in a second hand 20 unit here at 2 foot 2 inch centres. Straight rump bar and straight troughs. Manual gates front and back that will be upgraded to air eventually. The only thing is there is always more than 20 in the row, usually 24 or 25. Would have to put in sequential bailing to fix that. Not a big deal at the moment as usually 3 rows and finished. The units are 3 spans long with a span at the front for them to walk out.
It was a lot cheaper than a new 12 or 14 unit.
We have 2’2” here as well and we were getting too many cows in regularly, although nothing like as bad as thatPut in a second hand 20 unit here at 2 foot 2 inch centres. Straight rump bar and straight troughs. Manual gates front and back that will be upgraded to air eventually. The only thing is there is always more than 20 in the row, usually 24 or 25. Would have to put in sequential bailing to fix that. Not a big deal at the moment as usually 3 rows and finished. The units are 3 spans long with a span at the front for them to walk out.
It was a lot cheaper than a new 12 or 14 unit.
Is it all heifers you're milking this year?
We have 2’2” here as well and we were getting too many cows in regularly, although nothing like as bad as that
What we did was make the entrance smaller, created a kind of funnel 1 cow wide so they came in single file. It’s very rare now we’d have an extra cow in the row, and it was a crap and simple fix
If buying a new milking machine what makes are best?
If buying a new milking machine what makes are best?