graham

got a farmer that has started a free range flock here is his chicken house

few updated pics bull pen and entrance to parlour

office with desk and lockers for staff few more shelves to make

just been on your link ,you had some great models and displays at your last show good luck with this one 

i am building this for someone sean not sure if it will get to a show just up in the loft .westfalia unit sholsteins milk 300 with ease but not sure how many cubicles to fit in building may have to build another cubicle building

thanks for all the replys as for jim nigel send him up could do with some stainless welding done ,steve i did not take all your marbles that made me chuckle , sharon bless her she puts up with it the green paint on the carpet is still a sore point thou, john not sure if i have enough cows to fill not sure how many cubicles i can fit it is supprising how much room 100 britains cows take i do beds at inch centres for the new britains cows  it is a little tight ,and sue sharon is craft widow i am afraid

sorry about the double pic here is the drive

started building new dairy unit with rotary milking parlour thought i would post some pics a long way to go but a start

there will be a office up in the top to overlook unit and parlour

some of the milking equipment

the drive unit runs round well not powered thou only finger power

cracking pics sean no fading on them old photos either

like the others pete wait until you get it clad are you going to have a go at the doors

cracking pics tris you done it fella and got the pics and the orange T shirt to prove it nice

  bet that was a bit twitcheee up on that pile some times with the trailer tipped 

they both look like cracking trailers MB

the pit looks very good a great effect you have done ,like that you have got a britans linkage on your corgi db s 

have you tried robert wraight over here paul he would more than likely give you some advice where to get them from .

tel 01233 622985    fax 01233 610016

e mail .  sales@robertwraightltd.com          or  parts@robertwraightltd.com

  worth a try if you have not found any yet   

graham

nice to see the classics still earning there keep , your silage pit looks great to the way the pit floor is like many you see on the farms today ,busy farm with the dealership aswell

cracking job there pete nice set up with the harvester and boxes

looking good jordan look forward to seeing next year at toytrac ,like the autumn colour and the tramlines

your right there nigel 18" uprights 16" trusses on the cubicle house we are doing at moment 20 ft bays 80 ft wide

what a great looking farm nice to see 

the rolls where made by sparrow legs , i am sure he can tell you mate , i will sort some pics for you

What was the reason for the robot removal Graham,.....just out of interest..

can you remember john the robots marketed by gasgoigne it was one of them and they called them all back as the technology was not right i think there was thirteen at the time in the uk ,we put the slurry handling system in at wynsdyke farms and they had nine lely robots there milking 500 cows but they sold up in september the farm changed hands i think they was happy with the robots , put a robot slurry scraper system in for a lady farmer at windsor she milks her jerseys with robots there

i am involved with dairy farming enjoy it very much .i have been installing milking parlours and slurry handling systems on and off for the last fifeteen years .bse and foot and mouth being the times when had to find other work , cover a wide area all of kent and sussex and surrey ,the slurry handling is country wide so see many units, we have 1000 cow herds also one 45 cow herd ,some self feed silage still and get results ,we have some units that feed silage from the big harvestore silage towers , but most use some kind of forage box or mixer wagon , as for parlours we look after five rotary parlours one floats on water the others are driven round ,many herringbone parlours biggest milks 40 cows at a time smallest milks 8 cows , a few abreast parlours ,just installing a rapid exit parlour on a green feild site ,some milk three times a day and seem to be ok with that we do not get much time to work on the parlours then, we have taken a robot out and put the farmer back in to an abreast parlour then we put a herringbone back in for him about seven years ago ,in our area there are only two robot s milking cows i should think they will grow in popularity but there will always be some farmers that will keep to milking through a normal parlour

i have made a few paulali ,out of various bits of pipe and turned a few out of blocks of wood made some bunded ones the more modern type there is some on court lodge farm outside workshop ,there is also some that i made for jez on his old topic of two oaks farm . georges look very good to

thanks for all the comments ,i enjoyed setting it back up ,the 2140 on light dutys pete but doing more hours than the big ones at moment looking round stock. paulali did you find contanier s

many thanks the sprayer is on here under other conversions i think, long way back

some big cows chris beef shorthorns big back ends ,it is a flat eight grab chris ,made from the britains one