Dairy Barn Equipment Tour! How To Milk A Cow!

[@sunnyday5621]

I grew up on a dairy farm where we milked 70 cows year round with 4 surge buckets and 10 gallon milk cans, cooled in water tanks. There was 4 of us kids, born in 4 years and we worked like a well oil crew starting when we were 6 yo. I remember the electricity going out and having to milk them all by hand. I had small hands, I got the cows with the small teets. We had to milk at 5 AM & 5 PM, so that we could be done and cleaned upped in time to catch the bus for school. We learned the need to care for and put another creature's needs before our needs. The city kids thought they were tough, but knew not to mess with the farm kids. Every kid should be brought up with that type of work ethic and respect for others.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Well said, we have a bulk tank otherwise not much different than you. We carry milk in pails and pour in a strainer.

[@Ironvalleylarry]

I started milking by hand and shipping in cans. As I got more cows I went to Surge buckets and a bulk tank.

[@benjohnson1082]

The amount of knowledge covered in this video isn’t something you just pickup, it’s years and decades of accumulation. Awesome video. Always love watching the Dad teaching videos on G. F. Thanks!

[@ronaldsturgill9726]

How many cows do you all milk a day

[@robertbackhus9609]

What a walking encyclopedia of knowledge George possesses and articulates. I can listen to him talk about his experiences each video. A master among his peers.

[@kylamariegerones7561]

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[@UnionChampDairy]

We ship grade B milk in Ohio yet. Currently milking with DeLaval buckets, getting ready to install a 1.5" glass pipeline. Have a 250 gallon flat top tank. 20 Brown Swiss cows, been milking for 3 years this month

[@stanhensley3082]

Being a Dairy farmer is alot more then so many people think. This video does a very good job of showing that!! Thanks 😊.

[@danw6014]

The first dairy I worked on milked 40 cows in De Laval milker buckets. That system was installed in 1940. In the 50s they put in a bulk tank. We used a Sputnik to carry the milk into the milk house and pumped it through a sock and into the tank using compressed air. I only work on a dairy part-time now. This parlor was built in 1993. The barn setup is what I consider modern style. It's a double ten parallel parlor with a three inch line, automatic takeoffs. All the cows have an ear tag which IDs them when they come in to be milked. It also measures their activity level and cud chewing so you can see on your phone if a cow is off. Sort of an attempt to idiot proof things because there are only a couple of us working there that I consider cow people.

[@dennislang4375]

Oh jeez, what can I tell you. I was 30 when I came home and bought the farm. It was in dire need of updating to say the least. I put a barn cleaner in and quit hauling cans to town every day. Put a flat top 350 gallon bulk tank in and changed to surge buckets and a step saver. Two and a half years later I put in a Bou-Matic pipeline with four units and switched to tie stalls from stanchions. At that time I put in a 600 gallon white Surge bulk tank and because my milk room was small we bulk headed the tank with 1/3 sticking outside. (I was fortunate because I had been teaching for 5 years. so summers and weekends I would milk for locals so they could have time off. I say fortunate because I got to use a number of different pipeline systems and by far I liked Bou-Matic the best.) It made my decision easy when that time came to do a pipeline. I had a unique barn where my cows faced inward so they had a common feed area with a walkway on each side of barn next to the wall, made it nice for separating cows before they got inside and also made feeding simpler with the common manger.

[@jerryrichardson6527]

I think everyone that milks calls different things different names, I really don’t care, I just enjoy y’all’s videos. My grandparents milked with the stainless steel milk cans and took the milk to the milk station in milk cans. Keep them coming!!!

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

He pretty much used the same terminology for the equipment as everyone else does.

[@benrogers5808]

Dad He’s is very knowledgeable about the farm, livestock and machinery. We had several different herdsmen over the years some of which were college educated and I don’t think any of them had such a vast knowledge as Dad He’s. You boys are lucky to have him around.

[@seanKlatt]

You guys do such a nice job educating the public on what, how and why you do things. It’s nice to still see a real farm family working together the way it should be!

[@graygildner3434]

I bet there are many more non farmers like me than farmers who watch your videos. So don’t apologize! I enjoy watching smart, hardworking folks like you doing something so important. My ancestors were Dakota farmers and I learn alot from you about their lives.

[@jimvanderlinden7249]

In the mid 70 we went to pipeline, Bou-matic units, it really made milking efficient. When we started milking it was cans and can cooler, that was work.

[@JamesDedmon]

When I was a kid. We had a lot Of grade C milk or we called carnation milk. It was always in a cans and sent to a plant. This was mainly condensed milk

[@davepatti2296]

Wonderful knowledge and command of how it all works. Which is pretty much how your dad describes everything, from the tractors, implements, the land, the animals, the wood boiler...everything. Kinda intimidating maybe, those are tough shoes to fill! BTW the term he's looking for is "duty cycle", the time on% vs time off% . He has a better command of what it means than some of the engineers I work with.

[@clinthochrein888]

We used to milk 30 cows with a system from the 60’s transfer station two bucks with the milkers vacuum pumps right up until 2001. But if i remember dad had looked at getting pipeline put in.

[@MrTonyharrell]

Very interesting video. I have to say, the baking industry probably rivals dairy for the amount of rules and expectations etc…I think this country sets the standards for the world when it comes to food production.

[@sparkywunderdog2636]

Dad started milking with 3 stall parlor and storing in milk cans. Evolved to grade A with double 4 herringbone and 75 Holsteins. Miss drinking real milk!

[@dalemccullick775]

When I was in highschool, I milked 53 cows before and after school with 5 surge buckets. Fast forward 12 years later, I have pipeline and automatic takeoffs. Crazy to think I carried milk just 12 years ago

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

We put in a parlor in 1970 (I was born in '69). Had the breaker cups in the stanchion before that, went to the Surge Mini Cup in a swinging 6 hi line parlor until 1995, then upgraded to double 6 lowline and take-offs using Surge Eclipse claws. After my Dad passed in '95, I learned soon enough that I could do the milking alone in it. I actually made some lamps using the Breaker Cups! For our show cattle, I rigged up a system using the old Surge bucket milkers and a light DeLaval pump. Great video!👍👍

[@kellyscut1761]

Great video. I struggled to understand how the system worked. You handled that. Thanks!

[@FloydBlack-xi8fh]

I believe we had a surge set up. We had a 1 hose milker. It was a can. We had to carry pails of milk to the tank in the milk house. That was my job at milk time. I miss those days.

[@gregsasser2640]

Thanks, it's good to know how that works.

[@jcfarms7613]

I think it would be interesting to have a video of you and your dad discuss what a beef model of Gierok farms would look like. How the building would be repurposed,, how your feed stuffs and how you feed might change, how your equipment lineup may change, how your crop rotation and field layout may change, how you would market, would you finish cattle and sell direct to consumer, etc.....dream a bit I guess....just a thought

[@randycharest4507]

I ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO AARON 😊

[@mnfirefighter813]

When we were milking we had a Universal brand system. They were pretty common in our area of north central MN. You guys explained the system very well!

[@Fire14RescueCH]

I milked with deleval floor buckets up until a couple years ago. No step saver, just my two hands and two stainless pails 🤣 put in a deleval 2in pipeline and ran 4 boumatic companions for awhile. I wasn’t a fan of the ATOs so I went back to just a regular boumatic pulsator and the same cluster you got. We get most of our milking stuff from Parts Department online. Or hamby.

[@jeffclinch7448]

You got the Surge pails we used with dumping station. Stopped in 1997. Bad knees to this day. Strap and not enough capacity made for interesting milking. We milked around 75 up to 90 cows. Wasn't bad to start but when we modernized nutrition we didn't have capacity. Good honest work

[@Rockin4brand]

I seen them old surge buckets sitting up on the shelf in the utility room. My grandpa and uncle milked with that style all the way up into the early 2000’s. Them seem to bring big money now. They ran the system like your dad was talking about at the end of the video with the step saver. I think that was a very common thing in the coulee region there in that area of WI, MN.

[@MrGlodie]

I milked over 40 years , I started with milk cans then bulk tank, then later worked for someone who had a double 12 parlor and the last 5 years we had 6 lely robots.

[@northsconnienerd742]

I grew up in central Minnesota. When I was in grade school back in the 60's my dad was the butter maker at a small creamery and I would occasionally ride along with one of the truck drivers when he was picking up milk. I don't remember any tanker trucks in the fleet and I think all the milk was hauled in cans. It would be my job to knock the lids loose with a piece of pipe as the cans rolled down the conveyor from the truck into the creamery. I had several friends that lived on small dairy farms in the early to mid- 70's and I would occasionally help them with milking. They all used Surge buckets and the milk would be dumped into pails which we carried to the milk room to dump into the milk tank. By the mid-70's a couple of them had step-savers, which seemed like such a luxury. In the late 70's to early 80's I worked installing and servicing silo unloaders and feed handling equipment. By that time I'd estimate that about 75% of the farms I visited had pipelines, about 20% used step savers and less than 5% were milking in parlors. I'm now retired and live in NW Wisconsin where I still drink about a gallon and a half of milk each week and cheese is by far my favorite snack food. Thanks for the great looks into today's small dairy farm! Keep up the good work. Glenn

[@markschwab7829]

We milked with Boumatic after we got rid of surgery bucket

[@tammygurke7482]

I could watch your videos all day. George is an excellent speaker, very educational for this city girl. Aaron can you tell me what those rake things are hanging from the wire ? Love the cow videos🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄

[@sethholt2270]

Cattle trainers. It trains them to step back and arch their backs so the manure and urine goes in the gutter behind each stall and not all through the stalls where the cows lay. Main purpose is cleanliness and comfort especially trying to keep low somatic cell counts to ship quality milk.

[@tammygurke7482]

@@sethholt2270 thank you so much for the information 😊😊😊

[@MilwaukeeBeerman]

As a retired dairy farmer, the only thing I would add to @setholt2270 is they are there to PREVENT the cow from arching her back while going. Arching the back “shortens” the cow, and everything lands at the back of the stall instead of a few inches back in the gutter.

[@matthewthomas5494]

Great video! Zumbro Ag Solutions seems to have or knows where equipment is sitting.

[@alithemagicbum]

Thanks for sharing, very informative and very well explained.

[@rockfarmer8095]

There is. Face book page “ used milking equipment “ lots of good stuff on there

[@billcreed6882]

Fantastic video.. Brings back fond memories of as a kid we used the Surge Bucket Milker. Ya, I'm old!

[@Circle_8_Alpacas]

When we had our farm in PA our system was run by a big compressor. We had 40 vows per side when milking in the new barn addition and 15 per side in our old barn.

[@michigantler5046]

good job george

[@350mack]

Love the old school stuff 😊

[@AndrewMonthie-lt6ud]

I didn’t see an additional vacuum capacity container at the far end of your barn. I grew up on a dairy farm and farmed full time for 13 years. Became a mechanical engineer. You will see a vacuum gradient from the vacuum pump to the end of the line and your vacuum recovery will be that much slower at the end because the air flow needs to travel through the pipes to create more vacuum. I would get the biggest canister you can fit in with and automatic moisture release and tie it directly into your pvc line. For your cost you will not be sorry. I used surge units too. Quit in ‘93. Also, I would trust the old vacuum regulator. I don’t know how often ours would stick and cause mastitis. I cleaned it each month but… upgrade that and one mastitis case would pay for a monitoring system.

[@devonm15]

Grew up on a dairy farm and we had something similar. Do you think you'll ever upgrade to a parlour? Or something different? Love the videos. Keep it up thanks

[@phillipsmith7081]

from Tennessee. when the government mandated grade A dairies most farms sold out or went under. We may have one tenth the dairies near us today. Sad, very sad. Great to watch your videos and the setup like many foarms used to be near me. Thanks!!

[@phillipsmith7081]

that is to be FARMS, NOT FOARMS. sorry

[@johnwudarcki9315]

Not detracting from your video, because I’m interested in your system too, but I really wish Andy Horrigan would do a milking tour. I enjoy seeing how different farms do it. Unless I missed it I don’t know how many head you milk, how many dry, bred heifers, etc Really enjoy your channel

[@hoophil]

Great video! Excellent video showing how your dairy farm works. Thank you!

[@veetwin75]

What i remember when i was a kid out at my uncles dairy farm they had tanks hanging under the cow that held around five gallons of milk that had to be emptied by hand.

[@henryjohnn]

Enjoy your videos, keep them coming

[@TheRichtaber]

Speaking of grade B, here in NY State they allow some Amish producers to ship Grade A in cans, which were outlawed for regular producers back in the early 70s. The Amish Sunday milk doesn’t get hauled to the milk tank until Monday. Not all Amish do this, typically your New Order Amish have systems similar to yours. Very informative video.

[@DaveSkornia]

Like I always tell people who stop by our farm "what could possibly go wrong?" Lol. Lots of moving parts. Thank you

[@DonWelter]

Interesting commentary. In the part of Ohio where I grew up, the first sort out of small dairies came with the shift to bulk tanks. My in-laws used to ship milk in cans. Brother-in-law had a double 8 herringbone parlor. I always admired dairymen for keeping up with all the details in milking equipment upkeep along with whatever farm activities were going on depending on the season. Not hard to see why large dairies have specialized employees dealing with certain areas of the farm business.

[@johnhenderson299]

What a wealth of knowledge

[@harvestingharrolds1086]

My Grandpa hauled Grade B milk for 40 years on Northern Indiana. Hauled to AMPI before they sold the Eastern part out.

[@davidjanis1997]

What is grade B milk?

[@harvestingharrolds1086]

@@davidjanis1997 milk that was only used for cheese.

[@dekr3415]

Great stuff man, thanks for doing all you do

[@harveypenner2386]

Another great video! Cheering for you!!!

[@treesawlimbnahbirch6788]

This is the best video I have ever seen on how everything works in the milk house. It's an awesome explanation for those of us who dream of living on a farm. Question: I see there are a lot of big-time dairy farmers on youtube. How many cows minimum would a person have to have milking to make it profitable? Thank you

[@chadbraun2076]

Sorry my last comment ended so abruptly my phone kinda goofy & the comment got posted before I was done writing it. But that a little about the farm Im currently living on well most about dairy equipment. There other stories I could tell you but I can only put so much in a youtube comment.

[@SweetChuckPi]

We had surge buckets for all of my life (born in 79), when I was really young they carried the buckets to the milk house to empty them, but we got a step saver in the mid to late 80s and ran that till we sold all the dairy equipment in the mid 90s.

[@AmandaDoll-hi4dr]

Hi, you have nice cows and calefs and bulls and chickens and ducks

[@kevinwittstruck8764]

Are you guys planning to upgrade your milking process any time soon or in the future

[@scottlabant8406]

Great video, do you reuse your plate cooler water, dairy I do work at plate cooler water goes into tanks and used to water cattle. Milking 900, I think around 2000 head. There are 8 wells and 12 pumps running pretty much all time to keep cattle water. Keep up the great work, great to see small family farms still going.

[@chadbraun2076]

I been subscribed to your channel for around a year now. But my first time commenting. I have pretty vast dairy or even farming experiences in general. But if could talk you & your dad in person we could probably talk for hours about dairy. I'm going to talk to you about the former dairy farm I'm living on now I'm between Spencer & Marshfield Wisconsin. Living with my mother & Step father. we dairy farmed until late May in 2022 when my step father sold the milk cows. He kept all the young stock though. He still has some out in the barn now yet. My mom started dating my step dad in 1997 when I was i high school. He had taken the farm over from his parents in 1993. Shortly after that he replaced the old stanchion with tie stalls & put up a 18×60 ft silo. They already had a 14×30 ft silo there before. He extended that silo to 14×55 ft with extra staves left over the big silo wich was a originally 18×80 when he bought it used. He put a new milk house in 1995. At the time they had 4 universal floor buckets & a step saver & they had a 300 gallon dari kool ice bank bulk tank & an older universal vane type vacuum pump. That was in the old milk house set up. I never seen the inside of that milk house they put the new milk house up before my mom started dating my step dad. I only seen pictures of the farm with old milk house. I was told my step dad put the step saver & vacuum pump in the late 1980s before that they had a piston type vacuum pump. Around the time they put up the new milk house my step dad had purchased a used 2 inch pipeline system the farmer he purchased the pipeline from had upgraded to a 2 &a half inch pipeline. He just got the stainles 2 inch milk pipe & the receiver group. No vacuum pump or milking units. But he didn't get it up & going until later summer early fall 1996 he told me it was just before he met my mom lol. I came to the farm for the time in late spring 1997. & the milking system consisted of the same 300 gallon dari kool ice bank bulk tank. An older 2 inch universal pipeline the same older universal vane type vacuum pump & milkers were from there old floor bucket the single shot electric pulsatiors & the claws from the buckets he just got the hanger & the inlets for the pipeline. In 1998 he got some newer style claws & duel universal pulsation. In spring of 1999 he upgraded to an 800 gallon dari kool bulk tank. & expanded the barn from 37 tie stalls to 49 tie stalls & put large pens in for heifers we kept our heifers in those pen until they were bred one side was divided on two the other was big pen. In the fall of 1999 my step dad purchased 4 new universal advisor automatic takeoff units & married my mom lol. I moved to the farm in late fall of 2000 in 2005 he put up a 60×120 ft machine shed in 2006 he purchased a new new holland tm130 mfwd tractor. well traded in a ford 7710 mfwd for it. In 2007 we remodel our house. In September of 2008 we hosted Spencer FFAs fall dairy breakfast that they do here. In spring 2016 we upgraded our vacuum pump 7.5 hp masport still a vane type about a week we got new delaval automatic takeoff units because they told my step dad that the universal line was going to discontinued it would be hard to find parts for his current units. I personally liked the universal advisor better. Those delaval units seemed cheaply made the universal units had piston type deal to remove the claw where the delaval units had a kinda reel type setup to remove the cla

[@craigoachs8274]

Thanks for the information. Great video.

[@RoMaxFarms]

Great video, we had a surge universal hybrid system, our dual pulse swayed the milker front to back, amazing how the cows would zone out and drop thier milk. Do you use round square or triangular inflations?

[@johnl.vantreeck3636]

Starting with my dad. in 1927 he put a De LaVal Milking machine in the old 18 stall barn, in 1931 it was moved to the new 26 stall dairy barn. (2 floor pail units, Electric pulsation run off the vacuum pump main shaft.) mid50s new vacuum pump with separate electric pulsation control system, New inch and a half vacuum line with sweeps not 90° elbows, Replace pens with six more stalls, and got the third milker and a can cooler replaced the water tank,1960 older brother took over the farm, and the barn cleaner was installed and 20 foot silo built with around the silo outside feeding, 1963 saw the installation of a 400 gallon flat top bulk tank. 1965 the partnership was formed, Remodeled the west end, which increase the capacity to 52 stalls, 2 people milking, 6 milkers bigger vacuum pump, and went to a dumping station. 1970 build Freestall barn and switched cows, put in new 650 gallon tank,1976 installed a used double 5 parlor in the stall barn/expanded to double 6. More cattle housing was added a new 2000gallon replaced the 650, we milked around 125 registered Holsteins till 2000. 👨🏻‍🦳 🐄🐄 🚜

[@johnl.vantreeck3636]

Side bar. My Grandpa died when my dad was 14, (1915). He started farming then ,plowed with horses 1 bottom walk behind. In 1919 grandma bought a international 10-20 Titan tractor. The last year he plowed was 1985 ,140 hp. FWA White pulling 5-16s 🤗

[@Farmerscott]

Whats you back up power set up for the water and barn if you cant miss a milking i would thank you have a back up power setup

[@johnvodak2161]

at 16:40 its 60/40 pulsation. I have the same control box but instead of side to side it's front to back, 40 front 60 back. otherwise i grew up with surge EMI timers ( made for the guy/gal whom milked with 2 hoses) works same as one touch were it tells you how long the cow milked and beeps when cow is done. Wish the dairy companies still made these timers and cool tech for the small producer but nowadays its auto take-off and giant computer board. As for parts facebook marketplace has been a very good place for old parts lately but my old surge dealer also deals in a lot of older parts too. As always thanks for the video! i really enjoy watching your farm.

[@MarkCondon-m6w]

I can remember when we were doing just milk cans and I think they wanted us to go with a bulk tank

[@leeacres5741]

Growing up near spring valley wisconsin, we milked cows in a similar set up as yours. In 1998 we built a freestall barn, and kept milking in the old barn until the parlor was built in 99, we went to a 28 stall rotary, that you milked in the middle, and we were one of the first in the area with a rotary. We jumped up to 200 cows. Present day it's still being used and they are up to 500 milking

[@LoganLong6620]

My family farm had a 6x6 herringbone bone parlor with a 1000 gallon Delaval bulk tank. Had a 100 head free stall attached to the parlor with a feed bunk down the middle. There was a pit on 1 end with slats for scraping manure into. Other end had two stave silos and two harvestors with a stationary mixer in the silo shed. Could feed cows right in the barn. Farm I help milk on now has a parlor you can milk 9 at a time usually do it in shifts of 8 in line with an indexing rail. Two free stall barns and an outside feed bunk. It’s a nice setup.

[@vadimv2367]

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[@ronzezulka6646]

Hey guys,,Gierok Farms milking master class!! I was milking in the beginning with a step saver and buckets. Last time was in a parlor with 10 on each side on a Germania system. Still comes down to touch and feel.

[@eugene4528]

Which cow is the oldest on your farm

[@daleberghorn6504]

We had a glass pipe line boy I remember that rubber flapper had one brake what a difference in what you use for hookup to the line compared what we had brings back memories thanks

[@daleberghorn6504]

I remember my dad filling milk cans many moons ago

[@nathanalmond8280]

Thanks for sharing the video. I really enjoyed seeing your equipment and listening to your Dad explaining it. I'm about his age and when I was a kid my Grandpa milked B grade and we milked by hand and ran a De Laval bucket milker also. We only milked 8-10 cows. We shipped the milk in cans and we quit in 74. I then helped on other dairies that were A grade and parlors. Miss milking.

[@RichardGill-pt8zk]

We went from the de le valve to the step saver, to the pipe line like your current setup!!

[@Klingdave]

I used to haul milk into Jim Falls and the milk coming in was grade a but nothing was bottle there. Surge pipeline and milkers here.

[@woutersteenbergen6358]

Nice looking barn 👌 whe had a 56 stall barn, where whe milk our cows in the winter. In the summer whe had a simpel 2x4 parler behind the barn. Was hard work last view years than, milking took about 2,5 hours. Now whe milk our cows in a 2x 12 zwing over and a big straw pack barn, milking 80 in oure and 15 minutes now.

[@mikeburgan7675]

Very interesting

[@mikenorgren-sz6cq]

interesting to see your set up we had a single electric pulsator box like yours only delaval till 1982 then went to individual pulsators so if one goes bad just switch it out plus with the risk of stray voltage I dont need any wires to stallcocks. When dad and me milked we used 8 units with 2 inch line in 160 ft barn now I milk alone 65 cows with 5 units in western mn

[@gregjohnston9287]

Just received the Jan 27th Dairy Star publication. Is the Gierok featured in the Dairy Profile a relative of your family?

[@br927]

I worked on a farm 1969, they had a 1080 gallon tank, Universal pipeline, 6 units.

[@glenschumannGlensWorkshop]

Side to side seems like the mechanical pulsators which were on my Dad's Surge buckets. Is it mechanical or electric?

[@dschefers9700]

EZmilk is a good source. 50T GEA units are o nice upgrade and work well with the OneTouch hook up.

[@pravinpathare4861]

Make a video on how to make corn silage

[@Rock0531]

What is process at night in the winter after milking? Put straw down?

[@Gods-Elect]

Thanks

[@kensmithler5965]

Incredible amount of info as always, thanks. Here's a question I just thought of regarding which end of the barn to start milking on. If you start on the end farthest from the milk tank, wouldn't the milk coating the line begin to dry making fat deposits where if you started closest, the milk would always be running down to the tank? Then the washing would start very soon after the last cow. I don't know, just wondering.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Funny to think we are still using Surge buckets carry milk in pails and pour in a strainer.... Just like 1940. It works.

[@MilwaukeeBeerman]

As someone who did that for many years, and the only upgrade we ever had was a transfer bucket so we did not have to carry buckets to the milk house, see if you can eventually move to a pipeline. Artificial knees will most likely be in your future. Two for dad, one for me….,

[@ryanpockat8846]

When are you going to build another silo and put a bunk feeder out in your cow yard 😊?

[@krissyb1980]

You could try dairytrain for used equipment. I have looked at different things on there but never bought anything from them. It seems like there is quite a lot of stuff listed if you can find what you want. I remember when they did away with grade b here, a bunch of guys just went out. Kinda sad, hardly any small farms around anymore.

[@steveschweiger6569]

How long does it take to milk a cow?

[@kurtisharrington6015]

what do you guys put on the floor is that like a lime?

[@ChristopherUllrich-d9y]

I believe our neighbors had the step saver in the 70's

[@johnwudarcki9315]

100% robotic will make your jaw hit the floor. Totally hands free no touch ! It cleans, hooks up the cups, knows when she’s done, tracks production and all health aspects. Some are set up where she comes in when she wants to be milked

[@johnabbott1727]

Dela Valve company would probably have the parts your looking fot

[@FREE-kh5vx]

I live about 1/3 of a mile from a dairy farm. They have been expanding over the last few years. I'm hearing a low frequency hum 24x7. They purchased a new bulk tank last year and new milking equipment recently. What could be causing this hum? I'm going crazy from it.

[@michaelvogel2522]

Using a inches of mercury manometer to check the vacuum.

[@TimKrenz-j8t]

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[@jeremypronschinske3873]

When my grandpa and dad milked they used old delaval glass pipeline was used until my dad decided to quit milking

[@mikebrown1188]

2 biggest things hurt your herd average is not maintaining your miking system and stray voltage.

[@scottvanrossum-kv4rc]

Dust is crazy sometimes

[@jasonbeecher509]

Vacuum is measured in inches.

[@dalehellenbrand357]

I milk cows ar Dairy Forage Research Farm in Prairie Due Sac Wi that parlor is 44 years old we milk 3 times a day