Barn Cleaner??????

• Barn cleaner

This was an incredibly labor-saving invention; no longer having to shovel out gutters by hand.

Right. We couldn't afford one.

This is why I have one leg shorter than the other and answer to the nickname of "Smelly". :>)

Allan

Only problem with the barn cleaner is when a chain breaks.

YUKK!

Rod

Allan

That is a super duper pooper scooper.

george

It is a manure trough cleaner. Used to be all the rage until the herringbones came out.

Allan

I thought a barn cleaner was used to clean the trough that runs behind the stalls in a stall barn. Removing the pipe line milker and changing to a herringbone milking parlor would not make the use of a stall barn obsolete. Correct?????

Please educate this southern boy a little.

We only had a milking parlor and all cows stayed out side other wise so I am lost on your northern ways. The only barn cleaner we ever had was a water hose.

If some one told me they was selling their barn cleaner I would have to tell him it is against the law to sell your children. LOL!!!

Here is a picture of a herringbone (sawtooth). Take note where the business end of the cow points. :>)

Allan

I know full well what a herringbone looks like and how to use it. Spent many a hour in the well of a double-four stall herringbone. Ours had a grate over a gutter that ran the length of the 4 stalls and was open to the out side to a lagoon via a drain pipe. Since it was only 4 stalls long we just used a large hose to wash the gutter to the end. Or cows were kept out side on pasture except for the two times a day they were brought into the milking parlor.

I am under the impression that you northerners use what I call a stall barn to keep your cows in instead of putting them on a pasture. You could use a pipe line milker installed in the stall barn and milk the cows in their stall; or bring them to a parlor to milk them as many are doing now.

Now in this stall barn there is a gutter that runs the length of the building just behind the cows. This BARN CLEANER as you all are calling it drags a paddle down the gutter via a drive motor and a chain to a chute that loads the manure in a trailer.

The reason you would need a barn cleaner in a stall barn is because the cows are in there 24/7 and the size of the barn. (large amounts of manure) The reason we could use a hose to clean our gutter in the milking parlor was cows were in there a short time and small size. (small amount of manure)

Now to the question at hand..... .....
You said a barn cleaner was all the rage before the herringbone came out.
That just stumps me because I feel that you could use a herringbone; side opening; herringbone rotary; diamond-shaped polygon; or what ever. That all has to do with the milking parlor. You would still bring the cows back to the stall barn after milking SO the barn cleaner would still be needed. Would it not????? ????

Sorry this has gotten so long and do not mean to put you on the spot but this is one reason I love the internet. You get to see how others deal with problems you will never see.

Thank;
John

But, I've seen 'em both ways. Early on the guys didn't run the grates. Just plain cement up on the milkin' alley and it was just cleaned up with a hose.

I think nowadays the big dogs run cleaners in their loafing sheds as well as under the cow in the alley, don't they?

They tell me that up north, the cows never leave the barn. Dunno tho, quit yankin' 'em long time ago.

Allan

All the Gods in all the Heavens are watchin out for you! :>)

Allan