IH Milkers

Anonymous-0 · Oct 18, 2009

Anyone here ever use them and were they good, how were the vacume pumps? When did IH stop making milkers? Would enjoy hering your storys about them.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 18, 2009

Still got them in storage, got a picture that the international dealer took when my grandad, dad, and uncles first got them in either 48 or 49. I don't know how to scan and post maybe my sister can later. They had four units in a stanchion barn. Dad says they worked really well especially since they got out of milking by hand.As for when they quit making milkers Dad can't remember and the uncle that would know is already deceased sorry i can't help.

Jimmy King · Oct 18, 2009

We had a IH pipe line, it milked as good as any other milked.

John Harmon · Oct 18, 2009

They were as good as Surge and DeLavel in their day. The reason I think they were not so popular was the lack of a solid dealership program.Surge and DeLavel had go getem dealers who operated much as the snap-On and other dealers who operate out of a truck do now days.At least our Dealers did in north central ILL. Dad had Surge Bucket Milkers and I had a DeLavel Pipeline system and we both were well taken care of by our roving dealers.

gitrib · Oct 18, 2009

Yep They made them . My Dad bought a new double unit in 1936. Pail set between two cows. I still have the McCormic Deering electric motor that came with it. They were good vacum pump they ran at a very slow speed.
He got it in the middle of the winter and the darn teat cups would not stay on at first unless you put them in hot water. They were nateral rubber an stiff, Once you milked the first cows they would stay on. Electricity was new and quite often it would blow the fuse on the main line. Finally electric company realized ther was a lot of new house and they had electric stoves. When Dad turned on the milker it would overload the whole system.
gitrib

blinwmiaol.com · Oct 18, 2009

a IH pipeline? Or do you mean IH bucket milkers with a vacuum line. I have seen numerous IH buckets, similiar in style to Deleval, with pneumatic pulsators, but I doubt they made milkers new enough to have been used with a pipeline, even a glass one, or electric pulsators.

old art · Oct 18, 2009

i remberthe neibor haveing one it had large buckets with a electric pulsator with a connection by the hose valve the signalhad to be low volts as no shocks they had three buckets .
one time they milked two fresh cows one after the outher the bucket could not hold it all and sucked milk up the vacume line to the pump what a mess to clean the pipe line to finish they did 48 head every day like shiped 22 to 26 cans.
oldart

randy hall · Oct 18, 2009

yes ih offered a pipeline milker system.

blinwmiaol.com · Oct 19, 2009

what year was this released? or there abouts

Jimmy King · Oct 19, 2009

Dad built the Grade A barn in 1953. His dairy field man told him about a guy not over 15 miles away that had an IHC pipe line he would give to some one to haul it away. They were about $500 new, Dad gave the guy $50 for it and learned quickly why the guy didn"t like it was the hoses were too short and it wouldn"t stay on the cow it she moved much. He milked 2 milkings like that and then went to the Dealer in Springfield and got the long hoses. We had to tear it down every day and wash it by hand and reassemble it at milk time started with plastic pipe and rubber fittings, had to change the plastic out for stainless steel after a couple of years. We used it until 1961 then Dad bought a Deleval at a farm sale. all glass lines and sealed couplings, and all that had to be taken to the milk room was the titcups and hoses when washed. I was still using parts of it when I quit milking in 1996.

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