Re: Barn Cleaner??????

Posted by john in la on April 05, 2005 at 19:00:52 from (67.35.236.12):

In Reply to: Re: Barn Cleaner?????? posted by Allan in NE on April 05, 2005 at 18:07:26:

Allen;
I feel you did not under stand my question OR I am missing something here.

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

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