New System

Dairy Plant in Fairlie

Built in record time! This Read milking system was completed in 14-days from start to commissioning.  Great achievement by 3 of our Read Technicians.

Our clients previous system was a 45-bail herringbone. Now replaced with a new shed 54-Bail Donald Rotary platform with a Read Milking System.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo credit #Rural Building Solutions

Our clients stopped milking around the 10th of May this year. Once this happened our team got cracking.  Firstly,  the existing dairy machinery was disconnected. Secondly, the machinery was removed. Allowing the building to be demolished. All the while the yard as kept in place.

With a couple of weeks of preparation, a new 54-bail rotary dairy shed was built.  Once the roof was on the Donald Engineering team installed the platform. The platform deck was poured within 5 days of being on site.  The following week our team installed the new milking system. During this time the rest of the shed was being built. Even the platform joinery being completed in unison.

Utilise the old parts and add in new parts.

The new rotary milking system used a few parts from the old herringbone shed.  These parts were tested, serviced where needed, cleaned & painted for reinstalling. Previous shed parts could only be used where they would not hinder the performance of the new system. The Reads have a long standing ethos towards reconditioning parts where possible, so to reduce clients costs and maintain sustainable business practices. The final outcome has achieved a stunning milking system as well as adding on a few extras from the clients wish list  including ACRs & Teat Spraying.

“Our Fairlie clients have a long-standing relationship with Reads,  it has been a pleasure to work with them on this project. Furthermore, well done to all the contractors who helped pull this together. It goes to show how a team of contractors who work together, that are well skilled and plan with precision can make things happen in such a short time frame”. says Philip Read.

 

 

Rotary Platform by ‘Donald Engineering Services.
Milking System by ‘Read Milking Systems.
Shed Build by ‘Rural Building Solutions.
Photo Credits #Rural Building Solutions
Photo Credit #AndyGarth
Photo Credit #Donald Engineering