Surge Milking Parlor: Installed and Milking First Time! (Building Dairy Barn #16)
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- We took a couple of old Surge milking stalls we pulled out of a scrap pile, restored them, and put them back into use! It was pretty spectacular to milk cows finally in the parlor!
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The pleased smiles on your faces say it all! The planning, the hopes, the dreaming ...all coming to fruition. So proud of you two! I love how gentle you are with your cows! 💜
Thank you! With our cows, we don’t want to have fear based compliance. Happy, stress free cows make better milk!
Impressive start run-through of parlor. The history of gentle handling with the cows really shows. Great progress. Bet the calves are doing well on their moms' milk. 😀
The calves are doing great! Really gaining well! We still have them with momma 24/7. Thanks for the kind comments!
So jealous of the tabulator! Great dairy bling. Congratulations on another part of the dream realized!
We love our tabulator! A little overkill? Maybe, but still useful! Thanks for watching!
A small dairy dairy is great to see. Good job Chief and Virginia.
Thank you!
That's neat seeing the first milking in your new parlor!! A lot of hard work went into that!
Yes it did! There are still some details to finish up, but we’re very happy milking in there!
Fabulous! No cow exhaust on the floor. Love the treatment on the vintage Surge parlor. The decals top it off just right.
Keith-
So far they’ve been very well behaved! The stalls turned out great! I had the decals made. I have a NOS Surge milk filter box that has a pristine decal on it, so I just took a picture of it and had it made into bigger decals! Turned out great!
Wow so pleased for you, fantastic very very tidy work cows did fantastic your cows are so gentle oh twice a day 7 days a week now for a long time till they dry off any way, God bless you all your friend from across the pond xx
Thank you for your kind words!
It’ll just get better and better as they get used to the change. Very impressed with how calm the cows are. You have a great foundation for your herd.
They are doing great thus far! Very well behaved!
I have been looking forward to this video for a while congratulations on the first milking in the barn
Thank you!
Oh my gosh ... so cool! Thanks for sharing your milestones with us !!
You’re welcome!
Congratulations! I have to say though, I am soooo jealous of those in your neck o the woods who are lucky enough to be able to enjoy your hard work. GOOO Buttercup and Rose :)
Thank you!
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Woo Hoo! So exciting. Great looking parlor and great cows! A dream come true! Congratulations!
Thank you so much for your support!
Hi. . . I milked in a surge parlor in the early ’80s in College Place, WA. The parlor was 3 on a side setup. We willed around 150 cows. We shipped to Dairy Gold in Yakima, WA. Your dairy is very nice!
Hi there! Growing up, I rode on the milk truck with my Dad to the Walla Walla area regularly. He had an entire milk route down there. He even picked up milk from the penitentiary dairy at one time, but that was before my time. The route as it was when I was riding pretty much stretched from Touchet all the way to Walla Walla along 12. But, he also had a shipper on the Oregon side in Umapine. That was the first dairy farm I ever worked on, in 1999. Thank you for sharing and the complements!
I love it! Years ago I worked for a while at a 100 cow Guernsey dairy. They had a triple side open parlor. At times, I was the only one milking. I’ve milked a few cows in a similar setup. It should be marvelous for your scale.
I love the Surge side-openers! I milked in a Double-2 before, so that confirmed me wanting this style of parlor. Thanks for watching!
Great video from caring farmers who are the real deal,, no fakeness with this family honest hardworking Americans...
Thank you for your support!
Congratulations. Everything looks great and the ladies cooperated.
Yes, they’re doing very well. Every milking gets a little better! Thanks for watching!
Wow, that's looking pretty amazing guys! You two never fail to impress with your thoroughness and attention to detail. I'm glad it went well, and the girls are cooperating!
Thanks! Yes, the milking parlor is working out wonderfully! How’s your barn coming along? Any progress?
Very impressed with what you're doing. Thanks for sharing it.
You’re welcome! We’re glad to have you along! More to come, so stay tuned!
Congratulations!! So happy for you guys!!
Thanks!
Congratulations on the milking. The parlor looks great! You guys sure are organized.
Thanks! Are we organized?!? Haha! There’s a milker hanger I want to put on the stalls, but I can’t seem to find it. I have them, and I saw it just the other day... Where did I put it?!? Haha! Thanks for watching!
Hi Folks, Wow that is really Cool. The Start of many years to come, in the Milking Parlor. Thanks.
You’re welcome! Thanks for the encouraging words!
How exciting, you made it! Congratulations!!
Thank you!
Excellent video, so happy 4 U 2. Great 2 C all the planning & hard work pay dividends, CONGRATULATION!!! 👍👏😊
Thank you very much!
You don't see these kind of stalls used on dairy farms anymore and to see it all restored was really neat. This video was in my suggested and you have a new subscriber now.
Hello! Yes, you don’t see many side-openers anymore, although they are still available new. When I visited Guernsey in 2012, we visited a new installation. Since starting our project, I’ve fallen in with some small dairy groups, and I think we’re going to see a resurgence in side-openers. There is one fellow on the east coast who just built a small barn, with a two stall side-opener parlor just like mine, and he built the stalls himself from scratch! Anyway, I’m glad our video was recommended to you and we’re glad you subscribed! Happy to have you along for our journey, stay tuned!
@@vnthomas16 I didn't get to look into your channel too much yet but where are you located? If I was ever in the area I'd love to see this parlor. First cow I ever milked had 5 side opener stalls. This would have been in the early 80's.
Mike Less - Farmhand Mike we are in Northeastern Washington State.
Great job! They look brand new!
Thank you! We put a lot of time and effort into them! We really love milking in them!
Looking great! Congratulations on the first run!
Thank you!
Great job! Congratulations!
Thanks!
Awesome! I am very happy for you guys!
We appreciate that! Thanks!
cool restoration thank for sharing
You’re welcome! Thank you for watching!
Congratulations on this big step! It's been a pleasure to watch you make your dream come true. Best wishes for continued success.
Thank you for your support! We appreciate your kind words! Thanks for watching!
Congratulations. You've done a great job.
Thanks!
Nice little parlour, looks great.
Thanks!
Well Stacy, nice job on getting your parlor painted, now all you need to do is get the cows in there so they can rub all the paint off! Also, I would take that anti-kick device you have and throw it out the door. You need the big clamp that goes over the back. I tried one of those devices that you have and it came off the cow's back and hit me in the head. ;)
I’ve never had a problem with that kind of anti-kicker. I’ve used them in every parlor I’ve worked in. Luckily, we haven’t had to use ours yet! The big clamp type probably work better, but you’d have to climb up to the cow platform to put it on. With the “C” style, you don’t even have to leave the pit! I guess that’s why you only see the “C” style in raised parlors.
Sure wish we lived close so we could buy some of your goods. Really nice place with good people caring for it! Hope to buy some bottles soon. We really enjoy your channel!
Glad to hear it! Someday we’ll get around to getting our online store up and running! Haha! Stay tuned!
First time watching your video’s. Enjoyed! I’ll be back.
Glad to hear! Thank you!
Keep it up!
Thanks!
Nice job!!
Thanks!
Super, ya did it!!!! Nice job
Thanks!
What an awesome set-up. Very clean looking and smooth operating. I'd like to get my own cows and have something like this some day.
Glad you like our setup! We’ve made a few improvements we discuss in some of our more recent videos. Hope you have a chance to check them out!
@@vnthomas16 I'll check those out. I like how easy this system looks for a single operator once the cow is trained. It also seems like you are less liable to get manured on. LOL Good separation between dirty cow side and clean milk handling side.
I am genuinely excited for you guys. Now to get the tunes going on the radio during milking. With only two cows you may want to milk three times daily. Have heard there is about an 8% increase in production that way.
We milk two times a day... But the cows probably get milked 10 times a day! Haha! We leave the calves with their mommas... Yes, need to get some tunes going!
Nice clean cows.
Thank you!
Congratulations! Happy for you! Glad to see you had a very successful first milking! Did you use the bulk. tank yet? I wish we had a excellent set up like that when we were milking. Looking forward to seeing more videos!
No, we haven’t used the bulk tank yet. In fact, our refrigeration technician is hooking it up right now.... Literally, as I type this! Hopefully it should be good to go by the end of the week. Knock on wood! It’ll be in a video, so stay tuned!
Great video!
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🥳🎉🎊CONGRATULATIONS🎊🎉🥳
On your first milking in the parlor!!! It looks absolutely fantastic!!! You both should be very proud of all your hard work!!
Now, are you able to milk Rose & Buttercup at the same time, since you do have two "stands" to milk from?? I'm just curious if can or not, because you had said in the video, that you would be using just the one.
Everything looks FANTABULOUS!!!! Congrats again!! It must feel wonderful to be milking INSIDE your beautiful barn.
Thank you! We only have one milking machine, but, the other day we had both cows in the parlor, one in each stall. While one was milking, I was prepping the other. Worked pretty good.
That’s pretty cool guys
Thanks!
Very nice!!
Thanks!
I’m happy for you both
Thank you!
Congrats you made it guys i like it
Thank you!
Fantastic
Thank you!
Awesome!
Thanks! It was a lot of work to get here!
Salut vous super tank you vidéo magnifique
Love this whole process! Could you remind me, with your calf sharing, are you separating the calves at all now? or in the future? How much milk are you getting? Does either cow give more consistently? Your videos sort of read like a more technical and well cow version of James Herriot. Very easy listening. You could do a children's book with lovely illustrations, sort of like Moses the Kitten. (I always look for the kid angle, long time littles teacher and granny). Maybe sometime you could be a field trip destination for folks/kids.... Partly history of milking, partly healthy food and livestock for the future. Keep up the good work.
We are calf sharing. Currently, the babies are with their mommas 24/7, but we may start separating the calves at night here in a few weeks. Right now, we are getting about 20-25# per cow per day that we can keep. I would say Buttercup is a little more consistent, only because Rose is lazy in the mornings, and sometimes when we go out to do the morning milking Rose is still lying down, so Dodie hasn’t had a chance to nurse yet. When that happens, we get 20+ pounds from Rose just from the morning milking.
Very nice
Thank you!
Awesome to watch it work great job you guys, mayby a tip, make a kind off edge on the concretefloor so that the cows can t slip into the pit just my thoughts anyways thanks and greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer
We went back and forth on whether to put in a curb or not. We decided on the not, as their feet really don’t get near the edge. But cows are cows, so we may end up adding one in the future. Thanks for watching!
You never know whats gonna happen there animals but hé youre in charge
So cool! Can you point me in the direction of where I could buy this set up?
Clover Mountain Dairy I Admire your Hard Work you and your family have put into building your Dairy, few families today are willing to work as hard as you on a day by day schedule. I hope you are able to hire someone to help when the work load gets to much for you and your wife. Also you might have Dairy gold and Carnation Dairy Corporations knocking on your door to sell out, that happened a lot in the late 50s and early 60s when so many family Dairies sold out, could not find younger family members to take over.
Yes indeed. The first big demise of small dairies in this area was in 1956 when the local processors switched from accepting milk in cans to requiring bulk tanks. Then of course you had the federal dairy buyout program in the 1980s that put out a lot of the small farms. And of course like you said, many of the children didn’t want to take over the farm.
Good job
Thanks!
Very nice set up . Your hard work is paying off . How deep is the pit where you stand as ap posed to where the cows are standing ?
Our pit is 34”. We mocked up a few different heights before building, and we found that to be the best compromise for the both of us.
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Thanks! We think it is pretty awesome. And works great
AWESOME
Thanks!
Just seeing your video of the Surge Milking Parlor. Looks pretty nice. I have the same in my old barn, 4 single, what’s left of it. I need everything but the main guard rails and ceiling support pipes. Any leads? Southern Wisconsin
Sorry. No leads. A good fabricator could probably make what you need though. I have a friend who mills in a double-two. When he got the place, it only had one complete stall. Two were partial, and the fourth was gone! He managed to rebuild it himself and you can’t tell the difference. Good luck!
wow my dad's brothers and some brother inlaws have 8 dairy barns houses 1800 cows lol
love to see the different way people milk still watching the video's your build the parlour too we have 6 lines of 10 moves fast some days
my aunt has some of her spoiled animals here we can not catch them they are as wild as they can be around us they see her and another story 8 deer they sneak into the parlor with the cows they jump the fences very well she wants to take them not ready for the 8 there she had not so good of luck on the family mountain the valley is a large lake she waiting for the judge see if she can help mother nurture out draining the valley problems is the downriver construction bridgework has stopped the pumping needing to help here the dam need to drop there levers too
Thank you for sharing! Quite a few small dairies still around. Thanks for watching!
Why not just not go with a tie-stall ? JC, thinking of starting up a 2-3 cow dairy,parlors are expensive!
Did you guys have plans drawn up of the milking parlor or did you just free hand build it as you went ? Specifically how wide is it , long , and how deep is the pit
We had the stalls from the beginning, so we worked around that. The room is 12’x24’ because it just fit neatly into building everything in 12’ increments. (We find for the best utilization of building materials to use numbers divisible by both 2 and 3). I think we could have fit it into a room 11’ x 18’ if we really had to, but really appreciate the extra space. The pit is 34 1/2” deep, which we found works well for the both of us. We’ve both milked in shallower and deeper pits. You can make it whatever depth suits you the best I suppose. The cow platform overhangs the pit by 4” which provides a nice “toe space” to make it more comfortable. The pit is 16 1/2’ long which was determined by the stalls, and I’m not exactly sure, but I think it’s about 4 1/2’ wide. Thanks for watching!
Was hoping to see the surge milker in use. I here a lot of people like them.
Surge miller’s are great! Unfortunately their use is not really conducive to milking in a raised parlor, as to use the Surge, you have to put a surcingle over their back, and then lift the milker up to the cow platform and then bring it back down. A pail milker that just sits on the floor just works better in this situation. Thanks for watching!
Where/how do I search for used tandem milk stalls? There's a company I think in Wisconsin or Michigan that sells them refurbished the price literally doubled from $1,200 to 2,400. Plus the distance to drive there..
I'm in Central Missouri.
Thank you for any information you can pass on! Yeah, I don't know
If you’re handy with metal working, you can build them yourself. Otherwise just start asking around at every place that was an old dairy. That’s how we found ours. They were in a neighbor’s barn and we salvaged them. Paid $150 for each stall.
you should see if you can find some vintage Surge milk jars
They are cool looking, I admit. But, I don’t think they’d work good in our situation. Thanks for watching!
No, no, no, you don't need a pipeline for a small dairy, it will just waste milk and they are hard to clean. I sold mine and went to milking with floor milkers like the one you have using NuPulse vacuum-driven claws. Much better system IMHO. :)
For our small herd, the bucket is fine, but if we add to our herd, we may look into a pipeline. Even so, I’ll still use my NuPulse claws.
I just started using my tandem stanchion. 2nd time one of my cows stepped one of her back feet over the pit edge. She was reaching for a fallen pellet. Her head reached over and rear end shifted opposite way.. she sustained a 2" x 1/2" scrape, hair off. Now I'm keeping an eye on her leg.
Have you ever had that happen?
Mine is Not surge brand.
Sorry to hear that. No, we’ve never had that happen. Our stalls are set in from the edge 4 or 5 inches. Maybe you can install a curb? That’s common in milking parlors.
@@vnthomas16 We went right the next day to put in a curb. We couldn't have any accidents happening! And think you'll get for your quick response. Love watching you guys!
on the side closet to wear you stand i took and mixed op my own cement and made about a 2 inch high ridge about 4 inches wide cause i had problems with some cowws slipping off the edge. and even after i did that i still had a few slip off. and they will poop sooner or later.
We went back and forth on a curb. From a milking perspective, we like not having it, but from a safety standpoint, we see it’s value. Ultimately, we went against it. We did set our stalls back from the edge a little extra, and with the girth of the cows, their feet end up being about 18” from the edge. Hopefully this is enough, but we’ll re-evaluate if necessary. Thanks for watching!
Gee,
Old side opening Surge,, spent many a day milking in one of those back in the late 60s, early 70s. One was a double 2, the other was an inline 7. I must say, vacuum pump needs to be outside!!!
I’ve milked in a double-2 before, I really liked it. No need to put the vacuum pump outside. It’s an ancient piston pump, so it’s not too loud, and it doesn’t exhaust oil. That said, I have a bigger DeLaval 76 vane-type vacuum pump. It’s definitely got to go outside since it’s an oil-blowin’ screamer! Thanks for watching!
Very cool but I would absolutely move that vacuum pump. It’s so loud an I think your good cows would enjoy their milking a whole lot more if it weren’t so loud.
Good advice! The vacuum pump always seemed louder in videos than in real life, but yeah, it was moved out of the parlor some time ago. Not only did the cows enjoy the quieter milking, so did the milker! Haha! Thanks for watching!
Wow I respect your patience, but would have much quicker with a spryer.... but great job.....
Probably you have already done it, but some concrete sealers would help big time to keep it all clean....
Hello! Good morning! If the stalls were outside, I would have considered spraying. I really just don’t like spraying inside. Sure, brushing was slower, but prep time was minimal. It’s a trade off I guess. I got the mils I wanted, so I guess I did ok. Yes, the concrete is sealed. We seal all our concrete, interior and exterior, no matter it’s use. Thanks for watching!
I've been trying to get a price on the tandem stanchions, but no matter where I look I can't find anything, do you think you could help me out, just some kind of idea of what they run, thank you in advance..
We salvaged ours. They were originally in the barn across the road. We paid $150 per stall about 10 years ago. Probably another $500 per stall in new bushings, hardware, steel, paint, etc. Might check out the Facebook group “used milking equipment”… I’ve seen them come up on there before.
@@vnthomas16 ok , thank you!
Do you know the brand/model of your hanging scale?
It’s a Chatillon MD60. Thanks for watching!
@@vnthomas16 Thanks for the info on the scale. We milk one Jersey in a single cow parlor.
How many pounds of milk per cow per day?
It varies since we leave the calf on the cow, but I’d say on average we’re keeping 20-25# per cow per day for ourselves. Thanks for watching!
Nice wheel, but I've seen better ones. Also, I use an Android app for that that works ok. I find it hard to believe that they aren't made any more, but perhaps they aren't. For visuals, they seem to be hard to beat for your 1 to 300 cow dairy herd.
Hi there! What wheel do you prefer? I have people asking about mine all the time, but since mine in particular is not made anymore, I’d love to have an alternative to steer them to… I would think that apps and computer programs have largely replaced wheels and such, but I love that at a glance, I can get all the info I need. Thanks for watching!
Can you tell me measurements please
Hi there! Feel free to contact us via email through our website at clovermountaindairy (dot) com and we can send you some parlor info! Thanks for watching!
No, lol- the paint goes on the METAL not your head! lol.
I agree with your train of thought! Thanks for watching!
When I paint tubes I put nitrile gloves on and use a car wash mitt dipped in paint and wrapped around the tube. Super fast. This may come in handy in ten years when you need to paint more tubes 😂
lol do not know how many generation dairy farmers in the family it runs but my cousins had 7 living generation baby boy we had to break the rules was a family get together at there farm to celebrate was an extra on as well he was born on gam-pa birthday too he was named Jacob too he 107
Maby move pump thay mite come beter
When we first started, we had the pump off whilst getting them into the parlor. Now it doesn’t seem to affect them much.