Posted by big_red_man on October 18, 2009 at 17:08:02 from (24.206.119.177):
In Reply to: IH milkers posted by IHDairy on October 18, 2009 at 12:04:22:
We used IH milkers on our Grade A dairy farm in central Nebraska from 1948 until we replaced them with a Surge pipeline milker (early 60's???) One bucket held five (or was it six???) gallons, but was only for one cow (not equipped to milk two in the same bucket). Those buckets were darn heavy when full and with the stainless steel bucket, pulsator and all hoses probably weighed about 70 pounds. Also our Holsteins gave too much milk for more than one cow per bucket.
I remember we carried each bucket from the milking area into a separate room, to the bulk milk cooler, removed the top, then stepped on a couple of concrete blocks and poured the milk into the strainer. What a lift that was!
I remember that in the winters on cold days it was very hard to make the pulsators work. We had to remove a cap on top of the pulsator and use a finger to manually move the "innards" back and forth until it warmed up. And sometimes the electric motor couldn"t start the vacuum pump it was so cold!(oil so stiff). In the early years the folks had a model a ford. It had a regular water faucet installed on the intake manifold. The idea was that if the electricity failed, they could use a garden hose to provide vacuum for the milking machines. I don"t recall they ever used that system. Electrical failures were very rare on our farm in the 50"s to 80"s.
Glad to think of milking twice a day every day of the year. It reminds me of why I haven"t missed it since leaving the farm.
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