Posted by JerryS on March 09, 2013 at 21:52:35 from (68.18.10.193):
In Reply to: OT - Milking by Hand posted by Brian G. NY on March 09, 2013 at 20:01:44:
In our little dairy we had vacuum milkers from the get-go, and I have no regrets that I missed out on the hand-milking thing. Actually I didn't miss out completely---a few times our power went out and we had to milk by hand, about 30 head.
It didn't take but two or three times doing that until my dad decided there had to be a better way. He came up with a thing that he could hook up to his old '48 Ford pickup: he took out a spark plug and screwed in this device, and the truck engine would pull enough of vacuum to run two milkers. Don't ask me how it worked---I'm just glad it did.
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