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Re: Spoke too soon....
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Sat, 5 Apr 2003 04:51:40 GMT
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"Gerard Steenbeek" <interdutch2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> And to also answer to Iain's post.
> No we don`t use a Lely Astronaut. They are awesome, but they can`t cope • with
> the diferences found in cows, to milk with those you need a herd of • perfect
> cows.
I'll have to look into this again, but that's not my understanding; the
engineers from LELY explained how the machine could be configured to cows
with any number of tits, in any position, and any milk flow in any condition
ever created. It could probably milk a cow if it had one on it's forehead!
> And we have far to many cows, we would need to buy too many of them
> spending a few Million buck. Employees are cheaper and more flexable. The
Cheaper, sure, but certainly not more flexible; the Astronaut affords the
cow total flexibility.
Iain
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| (...) I was going to be crass and make a comment about how I like my cows flexible. then I thought better of it and I just wont!! in lego news, I am building the paper folder. its HARD. I've got it so that a set of rollers move the paper along, and (...) (21 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Actually... All the milk produced is recorded by a computer and $75000 of electronics. The cows waer tags with a transponder inside. The milk parlour picks up the cows ID, and then records how much milk is produced. It can also alert the (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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