I am always reminded of an event from my younger days when you talk about cows being comfortable when things are the same. I don't think most people realize how important that is. I was around 9-10 years old( I am 75 now) when my grand father had a health issue and my dad, uncle and some of us kids had to take over is dairy for a few weeks. I watched my grandpa , many times turn on the pump , open the door and yell " Come Boss" and the cows lined up , entered the barn went to the stalls and stood quietly while they were milked. The first evening we tried, my grandma told my uncle to open the door and yell " come Boss". He did and all heck broke loose! Cows went nuts and many refused to come into the barn, attempts to drive them in resulted in even more chaos. One cow managed to jump the fence and it took us most of the night to get her back in. It was , in true Western Colorado words, " One h#$$ of a rodeo ". Fortunately ,Grandpa got well got well soon and when he returned, he did his thing and bingo all was well. That story is a family legend.
Today, you'd just record gramps yelling that on the phone, and play it though a speaker of some kind. I sometimes wished I was born 50 to 150 years earlier, but on the other hand, life quality is better today. You still on the farm today?
@@nielsleenknegt5839 No, I chose to move on to another career. I often tell people that I am glad I was raised on a farm and I am sure it made a huge difference in my life, BUT, I never really considered farming for a living. I went to college to study engineering , took a class called " Introduction to Education" for a humanities credit , spent a quarter in a Junior high class room and changed my major to education. I spent 40 years teaching math, physics , coaching football and being a principal, athletic director and assorted other jobs. As for having Grandpa use the cell phone, I have seen places on RUclips were the cow decides when she wants to be milked and just walks into a milking stall and a robotic system takes over, feeds her, washes her, milks her and sends her on her way. I would be fun to see my grandpa's reaction to that. The milking systen he used was a very early DeLaval pipe line milker. Before that each cow was placed in a head stall, a strap was placed over her back and the milker, connected to a collection can huge there until she was done. he milk was then placed in big cans and stored in a big cold water tank, All done by hand!
33 years since i last milked but could probably still do it with my eys shut. Was a 16/16, manual feeders. Critical equipment was a radio. Cows settled better and it masked any other noises. Some 80s songs still make me think of milking like 'too late for goodbyes' and 'together in electric dreams'
Great to see a parlour video you certainly did the right thing visiting other dairy farms and selecting the bits you liked sounds like you got it almost spot on doing that
Thanks Tom. I've been patiently waiting for this video since you finished installing the parlour. The setup is amazing! I grew up on a dairy farm in the 70's, so I know what it used to involve. No wonder you're all singing!
Can't beat a new parlour to speed things up. Used to milk 180 in a 30 yr old 14 unit with no acrs or anything fancy in about 3 hrs. In a 44 unit rotatory now and 240 cows milked in about an hour all washed down and cows back out in 1.30! Great job. Your parlour is looking well
Was really nice seeing you milking today. Never get sick of watching the everyday workings on your farm Tom. Also nice seeing Millies is still around living her best life 😊
Tom, I gotta tell you this, mate, that sometimes your videos are the break I need, the especific kind of content make me relax and just watch you taking all the farm tasks with such joy! I love it and makes me smile. Regards from Brasil.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Parlor turned out really nice. The only thing missing would be a system that automatically washed the entire parlor when done, kinda like those fancy Japanese public bathrooms. spray the entire place down with sanitizing foam, soak, rinse, and dry. 😂
Hi Tom, yes very interesting, been following your vids. for a long time now, ( retired dairy farmer, long time past ) just one thing, you mention “cake” for those watching that are not familiar with farming, exactly what the cake is, perhaps a visit to Massey Feeds one day showing your followers how a Feed Mill works and how the “cake” is made and what it contains. A T B Clifford.
Well so good to see the cows again. I love your channel Tom but I missed the cows so I was only watching every second video. I know how busy you are and with Bub now it’s a lot of work all round. Tilly wow I didn’t forget her and glad she’s still hanging on in there. Happy for all your progress and making the farm better work place and building the farm for the future. Well done ,hugs from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
I've been watching your videos, and I think I wouldn't mind working in this area... Good things, bad things... Challenges... The good thing about agriculture or similar things is that things don't always go well... There has to be something that makes us fight more and more!! Success and all the best on a personal and professional level!! Keep up the videos, it's an excellent job!! Hugs to the entire Pemberton's team!!
Started my dairy farming career 27 year's ago. Started with 200 cows. Went to 1000 through a 40 aside herringbone. Now manage a farm 700 cows with a 64 rotary.
When my dad put our parlour in the pit was grand for him at 5/9. But I grew to 6ft my brother 5/11. I had a stoop for years. Hard to get depth right for everyone. 😂
min 28:30 and 30:55 there seems to be a bit that's not getting washed underneath the bit that stops waste coming into the central part. Hopefully you can see it. Am I missing something or is that a problem. But yes, I would like to have a go at that, for a few days so i got the hang of it, you could market it a a farm experience. Just a thought.
Super video as always! Just a suggestion. We recently lined our meal mangers in the parlour with thin rubber sheeting. Just to reduce the noise during feed time at milking. Absolute game changer for your information!!!
Rubber, with all the water would perish, at least with metal holders you know when it is not feeding the Cows. I loved this video Tom, thank you. Your Calves are beautiful.
A farm I work at will be putting in a 15 a side herringbone rapid exit for 200 cows, itl be a big jump from milking 6 a time in an old milking bale with jars to 30 a side milking at one time
Tom have you considered getting a concrete floor grinder?? If you say there is four foot of concrete in the milking parlour pit then grind the the floor down to the height you want it .dead simple machine to use . Would be done in a day easy then just lay your rubber matting back down
Feel like you could get the floor the cows stand on screeded a couple inches and or put extra thick layer of mats down without changing anything else. If you regret the hight as much as you say then you would definitely notice and extra 30mm of matting alone.
Hope you have a great trip Thomas. It was great to see Tilly again. I’d love to look at a RUclips fundraiser to get Tilly moved to the Highland area when she retires so she can finish the farm with all of us. My question for Luke is as the herdsmen on the farm would have been the best quality of life improvements for you and the cows and they could be different. Also follow question. How do you put up with Tom? Everyone have a great week. Happy cows. Be well be you.
Hi Tom/Luke, I have noticed all cows lift the hind leg on the side being cleaned with the brushes. What is the reason for this action? Tom have a great time in Germany, I'm an expat/veteran living in Germany and always look forward to your videos, they are fun and I have learnt so much. Thanks and keep up the great work (you, the family and all of your amazing team
Remember your first video from the old parlour... that's going back a few years.lol Get the boy Olly to do a milking with you that would be interesting and probably funny his face would be a sight at the things he would have to do!😂
I love seeing how everything works. I missed the cows. This is so different from the farm I grew up on, I'm just a few years older than you. (Ok, maybe more than a few) Beautiful cows! The calves a so cute! Love from Wisconsin, USA. 🤎🤍🖤🐄🐄
☀️When are you going to do a solar panels update now that it’s been a year? I’m a big Tom Pem fan, and a big solar fan, so the two combined would be awesome ☀️
Loved the video, seeing you in the parlor, it's great to see how much easier it seems to be now. It'd be nice to get some of the excess rain here in the state's that so many other's seem to be getting. We're on this warm cold cycle which drives me nuts. 😅
Crackin video Tom. Great description on the workings of the parlour. Any chance of getting an update on the solar? Usage, production, future with the new roof on the clamp? Have a good time in Germany.
Love the project videos, but the farming videos are the best, especially when you have no farm connection, unless my allotment counts as a one 😂😂😂😂 nice video 👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you I've been waiting since you built that parlor on how it's done that was very interesting I'm on the other side of it I've just retired I was a butcher for 50 years
For some reason, the udder clampy things remind me of Alien - think it's the way they swing off 😮 The cows don't seem to like the brush? They all stamp their feet and move around. Perhaps you have it on too high a setting? Love the footbath - so much better for the cows for foot health. 😊
Hi Tom I just noticed when you are putting on the clusters that you walk backwards and aren’t coming onto each unit and personally I come from the bottom and find it faster coming onto each unit
Everyone loves a nice easy chart or graff with figues why not slot that in on the sunday video so easy to read so u can compare old Palar to new. With production yield time saved
The udder cleaner looks a lot quicker than the water pipe and hand technique but a lot less comfortable for the cows. I used to put a hand on them first so they knew and it wasn’t a shock but it didn’t seem an issue with the units, just the brush. Parlour looks great, just needs a mini squeegee and looking at old videos to know you won’t breach a membrane when lowering the pit. It shouldn’t be too expensive along as you don’t make a hole. Milking in waders 😬
Great relaxing video . . and for once no engine noise. :) A request if i may . . can we get a short, where we see one full side of cows, from start to end - no editing. Just to get the feel of it.?
Great video ❤ Is that poo, in the parlour, stuck under the chrome? Where thd cows feet are? When you were washing the area they stand to be milked, you missed it 😂
I am always reminded of an event from my younger days when you talk about cows being comfortable when things are the same. I don't think most people realize how important that is. I was around 9-10 years old( I am 75 now) when my grand father had a health issue and my dad, uncle and some of us kids had to take over is dairy for a few weeks. I watched my grandpa , many times turn on the pump , open the door and yell " Come Boss" and the cows lined up , entered the barn went to the stalls and stood quietly while they were milked. The first evening we tried, my grandma told my uncle to open the door and yell " come Boss". He did and all heck broke loose! Cows went nuts and many refused to come into the barn, attempts to drive them in resulted in even more chaos. One cow managed to jump the fence and it took us most of the night to get her back in. It was , in true Western Colorado words, " One h#$$ of a rodeo ". Fortunately ,Grandpa got well got well soon and when he returned, he did his thing and bingo all was well. That story is a family legend.
Today, you'd just record gramps yelling that on the phone, and play it though a speaker of some kind. I sometimes wished I was born 50 to 150 years earlier, but on the other hand, life quality is better today.
You still on the farm today?
@@nielsleenknegt5839 No, I chose to move on to another career. I often tell people that I am glad I was raised on a farm and I am sure it made a huge difference in my life, BUT, I never really considered farming for a living. I went to college to study engineering , took a class called " Introduction to Education" for a humanities credit , spent a quarter in a Junior high class room and changed my major to education. I spent 40 years teaching math, physics , coaching football and being a principal, athletic director and assorted other jobs. As for having Grandpa use the cell phone, I have seen places on RUclips were the cow decides when she wants to be milked and just walks into a milking stall and a robotic system takes over, feeds her, washes her, milks her and sends her on her way. I would be fun to see my grandpa's reaction to that. The milking systen he used was a very early DeLaval pipe line milker. Before that each cow was placed in a head stall, a strap was placed over her back and the milker, connected to a collection can huge there until she was done. he milk was then placed in big cans and stored in a big cold water tank, All done by hand!
We haven’t seen the parlour for awhile but one thing is about it is how cool it is
33 years since i last milked but could probably still do it with my eys shut. Was a 16/16, manual feeders. Critical equipment was a radio. Cows settled better and it masked any other noises. Some 80s songs still make me think of milking like 'too late for goodbyes' and 'together in electric dreams'
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16/16 then 16/32
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Came to Mexico on holiday for some sunshine. Locked down in the hotel due to a hurricane. Watching your videos. Thank god for wifi
Awww little Tilly is getting older. She's so sweet in all the videos.
Is Tilly’s mum still there?
@@Sparks0505 112… unfortunately not 😞
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This is the first in a long time that I have seen you so relaxed. 😊 Great to see how you are milking.
All i can say is Tom cows look in great condition
well worth the hassel with the milk bale parlour looks sweet
Good to see you! Continued success on your wonderful farm enterprise. Thank you for your wonderful videos. I absolutely love cows!!
Great to see a parlour video you certainly did the right thing visiting other dairy farms and selecting the bits you liked sounds like you got it almost spot on doing that
Thanks Tom. I've been patiently waiting for this video since you finished installing the parlour. The setup is amazing! I grew up on a dairy farm in the 70's, so I know what it used to involve. No wonder you're all singing!
It's awesome to see the new parlor being used.
Good seeing the new milking setup working so well for you guys. A worthy investment, indeed. Cheers from Ohio, USA 🇺🇸. 🍻
Thanks for the video Tom.
WoW nice parlor you got there…
I almost didn’t notice all the COWS!!
And the baby cows!! So cute!!
BeWell and StaySafe ✌️
Hi Tom great to see you Happy with your milking look after your family and see on the next one
Loved to see the milking. Cows are so calm.
Wonderful to see the parlor and all the happy cows!!!
Your milk parlour looks the best I remember the build so much done luke tom and your dear wife mum and dad and family it's clean
Your new parlor is amazing! Thanks for showing it and your beautiful cows. Love and prayers 😇💜
Can't beat a new parlour to speed things up. Used to milk 180 in a 30 yr old 14 unit with no acrs or anything fancy in about 3 hrs. In a 44 unit rotatory now and 240 cows milked in about an hour all washed down and cows back out in 1.30! Great job. Your parlour is looking well
Nice to see the new milking parlor.
Great stuff. Love the technicolour floor. Oh and the big flood hose.😊
Was really nice seeing you milking today. Never get sick of watching the everyday workings on your farm Tom. Also nice seeing Millies is still around living her best life 😊
Tom, I gotta tell you this, mate, that sometimes your videos are the break I need, the especific kind of content make me relax and just watch you taking all the farm tasks with such joy! I love it and makes me smile. Regards from Brasil.
Fantastic Video Tom!!! You have an AMAZING SYTEM set up! Your cows sure seem Happy! 😁
Really good video today, nice to see how far the farm has come along.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Parlor turned out really nice. The only thing missing would be a system that automatically washed the entire parlor when done, kinda like those fancy Japanese public bathrooms. spray the entire place down with sanitizing foam, soak, rinse, and dry. 😂
Hi Tom, yes very interesting, been following your vids. for a long time now, ( retired dairy farmer, long time past ) just one thing, you mention “cake” for those watching that are not familiar with farming, exactly what the cake is, perhaps a visit to Massey Feeds one day showing your followers how a Feed Mill works and how the “cake” is made and what it contains. A T B Clifford.
Well so good to see the cows again. I love your channel Tom but I missed the cows so I was only watching every second video. I know how busy you are and with Bub now it’s a lot of work all round.
Tilly wow I didn’t forget her and glad she’s still hanging on in there.
Happy for all your progress and making the farm better work place and building the farm for the future. Well done ,hugs from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
The parlour harmony with Katy was on point. Bravo.
I've been watching your videos, and I think I wouldn't mind working in this area... Good things, bad things... Challenges...
The good thing about agriculture or similar things is that things don't always go well...
There has to be something that makes us fight more and more!!
Success and all the best on a personal and professional level!!
Keep up the videos, it's an excellent job!!
Hugs to the entire Pemberton's team!!
Started my dairy farming career 27 year's ago. Started with 200 cows. Went to 1000 through a 40 aside herringbone. Now manage a farm 700 cows with a 64 rotary.
When my dad put our parlour in the pit was grand for him at 5/9.
But I grew to 6ft my brother 5/11.
I had a stoop for years. Hard to get depth right for everyone. 😂
Loved the video. What a great milking parlour. I really enjoy your energy and singing! ❤❤
Nice small dairy. I am pleased with how quiet it is.
min 28:30 and 30:55 there seems to be a bit that's not getting washed underneath the bit that stops waste coming into the central part. Hopefully you can see it. Am I missing something or is that a problem.
But yes, I would like to have a go at that, for a few days so i got the hang of it, you could market it a a farm experience. Just a thought.
Really enjoy the milking video. It’s the money making part of dairy farming.
Your cows always seem happy
Thanks for showing us
If you want to reduce the sound with the cake rattling. You could put sound dampening mat for cars under the bowl. It's a like a tar material.
Super video as always! Just a suggestion. We recently lined our meal mangers in the parlour with thin rubber sheeting. Just to reduce the noise during feed time at milking. Absolute game changer for your information!!!
Amazing insight Tom, thankyou. Was intrigued how it works. All of your videos are brilliant, but this is up with your most factual.
Rubber, with all the water would perish, at least with metal holders you know when it is not feeding the Cows. I loved this video Tom, thank you. Your Calves are beautiful.
Great to see the animals for the first time in ages
Love learning about these things! Those calves are beautiful ❤
The energy you have amazes me every day.
Reminds me of my college week end job milking cows in church minshull Cheshire
Great video Tom. Team Work "Smashes" it again. 👌👍.
I vote for the cleaning brush to be called the Teat Tickler 😂
@@seandelaloe7063 😂😂😂👏👏👏
@@TomPembertonFarmLifext 📼📹 yes now
Yes now
Oh yea - a cow video! I’ve missed seeing the cows in the parlor. I won’t lie… I felt for the poor cows when they were being cleaned. 😮😂
That was amazing, never thought that watching cows being milked would be so interesting. Well done on such and informative video 👍
A farm I work at will be putting in a 15 a side herringbone rapid exit for 200 cows, itl be a big jump from milking 6 a time in an old milking bale with jars to 30 a side milking at one time
Tom have you considered getting a concrete floor grinder?? If you say there is four foot of concrete in the milking parlour pit then grind the the floor down to the height you want it .dead simple machine to use . Would be done in a day easy then just lay your rubber matting back down
Feel like you could get the floor the cows stand on screeded a couple inches and or put extra thick layer of mats down without changing anything else. If you regret the hight as much as you say then you would definitely notice and extra 30mm of matting alone.
Hope you have a great trip Thomas. It was great to see Tilly again. I’d love to look at a RUclips fundraiser to get Tilly moved to the Highland area when she retires so she can finish the farm with all of us. My question for Luke is as the herdsmen on the farm would have been the best quality of life improvements for you and the cows and they could be different. Also follow question. How do you put up with Tom? Everyone have a great week. Happy cows. Be well be you.
Love the cow videos! Let's have more of them please
Hi Tom/Luke, I have noticed all cows lift the hind leg on the side being cleaned with the brushes. What is the reason for this action?
Tom have a great time in Germany, I'm an expat/veteran living in Germany and always look forward to your videos, they are fun and I have learnt so much. Thanks and keep up the great work (you, the family and all of your amazing team
Great video Tom the new parlour has saved you so much time, and you haven’t shown the bailing of your silage video yet 👍👍
Remember your first video from the old parlour... that's going back a few years.lol
Get the boy Olly to do a milking with you that would be interesting and probably funny his face would be a sight at the things he would have to do!😂
Can't beat a blast of great music 👍👍👍
I love seeing how everything works. I missed the cows. This is so different from the farm I grew up on, I'm just a few years older than you. (Ok, maybe more than a few) Beautiful cows! The calves a so cute! Love from Wisconsin, USA. 🤎🤍🖤🐄🐄
The Hoof GP sent me! Love the channel. ❤
☀️When are you going to do a solar panels update now that it’s been a year? I’m a big Tom Pem fan, and a big solar fan, so the two combined would be awesome ☀️
Loved the video, seeing you in the parlor, it's great to see how much easier it seems to be now.
It'd be nice to get some of the excess rain here in the state's that so many other's seem to be getting. We're on this warm cold cycle which drives me nuts. 😅
The one that keeps slipping she’s got inwards teats a little tip Chris-cross the back clusters she will get mastitis if your not careful
I ❤ Tilly!! 🇨🇦 interesting and informative video 👍🏼. Singing not so much 😂
The parlour is quite, but that teat washer is Bloody noisy!
Great video and info 👍👍
Well worth the hassle putting the equipment in, good design and well thought out for both cows and people.
Love the singing Katie
Crackin video Tom. Great description on the workings of the parlour.
Any chance of getting an update on the solar? Usage, production, future with the new roof on the clamp?
Have a good time in Germany.
Feels like a classic TP video.
Very interesting and informative video. Top job.
great to see some milking; after all, this is what all the other stuff you do is for!!
Happy Independences day for America. God bless
"Proper Brew" Proceeds to make instant coffee.
Love the project videos, but the farming videos are the best, especially when you have no farm connection, unless my allotment counts as a one 😂😂😂😂 nice video 👍👍👍👍👍
36th! Wonderful Tuesday morning to you Tom,Luke,Hiedie,Anne,and the ginger warrior with a mustache. Roger in Pierre South Dakota USA
New Calf building Christmas 2024 😍
Bugger I was about to go to bed now I’ll have stay up and watch😁
Thank you I've been waiting since you built that parlor on how it's done that was very interesting I'm on the other side of it I've just retired I was a butcher for 50 years
For some reason, the udder clampy things remind me of Alien - think it's the way they swing off 😮
The cows don't seem to like the brush? They all stamp their feet and move around. Perhaps you have it on too high a setting?
Love the footbath - so much better for the cows for foot health. 😊
Hi Tom I just noticed when you are putting on the clusters that you walk backwards and aren’t coming onto each unit and personally I come from the bottom and find it faster coming onto each unit
Everyone loves a nice easy chart or graff with figues why not slot that in on the sunday video so easy to read so u can compare old Palar to new. With production yield time saved
Could you make a video about why you use different breeds of cows like Brown Swiss and short horn?
The udder cleaner looks a lot quicker than the water pipe and hand technique but a lot less comfortable for the cows. I used to put a hand on them first so they knew and it wasn’t a shock but it didn’t seem an issue with the units, just the brush.
Parlour looks great, just needs a mini squeegee and looking at old videos to know you won’t breach a membrane when lowering the pit. It shouldn’t be too expensive along as you don’t make a hole. Milking in waders 😬
Been a while, fun to be back in the parlor.
Great relaxing video . . and for once no engine noise. :)
A request if i may . . can we get a short, where we see one full side of cows, from start to end - no editing. Just to get the feel of it.?
Really enjoyed that thanks Tom
What a beautiful milking parlour
Great video Tom 👍🏼👍🏼
Hi All. Try playing classical music for the cows. I would guess that there would be an increase in milk volume. :) Just a thought.
Great video but ive always wondered why calves are taken away from mum when theyre so young??? ❤
i love parlour videos 😁
Cracking setup love the video's
Great video. You work the parlor well!!
A Mirror for teat cleaner, polished stainless steel attached to the side/handle, slightly angled , just a thought
Good to see the new technology is working well. What are the ingredients in the cake you are feeding the cows?
Great video ❤ Is that poo, in the parlour, stuck under the chrome? Where thd cows feet are? When you were washing the area they stand to be milked, you missed it 😂
I saw that as well. I THINK I saw him wash it down at the end he was standing where the cows stand when milked blasting water all over. ✌️
Zazdroszczę takiej pracy 😊
You said before about the fiberglass separating from the wall. Did that ever get resolved?
Have you ever considered trying a comically short, three legged stool and a galvanized metal bucket?
😂😂😂😂😂
Can’t remember but did you ever put in a bore hole for water to do all your parlour washing etc ???