Automatic milkers...???

Looks like you're part way to one of these.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Surge-Milk-Milke...QQcmdZViewItem

If you get or have the right kind of pulsator, it can run off the vacuum supplied by an engine, that's what used to be used when the power went out.

A little known fact.... A surge pnematic pulsator like you have here can be run off a tractor. I knew of an old timer that had a farmall M, he drilled a hole in the intake and threaded in a petcock, The suction from the tractor engine ran the pulsator, he just ideled the old girl up till the thing "sounded right" just don't overflow the bucket or the tractor will suck up the milk. Milking pygmy's in a 55 lb. bucket that shouldn't be a problem.

Yep, that was the backup plan for a lot of years if the power went out.

Yep, works off the manifold of a
Chevy Suburban as well. Dad milked that way in the dark for 3 days. The temperature was -38F.

I have no idea what you are talking about, lol. I'd prolly blow it up or somethin.

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Dona Barski

"Breed the best, eat the rest"

Caprice Acres

French and American Alpines. CAE, Johnes neg herd. Abscess free. LA, DHIR.

Mygoat, it's incredibly simple to rig up, a lot of old engines actually have the hole in the manifold already.

Up North, would that have been the big ice storm of '76? My grandpa bought a generator for the farm in the fall of '75 and all the neighbors told him he was nuts. Then that storm hit and my dad would milk at 3 am so the generator could make a circuit of five farms and be back in time for the pm milking. My mom was busy having me at the time

well maybe, but running it EVERY DAY? I don't know. Maybe it is, but I don't know of anything we can hook it up to. We have small lawn tractors, and a couple of cars that we drive around, I doubt my dad would be willing to let me do this every day, especially to an important car/truck.

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Dona Barski

"Breed the best, eat the rest"

Caprice Acres

French and American Alpines. CAE, Johnes neg herd. Abscess free. LA, DHIR.

A lawn tractor might work, I'm not sure.