With time kill in the doctor's waiting room yesterday and a paucity of magazines to read (all the usual Motor Trends had disappeared)I was reduced to skimming through an old copy of Business Week
I was delighted to find an article about the Dutch company Lely's robotic cow milking machine where the cow voluntarily enters the machine when its udder is full, thereby obviating the need for rhe dairy farmer to have to rise at ungodly hours to do manual milking
I recall many years ago that one of my UK Rotary Club friends had built a revolutionary carousel type milking parlour where the cows entered the rotating shed so that the milkman could attach the pipes then when done after a revolution the cow simply walked out.
I remember thinking that that was very interesting so I made a note of Lely and have now searched for their machine.I was most impressed to find this informative youtube video
Three and a half years after introducing the Lely Astronaut A3 milking robot, Lely now launches a new automatic milking system: the Lely Astronaut A3 Next.
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Honorary Curator Bootleg Museum
(where Sir does not signify that I am a fully benighted Knight just a Bt which signifies a humble Baronet -?? read the wiki!)
I meant no one no harm
Once inside we found a curious moonbeam
Doing dances on the floor