Dream to nightmare

Farming = 50% sh*t 50% despair after choosing this brand

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This cow was saved in the nick of time from suffocation by a ➖➖➖milk parlour.

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another original #dairymaster problem

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some of the problems in images

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dairymaster tubing seems to have a problem everywhere, if it doesn’t blow under pressure it leaks. and then there’s the usual shabby workmanship and lack of thinking things through: why hang it so low on the wall that you can’t put a standard container underneath it to catch the oil? and of course lack of cleanliness: why leave all that sh*t there? just clean up after yourselves...

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a quick mathematical note

Average career of an employee : 35h/week 45 weeks/ year => 1575 h/ year 42 years => 66 150h/ life

Career of a dairy farmer: 13 h / day (15 h for W. currently)   91h / week (every day, also Sunday, Christmas) 52 weeks / year (no holidays) => 4 732 h / year 42 years => 198 744 h / life

Hours worked by employee in his lifetime divided by hours worked by farmer in 1 year: 66,150 : 4732 =13.98 years

The farmer works in 14 years as much as the employee in his whole life. If he was entitled to retire after the same number of hours as the employee, W. should have retired this year, at the age of 39.

But he still has to continue until he is 67, when he will have worked the equivalent of three full time jobs, to be entitled to a pension of at best 2/3 of the employee's pension. And all this to produce the one thing, the only thing, without which human beings cannot live...

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“why didn’t you tell me?”

Dairymaster leaves without finishing the installation. They know it isn’t finished but they don’t come back spontaneously to do so.

We tell them, for six long months, that the milk parlour isn’t finished, that it’s falling apart, that things are breaking or not working. We tell them in words and images. They don’t come and fix anything.

We organise the check up Dairymaster should’ve asked. It shows up problems. We pass on the evaluation. Dairymaster doesn’t come and fix it.

Only when, tired of waiting like good little children, we go on twitter do we get a reaction: “why didn’t you tell me?”

(spontaneous combustion sounds)

Dairymaster comes and fixes a thing, and one other and disappears. Despite knowing they haven’t fixed everything, they don’t spontaneously come back.

We have to ask again, and again.

(rising stress levels)

Just do the effing job!

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it’s happening again and knocking on it isn’t helping. stop milking out of the pit into the tank room push the button back to pit stress heart palpitations leave husband to it to go on twitter again like it helps try not to cry

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That problem again! But oh wait this is new...she’s stuck behind it with her shoulder can’t go forward can’t go backward...got her out but porr cows stressed, farmers stressed and time lost.

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We: a poo gutter! #dairymaster: not necessary! first lot of 20, half the quay visible.

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Poor thing slipped into the pit, with those terrible turning things (i don’t know what to call them) and the cows pushing, she would have gotten stuck but seemed to have understood that if she crawled on abit she could get out without hurting her back. luckily it was all over in a minute but she wasn’t milked of course

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ANOTHER FUN EVENING IN OUR NEW MILK PARLOUR:ANIMAL SUFFERING, filth, more animal suffering,technical problem

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while waiting for the check up dairymaster didn’t ask, we got a problemr with germs. turns out this isn’t cleaned properly by the automatic system so we have to clean it by hand, usncrewing half of it and fighting to get it back on...

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that’s been a while

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we suddenly realised that the left pot was full and overflowing into the yellowish pot on top. the pump had stopped working. we knocked on the lower on and the pump shot into action again! charming dairymaster...

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so next day it blew here