Hello everyone!

You will discover that some of us are farm boys as well as surveyors. Welcome.

Holy Cow, post: 426238, member: 50 wrote: You will discover that some of us are farm boys as well as surveyors. Welcome.

I'm still trying to figger out how you punch the keypad on your DC with hooves...

Welcome from Downunder Mark.
What sort of layouts? Irrigation? Centre/ linear pivots

HC probably has a voice (Moo) activated keyboard.
But I've seen tails used pretty efficiently too.

Thanks for the welcome. I build dairies some feedyard work. I am currently building a processing building and a 140' x 50' freezer for a dog food byproduct plant. I have been using string line, theodolite and a tape to do layout for years. The projects have gotten so big in recent years that I started looking for a better way. Some of these crossvent buildings are 700,000 square ft and 1200 piers. Are there many dairies in Aus?

Howdy Mark
What TS did you decide upon.

I decided to buy a Topcon es 55 until I learn how to use it and learn the software, got a good deal on it. Once I learn more, I plan on buying a robot.

There's about 6400 dairies in Australia
But where I am (Tasmania population 515000 å±) there's

• 437 dairy farms

• 149,000 dairy cows

• Average herd size: 341 cows

• Milk production 0.760 billion litres

• 8% of national milk production

It's a bit of a chequered history. Dairying waxes and wanes.

By local standards those are big buildings.

DC's? Only sissies need DC's. Nothing wrong with an ink pen and a notebook.

Holy Cow, post: 426273, member: 50 wrote: DC's? Only sissies need DC's. Nothing wrong with an ink pen and a notebook.

I've witnessed HC do quite a bit with just that ink pen Big Chief tablet. 😉 (and of course, a calculator)

Holding a pen in my hoof is not a problem. We cows already have the equivalent of an opposable thumb. The challenge is flipping the pages on the Big Chief tablet neatly.