DeLaval Voluntary Milking System

Aloha,
This might be useful for the monastery if we have too many cows to milk one day:bye:

🙂
that was found in "10 offbeat, odd, and downright weird places you'll find Linux"
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3004886/linux/10-offbeat-odd-and-downright-weird-places-youll-find-linux.html

We hung up our milk buckets in the summer of 1964. I do remember the company name of Delaval as being on several products we used. We were what I think they considered to be Grade C (D?) because we milked by hand in an old barn with dirt floors and minimal cleaning. The buckets of milk were poured into a strainer on a separator to eliminate non-fluids in the bucket then strip most of the cream from the milk. We always had a gallon can for milk and another for cream in our refrigerator for family consumption. The milk went into ten-gallon milk cans and the cans were placed in a wooden half barrel full of well water to cool the milk while awaiting the arrival of the milk truck the next day to haul the cans to the processing plant.

The system shown is sort of like watching a Buck Rogers movie 70 years ago.....hard to believe.

Dad got rid of the family cow around 1960, or maybe it was a bit before then. I believe one of the main reasons was the urgent need to milk her morning and night. The local dairies were always hurting for reliable help, I knew better than to get involved.
... I find this fascinating, the cow requesting to be milked then being computer verified.

Dad got rid of the family cow around 1960, or maybe it was a bit before then. I believe one of the main reasons was the urgent need to milk her morning and night. The local dairies were always hurting for reliable help, I knew better than to get involved.
... I find this fascinating, the cow requesting to be milked then being computer verified.

I can see why. From what tiny amount I understand about Linux it is obvious this is a lean mean OS that is FAST. Unlike "that other operating system"!

The horrible thought is what might happen if there was such a station available to humans that might replace the human touch with a mechanical touch to stimulate sensual sensations.....if you catch my drift.

FL/GA PLS., post: 344513, member: 379 wrote: I can see why. From what tiny amount I understand about Linux it is obvious this is a lean mean OS that is FAST. Unlike "that other operating system"!

that would be over generalizing. Linux can be used in very minimal hardware, but it can also be "pimped out" and have as much bloat as any other OS.
BUT the vast majority of Linux Operating Systems are extremely fast compared to Any version of windows... like night and day.

The biggest advantage, in my opinion, is that it is Open Source. Stick with the published mainstream distributions and add on software and you are quite safe... you don't have to trust the "corporate policy statement" of the day.
There are literally thousands of geeky types world wide constantly inspecting the code (open=freely accessible), competing for bragging rights "I found an ERROR!" or inspecting for back doors.
even You can open the hood and change the sparkplugs, or even add something that the factory did not authorize.

Holy Cow, post: 344523, member: 50 wrote: The horrible thought is what might happen if there was such a station available to humans that might replace the human touch with a mechanical touch to stimulate sensual sensations.....if you catch my drift.

An old friend of mine that grew up on a dairy in Shamrock, Texas tells a funny story about milking machines. I'm not familiar with the apparatus, but there apparently is a smaller and portable milking device that can be hand carried for different applications. And being a stiff-puckered teen ager he decided to see if this little gadget could help him out in a teenaged boy kind of way.

Apparently he flipped the switch just long enough to flip it back off..it nearly tore off a part of his anatomy. Being embarrassed, he went and told one the hired hands, who in turn told his father. His father, understanding his embarrassment, called the only doctor around and begged his confidence. My buddy, his father and the hired hand took a trip to the doctor's house to get his nearly destroyed pecker sewed up. Seeing how distraught he was about his embarrassment, they all promised to "keep quiet"....

He realized that nobody had actually "kept quiet" the next Sunday morning at church. He could see all the adults looking his way and grinning while they whispered to somebody else....

And even the school principal, on the next Monday, was grinning when he asked him, "how are you doing?"

He told me he learned that when grown-ups say they're going to keep a secret, it just means they aren't going to tell any kids!

Thank God I didn't grow up on a farm....all I had for such 'experimentation' when I was kid was the youngest Brown girl down the street....B-)

No idea if this is true, but it's a good story anyway.

My great-grandfather was a farmer/businessman in rural Connecticut in the 1860s. He contracted with a dealer to provide milk, to be hauled by train into New York and sold. After the first shipment, the dealer reported that there were many complaints from the customers. They said a ‰ÛÏyellow scum‰Û rose to the top of the milk when they left it standing. This of course was the cream, which all the other milk suppliers had been skimming off.

Great-Granddad apologized, and began skimming the cream before he poured the milk into cans for shipment. There were still traces of the yellow scum, the dealer said. Great-Granddad said he would take care of it. He began adding a few quarts of spring water to each can of milk, along with a handful of lime to give the mixture a little body.

It was OK now, the dealer reported, except that occasionally the customers found a small fish swimming in the milk. That was quite natural, Great-Granddad said. The cows drank at a brook, and sometimes would swallow a minnow or two. The customers were all satisfied with this explanation.

"There are literally thousands of geeky types world wide constantly inspecting the code..."

That seems to account for the tremendous speed and lean OS. Thank's to all the genius geeks!

that reminds me of Harold Platt. Lived on Anderson road across from the dairy, his dad was a milker.

end of story.

Laughing out loud, as they say. That's a great story!

Holy Cow, post: 344496, member: 50 wrote: We hung up our milk buckets in the summer of 1964. I do remember the company name of Delaval as being on several products we used. We were what I think they considered to be Grade C (D?) because we milked by hand in an old barn with dirt floors and minimal cleaning. The buckets of milk were poured into a strainer on a separator to eliminate non-fluids in the bucket then strip most of the cream from the milk. We always had a gallon can for milk and another for cream in our refrigerator for family consumption. The milk went into ten-gallon milk cans and the cans were placed in a wooden half barrel full of well water to cool the milk while awaiting the arrival of the milk truck the next day to haul the cans to the processing plant.

The system shown is sort of like watching a Buck Rogers movie 70 years ago.....hard to believe.

DeLaval was once the largest employer in Dutchess County (NY) before the days of IBM.
The had a large plant right on the Hudson River from the turn of the century until the 1960's, when they moved east to Pleasant Valley.

I grew up on a dairy farm. I never thought of doing that, never! Never ever heard of anyone trying that.

As I recall we had a Delaval milking machine and some of the cows would show up to be milked. If we were off the schedule (late for milking) many of the cows would be waiting.