The end of September

The last couple weeks of September were busy and productive.  Materials keep arriving and the parlor is taking shape. By the end of the month the basement of the parlor was ready to pour and half the footings were poured on the lower free stall. The commodity shed is just getting started. Octaform factory reps were here for about 10 days training our guys regarding installation of their PVC forming system that we are using for the parlor.

Footings are poured for the basement of the parlor.

Transfer lane going up to the upper freestall

Scott was here for a week setting up our new GPS system.

Slope we seeded  (still waiting for the grass to start growing) between the new dairy and the existing dairy.

Support walls for the PVC forms in the basement of the parlor.

Slope above the upper freestall pad.

Octaform PVC forms.

Assembling of the walls prior to installation.

Setting the first wall in place.

Rebar bracing inside the PVC walls.

Basement under the milker's pit.

Interior view of PVC walls.

Looking from upper freestall pad, parlor on the next level and then lower freestall on the last level.

Beginnings of road going from new dairy to commodity shed.

How much can a "mule" carry??

Claude, the engineer, doing special inspections.

Pad for commodity shed.

Removing overburden for the lagoon.