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| I'm posting this on every forum I'm on, in the hopes we can get this figured out and running while I'm off work over the next week. We still need to build a shed for it, but until I know the dimensions of it all, I don't even want to get started with that. This is the milker was given to me recently and has been checked out and is working fine. I just don't know what gets hooked up to the opening on the lower pipe (to the lower left of the machine). 
I know the pipe sticking up gets attached to the pressure bucket, then the gauge, then the pipe with the stall cocks on it. Any input is appreciated. This is a Delaval 75.
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It really is impossible to say, but that pump looks like one we used to have in a small dairy farm I used to work at. If it is the same delaval pump that was there, it works well for small farms, (30 cows on the farm here), but it is obsolete now with no parts to rebuild it. This is great when the pump breaks halfway through night milking...
To answer your question though, I think the bottom pipe is the vent pipe that goes outside the building. I would think from the picture the top pipe would do that, but you would know better than me that exact pump and set up.
BTW: I assume this is the type of pump that creates just a vacuum to operate the milkers (That farm had 3 milkers it could power), but no milk line. That is the milk was deposited into stainless steel cans that you manually dump into the milk tank. (Yes it is hard to believe that a 30 cow farm could still operate in the commercial dairy industry up into 2010 this way, but it did).
Nice score anyway and best of luck with it. It's great to see people improve their farms and grow.
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| thanks, Plowpoint! Feedback I've gotten is like your's - to vent that lower pipe out of the shed - or to put an oil-catching muffler on it. I still have to call the shop that serviced it for me to see what they have to say. It's been so wet here we haven't been able to get it set up yet. The thing weighs between 300-400 pounds, so we have to use the tractor to move it, but the barnyard is too soft to take the tractor up there. I'll start getting antsy about it if we get to the middle of June and don't have it running yet. That's when I'm going to wean off our foster calves and I really don't want to go back to handmilking twice a day. She's still open, too, so I'll be milking at least another ten months, as I won't even try to have her bred again until July.
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I can see why you want it running. I never milked a milking by hand, but I would bet it would get tempting to "just let it slide for a night" and then mastatis creeps in.
One word of caution though, even on the farm with a parlor that cost over a million dollars and is VERY high tech, EVERY cow is started by hand to ensure there is no mastitis in each teat, and at the end of the auto-milking, we strip each cows teat of milk to prevent mastitis from forming in any left over milk. And we do this with milkers that are SUPPOSED to do this for us. We just can't risk it because we get bonus checks for high quality milk.
I am saying all this, because I am trying to show that it would be good for you to hand start, and strip out each teat, after you get your milker working. You will get better milk and healthier cows and if we do it with our large dairy farm, you should too.
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Hey just thought of this: when you get your milker running, did you think about going to a 3 times per day milking program?
We do this and of course get more milk per cow. Even with the extra labor and feed costs, its worth it, and the cows love it. Less pressure on their udders and it breaks up their day better.
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| I appreciate all of the advice, Plowpoint. I do plan on hand-starting her and stripping her out at the end. I don't know how else I would keep track of how healthy (or not) her udder is staying. No, I wouldn't go to three times a day. My schedule is hectic enough as it is, with working three 8 hour evenings per week. On those days, I'm going to have to milk at noon and midnight. I also do not have a need for that much milk. I have just found out that she's not bred back yet, but at least that means that I can hopefully get her adjusted back to a spring time calving. I will probably get her another foster calf late in the fall so I don't have to milk twice a day throughout the winter. That usually works very well for me.
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the outlet pipe can go to either a reclaimer or straight out to the world.
Reclaimers cost a bit and usually are sold with the pump so you don't see too many old used ones by themselves.
You can get by just running the pipe outside and put an elbow pointing down and pipe into a plastic barrel which will trap the oil and keep it from messing up the place. We don't reuse the oil from our barrel since it also picks up a little rain now and then. But if you had a drier place to put it or a way to separate the water you could reuse the oil.
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I finally got the milker up and running in November and used it for a bit over a month before the cow started drying off. I never noticed any oil coming out of the pipe, but then again, it is on an upward slant as it it going out of the shed we house the milker in.
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| You got to keep oil in the vaccum pump for lubrication and it should discharge some out the vent pipe. the unit may need to be leveled
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The unit itself is level - the exhaust pipe we have on it goes up and out of the shed, as we were advised to do by a couple of different farmers and the shop that checked the machine over for us.
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