Water, water everywhere! Do these pictures make you super excited?! Probably not. But it's upgrade time here. (Like most of the time. Like all businesses.)
Think about the taste of sour milk. One time my son got a sour milk carton in a restaurant. He spit it out and said, "It tastes like cat milk!" We laughed so hard, but then I thought ... how does he know what cat milk tastes like?
The point is, sour milk is terrible, and in order to make sure there's never anything sour around here - we need clean equipment.
After every milking, the entire system goes through a wash. It's like a dishwasher for the innards of the pipes and milkers. The bulk tank has its own washer system, which goes every time it's emptied.
What we need is a lot of hot water in a little amount of time. We used to have two water heaters, but we replaced them with one bigegr, more powerful water heater.
Like a lot of projects, you can't stop there!
The pipes are the same pipes that were there when the barn was built - about 1972. So when you get a bigger water heater, you need bigger pipes. When you get new pipes, you need someone to come and hook it all up together ... and that's quite a job. It's been going on awhile.
So, now that you know the back story, isn't it even more beautiful? That's our job! Making sure it never tastes like cat milk.
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1 comment:
I never thought I would say that about dairy pipes, but they do look great! I had no idea about the cleaning process involved and I'm really glad I learned that. Nobody likes sour milk and even worse, milk that tastes like cat milk! I hope changing the pipes will be an easy thing to do.
Ambrose @ Brown & Reaves Services, Inc.
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