Parlour Bases.

Name: Precast Parlour & Dairy Bases
Brand: West Country Concrete Products

Cast to the drawing you send us.

Precast bases and pits for robotic and conventional milking systems. DeLaval VMS and Lely Astronaut box-style, plus herringbone pit bases. Cast to the manufacturer's schedule and to the level tolerance your robot dealer specifies.

A milking robot is a precision instrument bolted to a slab. Get the slab wrong and the dealer cannot commission. We cast the slab right — to the robot manufacturer's tolerance — so commissioning happens on the day it should.

We have shop drawings on file for DeLaval and Lely, and can work to most conventional parlour pit schedules. Send us the dealer drawing and the install date and we will hold a casting slot.

· Cast to dealer drawing
· C40/50 concrete
· Robot + conventional
· All cast-ins coordinated

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WCCP precast DeLaval VMS milking robot base installed on a dairy

Specification

Robot and herringbone bases.

Sizes shown are robot-manufacturer standard. Pit lengths are cast to the parlour-installer schedule with all cable, vacuum and wash penetrations coordinated before the mould is cut.

Variant	Size	Level requirement	Typical use
DeLaval VMS base	1525mm × 3950mm × 500mm (5'0" × 12'11" × 1'8")	To DeLaval’s published requirement	Single-box VMS robotic milking installation
Lely Astronaut A5 base	2400mm × 3030mm × 720mm (7'10" × 9'11" × 2'4")	To Lely’s published requirement	Lely A5 robotic milking installation
Herringbone parlour base	To pit length — typically 12-24m (39'4"-78'9")	To the parlour installer's schedule	Conventional herringbone parlours
Collecting yard slab	To shed dimensions	Falls 1:60 to channel	Pre-milking holding yard with grooved finish
Parlour pit precast	900mm (2'11") wide × pit length	To the parlour installer's schedule	Operator pit with cable / vacuum / wash channels cast in

We confirm robot model, pit dimensions and cable / vacuum / wash penetrations on a shop drawing before mould cut. Late changes after mould cut are chargeable.

Mix design and cube-test data available on request. Tell us the level tolerance your robot dealer requires and we will confirm what we can hold before you order.

Where they go

Common applications.

From a single-robot conversion of a 60-cow Devon dairy to a four-robot 240-cow new build in Wales, we cast the base to the dealer's drawing and to the manufacturer's tolerance.

· New-build robot dairies — DeLaval and Lely installations
· Conventional herringbone parlour replacements (8/16 to 32/64)
· Retro-fits where a robot replaces an old herringbone
· Conversion of straw-yard barns to robotic milking
· Calf-rearing automatic feeders on precast bases
· Mixed installations — robot-led with herringbone backup

Standards & references

Cast to current code.

British Standards: Our products are manufactured in compliance with applicable British Standards. For information regarding the specific standards applicable to a particular product, please contact us.
Robot-manufacturer schedules: DeLaval VMS, Lely Astronaut A5 — drawings on file.
Red Tractor Dairy Standards: Hygiene and surface-finish requirements for milking-area concrete.