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Parallel parking
SEVEN VALLEYS - A per
sistent cattle rustler and an aging
milking parlor were largely
responsible for a decision by Leroy
Bupp, Seven Valleys R 2, to buck
the current dairy-building trend
and construct a new stanchion
barn.
When a cattle rustler hit twice in
six months, stealing six of his best
registered Holstein heifers and
butchering two in the pasture of
the heifer bam over the lull from
the mam buildings, Bupp con
sidered putting up a more visible
heifer-raising facility.
But what he really wanted was a
new dairy bam.
“It had always been one of our
dreams to milk the Bupplynn herd
m a tie-stall bam, where we could
give better individual care to each
of our registered cows,” Bupp
reflects.
The old double-three Surge walk
through parlor was almost 25 years
old, one of York county’s earliest,
and both Bupp and his Maryland
Cooperative Milk Producers
fieldmen agreed that some major
remodeling was needed.
On a borrowed drafting table,
Bupp began experimenting with
designs.
Among his bam construction
goals were ways to eliminate the
back and knee strain of constant
kneeling and bending during
milking, the incorporation of labor
saving systems and methods of
holding down energy costs. He also
figured on tying in the earthenbank
manure storage and bunker feeder
systems that had been m use for
several years with the parlor
operation.
After several layouts on paper,
and a mockup of stall design in his
wagon shed, Bupp was satisfied
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with a bam nlan. His fmal drawing
incorporated angled stalls, raised
ten inches above the center
alleyway and extending out over a
grated gravity-flow-gutter manure
handling system.
Bupp took his rough blueprints to
Amish builder Elam S. King of
Strasburg, who agreed to tackle
construction of the angled stall
barn
On Thanksgiving Eve, 1980, the
herd was tied in their new home.
For lack 1 of a better name, Penn
State dairy specialist Dr Larry
Specht has dubbed the design a
“herringbone stanchion barn ’
The 82 rubber-matted, angled
tie stalls are 72 inches long and
range from 48 to 54 inches in width,
to accommodate big-bodied older
cows as well as younger heifers.
Small quantities of well-dried
sawdust are used for bedding.
Because Bupp could not locate
commercially produced gutter
grates to meet his specifications,
he fabricated his own of square
five-eighths inch steel. The
manure gutter is 27 mches wide at
the top, sloping beneath the center
alley to 34 mches of width at the
gutter depth of four feet. The
sloped side of the gutter allows for
extra manure volume for the
bacterial action and gravity flow
processes to work.
Ten-inch dams are built into the
gutter at intervals of 50 feet, which
retain the liquids that keep the
bacterial organisms breaking
down waste solids. More solid
materials float to the top, and are
pushed by gravity flow from one
dam to the next, moving through
the gutter system at the distance of
about two stalls per day.
Manure flows into a cross-gutter
that also handles milkhouse water,
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Parallel parking for cows, in an angled-stali
design, and a gravity-flow manure system are
two features of the Bupplynn Farms tie-stall
then into a receiving room with a
large ventilating fan, and finally
flowing into the storage pond. Fans
at both ends of the gutter ventilate
odors and are an integral part of
the barn’s ventilating system.
“Contrary to what we might
believe in this country, this
manure system is not a new one,”
says Bupp. “European dairy
farms have had them for years.”
To cut down on the use of high
energy fans for ventilation, Bupp
designed five three-by-three foot
ceiling vents spaced through the
barn’s 220-foot length, to carry air
up through the barn attic and out
cupolas on the roof. If necessary,
fans could later be installed up in
the plywood vents, reducing fan
noises to a minimum.
Eighty 40-mch windows are
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