PERRIN ESTATE
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Coast & Country
The Perrin family’s new 30-aside herringbone shed.
Perrin Estate
The ultimate Northland farm lifestyle
On a Monday morning New Farm Dairies approached the Perrin family trust farm snuggly tucked off State Highway 10 Waipapa in Northland.
But something was amiss. With three rows of a 330 Jersey-cross herd still in the bails the reporter looked at her watch. It was 8.45am. The cows were happy and so was the reliefmilker – with a once-a-day milking schedule and a brand new 30-aside herringbone offering the ultimate lifestyle for both man and animal. The Perrin family has owned the 130 hectares for more than 40 years. Family and trust member Ken Perrin says the old 22-aside
herringbone was in the wrong place – right next to SH10. “We decided to move it to the farm’s middle – and increasing issues with compliance made it a good opportunity to build to a compliant and future-proofed farm operation.”
Building quality
Dairy Build constructed the new shed. “We spent a lot of time looking at Dairy Build’s previous work and talking to farmers who’ve used them – signing with them is the best decision we could have made,” says Ken. “We wanted value for money, a quality job delivered on time and to budget. Dairy Build was competitive on price, the build quality
The team: Dairy Build owner Matthew Sidford, Adams Air Con & Refrigeration owner Daniel Adams, Northern Dairy Specialists owner Kevin Waterman with his team, and sharemilker Marrin Urlich.
is universally high and the cost was what we agreed.” Servicing Northland, the family company specialise in farm buildings, sheds and feed pads. “The beauty is clients deal with me, I provide quality service and I’m on-site most of the time,” says owner Matthew Sidford. Dairy Build started the build July 1, 2014. “It took 29 days from start to finish.” “We profiled the site, dug the pit, erected pit panels, concreted it and set up all posts, then concreted the thing all in one go in one day.” Then came the roof and railing. Ken says the build happened amid nasty weather. “But we got the
Dairy Build also designed the water-driven gates, which have rubber fixed to the bottom, to scrape muck off the yard.
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benefit of Matthew’s years of experience, his conscientious team; and suggestions on overall design were incorporated without any fuss.” Matthew says the shed is easy to clean, has good cow flow and effective effluent control. Dairy Build also designed the water-driven backing gate. “The yard is self-cleaning using a water-driven backing gate with scrapers which saves time at the end of the day.”
Trusty installation
Mention ‘Kevin Waterman’ in the North and farmers say: ‘Yeah, he’s a good bugger’. Kevin’s company Northern Dairy Specialists supplied and fitted the DeLaval milking plant and machinery. With NDS being specialists in milking shed installations, machine and pump repairs and servicing and stainless steel welding, they got stuck in. “It only took us four weeks to fit-out. “We did the water side of the project too and ended up fitting the effluent,” says Kevin, who is known for his skill in transforming dairy renovations and new builds. “It’s pretty basic shed, not flashy, but very effective,” says Kevin, who is Northland’s DeLaval agent. Northern Dairy Specialists With more than 20 years’ experience in owner Kevin Waterman the field, Kevin with wife Jenny operate with the DeLaval swing a 24-hour seven days a week service from Cape Reinga to Kawakawa. arm jetters.
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