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Engineers express their versatility Russell Fredric Known for the manufacture of an extensive array of agricultural and industrial equipment, Southlandbased firm Winton Engineering also has a history of building large-scale dairy wintering sheds. The family-owned company employs 10 staff and is owned and run by three shareholders, Steven Henry, Justin Short and his father, Roger Short. Its expertise runs across fitting, turning and machining work, all types of welding, dairy shed repairs, hydraulic and farm-equipment repairs, and the design and manufacture of new equipment. The company also does new dairy yards, dairy-shed work, the design, building and erection of wintering sheds, and the manufacture of backing and top gates for all yard types. It has been a long history of building dairy sheds under the Advanced Dairy Barns Ltd brand. “We have been involved in building barns for about 10 years, housing more than 21,500 cows in more than 20 barns,” says Steven Henry. Despite the dairy industry taking a hit during the past two seasons, some barns are of an epic scale, he says. “At present, we’ve got a massive job...one of the biggest jobs in that line of the business.” It’s an 1150-cow, 7700 square metre barn being built as a turnkey package for a client in in Clinton, in South Otago. The job started early October and requires a significant commitment of resources from Winton Engineering. It will be completed for the 2017-18 season. This follows a 1500-cow barn completed two years ago for the Van Leeuwen Dairy Group at Makikihi, in South Canterbury. De Laval claims this is the largest robotic-dairy barn in the world.
At 200 metres long and 67 metres wide, it occupies 13,000 square metres – about the size of two rugby fields. By using Winton Engineering’s engineering expertise, Advanced Dairy Barns Ltd can advise on design options based around individual requirements and taking into account factors such as location, cow numbers, length of time cows will be housed, the type of milking system, effluent scraper systems, and mattress or matting options. Other considerations include light, air flow, rest areas, space, feeding and water supply. “A good barn is 100 per cent geared to the needs of the cows to keep them healthy and productive. In addition, the design of the barn ensures work can be done with maximum efficiency and working conditions are pleasant so that staff enjoy working there.” The company has built 10 barns in the past five years. Winton Engineering has designed and manufactured a wide range of farm and industrial equipment – including aerators, chisel ploughs, soft-hand bale clamps, silage grabs, bale forks, pallet forks, log splitters, leveller/cultivators, rollers and bale feeders. These are sold direct to clients. “Most of them we’ve developed ourselves over the last 10 or more years, or put our own stamp on the designs,” says Steven Henry. “The leveller/cultivator is one of our biggest sellers; it has the option of including cultivating tines. Last year we added a fodder-beet bucket to the range.” The company’s workshop does precision turning work up to 2000mm in length and 500mm in diameter, as well as key-way broaching and milling, thread cutting, hydraulic ram manufacture and press forming. Fabrication work includes MIG, TIG, gas and stick welding and repairs.
Examples of Winton Engineering work. and products...the van Leeuwen Dairy Group robotic-dairy barn (above), a leveller/cultivator (below,a an aerator (bottom) and rubber roller (bottom left).
WINTON HEAD OFFICE P.O BOX 34, Winton Phone (03) 236-6580 Fax (03) 236-6581
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