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roughening methods that we use:
On continuous floors:
- Grit blasting (possibly
wet), with broken
blast-furnace slag, glass beads, aluminium oxide, etc.
- Shot-blasting,
with steel shot or broken steel shot.
- Flame annealing,
with an acetylene burner or hot-air lance
- Strip milling,
with carbide or metal mills
- Bush hammering,
with lightly hammering bits
On grating floors:
- Strip milling,
with carbide or metal cutters
- Grit blasting (possibly
wet), with broken
blast-furnace slag, glass beads, aluminium oxide, etc.
- Milling with a
diamond mill
Because the edges of the
grating beams break off if a
strip mill is used for roughening, we started to use a narrow mill
to only roughen the middle of the beam.The disadvantage of this,
however, is that production capacity is low, which results in a high
price. Furthermore,
urine remains on the surface because a
channel is created in
the middle of the beam.
Because of this we
started to grit-blast the grating beams.
We also encountered a number of problems here : grit-blasting
causes considerable dust, grit is left in the slurry store and on the
trusses, grit blasting makes an annoying noise, the depth of the
texture is uneven and urine remains on the surface because of the pits that are made.
NONE OF THESE DISADVANTAGES
OCCUR WHEN
THE NEW DIAMOND MILL IS USED.
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Machine:
The milling machine
is 600 mm wide, 1200 mm long
and 1000 mm high. It weighs 400 kg. The diamond
mill itself is 250 mm wide. The working speed can be continuously adjusted
because of the hydrostatic drive.
Treatment:
Transversely to the grating beams, therefore in the
longitudinal direction of the gangways, grooves are be milled from 0 -
2 mm deep, 3,5 mm wide and with 2,5 mm between
the grooves. The result of the treatment is a corduroy effect.
Even if the grating floor is not very flat, it is possible to treat
the majority of the grating beams with this diamond mill. This machine
can be used on more or less all of the floor
area on which the cows can walk.
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