The new, hard-wearing Challenger 45 herringbone milking parlour is the practical solution by WestfaliaSurge especially for growing family and large-scale dairy farms. Challenger masterly combines top cow comfort with comfortable and effective milking.

This screwed, free-standing milking parlour frame is highly stable and will stand up to any herd – even with milking times of more than 15 hours a day. The thickness and construction of the materials used for the main posts, cross-members, breast rail and rear pit barrier are a guarantee for its durability.

A wide entry area with vacuum-operated gates, variable adjustment of the width of the gangway and the height of the breast rail, as well as the entry gate stop ensure animal-friendly and rapid entry so that group milking can be quickly started. Variable basic settings ensure that the system can adapted at any time to the herd's requirements.

Challenger also has the operator's comfort very much in mind. The free-standing framework construction ensures comfortable positioning of the clusters with a resting area of 1150 mm. Angled splash shields and stepless indexing with positioning arms for each cow ensure an ideal milking position for effective, stress-free milking with optimal animal observation. The rapid exit system with the pneumatically-operated front gate increases throughput during group changeovers.

You can customise your milking installation with options to meet your specific requirements – whether gate control, milking control systems with or without milk metering or cluster removal or cluster positioning arms – with a Challenger herringbone milking parlour your installation will always be flexible and built to last.