Handy Comfort-Arm
Spare efforts, think smartly and get more energy for other purposes after the milking

• Comfort-arm for 30° Herringbone parlours
• Lend yourself or your helper a hand
• The weightless cluster. Spare yourself from lifting 185 tons per year (when having 100 cows)
• With the Handy Comfort-arm the milker avoids lifting many kilos every day. At the same time, it enables you to vary your work, so that attaching can be done by using both hands, thus both back and hands are less strained
• Manufactured in everlasting materials in a sturdy and modern design
• Take care of yourself by using a Strangko Comfort-arm. Your body is an important work tool, and the only house in which we have to live all our lives.

Lend Your Body a Hand Give Yourself an Extra Hand/"Arm"

Inflexible working positions and one-sided strain of the body, confines an unnecessary part of the milker's energy in the milking parlour.

The milking routines in the parlour strains large parts of the body to an unnecessary extent. By changing routines and introducing helping tools, a great part of this strain is avoided.

Is milking really hard work – no, healthy young men and women are not damaged by the work, but it wears down their backs, arms, and legs. As years go by, the work demands an ever increasing part of the energy we have naturally.
 However, many everyday strains cannot be removed or eased, but by changing the things possible, you get more energy to do other things.

Some things are more straining than others. But which work confines energy and wears down the body - and what can you do to improve work routines in the milking parlour?

Movement and variation release energy.
When the milker is working in the parlour, the straight-up working position is preferable. Your body is in the strongest position when avoiding twisting and bending-over of the back. It is important that there is sufficient space, and that no pipes, wash cups, or other equipment is placed where the milker has to stand. If the milker stands in a false position, or cannot point the tip of his shoes and his nose tip in the same direction while working, his back gets twisted.

The body’s muscles confine energy when the person is standing in the same working position for a long time. However, when we can work with calm movements in our own speed, we use the body’s energy system in an optimum way, and we can work for longer time using the same amount of energy – or have more energy for other purposes after finished milking.

Cleaning and Pre-Milking
These are some of the assignments that strain your wrists a lot. The work demands a combination of precision and force in a false position, perhaps even in a position when you bend over with your hands far away from your body’s own centre of gravity. Many get unnecessary, one-sided strain by using one hand only for this work. Once the milker has a routine of using his right for hand this work it is difficult to change the habit – BUT it is worthwhile in the long run.

Attaching and Detaching the Cluster
When attaching the cluster, it is lifted and carried by one arm, while the milker attaches the teat cups on the udder of the cow with the other hand. Carrying the cluster with one hand pulls your back in a false position and is creating a twist of your back.
The weight of the cluster is also of importance. If it weighs 2.4 kg, and 85 cows are milk twice a day, you lift approx. 800 kg when attaching and detaching the cluster. This adds up to 257 tons per year. With automatic detaching the weight is divided to ”only” 400 kg per day which adds up to 128.5 tons per year.

You twist the wrist of your hand used to attach the teat cups to the udder. This movement is made many times a day. In a herd of 85 cows the milker makes this movement 680 times a day. If you use the same hand for cleaning the udder, it is an additional approx. 1000 wrist-movements daily (1-2 movements per teat).

Using the Handy Comfort-arm the milker avoids lifting the many kilos every day. At the same time the work can be varied so that attaching the cluster can be done by using both hands, and in this way putting less train on the back as well as the hands.