“He was doing cups on at 5am, 9pm and 1pm the next day but it was too tough. He was getting smashed and the cows were struggling,” he said. “I said to myself – does it have to be a true 16-hour milking – it could be a different split, so we did 5am, 7pm and 11am the next day which became a 14-16-18-hour split.”
