Special thanks to Miller Electric for this post. With 250 head of Holstein dairy cattle in the milking operation and 1,500 acres of corn, beans, alfalfa and wheat spread across 12 farms, Ron Brooks oversees a large farming enterprise where timely equipment fabrication and repairs can be critical to keep things running smoothly. He recalls one recent night at Brooks Farms in Waupaca County, Wis., when a cow in the milking parlor stepped on a milking retracting arm, breaking it. Brooks had a replacement arm, but it wasn't quite the same style as the old arm. So Brooks unbolted the broken stainless steel...
