Filling & Covering 132 ft Silo

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[@jamesmisener3006]

I can see many benefits to the silo storage of feed. The top unloader, the quality of feed, the saving of labour, and of course, robots can easily pick up feed. It's going to be a big change on your farm. Come winter and you will need a sweeper brush for the robots outdoor paths. May I suggest one with hydraulic angle control like on a snow plow. It will make your life so much easier when the snow comes and the cows are hungry. It will work just as good in summer as well keeping the paths clear of debris. Cheers all. 🇨🇦

[@Dan-qy1rg]

Nice to see you getting the silo filled, a little work but a good relief for you and you dad, I would think. Thanks for sharing, have a great week!

[@wolzer90]

nice view from the silo at dusk. Before 2012 we had 6 silos each with 2,000 m³ (56,600 cft), now only bunker silos. Bunker silos are standard in Germany, upright silos are now very rare. Greetings from East Germany.

[@AurigaMV]

Great job! You can really see the effort put into each stage, from harvesting to distributing the silage in the storage. I'm amazed at how you handle such a massive workload around the clock! A true example of how teamwork and attention to detail bring great results. It's inspiring to watch!

[@khoughton411]

Thanks Eric. I'm glad your cows aren't going to starve. Y'all grow beautiful corn.

[@ezone913]

Hang a couple new forks on each unloader seems like a proper idea. Nice edit, Eric.

[@tokencivilian8507]

Great content as always. Thanks for bringing the reality of agriculture to us.

[@ImOnAJourney]

What a view from up there! Eric - be overly careful in that silo, it only takes one wrong step.

[@Chrisgrannysmith]

You are my favorite youtuber! Super excited to see everything coming together!!

[@jimfree0]

They say modern food consumers, with no connection at all to anything they eat, don't like to see "how the sausage is made". That's not true. And I'd wager that most of your other 450K subs are like me, supermarket omnivores. I love it. Watching the sun turn into the silage get processed and then excreted out as dairy product - it's almost a magic trick. Health to you and the girls~!

[@dougkaylor2528]

What a view from the silo !!!

[@brianmartin2071]

Guys when your in the silo’s please wear a dust mask ! your young and it doesn’t bother you now but when your older it definitely tells on your lungs . I never thought building dust and sawdust bothered me when I was younger but. It tells on me now . Sorry I don’t mean to try and tell you what to do , just a wee bit of advice from an old guy . Great video though 👍

[@daveklein2826]

Not necessary

[@bobdevine4906]

Beautiful shots from the top, Eric!

[@dougdiplacido2406]

Great to see the new silos in action. Like anything new you will find better ways to fill them and cover them. Thanks till next time.

[@tacitus7408]

Your plans are coming together 😊

[@gordongray5260]

Neat, looks like it’s working good, the filling of the silo I mean.

[@tpfromcentralpa1692]

That light at the top and the power cord from the top down and not up the chute should be a requirement for all top unload silo's!

[@daveklein2826]

Not necessary

[@lstone.09]

You're definitely getting things done. I'm sure your dad is proud of the things you've accomplished. Awesome video Eric. 🚜🚜🚜

[@1striperon]

As you get more experience I’m sure you’ll do some things differently. It looked like at least 8 feet wasn’t filled under the unloader in this silo. The distributor could work a little better so you have less forking. Near the top, it seems to need to spin faster. Good video, Eric. Impressive power plant on the blower to provide all the lift.

[@desross2002]

Every systemhas his good and bad sides,I’m not a silo guy but this setup is awesome

[@isaiahmwangi-u2x]

Always happy to see you do great things Eric

[@michaelc.3812]

Terrific job Eric! Your channel is in my top three and I love to see new videos pop up. This new silo system is incredible, and as an electrical engineer, I’m happy 😃

[@joeyouruncle9850]

Around the wall you may get up to a foot wide and 1 1/2 feet down of spoiled silage is the worst I've seen when silo is coverd over winter, the center will be really good feed

[@dniboc7227]

That cart look so small next to those silos. Good stuff!

[@dankification]

Eric you should put up a big American flag with a strobe light on top for aircraft visibility onto the centre silo

[@daveklein2826]

Send him one

[@rearlt]

Great, as always. Blessed be the Lord for His bounty is great.

[@michel1160]

Good Job Eric. These 3 silos are really awesome. keep it up 👋🇨🇭🇺🇸

[@greenbaypicker4976]

I think I can see my house in Wisconsin from up top. LOL

[@Bessdohome]

You guys really need to look into getting a weedeater paddle rake to level off the silos , it would take about 5 min for one person to get job done with one.

[@harveypenner2386]

Thanks for sharing!!

[@SomedayTooPulling]

I'm so impressed with the volume that blower can throw. It's incredible.. good blower and big HP. I've plugged up a blower to many times trying to push the capacity lol.

[@physiologist7237]

Silos look great!

[@TheOldBailey4135]

Eric, you could keep a rope tied up top so if you need a tool just have someone tie it and send it up. Save you a trip down for a tool.

[@franciscosandiego3026]

Great video brother from the imperial county ca 🚜🚜🚜

[@chrisbuhneing3194]

Glad you had Caleb in there with you, i know a guy that went into one of the silos by himself steps on a hollow pocket and drowned to death they found him 22 feet down.

[@henriverheyen6190]

Corn silo?

[@sandystrickland9950]

@@chrisbuhneing3194 that's scary

[@10thgenerationdairyman61]

Do you mean a grain bin?

[@billherman37]

I think that would of been a grain bin or silo

[@chrisbuhneing3194]

@@10thgenerationdairyman61 Any just glad you had someone with you.

[@kyleverno]

I would see if you could program that to have the auger run in reverse then you could continue to fill it up and even if it piles high, the auger would remove it to the outside edge. No need for those pitchfork up really high on top of that, you could sneak more cards in.

[@TheRealJesseStoltzfus]

It’ll be interesting to see how much more it will settle out until you open it.

[@johnwhite5897]

You should have some form of height markers interior/ exterior. It would save a premature climb to the top, the interior camera plus knowing the six minute rotation would, almost give you a precise time of topping off

[@jerrylong3580]

I know this might not sound like a good idea or maybe you’ve already have it planned. But a rope that is tied off at the top of each ladder so you can tie off and pull up tools? Instead of carrying them up one handed each time. Like I said just a thought.

[@andreakeeling9217]

Way easier than doing Bunkers. 🎉🎉🎉

[@jw8848]

Putting that tarp down is a great idea.

[@Zeke-yv3nw]

Looking good.

[@eugenerande-c8w]

what ever you dont drop the camera from the top of the new silo wouldnt want to miss watching the great content you make

[@dennisladuzinsky4895]

I'm always impressed by the precision and efficiency of the harvesting crew - one machine harvesting and cutting and the second vehicle being filled with the harvest. Are the two vehicles cutting and collecting the corn harvest coordinated electronically or do they just coordinate manually as they go along?

[@canvids1]

I watched your great video and it takes me back to my kid days tramping the silage down in the silo my end jumped ahead before I could comment on the video.

[@ScotWalt858]

All good! You can only "automate" so much! :)

[@joestefon316]

Great videos......loved corn chopping season

[@greggergen9104]

I grew up with seven silos all of which were covered in that same way. Hard to believie we used that same technique 50 years ago. In retrospect I thought It might be a good idea, especially now, to get some steel ring rodss from some old silo and use them to hold the plastic down around the edges. I think it would work better. Also it would spare you the musty silage on top of the plastic.

[@chetreed2198]

Awesome job

[@Bruhthelike]

Carts look like lil worker ants from that high

[@kylerayk]

Please do an up close video of the power unit silage blower!! I want to hear that turbo kick in!

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Yikes! Fear of hight watching that

[@sandystrickland9950]

Nothing ever upsets you ❤ your doing great ❤ been watching you for a few years now. Have a great day.

[@anthonyvelez3788]

Great video from way at the top.

[@nieksalomons]

With the size of those silos, maybe it would be a great idea to attach a box of tools at the top for these kinds of activities?

[@stevebreeding3751]

Can the diverter be sped up or slowed down to spread out easier? Then put the plastic down and blow another part of a load in to save from all the hand work?

[@freddylove9914]

GREAT JOB 👍 ERIC

[@ericmanteuffel6403]

Theoretically, you should not have any spoilage. The off gassing from the ferment should keep a protective layer above the silage, keeping oxygen from coming in contact with it.

[@Marshall_Weber]

Awesome Video and Much Love as Always 🐄 Man!!!

[@kaaarl0976]

Everytime I see it, I am amazed by the amount of material this blower is able to push through such a small pipe basically straight up, 132 ft in the air. 😮 To me, the most fascinating thing each harvest.

[@coyroberts8356]

Sweet view!!😊

[@lukasschurtenberger2680]

Hey here in switzerland we use waterpresses on top of silos ä basin filled with a bit of water saves the shoveling of feed ontop of the plastic under the baisin is no spoilage nice video

[@tpfromcentralpa1692]

We did that too, ran water on the top of the tarp, the weight of the water packed the top and kept spoilage to a minimum, by the time you opened it, the water evaporated and you just threw the tarp down the chute, didn't fork out much bad. Granted, pushing water up to the top of these 3 would be something, they definity aren't 60 ft'ers!

[@Esch-p7m]

Wen we cover our silos we have a water bag that we fill with water 💧 and put it on top of the black sheet of plastic it really keeps everything in place

[@SteveMccarthyAus]

Great job

[@jefftexas7948]

This kid is not afraid of work, that’s for sure

[@PaulWilcox-n2p]

I bet silo will settle 10 more ft will see when you open up I will be watching

[@daveskro3816]

I would bet more than that

[@PaulWilcox-n2p]

@@daveskro3816 I bet you are right

[@Well_I_am_just_saying]

I would have waited one more day to top it off one more time before putting the plastic cover on it. And I definitely would have wanted to put at least one more cart load on top to really fill it up first. It would have been worth it to me to spend a little extra time leveling it off as it was being filled to get it as full as it could be. If I paid for a silo that tall, I would really want to use every foot of it. I know it probably won't make any difference, but I'm just saying.

[@Well_I_am_just_saying]

​@@daveskro3816 10 feet might be a good guess because they already let it settle once.

[@PaulWilcox-n2p]

@@Well_I_am_just_saying me to

[@pubgaccountseller4468]

Very beautiful

[@pagz_518]

What’s good in da silo 😎

[@jacobdeangelis7702]

Loving it🔥

[@timothyhanneman7715]

Hey Eric ,Sunday a dairy in Dorset Ohio had there milking parlor burn down, trying to find homes for there 2000 milking cows ,thats so sad last I heard 300 / 400 still trying to find places for them

[@reelsroses3268]

I can see a couple of concrete pads in your future for the silo loading instead of plastic.

[@daveklein2826]

Plastic is for collecting.... Would want it either way

[@davidcantu824]

❤ You ERIC ❤

[@MrHfroese]

I have seen farms who went from manual feeding to robot feeding. After a couple of years they scrapped the robots due to they didn't work in cold and snowy climates. They said it was a waste of money as they were constantly having to repair the robots and replace sensors. Fyi love your videos

[@rpark8265]

I’m thinking Eric will make them work,sure there will be problems but I’m looking forward to see them getting sorted 👨‍🔧

[@Well_I_am_just_saying]

​@@rpark8265 It might not be too bad where he is in Pennsylvania, but upstate New York would probably be much tougher with more cold and snow. A hydraulically driven power brush for the skid steer will definitely be worth the money and I would also consider putting on studded snow tires onto the robots during the winter.

[@colindstark]

Need some UHMW in the splash plate in the blower feeder

[@MichaelHull-rq9fe]

Excellent video

[@davidvellenga5247]

Could you put a reverse switch on the auger motor to level the top?

[@anilkumarhv4842]

Bro I love ur all videos and explain

[@stevenhorne5089]

Probably buying rakes that can just left up there might be a good idea.

[@fuelpagan1]

I curious how the feeding will work next harvest with the automated robots. Will they just shut down for the day, or is there some other trick to keep them running while shutting the silo down?

[@daveklein2826]

Stay tuned

[@stevenmercer708]

You killing us ,one a week is to long

[@JohnJ-q5j]

Nice sun set

[@stephaniekadlec8917]

Good videos 🎉 keep up the hard work.

[@fullers1966]

The problem I see and how fast you're feeling the silos is compaction set a few days and how much more room is in the silo I remember in one day when I was little we felt a 20 by 60 in one day came back four days later it was only 3/4 full that's how much you can pack it in 4 days I can only imagine as tall as your silos are and how much it goes down

[@adamhemmelgarn3300]

Maybe a dumb question, are you not able to pull enough off of both silos to keep them fresh? That way you avoid spoilage/needing to cover at all?

[@robertsimon6500]

I wonder if a cordless leaf blower would do a quicker job with less effort, I have a EGO electric leaf blower with a Power Boost button that works really well. When it snows here (which is rear) I blow off the driveway and walkways. Your in a tight space you would need to wear a mask to protect your lungs. I never sweep out my garage I just blow it out.

[@JuanGarcia-jm2vn]

Love the video’s,I just wish it was a bit longer

[@rickjanssen5942]

Can you run the unload augur in reverse? Save all the pitching hing.

[@coyroberts8356]

Thanks 😊

[@ashleywynn4923]

That feed cant run backwards to self level? Seems like an easy enough wire and switch addition. Just a thought

[@montyklaus7223]

All this technology and we still have to use a pitchfork

[@johnwhite5897]

Just looking from the outside, wouldn't it be to your advantage to have a reusable permanent cover as well as a pitch fork stashed at top of bin? each bin?

[@rosemarymurphy5767]

That is how I like to see fields after you harvest the crop. Why do you cover the feed in your silo ?

[@Supernova-hq9hu]

I like to put a hockey face mask on and grab the kids 50cc motocross bike and ride alongside the tractors and play the road warrior.

[@RealJohnWayne]

Hey There Eric & Crew, I Hope This Finds You All Well? 🙏 Eric, I tried to tell you to get the Elevator and the Remote, but you wouldn't listen? 🤷‍♂️ Every year, those trips up and down those steps is going to get harder, and harder! 🥵 In about 10 years or so, you'll know what I'm talking about!? I hope y'all have a good one! 🐄 👍 🇺🇸

[@ThomasWallace-yb6nb]

You will have very little spoiled silage the way you covered it!

[@johnthelesserofthethirdoft863]

If you are gonna climb in like that, make sure you tie off.

[@daveklein2826]

Not necessary

[@devonnabrown1234]

My husband and I thoroughly love your channel! We were wandering, did you go to college?

[@10thgenerationdairyman61]

I did not go to college.

[@SpatialDragon]

Not a fan of that loader for the silos, but it is a lot better than that hair brained grain cart the Larson Farm added to their fleet. It lifts the entire bed, full of grain and then dumps it into a truck. The driver has to precisely line up with the semi trailer, too close and damage, too far and it misses the trailer. Some of these advances take some practice and adaption.

[@daveklein2826]

Who cares, they are not your farms

[@nashcobb3056]

thank you

[@mike7435]

wish your videos were longer!!

[@daveklein2826]

They are the perfect length