Chopping Corn 2020! John Deere 4450, 3970 and 716a

[@michaeldrummond8521]

Great video as always, congratulations on a fantastic harvest. Love the vice grips on the hat and seeing your kids helping with milking chores

[@irishtownacres4716]

Great video nice looking equipment it must be well maintained

[@andylieffring3987]

Always look forward to your corn chopping video every year. The drone shot at the top of the silo is my favorite.

[@tjjoecken7984]

I'm a case guy, but I really like your setup!👍

[@ericrudgers6816]

It’s hard not too

[@mennoreuten1563]

Good looking crop and Nice clean ground,you quys did good this year hope the yields are growing,corn prices are not that good, we have to wait another 2weeks before we can chop ,thanks for the video greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer

[@haydendoucet5050]

Corn looks good for little rain

[@iowadairyboysFarms]

We got other fields in rocky spots just burning right up.

[@Ticky66MN]

Great video. Glad you yield is looking good. Thanks for the hard work. Nice you can look in the silo with the drone.

[@countryboylogging4980]

Can't wait until I get my 4450 next spring I'm going back into cattle next year u videos got me threw the rough time while I was out of farming

[@devinritter5272]

Buy some quick attach receiver hitches. Was the best purchase ever for silage on our farm running a pull behind chopper. Increased productivity and made it a hell of a lot more convenient.

[@iowadairyboysFarms]

I know they are better but they are not cheap and exercise is good. Lol

[@dvdosterloh]

Lookin good guys, had 3 jd wagons at one time, and a 5440 self propelled chopper, 3 row, did a lot of custom filling and destroyed 2 of them, just plain wore them out, 2 716 and one 716a, have one of the 716's left. Got out of the custom filling business after 25 years, wore out the chopper too. now listen to an old guy get yourself a set of Bergmann fast hitches, you'll have knees left by time your my age, (61), and believe me it will up your speed by 20 percent, really. My son can keep up with me on corn, never have to wait more than 3 minutes between loads, unless there's trouble. I'm pulling a 3940 chopper with 130 horse and he pulls the wagons with his rebuilt 3010. he just drops and grabs and goes, it takes me longer to line up and hitch than him with just a tractor. IMHO stay away from the attachmatics, dozens in use around here and the weld shop always has several setting around to be fixed, they are dangerous one inch and a quarter pin takes all the load tens to shear off under abuse. P.S. don't drop that hammer in the blower ;>) , I know what it'll do and it ain't pretty

[@matthewjohnson3910]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@iowadairyboysFarms]

Thank ya for watching

[@HeWhoSaysNo]

That was a really good vlog. Nice to see the whole proces. Be carefull with those pto shafts as you are between the two tractors - as I know you are. Michael from Denmark

[@hturbo1007]

It's a nightmare chopping for us this year. We had strong winds just before pollination in July. The corn went down then tried to straighten up again. Some of the fields we can only chop in one direction, it's taking some time but we are almost done. We need about one thousand feet of eight foot bags. All done with a John Deere 35 chopper with a two row head.

[@iowadairyboysFarms]

We had that same windstorm and got some goodenecked corn but not bad.

[@hturbo1007]

@@iowadairyboysFarms everything on the home farm was goose necked. We should be done chopping it all today.

[@minneheeg7997]

Nice video, here we have to wait at least two weeks to chop the corn

[@jeremy_238]

Man I love the sound of a corn chopper

[@brianzybura8633]

I have done a lot of types of farm work for quite a few years. Filling silo was not one of them. I definitely would love the experience of it--so long as I dont have to climb to the top of the silo. To me, those silo ladders are not safe. Yours look better but the ones i have seen have very narrow rungs, they are not flat and no side bars to hang on to. A lot of guys reading this will think of me as a big chicken and thats okay. At any rate I highly enjoyed your video, you got very nice machinery and a good set up. Thanks for showing.

[@traviseldridge4385]

Very nice equipment and nice looking corn and how many acres of corn do you have to chop and do you have all John Deere tractors and I love the light bars on top do they work well and we have a farm in upstate NY it's been a long time since I have seen a John Deere chopper pull behind I love the wagons we use the same ones well take it easy and stay safe

[@rjp3427]

Well done Eli! Love these videos. I was wondering how you guys made out from the Aug. 10 windstorm. Glad to hear you only got some rain and no crop damage.

[@iowadairyboysFarms]

That was a million dollar rain for us. Without that rain things would be ugly around here.

[@larryruemmele4375]

what is the moisture content? Looks green, hope silo doesn't leak. Good job.

[@isaacschute6761]

We have a 8245r on our 3960 chopper

[@johnnyhall1620]

Love the long videos

[@jasonkotara2135]

Great video!

[@calebweaver3628]

Grest vid! How fast is the chopper moving?

[@randyhees3354]

Great video as always, keep it up and good looking crop

[@defan4evr]

I forget where in Iowa did you say you are

[@tjjoecken7984]

He's from iowa

[@hturbo1007]

North of Guttenberg.

[@CountylineFarming]

Have you guys ever considered getting a quick hitch?

[@iowadairyboysFarms]

No

[@dvdosterloh]

Now an unrelated question, do you use that drone to check on how the silo is filling, how close can you get when not running the blower ( air currents and all), does the metal roof cause signal problems, as an old guy seems to me it could save a lot of climbing

[@iowadairyboysFarms]

You really can't see in with it much

[@jamesverburg5478]

Great video

[@TheRealJesseStoltzfus]

How tall’s that silo? We ran a 4020 with a NH 28 whirlafeed for years blowing 80’ silo’s.

[@iowadairyboysFarms]

20x70

[@henryparks4824]

Great video. How many acres of corn silage?

[@iowadairyboysFarms]

16

[@larrywolford5686]

how many loads does it take 2 fill the silo?

[@iowadairyboysFarms]

In the video I said it took 43 to fill it

[@TermiteBenny]

How many acres of corn do you chop a year?

[@iowadairyboysFarms]

16

[@codyh3890]

How big is your silo??

[@iowadairyboysFarms]

20x70

[@codyh3890]

About how many ton does a 20x70 hold??

[@iowadairyboysFarms]

@@codyh3890 no clue

[@codyh3890]

Nice corn glad to see someone's corn doing good.. over here in Ohio alot of are corn isnt looking as good as normal we haven't had much rain this year... What kind/variety of corn was that u chopped...

[@iowadairyboysFarms]

@@codyh3890 It was 109 day dya-gro

[@caseihmagnum279]

Think the old harvester could handle a three row head

[@iowadairyboysFarms]

Don't need one

[@mrbill4187]

The 3 row deere heads suck, 2 row feeds alot better.

[@caseihmagnum279]

@@mrbill4187 i was just wondering the nh heads seem to be the same way but more of just knocking corn over when going from a 2 to a 3 row head

[@mrbill4187]

@@caseihmagnum279 The deere heads center row dumps out higher then the other two and it seems to slug more. 2 row ya can go as fast as ya got the power for. If milk was worth something a dion head would be nice.

[@caseihmagnum279]

@@mrbill4187 yea no kidding or the horning head I've been watching a good used one, had someone tell us the chain head wasn't set right but I still think a rotary head will out do a chain head

[@ontariocashcropfarmer4955]

👍 🍺

[@kolewiebensohn]

I'll be helping a friend chop corn silage up by postville luana

[@tjjoecken7984]

Whats luana, is it in iowa?!🤔

[@tjjoecken7984]

I know where Pottsville is I just didn't no what luana is, I live about 45 min from u

[@kolewiebensohn]

@@tjjoecken7984 Luana is between postville and Monona

[@tjjoecken7984]

Oh ok thanks no I kinda no were u live I live in readlyn iowa

[@kolewiebensohn]

@@tjjoecken7984 yah, I have some videos of helping him chop 3rd cutting on my channel

[@tjjoecken7984]

I like that u guys stick with one brand and don't have 10 different brands of tractors cause that just looks dumb in my opinion

[@geoaerorider4589]

Roundup those weeds tho.

[@bknoblauch1076]

When you are hand holding the camera and panning from one area to another, please try to slow the movement of the camera. The quick movement is disorienting.