Chopping Corn Silage On A Dairy Farm! Getting Stuck On The Pile! Part Two (2024 Fall Harvest)

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@DonWelter Ай бұрын

Experience (and Dad) have taught all of you to work together and improvise to keep things moving. This is a prime example of why smaller farms survived over the years.

@markschwab7829 Ай бұрын

Lots of memories filling silo and chopping corn great video

@stanhensley3082 Ай бұрын

What a day to chop corn. Nice and warm and dry ground to run on. Corn chopping can get cold and wet in the Fall !! Stay safe.Thanks😊

@JulianKeller-om6wz Ай бұрын

When I was a kid we didn't have any tractors with cabs. I remember being out there running the wagons back and forth dressed like a polar bear!

@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586 Ай бұрын

🌽 Thanks for the ride. it will be interesting to see just how high you get on that pile. 🌽

@toddfleck9091 Ай бұрын

You guys have an awesome farm, thanks for the videos! Miss farming a lot

@greggergen9104 Ай бұрын

I am just amazed at the amount of equipment you have given the amount of acreage you chop. We used to chop 200 acres a year with an 80 hp chopper tractor, 25 hp wagon tractor and a 50 hp blower tractor, a 1 row chopper and 2 12 foot self unloading wagons. We built a huge silage pile, from about 100 acres, and used the other 100 to fill 5 silos. Consider yourself machinery rich.

@greghamann2099 Ай бұрын

I remember those days. Such small equipment and so underpowered. So inefficient we were. I don't know how we managed. And the yield was nothing like it is today.

@greggergen9104 Ай бұрын

@@greghamann2099 That's true... remember when 100 bushel corn was a big deal. Also, corn chopping would be three straight weeks of 5 in the morning until 10 pm. I used to have to beg my Dad to play HS football, and then get home from practice and haul silage until 10 pm, get up the next morning at 5:30 to feed the cattle and maybe even unload some silage, or we would have it setup so that we might finish off a silo. We would even come back a week later and top off the silo again after it had settlled and there was no just driving up to the silo and hooking onto a pipe. We had the same pipes for all six silos and for each one you would have to climb to the top with a rope and pulley and raise the pipes each time from the ground. I remember my Dad expected your to "run" up the ladder. A lot of memories.

@greghamann2099 Ай бұрын

@@greggergen9104 I feel for you. we had a practically new silo 25 by 55. I was not allowed to be involved in school activities. No time for that.

@MrTonyharrell Ай бұрын

I’m gonna say it again. It’s so nice to see dairy cows walking on grass instead of manure. By the way, the dyslexic farmer down the road loves his revilO tractor and would buy a new one if he could. 😂😂😂

@paulreis1648 Ай бұрын

I have seen a lot of different ways to pack a pile but really none better than pulled the wagons over it. And tractors with duals . Great video

@harveypenner2386 Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!!

@nathanalmond8280 Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing the video. Miss filing silos.

@anthonyhengst2908 Ай бұрын

Almost seems like getting stuck on the pile when it gets really big is just part of the process. You get good at getting unstuck and keep packing it down. Your camera placement on the chopper is really good.

@mrclaus859 Ай бұрын

Thanks for posting

@DickAnderson-k9y Ай бұрын

I wonder how many people have had to shovel/pitchfork out a silage wagon after a chain breaks with a full load of corn silage. I’m part of that special group 😂. It made for a long day because we needed the wagon and it sucked trying to put it between the beaters to get it out of the wagon but on a brighter side, it gave me a story to share with you and the viewers 😂.

@MorganOtt-ne1qj Ай бұрын

Gotta luv that 7810! Plenty of options in the transmission, and plenty of horses under the hood! Sweet tractors.👍👍

@aaronwilson4083 Ай бұрын

Can’t get any better in my opinion. We have a 6310, would love to have a 7810 someday.

@MorganOtt-ne1qj Ай бұрын

@@aaronwilson4083 those may be the last of the GREAT green tractors. Some electronics, but mainly just workhorses, that start and go when you twist the key, no "settings to establish" before you can move. Crank 'em up, and go to work! 👍

@aaronwilson4083 Ай бұрын

@@MorganOtt-ne1qj I have to agree with you there. We have a left hand reverser on ours that’s needed replaced a couple times. But it’s pretty well strictly a loader tractor so it puts its share of work in. We got it new, has 7,700hrs like you said they just work. A big improvement in operator comfort and visibility over the Soundgard body and old enough that they aren’t overloaded in electronics.

@MorganOtt-ne1qj Ай бұрын

@@aaronwilson4083 Only 7700 hours? You have a new one! 🤣 My job has a 7800 with 17000, and a 7810 with a bit over 16000 hours. The latter had the transmission replaced at 14k, but I still love it for the drill, bush hog, and 15' moco.

@aaronwilson4083 Ай бұрын

@@MorganOtt-ne1qj Yeah she’s still young in that respect. Dad had a reman transmission installed by Deere around 5400 hours. Wouldn’t back up, supposedly had broken springs in the reverse brake cooling circuit and cooked it. Everything else worked in the trans though. Last summer I replaced the gasket between the reverse brake and the trans case, it blew out and was loosing trans pressure in reverse. After doing that I think he got taken on it needing an entire replacement transmission.

@Travis_Rivers Ай бұрын

Wow it's great to see dad giving up that chopper seat to you bud that's awesome 👌 great looking silage for sure . Can't wait to see you harvest your acreage corn I'm excited for ya

@beast62ny31 Ай бұрын

Love the family values, love the work that is put into raising, growing, producing quality in our state of Wisconsin. Don’t let the NY fool you that’s where I was raised, I raised my kids in WI. So, the question is on terms of efficiency, when will the upgrade happen to a front cutting 4/6/8 row machine to save fuel and time. The two row…..?

@larryklostermann5779 Ай бұрын

Nice video Aaron

@MorganOtt-ne1qj Ай бұрын

You never have enough, and I think they shelled the extra corn last year.

@JulianKeller-om6wz Ай бұрын

Great video Aaron! Long day! You covered a lot of different things. I really like the footage when you had the camera on the snout on the chopper. IDK if you planned it that way, but it was really cool because you could see the corn going into the chopper right in front of the camera, and, you could see it blowing out of the spout into the wagon. Full cycle. From the feild into the wagon. That 7810 handles that chopper quite easily. Nice! Love the cow with her bell. What's her name?

@JG-six-gun 12 күн бұрын

Thanks

@mikeburgan7675 Ай бұрын

Very Very Nice !!

@clinthochrein888 Ай бұрын

Great video! 👍🏾

@bryankeator8396 Ай бұрын

Maybe it's the camera. But those lights on the tractors suck. We upgraded to some newer leds. Like day time at night. Have a good one guys. Looking forward to the rest of the corn videos

@michaelleach4868 Ай бұрын

That's got to be hard on the wagons. I'd use a silage blower when the pile gets high.

@MorganOtt-ne1qj Ай бұрын

The wagons do add compaction to the pile, probably more actual PSI than any of the tractors. I've done piles that way, and they compact it pretty well. Centers and edges take tending to.

@JulianKeller-om6wz Ай бұрын

Yeah, those wagons have really got to help with packing. I'd bet more PSI than that tractor. I'd build a weight of some sort and put it on the three point of that International to help pack more. Especially with the duals on.

@adamcorll7017 Ай бұрын

You guys should put the 1066 on the chopper and see how it does.

@MorganOtt-ne1qj Ай бұрын

I would bet that the 1066 pulled the chopper many years. They know that the 7810 has the most horsepower, and you want it all on the chopper. Rated at 175 engine, around 150 PTO, and plenty of gear options for them, and 4 power shifts are a bonus. The 1066 has earned an easier life. 👍

@LorenUecker Ай бұрын

You could use a complete set of Agri Speed Hitches to save hooking up by hand getting off the tractor

@rogernation2551 Ай бұрын

Not a farmer. Grew up on a ranch in Northern California, your place looks just like ours. Rolling hills, absolutely beautiful. Only difference is we have the Sierra Nevada mountains in our background. I’m curious, the two row chopper seems very inefficient, considering the fuel, wear and tear, and the extra time. Now I realize equipment is expensive….. Very expensive. Do you plan on upgrading that piece of equipment or does it just fit the routine? Other than that, I think your operation is top notch!

@señor-curiosity Ай бұрын

thanks for your useful video

@nashcobb3056 Ай бұрын

thank you

@RichardMartin-j6r Ай бұрын

Would you b better off building cement walls for a big storage area

@greghamann2099 Ай бұрын

Or getting a bagger as an option as well. Or a pit silo.

@jeffclinch7448 Ай бұрын

Until you have experienced a drive over pile you have no idea how hard it is.

@jaapbruijn1300 Ай бұрын

How often do you sharpen the blades on the Gehl chopper? And could you show how you do that?

@LeaMaeTirambulo 23 күн бұрын

Soo amazing :)

@greghamann2099 Ай бұрын

Here is my question. Please tell me why of the options of piling, silo. silage concrete pit or bagging you chose your option. Do you think about making a change?

@jimbradford818 Ай бұрын

Would you guys ever consider putting in a 3 sided silage bunker

@larryanglea3458 Ай бұрын

Don't the ground get soft in the winter , with out concrete under it ? I witch I would have had a tongue like that on my silage wagon. Good luck and be safe.

@rod_schueller Ай бұрын

Hi Aaron, generally speaking, what are your chore times? Is someone else milking while you and dad are in the field?

@erikmadison6093 Ай бұрын

Who hauls your milk? Does it go to Blair?

@edelm6062 Ай бұрын

do you use all your crops to feed your cows and thus use them as your cash flow?

@cz_ww2117 Ай бұрын

Are you all having a hard time getting parts for that Gehl, in that they no longer make forage equipment?

@jimbradford818 Ай бұрын

also why don't you use the front end loader with the open cab deere??

@keithkuckler2551 Ай бұрын

At one time I had an 880 Oliver gas tractor, it was not bad, but, that "growling" noise from the transmission always bothered me. Do all of those older Olivers have the same issue? I also had a brand new 550, cute little tractor, but, too small, and I traded it in on a 3020 John Deere diesel. a much bigger and better tractor.

@jwmfarms Ай бұрын

Most every Oliver I’ve ever been around did that, and I’ve been around a few. For the most part, Oliver transmissions were very dependable.

@cancermonkey7334 Ай бұрын

What’s going on with cob corn? You still shave 1 1/2 bins. Making more this year, or chopping it all for silage?

@chuckstewart5154 Ай бұрын

How long before you can use the silage?

@johnmulder4121 Ай бұрын

Why not put up a new silo, bunker pit, or agg bag ??

@MorganOtt-ne1qj Ай бұрын

I guess they are doing what works best for them. I agree that a bunker would be easier, but I don't know their situation like they do. 👍

@greghamann2099 Ай бұрын

Good question I wanted to know the same.

@JulianKeller-om6wz Ай бұрын

So did I. I would think they could put a heck of a pit into one of those sidehills. But, like the one gentleman said, they are doing what works for them. And the dad seems to have a good handle on the operation.

@JulianKeller-om6wz Ай бұрын

Great video Aaron. You covered a lot of different things. I really like the footage where you had the camera on the snout on the chopper. I don't know if you planned it that way, but you could see the corn going in front of the chopper, and coming out of the spout and into the wagon in the back. Pretty cool. That 7810 handles that chopper quite easily. Nice.