Filling the Silage Bunker

[@JohnT-q2f]

Everything you're doing is for the cattle, now that's amazing!! Cattle supports your family and fuels the local economy!!

[@randybeckman6193]

thanks for the comment it's crazy when you stop and think how much ag especially animal ag effects the local economy

[@BeckmanBrothersDairyMore]

It does!

[@randybennett5417]

An equipment tour is alway"s interesting to watch. Telling stories about the equipment.

[@randybeckman6193]

let's get done chopping silage and. we'll look into doing something like that thanks for commenting

[@r.scotthill3082]

That poor guy that has to fight the blower pipe is certainly going to be sore tomorrow.

[@randybeckman6193]

he's a strapping young lad he can take it haha

[@brendabyers2330]

@@r.scotthill3082 that’s what I told my husband! He will be sore tomorrow!

[@Zeke-yv3nw]

That fellow running the blower pipe isn't bored!

[@randybeckman6193]

that's for sure that job will keep you on your toes

[@dianekelly5002]

I helped with salage, packed with a Terre Gater 3wheeler after we had it where we liked we would spread 4to6 in. Of limestone on top of the salvage with the TerreGater spreader. They had 3 pits each 40ft wide 130ft long ,milked 150 cows twice a day.

[@randybeckman6193]

interesting thanks for the comment

[@rickperry9546]

That’s how we used to fill our bunk silos… but only the pipe was stationary and we kept moving the tractor and blower over from time to time and we leveled the piles with a 4020 with a John Deere blade.

[@BeckmanBrothersDairyMore]

Oh wow!

[@brendabyers2330]

It’s good to see a worked by family and friends. Too much selling of our farms to foreign governments.

[@maximush9811]

A blade and weight, you've got a 1456 pack tractor. We do 6-7k tons a year. It is a cut out of a hill then cement floor. Half if not more gets shoved down hill. I'll email you a picture or two. I started packing at 14 now 53. It was good to see you and the fam, together

[@randybeckman6193]

I was at a farm near Nashville Illinois that had a couple big earthen bunks with concrete floors and I think they filled in a similar way as you're describing thanks for the comment

[@myronparks3495]

I live in Iowa. I worked at a feedyard 30 years ago. We finished cattle. Our bunker silo was 80x150. We used trucks to haul and a D7 Cat to push and pack silage.

[@randybeckman6193]

I bet that cat could mash silage good Thanks for commenting

[@myronparks3495]

@@randybeckman6193 we would spread the silage in 6 inch layers and pack it

[@randybeckman6193]

that's exactly

[@randybeckman6193]

that's exactly what the experts at a couple of forage meetings I've gone to over the years say to do

[@deancampfield4703]

You know them badger wagons were very great wagons one time awhile back I seen that in ag mags they had a contest who had the oldest one running and you could get a free chopper box if verified don't know if they are in business yet that's a good looking wagon 😊

[@randybeckman6193]

they were a very popular wagon in our area I don't think they're made anymore we had an old new holland box and an old gehl wagon when I was a kid can't hardly remember using them just remember seeing them oh the memories thanks for the comment

[@randybennett5417]

Your the first I"ve seen using a blower to fill a bunk silo, I would do it the same way.

[@randybeckman6193]

it's the way we've been doing it for years it's labor intensive but now that fill a lot of silage bags I'd hate to invest in silage blade and rear dump wagons for 1 bunk of hayledge and 1 bunk of silage. thanks for commenting

[@jasonmushersee]

just yesterday was thinking how i use to make 50'x200' silage pile all with the blower never seem to see any videos on the internet and now there's one here my neighbor dairy made his with 65' bale elevator piled so tall he could'nt cover his another neighbor used a silage blower to fill haymound with bedding he'ld get as many round bales up there as possible (dirt ramp) then blow chopped rye straw over that

[@randybeckman6193]

thanks for the comment it's good to see and hear different methods of putting up silage whatever works to get the job done

[@jamiemckechnie3662]

We had trench silos and hauled the silage in with modified grain trucks and dumped the silage and leveled and packed with a 4020 with a blade on it. Used a small IH dozer before that till it burned up on us.

[@randybeckman6193]

I bet that dozer put a good pack on the silage

[@jamiemckechnie3662]

@@randybeckman6193 it sure did.

[@bendugas8632]

Do you have fluids in the tires on the dully wheels for extra weight? Very interesting are you concerned for rodents to get in there and ruin your feed, thanks for explaining and sharing.

[@randybeckman6193]

we might have fluid in the tires the tire shop we do alot of business with recommended taking fluid out cause it's so hard on the rims I can't remember when we put new tires on that tractor we don't use that tractor like we used to pretty much packing silage and some other odd jobs 15 years ago it was our big horse we used it alot

[@randybeckman6193]

so far we haven't had much trouble with rodents on the bunkers but we've had raccoons tear into a couple silage bags and that can ruin a guys day believe me

[@BillTheTractorMan]

Maybe I am the odd duck out. I love all these jobs. Although I'm sure my upper body couldn't handle the blower chute.

[@randybeckman6193]

when I was younger i really looked forward to silage time not as much now but it is a very important part of the dairy farm it wouldn't be so bad but it never fails to feel like 100 degrees out when we start chopping thanks for the comment

[@karenzimmerman2235]

😅you would appreciate a 16x55 silo that's holds little more then 40 loads then no more bunker hill

[@randybeckman6193]

I'm not sure I would like a silo I've never had the pleasure of working with silos and I'm not disappointed about that I know some farms that really like them but there seems to be more and more sitting empty

[@bradjenkins932]

@@randybeckman6193 I'll take a silo any day over a bunker.

[@stakman78]

What on earth am I watching! It's like Marty mcfly got a camera back to the future and recorded this!

[@randybeckman6193]

"Great Scott"

[@kenbellamy6085]

We used a D4 Caterpillar dozer to stack and pack the silage.

[@randybeckman6193]

I bet that dozer worked pretty good on the silage we have a neighbor who does it that way

[@tannerpruemer8291]

Good work

[@randybeckman6193]

thanks tanner

[@brendabyers2330]

Randy if you lose any more weight you will have to get someone else to ride the tractor! lol 😊

[@randybeckman6193]

thanks Brenda that's nice of you to comment I got plenty weight to spare we could put extra tractor weights on easy enough if need be

[@farmingfishingfamilyontari2814]

Boring, time consuming but the end result of feed for the year can’t be beat. Still weeks away here in southwestern Ontario

[@randybeckman6193]

silage is going full bore here in south central Illinois we are maybe half done got several agbags to fill yet stay tuned more videos to come thanks for commenting

[@LeighCowley]

Never seen that way to spread silage before. It does seem more labor intense.

[@randybeckman6193]

that's how we been doing it for long as I remember. we used to fill 2 bunkers of hayledge 2 bunkers of corn silage and 2 piles of silage now we fill alot of agbags

[@LeighCowley]

@@randybeckman6193 there is less waste with ag bags. The guy I sell hay to use to have a big silage Pits but now just uses agbags. I put my hay up in 3x4 big squares

[@randybeckman6193]

​@user-ej8dc7rs7k we like the agbags too stay tuned we'll have more videos on the way. we bale mostly all big squares 3×3 and just a few stupid squares (little squares) thanks for the comment