Green Chopping in a Beautiful Meadow! l Harvest 2022 (We Ran Out of Fuel)

Today we are using the New Holland Flail chopper to harvest some feed! In this case we are harvesting an alfalfa grass mix down in our meadow! The tractors we are using are the 7510 John Deere, the Oliver 1650,and the 686 International! Try to guess which one we ran out of fuel….
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[@alanpranke3299]

Milking cows put me through UW Madison nearly 50 years ago. Took my city girlfriend out to the farm to show her what it's like. Got all the chores done, green chopping, etrc. She said are we done now??? Uh, well, no, now we gotta milk the cows, 2 more hours. Still got her, 51 glorius years later. Love your vids.

[@randyvilleneuve4907]

I watch your videos with my 2 year old grandson. He is crazy about cows and tractors. I grew up on a dairy and have done everything your showing. Its a lot of work. I still have that farm in NY which is not operational and I have a small hay farm in VA. There is no dairy farms left here, all beef. Farming is an equipment intensive and labor intensive carrier. What people do not see is those 14 hour days which are 7 days a weeks and no time off which is hard on a family. Keep it up if you can get help. Thanks for sharing.

[@BillTheTractorMan]

Oh Boy! Did that a couple times growing up! One of those "Don't tell Dad" moments until after its running again to avoid the stress and frustration.

[@jameslockhart3102]

You guys make a nice video..keepem comin

[@UnkleAL1962]

you have the coolest roads to drive tractors down.....over the hills and thru the woods

[@nicholaswindell9862]

Flail chopping was a staple on my grandfathers dairy farm growing up

[@badgerlandturf]

Nice POV on the mower and feed wagon! You property is so nice looking in the fall, I bet you hear that often. Tell Mason if he wants to be on camera more he needs to pick up the camera and do the work!

[@Ticky66MN]

Always loved the green chopping on the farm. Another one of those awesome memories you guys keep stirring up from my childhood. Thank you!!

[@teenagefarmer]

You guys have some of the most unique farming content out on KZbin. I love seeing the old equipment still being used. I wish I could bring more of that to my channel. Keep up the good work guys I love watching your videos. Thanks for sharing.

[@taylorkueppers8595]

thanks for sharing❤

[@lindgrenvalleyfarm983]

My dad used to say “ I coulda sworn I put fuel in last year!” Always made me laugh as a kid

[@jimwhite1061]

Your dad too?

[@mikekuhn6216]

What an awesome view of nature in that meadow. It was pretty flat on our farm in IL, so we plowed everything up to the fences and buildings. My cousin had a dairy and he ran his flail chopper with an old Minnie U which was really barking. My favorite will always be chopping corn silage; love that aroma of freshly cut corn and sorghum. Thanks again for a wonderful video highlighting your beautiful farm.

[@heatherkohlwey8379]

Fall on the farm is the most beautiful time. Thank you for sharing another great video and bringing back some great memories. Stay safe and God bless.

[@johnswartz6321]

A friend of mine used to green chop all the time. The cows seemed to love it.

[@johnwoody4905]

some times you have to crack injector to get air out good to see wife is looking after you. take care, be safe and well.

[@tman8939]

sure wish we had "smell o vision" , love the smell of chopped grass.

[@donevens4357]

Great video! Most don't realize how different it is to farm that hill ground. I grew up on flat land in IL. I worked for a dairy farmer in WI for a short time when I was a kid. Bailing hay with a throw bailer on a side hill was interesting.

[@Daveco82]

Beautiful landscape!

[@southwestwifarm3516]

Green chopping really helped us last year with how dry it was in southern wi, planted some damp bottom land into sorghum sudan and cow peas and chopped every evening for all of our cows, pastures were brown and crispy and that stuff thrived

[@danny_t1536]

I dedicate a field to just green chopping every year normally get 5-6 cuttings. The cows love it!

[@dannewton4637]

I’ve used a flail chopper a few times. Great tool for certain situations. Pretty versatile too. You can chop corn stalks, green feed, cut up weeds and even clean up the garden. I haven’t had one in years. Would buy one again in a second, but they are very hard to find around my place. Great video as usual. God Bless

[@kopenhagenkid]

Nice looking Oliver tractor

[@canvids1]

Thanks for a great video again from you folks. I enjoy your way of producing video. I bet next year when you gp down in that field you will check your fuel LOL.😂😂😂😊

[@rockfarmer8095]

A buddy of mine has a old John Deere 55 green chopper that lives on a farmall H. He does not have a lot of his own pasture. But his neighbors let him chop little fields all down his road. He calls it door dash pasture delivery lol

[@sbfd201]

Spent many a days green chopping for our cows, until we had enough storage to be to put up haylage. Cows loved the green chop, but it was only good for a day or two. Once it started to heat, it became a green manure.

[@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586]

Enjoyed this one. It had it all, great scenery, cows, dog, tractors, equipment and You, Darby and Mason. Good to see you all. Take care. My husband didn't enjoy filling his car up and would sometimes think he had enough gas when he didn't. Don't know how many times he ended up walking to a gas station, buying another small gas can and filling it up. Needless to say, he ended up carrying an empty gas can with him as he also does not like to spend any more money than he has too. I have learned not to trust his judgement as to how far we could go and worry myself into filling it up at the start. What fun. Thanks and take care.

[@8tomtoms8]

The dairy farmer next door to us was like your husband. He never put more than a couple bucks worth of fuel in the truck so every time he needed to go anywhere it was empty. I loved the guy but it seemed like he liked to suffer.

[@joesteck6631]

There were a lot of things we hated about green chopping. First of all of course the cows milked like crazy on it but the butterfat test went way down. It threw some cows off and they’d get real loose. What a mess. And the feed got hot quickly so you were pitching it out if they didn’t finish it.

[@glenschumannGlensWorkshop]

Did green chopping on my Dad's farm with an earlier version of the Gehl flail chopper in the 1960s. Dodge County, WI, so much flatter. We could pull the chopper and wagon with a JD 50. Used either a Gehl self-unloading wagon or a farm-built feeder wagon. This wagon had high sides and a back wall, so it was much easier to hit the spot and fill it. I think the back and side walls were 8 feet tall. This enclosure was about 4 feet wide. We had farm-built bunks to unload the Gehl wagons into. We were chopping from one of our regular hay fields which were mostly alfalfa. Thanks for the video. Enjoyed seeing you guys and bringing back memories from my youth.

[@John-rr4zz]

That all looks like a nice setup there. That would make a really good game shoot there with Duck on the ponds and driven pheasant off of the hills over the dips. Some really high birds. I did notice the high seat there. That land is a bit similar to places here in the UK. Love from England UK.

[@russellhansen7622]

What a good video, and oh man give the 16 some love. She could have done that. We used to have a flail chopper like that back in the day. One year while we chopped corn we would green chop a load of alfalfa and put it in the upright silo along with the corn sileage. Something like 3-4 loads of corn to 1 of alfalfa. We only did that once, not sure why.

[@geraldsundberg3610]

A beautiful day it was for sure! Always appreciated this time of year.

[@Butch344]

I love watching you guys!! Small farming unfortunately has become a lost art. I helped my Grandfather on his farm in Winnebago County near Oshkosh, WI, The reason I enjoy your videos, is it brings back great memories. I have done every job y'all are doing, and yes, I have done green chopping. Every morning after milking (& clean up) we did green chop on a flat hay wagon (try keeping the hay on that LOL), & then park the wagon in the barn yard. Keep up the videos!!

[@Blackwellll3066]

Haven't seen green chopping for dairy cows maybe only small farms do it, but local farmer has done it for his small beef herd

[@ashleyswearingen2120]

I tried to flail chop for my cows always had it to wet or windy couldn’t get it in the wagon. I farmed mostly side hills also I then mowed with haybine and round baled green and fed direct to cows worked well for me. Really like your content very enjoyable

[@terryhawkins4295]

Hardly anyone green chops around here anymore. Love those hills and timber, beautiful farm

[@jeffhuntley2921]

Pretty talented dog you’ve got

[@brucehobbs1734]

You guys have a beautiful piece of property. So blessed!

[@r.scotthill3082]

Pump the hand primer while your'e cranking the engine. Really works.

[@randybennett5417]

The N.H. 38 can be an emergency fill in for a discbine, by opening the rear cover over the auger. Hay will blow out the back into a semi-windrow.

[@georgedoorley5628]

yes it can but the hay will spoil quickly if it gets rained on as the double chop harvester is hard on the grass .........so we found .....!

[@eugenespreutels8305]

Pulled a lot of silage wagons out of the fields with that farmall M, she's a beast!

[@schm2918]

The calf looked good! Nice work getting that tractor primed without having to crack the injector lines! I've never been that lucky 😂. I'd love to have a flail chopper around, I think for a few weeks in the Spring (before the herd goes out to pasture) & and a few weeks in the Fall it would be a great way to save on my silage and bale supply!

[@georgedoorley5628]

if u have a bailer u can bale up a bale and bring it in to them .........i have done it in the past ....... did not tie the bales just dump them on the feeding passage and roll them out with the loader ........so long as they are eaten that day the grass will not heat .......

[@joewierzba936]

loved Green chopping, cows always milked better on it

[@aaronferstl9703]

Slowing down would help with the clumping. We used a much larger wagon that was higher also. Similar flail chopper (it was an NH, not sure of the model.) We used a 55 hp diesel to do all of our flail chopping (forage and corn stalks), and we definitely didn’t go that fast.

[@graygildner3434]

Saw a deer stand. If you hunt let’s see that sometime.

[@Loomisfarms_est2024]

Chopping in the feeder wagon

[@lyndenhovell7997]

That is one beautiful little valley.

[@paulreis1648]

No problem just some pumping it's hard to get the air out you guys did great

[@GrannyFilmingAgain]

Enjoyed this green chopping video and the small cow. Never saw green chopping always brown lol Thanks for sharing!

[@stephenrice4554]

I'd give a donation just to walk your farm tracks and paths , beautiful place . Happy cows with fresh food . 👍🇬🇧

[@bkoutdoors6517]

I always enjoy watching another farmer and how they operate! Great video!

[@jamesmarsh4957]

love green chopping, we call it zero grazing thats beautiful down in that valley , Good old IH power 💪

[@johnjarrett9233]

Another great video , I really enjoy watching y'all . Hope everyone is doing good y'all stay safe and God bless y'all .

[@crazyoldbat7600]

The closest we get to green chopping is mowing the lawn.

[@matthewdavis4081]

One of my to do list when dad and grandpa milked. We had a john deere chopper and I would fill to feed wagons one time a day and drop them in the pasture just for the girls to enjoy

[@billsauberlich7337]

Might be out of fuel,but the batteries are good LOL

[@stanhensley3082]

Hate running out of fuel.Takes so much time to get more fuel and bleed everything.As I remember green chop is wet and heavy.Got to make sure you got enough air in all the tires.One thing,the cattle really like it. Thanks 😊.

[@metallicakid83]

I used to ride the feeder wagon while my grandpa chopped alfalfa. He’d always try to bury me in it 😂

[@christopherkleiman1830]

I green chop all fall. Late season 3rd and 4th cutting. Cheap N easy feed.

[@richardploof703]

dad always said fuel up before you 😀

[@theburnhams2925]

Have not done any green chopping, but HAVE air-locked a diesel. No fun! Another great video! (although I wouldn't want to be one of your cameras...) Appreciate the imaginative videography!

[@jerrywalker2699]

Ur farm is really pretty.. I love to watch ur content very interesting..

[@bobbruce3925]

Look forward to every video, ❤️ the channel. Continued success to you all.

[@jamesryan9206]

We did green chopping use to top off the silage wagons. Then we chopped for the heifers they loved it. Great video love the landscape.

[@kopenhagenkid]

Great video

[@anthonyhengst2908]

I remember green chopping late in the year sometimes there was an inch of snow on top chopped it anyway snowcone for the cattle. Big calf.

[@jimwhite1061]

Running equiptment on hill sides is always tricky. That was the acid test for those loading hay wagons. As far as running out of fuel, a hundred years from now you won't even remember it.

[@bbrcummins1984]

Great channel👍

[@phammer4004]

Do a hunting video, deer and turkey.

[@wayner806]

Only green chopped once, when it was too wet to haul cattle into the field due to muddy roads so we chopped and managed to pull feed trailer out to blacktop and fed them in the lot. Running out of diesel, sadly a few more times!

[@chham57]

How about a video out of that tree stand? 🦌

[@dennislang4375]

My dad always said, "Don't run you diesel tractor out of fuel."

[@tc6573]

Over hear (uk) we would say a one chop harvester or may be a double chop. A bit like zero grazing. To draw grass from outlieing fields back home to the farm. 🤠

[@geraldsundberg3610]

You lucked out on that one!

[@Travis_Rivers]

Hey it was a safe day so it was a great day God bless 🙌 🙏

[@richardwilkens4577]

It's been raining here for the last 2 days

[@jamesmorrison1884]

Good video yes I've green chop.Have a great day

[@timstevens2866]

I ain't never never done that! LOLOLOL!

[@br927]

I'v been headed for Church and have to deliver a calf- to the Wife-Sorry about the white shirt and good pants! He's doing good! The cows will eat it anyways, they just have to chew it more! I pulled wagon loads hay out of spots like that- 2 770 Oliver Diesels, one hooked to the other! (there is a story behind that)!

[@doncc6080]

Much more interesting running out of fuel. You could add easily removal side & back boards to these wagons, I think. nice to see Darby again.

[@GrannyFilmingAgain]

That’s a nice tractor! Ok that hurt. Oh Lord.

[@daviddobson1113]

Yes many of times in October and even into November.

[@tederdmann2993]

We used to green chop , when I saw the binder up there was thinking soon your dad will be putting picker on.

[@marcussamson7640]

them olivers will surprise you it would have given it a all she had

[@GrannyFilmingAgain]

Wow! That choppin is neat!

[@davebeyer4008]

We green chop every day 3 loads per day. We have the same green chopper as you run with a Massey Ferguson 5445

[@robertmarino2158]

Great video , hard working men , stay safe , enjoy !

[@chrisray6536]

Never seen one before...........learn something new everyday. Giod video guys.

[@frankdeegan8974]

Some guys get the best looking AAA road service help

[@chadedwards1968]

Looks like a good spo to make venison summer sausage

[@virginiagraber9070]

Nice, Thanks. Naaman

[@duanebolen543]

I was always told on the farm that you never cut Alfalfa after a ground freezes or it freezes because it be toxic to the animals and I no a farmer that made silage out of frozen hay and it killed all his livestock

[@georgedoorley5628]

we call that zero grazing over here ................

[@williammatzek4660]

We that have cattle have to help some times. When I change fuel filters l fill the new filter with fuel it makes it ease.

[@samcampbell5256]

on my family's farm we green chop every day with a new Holland chopper and a john Deere 5203 we run it in b 1

[@tpfromcentralpa1692]

Its not a Super M, god put a fuel gauge in that Deere🤣 Are you guys like my neighbors, put a inch of fuel in the tank and proclaim its good for the day? As my other neighbor says, that is the sign of a millionair!😆

[@prjndigo]

trough wagons are the most cost effective form of cattle pasture fencing available and I have no idea why people don't use em more

[@rebelgaming7718]

It got 21 degrees last night here in Colorado where I live

[@danaedwards5464]

we used to just bale green pony bales and feed them off in a course of a few days

[@bradbyington7926]

I recognize that calf puller😉

[@jamesbreault5762]

Great content guys👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍