Grinding cattle feed from ear corn with the International 1486 and New Holland 354

[@ardyseeoddyssey6306]

EXCELLENT VIDEO 🚜🌽👍☺️ Thanks for sharing your informative video of mixing feed for beef cattle with the complete step-by-step process from useful angles to show the interconnections of the equipment and transfer of work-in-progress. At my grandfather's cattle ranch in the USA, he typically grew a field of vetch and transported the harvested crop to a local grain mill where it was mixed with other ingredients in a recipe that produced a product called "cow cake" which he distributed to the cattle troughs that were strategically located in the grazing pastures that were seeded with KR Bluestem grass. He placed a large cubic block of salt minerals called a "cow lick" near each of the feeding troughs and scattered small square bales of alfalfa hay for up to 200 white-faced Herefords.

[@knappfarms]

Thanks for the feedback my grandpa use to haul our grain to the local feed mill but they closed down before I was even born lol so we have been grinding our own ever sense we have a couple Hereford around the farm just got a purebred bull actually

[@miguelamaya6246]

THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR VIDEO...

[@jeffbangkok]

Whip lashed my neck at my pay check job in 88. First thing I stopped doing was shoveling feed. Thanks for the video that I can show my wife how I used to do things.

[@knappfarms]

30 scoops a day isn’t too bad just keeps you in shape lol

[@jeffbangkok]

@@knappfarms Right at the base of my skull it feels like a nails being driven into the base of my skull. Still doing ice packs and physical therapy 33 years later. Also loving the International Farmall music. That's what we ran at the highway dept back in the day

[@mikeyc1928]

Must of had the 1486 engine side panels in the body shop for a new paint job. We had a New Holland mill back in the day too, being driven by our biggest tractor, a Farmall 400. Had to watch the amount of corn or oats going in the mill or the 400 would start bucking. Nice video. Thanks

[@knappfarms]

Side panels have a tendency to stay in the field when we work on stuff around here because we just want to get back to farming and not take the time to put them back on lol easier to work on the next time

[@familyvlogs9105]

I had a 353 mixer I bought new with some of my graduation money. Scooped a lot of corn into it.

[@knappfarms]

It’s really nice grinding out of wagons and the first couple tanks out of the corn crib after that it’s all scooping

[@lifebehindacow5999]

That grinder looks handy. Definitely on the want list. For years we just went to the feed mill but all the mills in the area are gone.

[@knappfarms]

Yup grandpa use to do the same thing but the mill around here shut down years ago and we messed around with smaller grinders for a while and it takes so much longer definitely worth getting a little bigger capacity one it eats just about all you can feed it

[@jackfrost1460]

Hi 🙋🏻‍♂️ Good video! We use to do the same thing but we free choiced the salt and mineral . And we added liquid molasses. To me earcorn was a better cattle feed then just grinding shell corn . With earcorn it came out of the field at a higher moisture and with more nutrients in it compared to shell corn that has been run thru a dryer and cooked all the good stuff out!

[@knappfarms]

Thanks for the comment we have mineral blocks out as well they can free choice and definitely agree ear corn is a much better choice the shell corn

[@davidwithers7181]

Thank you for this video! Do you think it would chop some stalky hay? Or would it just jam?

[@knappfarms]

I think you would want to change out the screen for a larger one and maybe remove the rubber cover where it falls down into the hammer mill but I would think it could chop it up not 100% sure though

[@davidwithers7181]

@@knappfarms thank you. I've seen some videos with an actual bale feeder but the one I've found looks like yours

[@knappfarms]

@@davidwithers7181 the bale feeder would definitely be better for that but I believe it just feeds into the same type of hammer mill so I would think it will work

[@paulhdegenhardt8225]

We ground feed with an F-20 with a chevy 327 in it.Governed at 3000 rpm and run the pto and pulley in second gear and overdrive just right for pto and pulley use.

[@knappfarms]

Did the F-20 have a variable speed PTO? Sounds like you had a cool unique machine there.

[@paulhdegenhardt8225]

@@knappfarms We put four speed truck trany behind the 327 and we had a heysler overdrive behind that. 4x4x2 gave us 32 gears forward,8 speeds reverse and 8 speeds on the pto and pulley plus 2 speeds reverse on the pto and pulley. You couldn't shovel corn fast enough when grinding feed. It was fun to use for field work.

[@knappfarms]

@@paulhdegenhardt8225 do you still have it around that sounds like a machine

[@paulhdegenhardt8225]

@@knappfarms We sold it when Dad quit farming. It would go 38 mph and we never found a hill we had to get out of high gear for when we were pulling tandem axe chopper wagon's fully loaded over the road. 300 HP 327.

[@knappfarms]

That’s a shame I would love to see it sounds like it took some serious engineering to make I love those kinds of projects

[@Murphyslawfarm]

G'day mate

[@rebelgaming7718]

I thought about starting selling cattle feed and buying ether a 4020 John Deere with a new Holland grinder like you fellers have and getting a tractor with a new ideal corn picker that's mounted on the front of the tractor and building 5 corn cribs and mabey considering getting a silo built to store the cattle feed in and selling it when people need feed but problem is trying to find customers

[@knappfarms]

I would love to do that eventually but like you said finding people I need a lot more storage because no one around me has cattle any more I’m hoping with the hobby farms picking up I will be able to find customers with just a couple cows it’s definitely a better way to make some money off the crops you grow

[@rebelgaming7718]

@@knappfarms right yep hey you got a Facebook dude add me as a friend if you want then we can chit chat that way buddy been on farms and ranches since I was 18 I'll be 27 next year and being a farmer even tho I don't own a farm I love working on them I drive a 97 Chevy pickup and wanting to sell it and return to my old ways of owning 70's or older ford's and Chevys buddy

[@knappfarms]

Yup Knapp farms has a Facebook page and my name is Michael so add me on both

[@rebelgaming7718]

@@knappfarms ok cool thanks man

[@rebelgaming7718]

@@knappfarms ok I think I added you name is Patrick Spurgeon

[@pocketchange1951]

👍👌🇨🇦❤,

[@warny835]

Cool video.New sub.

[@knappfarms]

Thanks for the support

[@oldtruthteller2512]

What's the heater your packing on the back of your belt?

[@knappfarms]

That would be a CZ P07 great every day carry compact 15 rounds and holds up to getting beat up on the farm

[@johnplessinger3897]

Just curious about why you feel the need to carry on the farm? Wild animals, looters, I mean I'm all for gun rights, but I really wouldn't see a need for it on a farm!!!

[@knappfarms]

You literally never know what will happen in this day and age of people we also sell produce and hay and straw off the farm so people are coming in regularly but mainly because people are crazy and I like to be prepared so I I always have it there I never have to worry about needing it and not having it

[@mowdan77]

Nice sidearm

[@knappfarms]

Thanks it’s a CZ P07

[@mowdan77]

@@knappfarms personal protection or for wild coyotes lol

[@knappfarms]

@@mowdan77 that one is mainly personal protection if I spot I coyote try to get to my truck lol a few more surprises for it in there

[@mowdan77]

@@knappfarms you got any dogs at the farm . My brother raises black angus beef too yup live on a farm here.

[@knappfarms]

@@mowdan77 just at our home farm we have 3 Great Pyrenees and never have a problem with predators but on grandpas farm and what we call the south farm no dogs so we see a few coyotes around

[@dang7097]

Fun

[@bestfriendhank1424]

Supposed to grab the corner of the bag and rip right off!

[@knappfarms]

Half the time when I do that it just tears the little piece you grab off and makes it a pain to open

[@Hulktom2000]

we used to have crazy angus

[@knappfarms]

Our angus are the calm ones for the most part the short horns are the ones we gotta watch they are a little crazy never know when they are gonna decent to go through a fence or come after you

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

The old ih has seen better days by the looks of that

[@knappfarms]

Yeah it’s about time for another rebuild as well as near as we can figure to Farmall 560 has over 40K hours on the block and we still use it every day to fees cattle and we where working on the 1486 and had the side panels off and they just haven’t got but back on yet because it’s running a little low oil pressure so we know we are gonna have to be back in there

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

@@knappfarms wonder if its actually low or the gauge screwed up. That's what happened to my 1086

[@knappfarms]

That’s what we where hoping so we put in a secondary gauge and it only runs about 25 psi if you throttle it down when it’s warm if you keep rpms up it keeps over 30 unless you are working it hard in the field and it gets a little hot then the oil pressure drops to about 20 at 2200 rpms

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Why do you have a hand gun stuffed in yiur pocket lmao i love guns as much as the next guy but you but that just looks like a good way to get a gut shaped bruise on your arse hole jumping in and out of equipment

[@knappfarms]

It is in a conceal carry holster in side the waist band I carry everywhere I go didn’t realize my shirt was over the gun till editing but it’s part of our farm so I wasn’t gonna hide it the holster I have is actually very comfortable and most of the time I never know it’s there when working on the farm

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

@@knappfarms i see i see i prefer a good shotgun to my hand gun.

[@knappfarms]

I like to keep a good shotgun and rifle in the truck but always like to have something on me in this day and age with all the crazy in the world never know what will happen

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

@@knappfarms ya I can't blame you there buddy. From my time doing KZbin though be very very careful showing them in videos. The KZbin libtards will delete your whole channel if they deem that unsafe

[@knappfarms]

Yeah I definitely hear that it’s not a gun channel so I’m not gonna go out of my way to showcase them but it’s card to cut them out of every video on our farm but I appreciate it definitely don’t want to get shut down right when I’m starting out