HISTORY OF OUR SILAGE HARVESTERS | VINTAGE THURSDAY

In todays video, me and FATHER PHIL sit down with a brew and discuss the history of our silage harvesters for a vintage thursday special. We have old footage of all the old silage harvesters that has been interlay into the video.
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[@Panchdeburca]

Brilliant video, loved the talk through the history of the silage. Brillaint

[@paddypoolfc3579]

Love these episodes. Last time we cut our own silage it was with a Ford 76 twd on a taarup double chop and a mf 185 and a mf 590 both twd with home made trailers and pushing in with a matbro 270. Took all day and sometimes 2 days to do 20 acres. Like you said if was grass knee length mid June. But christ it was fierce craic. 😊😊

[@TheRandomHero3]

Brilliant video as always Phil. Couldn't believe when I heard where Father Phil bought the 890 only 5 minutes over the road from me!... great history lesson from the farm. And as for Father Phils memory and knowledge, the man is a legend... keep up the great work!

[@adrianshjadesheehan9991]

Father phil is a brillant man great knowledge love him

[@kildare1773]

Handiest pit of silage I ever covered was a heap in a field. I filled the rotary spreader and drove around it spreading. Great job

[@williamhealy6987]

Great presentation lads. You need to record Father and Uncle's memories. I would love to hear your Gramdfather's memories.

[@johntobin4037]

As soon as I see it’s father Phil at the table I know I have to watch the whole thing

[@declandiver6721]

Another great video ..father Phil is a legend u could listen to him all day .he has some knowledge about machinery ...

[@lancashirefarmer4225]

Best video you've done for ages I remember being a lad in the 70s watching county's on new Holland foragers how times have changed get your old man another brew that ones gone cold

[@michaelsparke2811]

Top video, love listening to father phils stories. I suppose there are a lot left to tell too...

[@mattyod73]

Great video . Really brought back memories. We started with on waggon and ended with a trailed machine . The silage was cut between two other farmers and our selves it went in for the whole summer and we loved it . My dad would always spread the grass seed on the dung as well but god were we happy when the use of tyres came along

[@alanobrien1817]

Great video, father Phil has a great memory being able to go back exactly to the year things happened and mighty to tell a story,mine of information 🤟

[@Gearoid35]

Great video lads great to hear how things have changed well done on the classic tractor article

[@welshcake2859]

I just love listening to your Da x I would love to see your Da and Tom Pemberton`s father getting together what an Awesome video that would be what these 2 older farmers know is brilliant xx

[@paudiemcgrath3861]

I’m out in New Zealand for the last 3 years at silage and it’s gas that at home years ago silage was done in corners of fields and stuff like that. Out here 90% of the silage we do is pitted in a field or in a pit dug into the side of a hill. A lot of the places we go ud give half an hour leveling out a flat spot to make a silage pit. Different over here altogether. We farm at home and put in around 70 acres with a tarrup double chop, must be the only lads in Tipperary that do it that way. Great silage tho.

[@MarkLynskey]

Are you the Paudie driving for Finches? kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIuccmdreap1q6c

[@claetuswoodroofe4164]

Father Phill thanks for the silage history.My father had a 717 from new till the shearbar went into the drum in 1985 .it was replaced with a second hand 717 super with 1000 rpm pto and electric spout controls.and hydraulic lifting of the pickup none of these features were on the original 717

[@johnmilburn5715]

Brilliant vid again!! Good to see your splash in the latest Classic Tractor mag too 😀

[@crfarmlife1267]

Great video phill as always 👍

[@MrFoxman360]

Great videos, love the stories with Father Phil

[@jamesfanthorpe9037]

Good stuff Phil grate video love them all🙂

[@kt3537]

Great to hear a bit of vintage chat🤠

[@mylesalovelysong.oreilly3165]

Great video Phil I love the sound of a harvester 🙏🇮🇪

[@simonferris7850]

Great lads love listening to the history of the farm and machinery 👍👍

[@fordford9133]

Absolutely lovely

[@peterrowland8173]

Great video as always great to listen to you and your father take care all all the best to all of the family

[@donhynes3271]

great to see father Phil on the stories gain. Always love his content

[@lesrose800]

Yet again a great video keep up the good work,

[@vincenzolorenzo]

Thanks lads really enjoyed the stories. Silage really was a campaign years ago but the hardship makes great stories! Love the storytime vids

[@conoroflynn4523]

Great video as ever. Those new hollands were power hungry yolks. 525/550s that came later were the same. Saw a TW15 on its knees driving a 525 in a wet season. (That was in the 90s too)

[@claetuswoodroofe4164]

Sharpen it twice a day and all you need is 80hp to get 2 acres an hour in of June silage

[@martincraig1974]

Fantastic story time thanks for sharing your memories with us 👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@carlsabin7659]

Brilliant Video as always, Keep it going Farmer P

[@samcross7869]

Absolutely love the chats with father Phil, the experience, love it ❤️🚜

[@barrymallon7066]

Really great vid today!!

[@anthonymorgan6774]

Great video a pleasure to listen to father Phil a man of knollage.. spent many a day drawing silage.🚜🇮🇪☘️

[@Avemtec]

Love the video...love the talking heads with video clips...well done...could listen to father Phil all day 😀

[@dellhell8842]

Brilliant history. I remember contractors cutting silage with single chop harvesters driven by Massey 175s or Ford 5000s in the late sixties .

[@oconnellsfarm811]

Very interesting video brilliant stuff

[@johntaylor7427]

Cracking video, could listen to father Phil all day.

[@declanconway2903]

Great video again Phil very interesting. Stay safe

[@frankcarty]

Fantastic video, hopefully the 2022 silage day will go ahead!

[@christopherduffy6342]

Great video I really enjoyed it thanks lads

[@sandymcghee3328]

Awsome video Phil @ farther Phil 👍👍👌👌

[@dykehead1]

Could listen to father phil 24/7

[@alicegamble6145]

Great video. I really enjoyed seeing the machines working in the field. It was really interesting to have them all explained .

[@martinshannon5452]

Very interesting chat

[@sambrummitt3359]

Legendary farther phil

[@corkion]

brilliant video

[@colmanlong1032]

Pure Class.

[@684ih4]

Smashing video Phil, well done adding in the footage of the harvesters 👍👍👍

[@aidanelliott6228]

Brilliant as usual hope uncle is doing well 👍🌞

[@elidresner4850]

I love this as someone who is just entering the agricultural industry this is really interesting

[@GijsRupert]

I like this vintage thursday video. What a knowledge does your father have. Briljant!!!

[@smalldairyfarmer]

Really interesting 👍

[@user-rw2um8ro2p]

Great video Phil

[@Dave-jm5yo]

Good video. Thank you

[@martincotter4017]

Great video Phil.love them videos 👌

[@DianeD862]

We will have to watch on later love to hear you and Father chatting about the tractors 🚜 we love hearing about farming life.Your the best farmer’s in the world 🌍 as far as we are concerned 😦.We would of loved a calendar but we think we have to buy from the shop can’t see on the merchandise.We’ve got our viewing sorted out for tonight watching you on these darker nights.Best regards and Good luck love Ireland 🇮🇪.☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️

[@mertonflynn6227]

Farmer Phil and Father Phil, keep it going, well done, great to see, the pair of you - great ambassadors for farming

[@shaneprior]

Ah the old days, when you would build one machine out of another, brilliant stuff, so much knowledge!

[@darraghfaulkner528]

Great video lads brillant

[@philiproworth6131]

Love all your vids but especially the chats with you Dad which are very interesting. When i left school in 76 we were silaging with a kidd in line forager direct cut pulled by a Ford 4000 with a MF 35 buckraking. Happy days though. We hope uncle Ian is feeling better soon.

[@jamesok86]

Great stuff lads

[@gerardmcdonald2534]

That looks a lovily cuppa tea

[@richardhume4563]

Love these vids

[@samsfarminglife3244]

Great video

[@eddieglasgow6055]

Another excellent vid.

[@barrymurray7635]

great knowledge , there was some hard times in the past

[@andrewemerson8820]

Brilliant.

[@jascollinscork]

OMG a bloody fantastic chat this was enjoyed every bit of it!! Love all these olden stories from my neighbours too!! Also remember in the 90s my nearest neighbour cutting with a double chop New Holland trailed harvester and farmers who used to rent our ground cutting with a yellow and blue harvester but don’t it’s make!! Used to get fair excited cycling home from school knowing silage was going on!!

[@MrShanbla]

I would imagine it was a Kidd harvester you're thinking of!

[@Jimbo2922]

Love the videos

[@calftobeefwexfordpaul1482]

Great video Phil, I prey to God when I reach the age of your father my memory is as a strong as his, the knowledge on past machinery mixed with the years is fascinating great man father Phil

[@martinclifford9544]

Jaysus he's not that old!!!!

[@calftobeefwexfordpaul1482]

@@martinclifford9544 well aware of that but my meaning is im 35 I can't remember most things items dates and time frames of stuff from the 2000s and heres this welth of knowledge with a pin point memory frame of items and years from 40 years ago

[@tubbyruston7130]

Nice one Phil very interesting

[@thefarmerinme3302]

The hot spoon at the start - brilliant! Manys a time I was caught out. Great video lads.

[@ianward3943]

Brilliant video chaps. Father Phil's memory regarding all things machinery on the farm, is incredible. Would love to see you put out a video showing the vintage harvesters at more length. Love watching the classic stuff on KZbin. 👌

[@kenjohnston1996]

Great video how time's have changed

[@Hillfarmlamb]

Great vid some history of silage. I miss the old harvesters i started off sitting on the mudguard of a massey 135 controlling the haverster while someone else drove 😣miss it

[@Sam-bc2fe]

Would you every do a video with father phil talking about how the whole contracting business started and evolved to what it is today? Great video again 👍

[@samodonovan7788]

Cool video

[@penningtoncolin]

Great video we used to cut 60 acres with a 717 newholland on our john deere 2130 used to take us 3 or 4 days like you said it was a special time I was kept of school to row up or cart progressed to buck raking and mowing always start mowing first week in June lovely memories I'm 52 now left farming in 98 still miss it now I'm a excavator opperator if farming is in your blood it stays for life 😀 👍

[@cormacconlan1326]

I have a farming book and your family and tractors get talked about in it.Keep up the good videos

[@paulnewman2115]

Great video lads 👌

[@willharris8324]

Fascinating listening to the history on how you've progressed with forage harvesters. We started out with a Claas System Speiser as well. Ran that behind a Zetor 5511. We then bought a brand new Reco Mengele SH30, which we ran for nearly 20 years. Had that one behind a Zetor Crystal 8011, Fiat 1000S and a Fiat 110-90. We then moved on to a Reco SH40 before buying our first self propelled in year 2000. Keep up the good work with your videos 👍

[@liamfoley3876]

Very good one

[@peterdooley2393]

I like to think I'm still young at 47, but I remember us doing our first silage around the mid 80's. I think there was a very wet summer in 84 and we pushed a lot of hay into the bog. We bulldozer the top soil of the yard shook some straw and put the pit on it. Covered it with plastic and the dung. Filled bsgs of dung for around the side. We still use bags of dung around the sides today. Great memories.

[@noelgallagher3507]

All going I think bag manure going up to 800 a ton easy cut the crops next year they be light

[@mauricehiggins7661]

well don chaps good talk👍👍 hope your old man keep well.

[@corkion]

the smell of fresh silage my late brother in law use cut the sliage great vid

[@ianhaggart1438]

Age old thing. Buy something back then and it was big kit then jump ten years and it now looks quite small. Respect to Mr ferguson for making that wee futuristic tractor do everything. Iv alot of respect also for you foragers you have had well built machines 👍. Stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@brianduffy5193]

Loved the old videos of the old equipment, very informative video. Thanks

[@robertdonnelly385]

father phil fixing his hair was personal highlight 😂

[@agoodbluewilldo8359]

Love these chats lads.... and it's different watching now after I got to meet yous!! In a good way!! 👍 If only someone could download father Phils head!!

[@spannermad5246]

Great video he should write a book with all the memories

[@spannermad5246]

And I mean it 😃

[@gerryoconnor3414]

Super FATHER PHIL

[@anthony342]

nice vid

[@irvenrathburn9421]

A good history on silage and harvesters how things change through the years. We will catch you in the next video. SLAN GO FOILL. From the USA

[@corkion]

hope unchel get well we will pray for him

[@ballyhoulihanagrivideos397]

Very interesting.I think yard size and set up would also cause problems with higher output chopper. IE need for a second loader and awkard yards.

[@DAZ28111]

Its Good crack Love you and father talking old school stuff brilliant and hope your uncle keeping okay 👌 Father Phil has canny resemblance Dara o briain Irish comedian all very the best

[@michaellorio9774]

re bonjour très belle vidéo 👍👍👍

[@penningtoncolin]

Haha yeah I rember the windy handle thing and rope for the shoot before we and we had a big mower a 6.6 ft Farr 2 rows into 1 with the old haybob over 12 foot in 1 row that was a lot then 😂

[@MrShanbla]

Some gear down the years. Wasn't there a kidd clipper mower in yer history too? Could swear I saw one in that video of your grandad fixing a harvester on an old vintage Thursday clip. Love to hear your dad and uncle Ian talk about changes in mowing!

[@FARMERPHIL3690]

We have down a video on them from about 8 months ago