Sealstor Silos

[@MrPunkinhed81]

That access in the bottom is neat.

[@mikep7810]

Yeah it is

[@devinwilmote3228]

Hi Mike. Thank you for the explanation of your operation and the equipment you use daily. For those of us that are not exposed to your livelihood it means a lot. This is why I subscribed to your videos. Thank you and please keep showing me more of your family dairy operation.

[@mikep7810]

Thank you Devin. I'm glad you subscribed and and enjoy the videos

[@donmacdonald7758]

Great silo tour. Thanks Mike

[@mikep7810]

Thank you Don. Glad you enjoyed it

[@mroctoberish]

Enjoyed the video. Laidig has sure made some improvements with those unloaders over the years. Thank you for the video. Very informative!

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the video

[@garyzehr4445]

Hi Mike, thanks for the tour of the Sealstore silo. When I was farming I had 2 concrete and a 50 by 150 bunk.. high moisture corn and alfalfa in the uprights and depending on the year corn silage or sweetcorn silage in the bunk. The cows went crazy for the sweetcorn silage. As usual another information filled video! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mikep7810]

Thank you Gary. Glad you enjoyed the video. That was interesting hearing about your silos

[@carljakel3111]

Great job Mike, very educational, I really enjoyed your explanation on how the silo work.

[@mikep7810]

Thank you Carl. Glad you enjoyed it

[@jamesdonal8599]

Interesting video I always wondered how those unloaders worked , I used mostly top unloaders , last few years was a sucking machine , with like large discs in inside the tower scraping the silage to centre then loading and unloading pipe telescoped down and vacuumed our silage , super reliable system. Unfortunately we gave up dairying, due to illness, silo was removed and is now working in Sweden. Over 35 years of working with unloaders it was best and most reliable and safest. Great video stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

[@mikep7810]

Thank you James. You stay safe too. Thats interesting hearing about your silos

[@davidkimmel4216]

Thank You for all the information Very interesting. That unloaded is a wicked looking unit. Does the silage ever bridge and not slide down to the unloaded ???

[@mikep7810]

Thanks David. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. We've never had that problem before. As long as you stay in that 50-55% moisture when you put the silage in then it doesn't give you much of a problem coming out

[@dalecornelius4374]

Neat to see, there weren't any sealstore silos in our area. All concrete stave, harvestore, and 1 Cropstore. We have a 20x70 Madison silo we used for corn silage when we milked. The neighbors up the road had a 20x30 and 20x50 harvestore for hmsc and a 20x60 and 20x70 for haylage that shared a goliath II unloader. I helped them move the unloader from the empty to the full one a couple times. It was a bit of a pain but worked good once it was in there

[@mikep7810]

I know these silos are real popular with high moisture corn

[@antonyfarming]

Great video thanks for showing inside 👌👍👍

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it

[@jackk9952]

Nice video good explanation how they work we have 5 concrete stave silos and bunker silos so I’m never around oxygen limited silos. Keep up the great work- Jack

[@mikep7810]

Thank you Jack.

[@ZekenStreak]

Great info. Thanks for the walk around. Take care & stay safe. Cheers

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. You take care and stay safe too

[@dehavenfamilyfarm]

Pretty neat how they work. It amazes me that the unloading auger can move with a full silo!

[@mikep7810]

The auger moves on the track really slow and it works a little tunnel around it. When we are done with the unloader we back it out of the pile. When you fill it you are supposed to run the unloader for a little bit because of the added pressure

[@deandenby8405]

Very interesting. Good video.

[@pamelaforkey2627]

Thank you

[@mikep7810]

Thank you Dean

[@brianzybura8633]

I sure liked the short clip of the corn silage flowing into the silo. Thanks for a good presentation about the functions and workings of silos. Hope your weekend is going good, Cheers.

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Brian. Glad you liked it

[@ihus9950]

Great info Mike👍

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it

[@farmshoffman8475]

Great awesome video mike, love that u show non farmers how sealstore work

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Jeff. Glad you enjoyed it

[@ohiofarmlife4020]

I like how a farm looks with silos but, I think a bunker or bags are the way to go!

[@mikep7810]

I don't mind the bags. we put up a bag and feed out of it when we clean out the corn silage silo

[@Ticky66MN]

Thanks Mike. We have 3 Harestores and 1 cement stave silo. We did the same thing with the bags in the hayloft as well.

[@mikep7810]

Its nice to have them out of the way like that

[@cubcadetsteve4148]

I always heard about the breather bags but never seen them before. I always heard about the one inside the silos on top. Yours in the barn seems like a way better idea. I grew up with I think they're Madison block silos.

[@mikep7810]

I've heard about about them inside the top of the silo too. I think they are better outside

[@late4dinner287]

Silo blower running reminds me of my old 4020 days. Sometimes I'd drive the 2840 but mostly the 4020 was my hauling tractor

[@mikep7810]

A couple of nice tractors there

[@jaycow3154]

Thanks for making this video always wonder how they unloaded I have only been around top unload silo

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Jay. Glad you liked it

[@ullomacres9855]

Is your heifer barn like 50x80 or so? Kinda looks like it

[@mikep7810]

Something like that

[@ullomacres9855]

@@mikep7810 And also do you know your stall size?

[@ullomacres9855]

I think the shed is like 50x64

[@jdtractorman7445]

At least the pvc pipe won't rust. I remember anytime we first started filling our cement stave silos years ago we put the first load up kind of slow, just to get the pipe nice, shiny and smooth again on the inside. Had a Harvestore silo as well, some people say they are problematic but I think it comes down to maintenance, or lack thereof. I can see where the Seal Stores might be better with that unloader setup, you can work on it fairly easily if something goes wrong.

[@mikep7810]

Yeah Im happy we went with pvc

[@bryanginder5903]

Jdtractorman the blower pipe is a preference an money thing when replacing them, I've seen both last vary long just the pvc can get holes easy from a rock but the new steel ones are not as thick as the older ones. The unloader on the other hand, the harvestore unloader (Goliath) is a far better unloader then the layding, the guys with problems an hated their harvestore unloaders didn't maintain them an they ended up costing them more in the long run

[@n2slugs]

I’ve still got the concrete stave silo standing but we went to trench silo when I was a kid many years ago. The smell of sedan silage still brings back such vivid memories. Now the labor just isn’t as profitable to put up silage for a few hundred beef cattle so I don’t bother.

[@mikep7810]

Your concrete stave silo still standing is like a landmark for your farm I'm sure

[@PlanetMojo]

The made those things a couple of blocks from my house in Milwaukee back in the day. Not sure if AO Smith is even in business anymore. Thanks for the look inside Mike!

[@mikep7810]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@martinhunt8174]

I work for Laidig who makes your reclaimers.

[@mikep7810]

We get all our parts and service from Center State Ag in Morrisville NY. What do you do for laidig?

[@martinhunt8174]

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[@mikep7810]

@@martinhunt8174 Thats really cool. Yes you don't see many in silage anymore. Back in the 90s my dad didn't like the looks of the harvestore unloaders so thats why he went with sealstor for the laidig unloaders. All 3 of our silos have the laidig unloaders. The haylage and corn silage have the same style then in the smaller silo is for high moisture corn. Silos seem to be a thing of the past so its always good to know someone who works for laidig!

[@sergebozhyk6488]

Hello mike I'm doing well and I hope your well as well and there was definitely some education from this video from me a nonfarmer but I'm pretty happy because I'm probably going to help a farmer stack bales so that's my first time working on a farm or any farm experience, btw who in the world dislikes your video

[@mikep7810]

Thank you Serge. I'm not sure but you can't make everyone happy. I'm just glad more people like them

[@ethanthopy1996]

When did you guys build these silos?

[@mikep7810]

These silos were put up in the 90s

[@ethanthopy1996]

@@mikep7810 is sealstor still in business?

[@mikep7810]

@@ethanthopy1996 No you can't get them new. You can have them taken apart and set up at your farm. These 3 silos were all used from other farms. There is a company near us that works on harvestores that also works on the Laidig unloaders. Sealstors are basically harvestores but have the different unloaders

[@ethanthopy1996]

@@mikep7810 is parts availability a problem with them?

[@ericgroat626]

That closed gooseneck is a new model on your haylage unit and the more open gooseneck on your CS unit is the old style.

[@mikep7810]

Thanks for clearing that up Eric

[@ericgroat626]

@@mikep7810👍 nice video

[@mikep7810]

@@ericgroat626 Thanks Eric

[@carlr287]

FIFO.... LOL. I like that system Mike... Have a great day.....

[@mikep7810]

Thank you Carl. Glad you liked it

[@bryanginder5903]

Both harvestore an sealstore silos had bags hung inside from the roof but when they needed to be replaced they get relocated to the barns hay mow just have to run pvc from the silo to the bags for the pressure to travle to the bags an back. The bag need to be out of the light an where the birds can sit on them an be off of the floor four feet to keep animals from getting to them.

[@mikep7810]

We always had our in the hay mow. They all were used and came from different farms so they probably had them inside

[@SittingInABunker]

Good morning Mike .

[@mikep7810]

Hello John

[@frankgibson8861]

hi mike how much capacity do these silos hold , tons or kgs lbs , i am from northern Ireland and have no experience of these type of silo thanks .

[@mikep7810]

Hello Frank. The Corn silage unit (middle silo) is the biggest at 25x65 and that one holds in the 600s tons, the haylage unit (silo on the right) is a 20x60 and holds around high 550s tons, and the high moisture corn unit (silo on the left) is a 20x40 and we've never filled it. The high moisture corn silo came from a farm that milked 150 cows and we only milk 50 so we only fill 1/3 of it

[@frankgibson8861]

@@mikep7810 Thanks for the information very interesting thankyou .

[@frankeem3820]

I think the silos with the cement blocks and steel hoops are called stave type silos. When I was a young guy, I got stuck up in a silo once. I was obviously not a trained professional!🙃

[@mikep7810]

Thats not good. I remember being young and having to climb up in our old wooden silos and throw out silage

[@lesrose800]

Yet again a great video well explained how many tones. Do the silo tower hold , and do you compress it and how when filling , Les. Uk

[@mikep7810]

I believe they are close to 600 + or so. The weight of the silage or haylage getting put in compresses the material below it

[@toddseefeld8469]

Looking forward to hay season

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Todd. Time to fill it now

[@ozz5350]

👍👏👏👏

[@mikep7810]

Thank you!

[@mennoreuten1563]

Informative, you hardly see them in the netherlands, everybody uses a bunk or pit or agbags or sealed round and square bales but no silo any quess what the price is today for a new one would like to know are they still build in the USA, thanks Mike have a good day greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Menno. We use an agbag to feed out of once the silo is empty

[@larrymacgillivray6574]

Do you have to have that bottom on loader going when you're feeling would be a lot of weight on that auger you would think

[@jeffkoval5147]

Yes, your supposed to run the unloader when you fill so you don't "pin" the auger down. Then it will generally form a cavity in the center of the silo when feeding out so generally you don't have hard packed feed in the center. Plus you don't want to run the unloader regularly because if you let it sit for too long, the settling of the feed will pin the auger also

[@mikep7810]

You are supposed to run it a little when you are filling it to take the pressure off the auger. When you are feeding out of it you are supposed to back the auger up a little to take the pressure of it also

[@larrymacgillivray6574]

@@mikep7810 good to know i just ran top unload when i worked on farm

[@jeffkoval5147]

@@mikep7810 you're right, I forgot about that. I used to be a service guy on Harvestore silos over 20 years ago. Serviced both Harveststore and Ladig unloaders

[@mikep7810]

@@jeffkoval5147 Thats pretty cool. There aren't too many guys that work on them anymore. Hope you thinkbi did a good job on the silo video and it probably brought back some memories seeing the inside

[@nepafarmingoldchannel4652]

Pretty awesome how them sealstores feed from the bottom before we go in our concert block silos we run the blower just for caution so the air can get in also we manually unload our silos because there not setup for an unloader

[@mikep7810]

Thats a smart thing to do running the blower. Better safe than sorry

[@87andersj]

Nice video 👍 Why don`t you use bunker silos?

[@mikep7810]

We went with these silos. These silos work with us

[@886ih]

Do you green chop when you run out of hayliage, and also can feed as you fill.

[@mikep7810]

We very rarely run out. You should run the unloader a little while you are filling to take the pressure off the unloader

[@bryanginder5903]

Make good an sure your track is in good shape an ancored down good that's the first problem that will make you pull your hair out an a terrible pain to fix after their full!! Have fixed a few for guys, not fun!

[@mikep7810]

Yeah he went around checking the track

[@timothyscott6365]

A flying dutchman bottom unloader is a lot better of a design

[@mikep7810]

We've had good luck with the laidig unloaders

[@brentreid7031]

So with these structures do you long arm and short arm like the Harvestore. Thank you for the video update eh.

[@possleaholsteinspossbrofar8429]

was wondering the same thing. wonder how long it takes to dome it

[@deereman2479]

You only short arm a have store dont remember how many times around it has to go, my guess is about 3-4 , Madison bottom unload had laidig unloaded, that's what Mike's looks like with the track inside.

[@mikep7810]

No that auger is fixed to the middle part and goes around the silo on that track. There is no long arming these because the auger has the teeth bolted on them not the chain like harvestores

[@possleaholsteinspossbrofar8429]

thanks Mike.

[@bryanginder5903]

@@deereman2479 deereman your right 4-8 times around to establish a cavity in a harvestore then pull it to longarm it an shove it back in. The lading that Mike has always stays that length because it drives its self on a track on the floor by the wall, that was one of their down falls along with having three electric motors to run vers one on a harvestore

[@davidloy8376]

Do the bags stay at ground level?

[@mikep7810]

They are hanging in the hay mow so in the 2nd floor

[@caseihmagnum279]

Yea my family hates the harvestores because of the "if something breaks" which while a valid point I like the sesled silos because over all they just seem to be far less work then top-unloading silo that we have and are faster

[@mikep7810]

If something does break its probably a little more challenging then the top unload silos but as far as the daily use goes these seem to be a little easier

[@bryanginder5903]

The open gooseneck is older the inclosed one is newer an probably is a Lancaster brand gooseneck!

[@mikep7810]

Thanks for the info

[@didierfertil6334]

Is the last lay rotten, how deep is the waist ?

[@mikep7810]

yes the waste will be on the top. It really depends on the quality of your forage and moisture of forage. its not the same amount every year

[@didierfertil6334]

Is there a chimical or mecanical way to avoid this waist ?

[@mikep7810]

@@didierfertil6334 There is waste with every type of way you store silage. Bunker silos has waste when you open them. Ag bags have waste when you open them. These silos actually have the least waste of forage storage

[@didierfertil6334]

@@mikep7810 thanks for your andswer

[@mikep7810]

@@didierfertil6334 no problem

[@bobearl7859]

Aren't they the same as harvestore silos

[@mikep7810]

Really similar. The unloaders are the big difference

[@deereman2479]

My uncle had 2 harvester, I worked on a farm we had some sealed Madison's with same unloader. What r the sizes and how old are they. Love your videos I grew up on my uncle's small farm, I'm retired from farming now. You can put the air bag from harvester just like yours, if you want.

[@mikep7810]

Thanks deere man. I appreciate it. the high moisture corn unit is 20x40 the haylage is 20x60 and the corn silage is 25x65. They are all over 20 years old

[@bryanginder5903]

If them unloaders ever go to hell put in a Goliath like the harvestore has an you won't regret it you will just wish you put it in sooner! Just will have to change the floor an put a trough in for the unloader!

[@mikep7810]

We just replaced a lot in this unloader. It did well for 20 years.

[@brianfitzsimmonds807]

Had two stave silo's never used a harvester silo

[@mikep7810]

How do you like your stave silos

[@brianfitzsimmonds807]

@@mikep7810 not to bad the only downside was that climbing up and lower everything down hood cord don't drop the cord then you had to go down and get it and drag it back up did that a lot of times

[@connork4440]

Hey mike

[@mikep7810]

Hey Connor