Silage in the 1980s | Claas Jaguar 85E

[@samstocks3597]

Well done to your granny for filming footage for Farming Files 30 years in advance

[@FarmingFiles]

Forward thinking granny we have!

[@hugoagogo9435]

Makes me feel old when I hear a young person speak about the type of machinery way back then yet I remember it like yesterday

[@GringoBaggins]

yeah i hear you on that one!

[@onetry7406]

Of wow, those images are sure to bring back memories!

[@FarmingFiles]

I’m sure they will.

[@trudy__taylorandjorjamummy]

Thank you for sharing the vintage farming 🚜 videos with us

[@FarmingFiles]

Glad you liked them

[@cidertom5140]

Perkins 540 V8 8.8 litre. Same engine was used in Dennis fire engines which were built in Guildford. And class Jaguar 682.

[@swaggerslucy2722]

Great video! You can tell that silage has changed in the past years!

[@FarmingFiles]

It’s so different, I wonder what it’ll look like 30 years in the future?!

[@jenkeep8123]

This was great! If you have any other old footage of the goings-on at your farm, I bet we'd love to see it! So cool to see what's changed and what hasn't. ⌛

[@FarmingFiles]

Thank you, we can see what else granny has. 👍🏻

[@wonderwend1]

I'd love that!

[@johnlong3214]

Lovely bit of footage👍

[@FarmingFiles]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@TheGrandpaddy]

Well done Finn and grandparents , that brings back memories , I used to do puncture repairs on that sort of equipment , good old days 😀😀😀

[@FarmingFiles]

Awesome Mick 😁

[@KellyAshcraft-ww6ls]

Cool, pretty much the same was it’s done today, just fancier equipment... nice 👍

[@FarmingFiles]

Glad you liked it👍🏻

[@dmmcharrie2698]

Well done Farming Files Team, obviously filming stuff runs in the family! Thank you Finn, Katie, and Rory’s Granny for having the thought for recording the silaging back in the mid to late 80’s 👍 keep it up guys!!! 😀

[@FarmingFiles]

Thanks Donald 👍🏻

[@Loyalg1]

Hi Finn, and Rory never saw them hear in the USA before, back then we used what is called a sickle bar. It is always good to see how others do the same job but yet different, cool episode thanks so much, remember to say hi to Katie, let her know I miss her

[@FarmingFiles]

Will do, she’s just finished summer acting school tonight so hopefully you’ll see her in the next video.

[@davidbrennan3613]

Great video always good to see the old gear

[@FirstnameLastname-qe3ry]

Imagine that, they year is 1988, silage is on the way, you, Cecil, john, adrian and cathal are in the yokes, homemade trailers and modified harvester, you hop in your brand new ford 7810 as the other lads get a tidy Ford 7600, 6610 and ih 955. Simple times

[@mrg4598]

Looks an efficient operation for the day. Claas Jag 85e was one of the biggest available at the time before self propelled. Great video 👍

[@tammymossholder1058]

Suddenly, I feel old. Most of that equipment looked very familiar from when I was YOUR AGE in the 1980’s living and working on a dairy farm in Appleton,WI 🇺🇸. Cheers kids!😉

[@FarmingFiles]

Appleton 🇺🇸 where the Hoof GP’s crush came from, we’ve looked it up on the map so know where you are in the world.

[@tammymossholder1058]

Farming Files yes, Im the one who met Graeme when he was here in February checking out his crush. 😉

[@FarmingFiles]

Ah yes I remember now. Got quite a few subscribers from Appleton 😁👍🏻

[@garrybeard7718]

Love old films footage fantastic job well done guys.👍🇬🇧🤘🤣😂

[@FarmingFiles]

It’s been popular! Will have to get granny to dig out some more!!!

[@ChristophersMum]

A great wee video...yes a whole lot has changed in my time...and all to do the same job...cutting hay for the animals during winter...perhaps in your future you will sit at your computer and direct whatever machine in the barn to go out and get the hay cut...the mind boggles at what could be possible...give my love to Katie, Rory and your mum and dad...and Granny

[@FarmingFiles]

Thank you. I hope it’s not like that. No one will have a job 🤔 but it would be kind of cool to do that though.

[@nigelwylie01]

Great to see. Thanks team. Interesting. It’s what I think farming is like everywhere. That’s why I always get surprised by modern equipment: it’s size and it must be so expensive to buy, maintain and even to store. Especially when it only does one job like your chopper. But I guess I’m just showing my age!

[@FarmingFiles]

It’s all very true but all needed. Things have changed so much, imagine the next 30-40 years progress.

[@nigelwylie01]

Farming Files I imagine with the unpredictability of the weather, getting the silage in and covered in two days rather than 7 makes a huge difference to the quality of the fodder?

[@FarmingFiles]

100% correct. It still takes 4-5 days down at Granny and Uncle’s farms then 2-3 data here. So all over in a week instead of over 2 weeks.

[@Eavis_excavations]

Great to watch that claas jaguar would have been the very best of trailed foragers in it day rare as well not many sold but state of art at the time big capacity in its day

[@FarmingFiles]

That’s what daddy said.

[@terrycapstick994]

Cool video

[@sdstin]

That’s lovely! This episode is wonderful!

[@FarmingFiles]

We weren’t sure if it would work, glad you like it

[@fnh8340]

The trailed harvester is a fairly rare machine, if you look carefully you can see that it has its own Diesel engine to power it. It is probably a aftermarket conversion as Claas never had the engine in this position. Claas engineers put the low down on the draw bar, probably a better position too as the center of gravity is lower and the extra weight is carried equally with the tractor. Nevertheless it was an advanced machine for its day.

[@FarmingFiles]

This is a Claas factory built machine, possibly the first one to be sold in the Uk .Claas engineers came to the farm to monitor the engine when it first was used.

[@fnh8340]

Ok, in classic tractor magazine they did a feature on engine driven trailed harvesters and they featured a Claas model with an engine mounted on the draw-bar. This machine was put together by a Class dealer and they sold a relatively small amount of harvesters and they had support from the Claas factory. Your grand parents were ahead of the pack back in the day. Thanks for correcting my information.

[@FarmingFiles]

They certainly must have been👍🏻.

[@malcookie]

@@fnh8340 It was Manns that built them. The Claas UK importer at the time and now owned by Claas directly. There was a 75 with an engine on the drawbar in the magazine but it was farmer built. Both the 75E & 85E machines had the engines mounted like this. The 85E is very rare. Does anyone know where this one is now?

[@neilrainbow1889]

Well done, love old videos like that, 👍

[@FarmingFiles]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@adamhorgan5872]

The mower at the start was a Kidd. Strange to look at them when halve an hour ago I was out mowing in a big m which is 30 foot.shows how much things have changed.

[@FarmingFiles]

It is a Kidd. Did you use one too?

[@FarmingFiles]

It is a Kidd. Did you use one too?

[@adamhorgan5872]

@@FarmingFiles .we use a big m 420

[@FarmingFiles]

Self propelled? Awesome

[@adamhorgan5872]

@@FarmingFiles ya.and it puts it into swaths two I we want it to

[@wonderwend1]

Well that was wonderful to watch!

[@FarmingFiles]

Thank you, glad you liked it

[@mikepetersen1999]

Very cool. Imagine what will be different 40 years from now.

[@FarmingFiles]

Well who knows where we’ll be with technology then.

[@fredandcheryl94]

You use the equipment you can afford and is economical at the time. Great footage keep up the good work. Wash your hands!

[@FarmingFiles]

Glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻

[@JN-hw3uf]

the good days more fun then now

[@malcookie]

Great video! Have you much footage on the harvester? Any chance you could put up a video of all of the harvester footage please?

[@FarmingFiles]

We have maybe got some more in old cine film but just need to get it into format for here. Will see what we can do.

[@hannahmoore1120]

hi my name is Oliver I am 9 years old I do not have my own computer yet so I am on my mum's computer I live in Scottland on the isle of Raasay so that sort of machinery is used a lot here .

[@ChristophersMum]

Raasay...is that the island where Calum built a road all by himself ?....It's a very beautiful part of Scotland

[@FarmingFiles]

Oliver. You live in a very remote but beautiful place. I can imagine you see lots of this type of machinery. Glad you like the videos. 👍🏻

[@hannahmoore1120]

@@FarmingFiles I love the videos they are great for my age. when you get comments they will be from me so I will put a big O at the star

[@hannahmoore1120]

@@ChristophersMum yes that is the island

[@pocketchange1951]

👍👌🇨🇦❤, well done Finn

[@FarmingFiles]

Thank you, no video yesterday as we were away for a couple of days. Back home now in the howling winds and pouring rain, summer in Scotland!!!

[@jamesbarbour8400]

That trailer tipping at the pit is a Weeks

[@cidertom5140]

Perkins 8.8 V8 540 same engine as used in Dennis fire engines and ClaasJaguar 682.

[@joycestewart1682]

Hi how is welshie doing? Hope he is doing well

[@FarmingFiles]

He’s awesome, back to his old self

[@joycestewart1682]

That's good

[@Mungo-ul9pv]

How quickly things have changed

[@FarmingFiles]

You can’t imagine what the future holds

[@alexannal]

Good effort. Very interesting was that all of you own equipment or contractors

[@FarmingFiles]

It was all their own equipment back then too.

[@dawnhall3637]

Mower looks like a Kidd Clipper.

[@kennkrizsanitz7820]

nice old footage I know what you mean by large cameras, I did video production in the late 70's in the military. looked like back then one tractor did a lot of jobs. how's the crow getter awayer working?? see ya on Monday. so C YA

[@FarmingFiles]

The crow banger has stopped working so not good! Appears faulty 😣

[@mrbrown3722]

What's next pre tractors?😄

[@FarmingFiles]

More digging in granny’s cupboards and you never know what we might find!

[@THEmightyQUINN777]

Did they have the same number of cows on the farm then?

[@FarmingFiles]

Yes still the same number they had then

[@dolu1973]

LIKE

[@harry.bethwaite]

Nice video just wondering what equipment you use for Silage now?

[@FarmingFiles]

This is what we use now from our channel a few weeks ago. kzbin.info/aero/PLzplWu2JeQ9qBqaryPrYxQ9o8KdzQvBiS

[@harry.bethwaite]

@@FarmingFiles I like that fact you share gear with someone else not common in the UK and I like the older Jaguar hard to believe that design is 20 years old now

[@FarmingFiles]

It’s all shared between granny, uncle and dad. We all work together to get everyone’s silage done - it works really well.

[@MalkheBehr]

Yikes. When did the 80's become the old days?

[@FarmingFiles]

😂 that’s what mum and dad said!

[@malcolm4672]

The Drott had plenty of "air-conditioning". Some one knew something when the recorded this AND kept it.

[@FarmingFiles]

Granny has lots of interesting things in her cupboards! It’s great to find and have.

[@robertamity3563]

👍😎🇺🇸 !

[@royneitzke4347]

Where’s your Katie?

[@FarmingFiles]

She’s been at acting summer school all week. It’s been online but we’ve hardly seen her! She was meant to be in Glasgow at The Royal Conservatoire but due to Covid it was moved online which is a huge shame. She loved every second of it though.

[@paraffindan]

could be a kidd mower

[@gerardduggan1245]

Kidd mower

[@gerardduggan1245]

Kidd cliper mower

[@pineappleplaysxbox7897]

Or it’s called a bulldozer!!

[@davidbrennan3613]

First time i seen a Dozer on a silage pit

[@shaunrowlands3609]

Kidd mower