SILAGE on VERY WET fields! | 285HP on a TRAILED harvester | 5th cut in October SUCKS...

[@Dan55788]

Ik it’s handy for the driver with the trailer to have the back loaded first so they can judge what’s into the trailer but, on wet ground, you have to load the front first as there is more weight on the wheels of the tractor rather than the trailers wheels. Just a tip for next year that you hopefully won’t need 👍

[@kennethhudson9568]

Very true indeed I was saying this too

[@theoracle8560]

Flower pot rip 😭😩😢, my condolences to your neighbour. It gave its life for a good cause.

[@JohnSAgri]

Great video Andrew. A lot of effort making that content. Great to see it paying off!

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Thanks! It is alot of work tbh. 😆

[@johnloughlin8232]

Hi lefty. Stumbled across your channel the other day, great content. Good to see you’re going well.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Hey!! This made me laugh, been a long time since someone called me lefty. 🤣 Thanks very much!

[@ireneyoung85]

Good video, love that 1260, had a ten x for 22yrs, wanted a 1060 but bought a 5010 torro wagon cos of lack of help. Would love to go back to using a trailed harvester

[@FarmTheoryNI]

We had a 10x from 1998 until 2021!

[@colmanlong1032]

Great video,love your system and your theories.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Thank you!

[@johnsweeney1712]

Great video. Interesting that you can get such good ME silage so late in the year… I thought silage made in May/June was best and it was all down hill ref grass sugars from there? Can’t believe the price if machinery… £75k for a trailed harvester… at least you’ve only got repayments on the 8S at this stage, that’s something. Keep up the good work.

[@dekdek551]

Fabulous share, I just loved that!. Italian ryegrass is 💪💪💪. It will be just fine!. It would be interesting to see your breeding approach on the dairy cows. Loved it. Interesting and informative 👍.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Great video idea! Have lots of unique stuff on breeding!

[@Aidy308]

Glad I come across this channel, keep up the good work 👍👍👍

[@JackConor]

Fair play👌🤟..."A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor"!!😂

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Great saying. 😅

[@keithaspin5160]

excellent video......new to your channel and was very happy to subscribe!!!

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Welcome aboard!

[@desfarrer6045]

Just subscribed very impressed with ourfit and video real quality 😂

[@farmerwillmellor510]

Great video! I’ve only just come across your channel and wow your videos are really good and interesting! God help you though if you tried to harvest those fields with a 2wd tractor🙈

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Welcome aboard!

[@franmorris824]

Very nice harvester to lift with by the looks of it , I have a Jf 900 and very happy with it well mentioned is key , you need the extra power in front I find I’m running 140hp on my 900 had 165 on it before but was bit too hard on the machine I found!

[@FarmTheoryNI]

285hp is hard on this JF also. I like to go full speed. 😅

[@emmetsherry]

Definitely a year for the Donnelly…the only trailer for wet ground

[@benjaminnewton7862]

Very Interesting, don’t remember ever hearing how grass looses most of its moisture in the first 4 hours.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

There is a brilliant graph I seen once but I couldn't find it again! 1%/hr is typical for the first few hours.

[@jamesrobinson9381]

Fill the front of the trailer first to put weight in the tractor to help with grip

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I usually do when I'm not trying to video. 😆

[@vxnova1]

High side of the trailer is next to harvester, is there a way to swap them or is it not that big of a deal

[@FarmTheoryNI]

They are hard to swap, definitely need to do it.

[@tristangibbs2351]

We’ve done 5th cut had some challenges wet bales marked it a bit but all the marks seem to have gone after a week and the grass is coming back well and can’t see the marks from baling it as hauling it

[@michealwhite8776]

I see your tractor came from William Bell who's outside Fivemiletown, where is your family farm? Nice video, even if they are red and blue!!😂

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Omagh!

[@robertchristie4653]

Great tractor next time try a vario amazing to drive I have a 6s with the vario box love it.

[@bobuncle8704]

How do you find nutritional value/yield potential (of milk) as compared to regional varieties of grass?

[@dof674]

What is the main drop in the quality from the lab analysis from 1st to 5th cut? Obviously DM, what else? Would imagine all 5th cut is good for is dry cows? Great videos man!

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Nothing, I have made 12.1me fourth cut before.

[@Rhyswilliams1]

Would you ever go down the loading wagon route

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Not a fan, our ground it just to farm from the farm and across a very busy road.

[@patrickmurphy7931]

On a good dry day how many acres would u get done with 1260 ? Great video btw

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Thanks! 9 until 11pm we could do 100ac

[@aidenowens1486]

We had fields a couple of years ago and couldn't get it cut (3rd cut) we left it and didn't touch it all winter, we sowed fertiliser only in April and we cut it for silage in late May and it was grand and the sward had some Italian

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Interesting, I have never had to leave a field, good to know its possible.

[@billybull7419]

Why you like the donnellys and johnsons?

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I do, definitely would buy them again.

[@LeighanneClarke]

Our contractor weighed the Donnelly an Herron same size trailers only 50 kg difference 🤷‍♀️classic Herron

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Wooow, I suppose a herron classic would be a light trailer still?

[@favoritvario7165]

Have a 20 ft Donnelly here and it is 4.4 tonnes

[@conor-breathnach]

Would dropping the tire pressures way down be any addition to lessen the marking of the fields when mowing? Or would it be pretty minuscule? I feel like that’s something you would have tried already!😂

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Its very important! The tire pressure is essentially equal to ground pressure.

[@williambrown3762]

There is a 1460 as well with a 900 mm drum, but it can only take a max of 280hp same as the 1260, so my question is would there be any more capacity with a 1460 with the same input?

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I don't know, I have been told no but I would still like to try it.

[@williambrown3762]

​@@FarmTheoryNIwould love to see a 1460 going

[@simonscott4887]

I use to run a 1260 in fact I done some of the prototype work on it, it was a fantastic machine, I was chopping around 3000 acres a year but I just couldn't live with the depreciation on it so I had to move to a self propelled forager, good luck with yours like I said it's a fantastic machine

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Very good! I wouldn't like to do 3000ac in a year with it! 😅

[@Johnnycambell]

if u don’t mind me asking y do u do multi cut system instead of just 2 or 3 big cuts

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Makes a huge difference to grass quality!

[@finbarreburn5112]

'Thanksgiving Harvest' 🙏

[@philiphall4805]

problem with quick growing grass is it does not tiller out and make a turf , we are never putting any in again , good vid though , I respect you having the balls to post it

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Yep, it's fine until the moment when it's not and then everything is just a mess. 😅

[@grandpaandlucas7054]

think you chopped it a day early

[@jaybernieschoep3491]

new shear bar

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Got one in August

[@davidporter9556]

That Italian kinda grass Is a lot slippery than normal grass cause it’s very open. An u need to invest in a couple a hand held radios Ther mighty job to chat to trailer men lol

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I definitely do need some radios. 😅 Yeah, if it's wet it's a bit of a mess.

[@gailkruetzman1550]

What country are you in? Where are you located?

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Northern Ireland!

[@johnbonham8059]

Would u not zero graze that last field ?

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Nope, it's quite far from the farm and I really don't rate zero grazing.

[@Valmet8050]

Why do you mow with the case and not the 8s

[@FarmTheoryNI]

It's allows me to get the JF hooked on and ready to go a day or two before. Puma is also lighter.

[@willholliday3537]

Why did you cut day after rain stopped? Why not wait?

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Was a lot of rain the day after we lifted it again! No guarantee we would have gotten another 3 dry days in october.

[@williambrown3762]

Seriously dry ground, for that to have been mowed when ground was at its wetest nearly ever, the fact it was gotten over at all

[@FarmTheoryNI]

It's a very loose soil structure, reseeded often, limited compaction, deep Italian ryegrass roots. Dries out very quick, messy if it's wet.

[@philipgill4391]

Who is doing the service ?

[@FarmTheoryNI]

This year it will be the JF Centre in Tullamore again.

[@philipgill4391]

@FarmTheoryNI if you need anything let me know I'm not working there anymore but myself and the old foreman are setting up our own business and still do work on jf harvesters

[@kennethhudson9568]

Tractor drivers haven’t a clue in wet conditions fill the front of trailer first for the hills

[@davidmurphy3924]

Try just fill the front of the trailer in wet conditions makes all the difference for weight transfer and field compaction!

[@patmurphy7539]

Did u have 2 get a new pot🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I haven't heard anything yet. 😆

[@williambrown3762]

Don't worry when you have 500k subscribers you tube will pay for the reseeding, you need to be controversial/bog some fields and break stuff for the views , in farming that's easy enough done😂

[@stephenpalmer741]

redo your maths , where do you get 500,000 from ??🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@williambrown3762]

Whenever he gets there I mean, and I'm sure he will, all about the content

[@greggroome2791]

🙏🙏🇮🇪🇮🇪👌👌👍👍

[@hughmarcus1]

Fields are only wet on top? Sorry a sure sign of poor soil management 😬

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Good soil management. I will explain at some point in a video.

[@pervaiziqbal33669]

AOA dear Why don't you let your animals help themselves, and save on your tractor hours/money

[@FarmTheoryNI]

We get huge amounts of rain over winter. So we harvest grass to feed when the cows can't be outside in the fields. We graze the cows for 200 days a year.

[@denisreidy8106]

Senseless to be mowing a field boating in water, a 10 year old would have more cop on

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I apologise. 🤣 Wont happen again boss.