Unloading Haylage Into The Silo

Unloading chopped alfalfa haylage into the sealstor silo

[@smallthingshomestead279]

You guys do such a good job. Crop looked great. I enjoy your videos very much. To me you guys have the right size dairy farm and you get it done. You know your cows, you milk your cows, you do all your cropping. I would take an operation your size any day of the week. A true family farm . Thank you.

[@mikep7810]

Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoy the videos

[@dehavenfamilyfarm]

This reminds me of when I worked on my neighbors dairy farm in high school, running chopper wagons and unloading into ag bags. Thanks for sharing!!

[@mikep7810]

Thank you for watching. You will have to check out my videos from last fall when we were bagging corn silage

[@heartlandfarmer2720]

Thanks for the video. I do it exactly like you do it, except my chopper tractor is a 4450, the chopper is JD, and our wagons are New Holland. My dad is in the nursing home so I now chop and haul alone. Hay drying weather has been hard to come by this year. Blessings!

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. Sorry to hear about your dad. That must take a long time doing both the chopping and hauling. All the best

[@mennoreuten1563]

Looking good we just finished second crop and it remind me of my time in West va. I worked there for a year on a 250head dairy way back in time anyways thanks Mike have a good day greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. It was good to get it done before the rain

[@massey375]

That's great you got it all in. Some nice you take your son with you. I try to take my son as much as I can to, they learn a lot just being by your side. Good job and your a good Dad.

[@mikep7810]

Thank you, I really appreciate it

[@davidshowalter5808]

Another great video tractors look and sound great thanks

[@mikep7810]

Thank you David. I'm glad you enjoyed it

[@thomassojka2704]

Great job on another video, bringing us along while his son gets to spend time with his dad at work

[@mikep7810]

Thank you for watching

[@RemembranceFarmsLLC]

Great video. Love seeing the pull-type forage harvesters out in the field. So many self propelled choppers now a days, but growing up all my family farm even had was a Gehl 1285 and then a Case IH FHX300. Nice seeing your unloading part too. That blower is really eating the hay.

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. I wish we had a little higher hp tractor on the blower but the 4040 does alright

[@antonyfarming]

Great vid Mike good to get in before the rain 👍👍

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. I was glad everything worked out and we got it all in one day before the rain

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Send like it was just yesterday that we were Filling silo with a self unloading wagons and blower. We had badger wagons they were only 2 speeds I would stay in the tractor run the speed of the wagon in low until the pole tipped over then I would switch to high. If I wanted to run slower or faster in our or high I would speed up or slow the engine rpms up or down. Worked great with the foot pedal on the 4020. We had a 4430 on the blower, same blower you have. Couldn't plug it if you tried.

[@mikep7810]

I like the looks of those Dion blowes with the 1000 rpm PTO and the larger intake auger. I never ran those badger wagons. I've only used these h&s and the old 714 John Deeres.

[@scottsargent8564]

Ahhh, I've been waiting for this video. Good looking feed going into the silo. Hope the rest of your crops are doing well. We are at a stand still with 4 wet days and looking at another tomorrow. Got a bunch of hay to do but no hay weather to do it. Keep the videos coming i enjoy knowing somebody is getting their work done

[@mikep7810]

Thank you Scott. This was a fun video to make. I love chopping

[@patrickcourtwright1326]

Great video mike! Keep them coming! 👍

[@mikep7810]

Thank you Patrick

[@orsonwells7997]

used to do that job from sun up to sundown running wagons with the old H and M Farmall's used the old JD 720 on the blower.... our big tractor back then was a 4020...lol. Miss those days.

[@mikep7810]

Thanks for sharing. Some nice memories. I love chopping. Weather I'm chopping or unloading it's a great job

[@JamesOBrien2253]

Another great video Mike

[@mikep7810]

Thank you James

[@paulgargan6134]

Great job, I use to help on packing a bunker silo w haylage.

[@mikep7810]

Thank you, I've never packed a bunk before, I've only filled a silo and unloaded in a bag

[@george14756]

Great video.

[@mikep7810]

Thank you

[@bigtractorpower]

Great chopping team.

[@mikep7810]

Thank you! Chopping is definitely one of my most favorite jobs

[@dembeckfarms]

When I saw the first load, I was worried that Dad wasn’t filling the wagons all the way up this year, he didn’t disappoint 😂

[@mikep7810]

He didn't load up the front cross auger part so he took it easy this time lol

[@murrayhalbert2988]

I love farm vids, I put in 1000's of acres of silage in, both haylage and corn as a young lad, father was into "custom Farming" along with our own beef. Looked as if you were picking up second cut and was cut the day before, I can tell because of the water spray on the blower infeed. I can date myself I was 14 yrs old and running a New Idea Unisystem with a chopper. On second cut we would pick up 5-7 acres an hour, I would literally catch up to the 9 foot Owatonna swather. With the equipment I seen in this vid you should throw in a little old tractor with a rake and at least double up those windrows. Just say'n ..Awesome vid

[@mikep7810]

Great memories of putting in silage. I'm glad the video can bring back so many good memories

[@thr8061]

{cry} No Smell-A-Vision! Nice Video Mike!

[@mikep7810]

Thank you!

[@firecaptaintom6670]

I always enjoyed helping my cousin with haylage. I preferred running the chopper. I'll always remember his warnings "Dont engage the augers or beater bars too fast, you'll plug up the blower" Unloading into a bagger seemed easier.

[@mikep7810]

Yeah i can unload in the bagger faster. I like running the chopper too but unloading isn't bad

[@bigtrukkbigchevy4808]

Nice job chopping mike. That was always my favorite time. How many acres do you all farm.

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. We are a smaller farm. We farm a couple hundred acres

[@matthewjohnson3910]

Good video mike

[@mikep7810]

Thank you!

[@rickperry9546]

Love the sound of the pipe. Have you ever tried asking your dad to put one on the 4555? Great video.

[@mikep7810]

He said we need one on the 4555 to match the 4055. I wonder if that was a hint for me to go get one lol

[@samson1200]

Really great video Mike! Nice to see the little one spending time with his dad. We had a few silos and finally decided to put a 75 horse induction electric motor on the blower frame and a long extension cord with 220 voltage. Damn think saved us a load of fuel on the tractors! lol Worked great and spared wear and tear on another tractor. Have you considered that?

[@mikep7810]

I've seen them on videos but not in person, they work pretty good?

[@noelhohberger1188]

I can smell that good stuff through my phone haha

[@mikep7810]

It did have a pretty nice smell!

[@herbbarrett900]

Great video Mike this reminds of I had worked on my neighbors farm, the first load you had to watch till the pipe got shined up so you didn't plug it so easy. Did you still have feed in the silo or did you have to short arm it?

[@mikep7810]

These are sealstor silos and they have the laidig unloaders so we dont have to short arm them. We run a load out of the silo when we spend a day filling them with the weight added to them so it's kind if like short arming it

[@sharone6077]

Great video mike what type of.milker set up do you use

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. We have 4 surge milking machines

[@heartlandfarmer2720]

The fun part is climbing the Harvestore at the end of a long tiring day to close the lid and keep it air tight lol.

[@mikep7810]

They never get any shorter!

[@urbaninterfaceliving4273]

4.58 chuckle moment bust a gut type of moment from the little man

[@mikep7810]

He is something else

[@Nick-tz2vl]

Hey Mike, I like your video! I'm sure you've heard it before, but man you should tuck your shirt in working that close to those PTO shafts. Even if the guards are installed and working correctly. A couple times you got pretty close. We used to use the old 66 series IH tractors with the pto lever on the back next to the 3rd link to unload silage. You'd have to reach over the pto shaft to start or stop the silage box and it freaked me out every time. Where in NY are you? I'm in the Rochester, canandaigua area. Pretty close to Andy from farming fixing and fabricating

[@mikep7810]

Thank you for liking the video. I appreciate the advice. I'm near Binghamton, about an hour south of Andy

[@wi_ultra_farmer]

Great video Mike! Where did you get the extension for the drawbar on the 4555?

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. The extension came with the chopper

[@JoeyCampbell988]

Hi mike, great vid. Why didn’t you double up your rows? Windrows don’t look that big

[@mikep7810]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video. Usually we mow with a New Holland hw340 15 foot self propelled mower but it was down so we mowed with my buddy's 835 moco which only had an 11 foot cut. Ideally we would merge the rows even with the 15 head but we dont have a merger. Its something that's on the list

[@JoeyCampbell988]

Icic. Thanks for the answer🍻

[@robertschuler6825]

I thought Harvestore farmers never refered to harvestores as common silos. Good luck with your haylage, it's been a tough year for dry hay.

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. They actually aren't harvestores. They are sealstor brand silos. Pretty much similar but these have the laidig unloaders. I still call these harvestores from time to time

[@hedge685]

Just curious, Mike...what are you spraying on the crop as it hits the blower? Preservative?

[@mikep7810]

It's an inoculant. It helps it ferment in the silo and helps make quality forage

[@ihman3992]

Hey mike we used to run H&S wagons like that we loved them how do you like them?

[@mikep7810]

Love them. They are a great wagon

[@ohiomillennialfarmeromf8036]

Hey Mike I have a question for you is there a water pipe on the blower at the silo?

[@mikep7810]

There is a hose ran to the tripod that sprays innoculents on the forage as it's going in the blower

[@frankeem3820]

I miss doing that kind of work. I used to really enjoy it. I will have to say that I could not drive a tractor with an open pipe like that. That would be way too loud for me!

[@mikep7810]

I love chopping too. The noise wasn't bad. I wasn't full throttle much

[@swissy_2263]

cool video, why don't you guys use a hay inverter or something three put 3 rows together. we have a 166 new holand and we throw the left and right on to the center. it works well.

[@mikep7810]

We upgraded to the bigger chopper a couple years ago and a merger is something we'd like to get now

[@loleaf9023]

How do you like your new Holland harvester ? We are looking at upgrading our 790

[@mikep7810]

Love it. We use to have a 900 and it was great to go to this fp240. I know they are expensive but pairing the Dion rotary head with a fp230 or fp240 is great. I got videos on here chopping corn with ours

[@SteveHolsten]

Thanks for the video, Mike. How do you know when the silo is getting full?

[@mikep7810]

When we climb it to open it we'll tap on the sides to see where about we are at. When it's close to being full it will start to shoot out of the vent door

[@SteveHolsten]

@@mikep7810 Ok. I appreciate the response.

[@mikep7810]

@@SteveHolsten I'll make a video and explain more in detail and show the door

[@SteveHolsten]

@@mikep7810 Thanks, I'd appreciate it.

[@olnamgrunt9857]

When I worked in dairy we cut alot of corn silage spent alot of time shoveling it out of silo this would be in the early 60s

[@mikep7810]

I remember as a kid having to climb up in the silo and fork out silage, I don't miss it

[@jefffirefighter12106]

Is the silo empty? Are you going to fill both silo's, or is one filled with corn silage?

[@mikep7810]

No there was still a lot of haylage in it still. We came close to filling it that day. The other silo is corn silage

[@lonelyfarmer3486]

Do you have many tractor brake downs with the older equipment

[@mikep7810]

Not many, maintenance is a big deal. We just had a small issue with the 4555 but that's up and running strong again

[@StuBizzzle]

what are you spraying on as the haylage as it gose in the blower

[@mikep7810]

Its an inoculant. It helps the forage ferment in the silo

[@lukevarel417]

Dont know if you mention it, or i missed it where are you located? State wise

[@mikep7810]

Near Binghamton

[@oelrichsr]

Who makes that inoculant applicator that you have on the blower?

[@mikep7810]

It's from pioneer. We use that and pioneer inoculants. I should have showed that more

[@Northeastohio]

I veagly remwhen we chopped hay, but I think we used the bags. We don't have that many cows anymore

[@mikep7810]

I love chopping. Its a great job.

[@carterschnell4990]

Do you think haylage works better or does corn silage.

[@mikep7810]

We feed alfalfa haylage for protien and we feed corn silage for energy. I like them both

[@foundryman1985]

do you not rake windrows before you chop?

[@mikep7810]

We never take before chopping, the take knocks the leaves off. Our mower has a 15 foot head so the windrows are usually thicker. This field was mowed with my buddy's 11 foot mower. We should have merged the rows but we don't have a merger

[@hartungdairyfarm0713]

Nice video. Have you ever looked into Agri speed hitches? I got them last year and they're great

[@mikep7810]

We talk about them when we are chopping then forget about them as we finish. It would be cool to try them out

[@hartungdairyfarm0713]

I've got a short video of chopping hay using the speed hitches. Could give you an idea of the time saved. Really made it nice for my dad he can fill wagons when I'm milking and not have to climb in and out of the chopper

[@mikep7810]

@@hartungdairyfarm0713 I'll have to check them out. Luckily my dad doesn't mind climbing out to unhook them. He says it's good to get out and walk around so he doesn't stiffen up

[@eldepositovaliosa9686]

Cuantas horas de sol tenéis en este tiempo de cosecha

[@mikep7810]

Los días son bastante largos, así que tenemos mucho tiempo para trabajar en el campo.

[@ianthomas3938]

@@mikep7810 I assume you replied tool that comment in the same language. Well done Mike p 7810 and thank you for your videos. I will comment in Welsh to see if you replay in my native language??

[@mikep7810]

@@ianthomas3938 Thank you, Google translater is a wonderful thing!

[@teun7477]

An other question. How dry do you harvest your cornsilage ?

[@mikep7810]

You Don't want the silage too wet for the sealstor and if its too dry it wont ferment that well so we look for the 50-55%. This past fall the corn silage was around high 40s to 50

[@teun7477]

@@mikep7810 thanks so 50/55 % drymatter or moister

[@teun7477]

Sorry for all the questions but is upright limited oxygen really that good for corn and haylage

[@mikep7810]

@@teun7477 You are fine with the questions. We like the silos. We've had good luck with them. The quality of forage is really good. I like that the first loads of silage you put in is the first load that you feed where the other silos its the opposite. There is maintenance to do with them but as long as you take care of them they are good silos. There isn't a lot of them but go through my videos and check out my feeding videos and check out the silage and haylage coming out of them

[@teun7477]

@@mikep7810 thanks you top

[@tannerrettew7466]

Where do yous farm at

[@mikep7810]

New York

[@teun7477]

What’s unloading time ?

[@mikep7810]

Around 12-15 minutes

[@Boodlemania]

All that ground between your silos and the alfalfa field - is that just not usable for anything? Swampy or something?

[@mikep7810]

Its fenced in and its pastures for the heifers, dry cows, and the milk cows

[@peterjames2004]

what is the john Deere on the chopper please

[@mikep7810]

4555

[@peterjames2004]

@@mikep7810 thanks

[@mikep7810]

@@peterjames2004 The horsepower in it has been turned up so it's like a 4955. Its good to have that power to pull the fp240

[@briandubach3188]

Looked pretty green. Not concerned about to wet going into a sealed silo?

[@mikep7810]

It wasn't too wet.

[@briandubach3188]

@@mikep7810 ok. Just looked pretty green. Can remember blowing hay and needing to wear goggles....

[@mikep7810]

@@briandubach3188 that's the first thing I did was grab a handful and squeeze it to see how wet it was. It surprised me that it was at the perfect moisture. Too dry sucks too, then its blows all over and is itchy when it get on you

[@1DirtyMutt]

Windrows should have been raked together, less field compaction, less time in the field, more uniform cut going through chopper and easier on the silo unloader.

[@mikep7810]

Thanks for the advice

[@dougsmith9589]

How corn look there ware we live some corn mite make knee high

[@mikep7810]

Its not looking too bad. I gotta get out and check on it to see how the further fields look

[@hansjorgmarkusklemp2291]

Habt ihr in den USA nicht die Möglichkeit, Tiefsilos zu erbauen, ist dfür das Erdreich zum Ausbaggern ungeeignet, oder der Grundwasser-Spiegel zu niedrig...?!

[@mikep7810]

Diese Silos haben die perfekte Größe für unseren Hof. Sie müssen nicht höher sein

[@edkrumm5197]

how do you know when the silo is full?

[@mikep7810]

You will see some start to come out of the vent door and you know you are getting close. Then when it's full it will be raining down forage

[@chrismorris308]

Some hay fields chest deep round W Mich way to wet & damp

[@mikep7810]

We had a nice window to get this field done

[@hardlyableacresrsh7212]

Who is milking the cows?

[@mikep7810]

My brother