After you chisel, what do you use to smooth out the seed bed, I disc 2 to 3 times, cultivate 2 to 3 times, spike harrow 2 times and I still have a ton of grass mogels in my field, my tiller stays broken so I'm trying to get away from it, do I need to get a chisel plow?
We used to chop about 200 acres a year with a John Deere 4010 and a one row # 6 John Deere Chopper. I believe we chopped in about 4th gear. When we eventually went to a 2 row # 12 John Deere chopper, it did not really speed things up, two rows in 2nd gear. At the end of the day it is about tractor horsepower, not number of rows on the chopper.
My uncle had the same chopper but a two row, 40" head which he pulled it with an Oliver 1850. We had a New Holland 880 which had a 22.5" throat a much better chopper because of the wider throat. Great Video!!
In the winter them Badgers are slow because they only have one auger and the bearings are greasless so they are going bad every few years. I threw mine in the junk and got a Hanson .
We had two of those badgers. They were real dogs. The single auger always dug in and got stuck. We got a dual auger, I think Hanson, but they may have just rebranded another product, but it worked great and just floated, and rarely got stuck.
That's a pretty good load on a 6400! We also had a 1470 , I liked running it on the old 1066 because I didn't have to change the stub shafts out. Nice video.
We had two of those Badger unloaders. I don't know if it is the RPM's or the horsepower, but ours never worked that well. That thing is cranking out the silage!
Gasoline powered silo unloader? I dispised going up in the chute, when I had to adjust the height of the arm. It is a dirty job. Here you would need someone on the ground to lower it while someone else is inside the silo, monitoring it. I suspect the farm no longer has electrical service.
The silage is literally packed into the silo. It is as solid as a brick. Plus it freezes solid in the winter. The augers feeding the blower, have attachments on the augers to dig up the silage and move it to the blower. This would do in minutes, what would take hours by hand. Also the unloader keeps removing the top layer evenly, preventing spoilage.
I used to have this same tractor here in Florida, we did a lot of mowing, I had a 15 foot bat wing on the back, I could mow in the rain with this tractor
