Haylage silo full, corn silo and two bags full. Just need your hi moisture corn and your beans combined and your harvest will be wrapped up. Stay after it. Amazing what you can get done if you get the weatherman to.cooperate.
It’s really interesting to see how that all works and to learn there are different systems/methods of stuffing the loaf. 😃 12:43 Excellent repurposing of the pry bar!
Interesting video, nice explanation of the filling bag process. I get the wanting the silage at the right moisture for the seal store. Back when we fed high moisture corn out it the Harvestore, you didn’t want it much over 22%. Any wetter and you’d get some very nice water coming out when you ran corn out.
Pro tip, Bungie cord on steering wheel on the bagger tractor helps keep it going straighter for longer, still have to keep an eye on it if there is internal leaking in the steering ;)
Interesting to watch a bagger work. We never bagged as we really don't have a great place to put a bag without making a great muddy mess. I'm familiar with Itty Bitty Farms. They produce nice stuff. I've gotten soaps as Christmas gifts for my mother and sister.
Great Video Mike, have you used a bunker for maize silage, I know the towers are on their way out, will you just use the bag system, thanks for sharing
Thank you Tony. I've packed haylage in a bunk once at a neighbor's but we've never used a bunk silo. We still use the silos and only bag silage to feed in between cleaning out the silo and refilling it
Oh geez now you are making me think. Had to have been planted in May. We tested some this week and it tested 31 so its shouldn't be too much longer. Problem is we are getting the rain now
I used a Kelley Ryan on the farm I worked on when I was younger. The way that farm was set up, as the bag filled you had to back the wagon up- was a pain sometimes lol
Mike that's another great video, thanks for poasting it. Great camera work and great commentary, I learned a few things. 1 Question; is there any chance you might poast a video showing how you recover the silage from those bags? All the best to you and yours.
Thank you Richard. It will probably be a little bit before we start feeding out of the bag. Here is a video I did a year or 2 ago feeding out of the agbag. Hope you enjoy... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HZ9_pHLEsmU.html
May I suggest the next time someone is milling a road or parking lot that you try and get every load you can. They make a great and cheap pad to put the bags on and keeps you from mudding during the winter
We take them off our tractors. All the 3 point hitch arms are on a pallet in the shed. We don't have anything that is hooked up with at 3 point hitch so we take them off. That way they aren't banging back and forth and getting in the way
I like the “extension arm” for the pto lever. We tried bagging hayleage once end result was lot of mold spores from not packing in tight. The guy that brought it over never told dad we needed a high horse power tractor. We had the Massey Ferguson on the chopper an on the ag badger which is a 80 or 85 hp. Had it running at full power.
Great job Mike! With the bags don't you have to let the gasses escape for a period of time before sealing it up? One of the few things I never got to do on the farm was silage.
I have heard that. In the past I just sealed it up the night I got done bagging. Never had an issue. I posted a video a few years ago and everyone yelled at me for not waiting for the gasses to escape. My buddy does the same thing I use to do. He sealed it up as soon as he filled it and never had an issue either
Once you get all set up and get rolling bagging actually goes by pretty quick. I enjoy bagging. Also it means we have more silage then the silo can hold which is a good thing
I lost count of how many we put in. We probably could have put another load or 2 in it. We had an issue with one of the tires which caused the brakes not to be applied
You get some. You gotta make sure its sealed up really good and packed pretty tight and spoilage will be a minimum. We had 1 year where the birds pecked holes all in the top of the bag so we got a lot of spoilage that year and another year we had animals digging into the side of the bag. As soon as air gets to a spot there will be spoilage there
