In this video we start chopping hay, I fill the silo while dad chops! Long day but we get the job done, action packed with drone shots! Thanks for watching and the Merch website...thank you! kipsieglerfarming.com
Hello Kip, I am glad I stumbled onto your channel. I grew up on a dairy farm in the Texas Panhandle and filling three AO Smith (two 90ft and one 120ft) silos every year with my father preparing for winter was one of our summer jobs. We chopped alfalfa, corn, haygrazer, and more. Brings back so many great memories and made me smile. BTW: we still have the silos...
Hi, great vidéo thank you to taking time to do it,you are busy. Fill silo and feed cow same time, multitask 🐄🐮 JD equipment all the way,from start to finish 👍👍. Keep doing good work. Hope your niece going well.
Kip great channel and your dads a smart man finding all that old iron good reliable tractors to get the jobs done nice to see it over the new stuff every once in awhile
Thanks for the memorys Kip. The farm had the same wagons and we did hay in to Harvestor silos. Nice set up you have. And I know your milk hauler Dave. I say hi to him.
Hey Kip, looks like fun putting up haylage. Had a JD716 back in the day. The gearbox inside shaft washers got too thin and had to take it apart and replace and add to them. Then the gears meshed properly again. Took about 2 hours. Was putting up corn silage at the time back in about 1994-95 I think. Don't remember the exact year. You make me feel like I'm right there with you man! "Let's Go!"
So many great you tube channels to watch. Trinity Dairy, 10th generation farmer, How farms work, The Welkers, MF, Brian’s Farm videos Kip yours are right up there. Love all your videos so basic but well done. Veeser’s Andy’s channel Cole the Cornstar. Peterson brrothers Farmer on the Prarie
love watching you guys it sure brings back a lot of memories theres nothing better than a jd pulltype chopper and those chuck wagons are the best chuckwagons there are, i used to run a jd 115 chuck wagon with a farmal m and they run so smooth the m ran it with no problem, thank you for making quality milk and taking such good care of your cows!
I like the open station blower tractor. Not hard to idle it up from ground ! We used a 2640 on a 90 foot harvestor it worked.. lol but use a 4430 now lol
Looks good kip!! Not dusty just the right mmmooisture , chopping here in wi also! June sure is dairy month an a great month it is for us dairy farmers!!!
Hey Kip - this was awesome! Its a good first person view of what the unloader does. One thing, you gotta be careful around the PTO with an untucked shirt!! Take care buddy - look forward to the next one!
Thanks for supporting the dairy cause it helps also that stuff looks a little stringy but isn’t that bad and you guys have a fast hitch on that chopper man I wish we had one because it would save a heck of a lot of time 👍 I enjoyed the video keep em up
Way back in the mid seventies I worked with my Dad who ran a custom chopping outfit in Washington State. He had a self propelled John Deere 3 row (big back then) and two John Deere #38 pull types. We put up about 300,000 tons a year of alfalfa and corn silage.. Love the pull types still. Lot's of memories. thanks
Nice video and comments about what you are doing. I quit milking 10 years ago and miss a lot. I always enjoyed making hay (baling or chopping) as long as the weather cooperated. Why don't you unload faster? I put a 4440 on a NH28 blower blowing hay 90', We could do 5-16' badger boxes an hour with me hauling alone in field next to buildings (I needed one gut to help haul from fields farther away). I wish I could of done like all your informative videos, but I just missed the lower cost tech you are using. I hope you have a good milk market and survive these tough times and emerge stronger than ever. It's a good life!
How big are the silos, little long will help butterfat and helps with cow's rumination but doesn't pack in the silo as well. Busy time of year very important to reflects the whole year of milk production. Good job and stay hydrated.
Farming has really changed in the 60 years since I left the farm and went out into the big wide world. We had a Farmall B, Farmall Super C, JD50. Now tractors are gigantic!. We had two two bottom plows. Finally able to give up plowing in the fall when got rid of the F-30 and we got the C and the JD and the second plow. Still took forever. Only milked twice a day though.
For a couple years i helped a father and mother and son (80s and 50ish) i bought my milk from them and loved it. I helped haul rounds and rake and haul corn silage and blow it up haul ear corn and unload. Hauled and spread a lot of shit. They shut down due to son not able to do it all as parents got to old to be dealing with farming
Love that smell! Love your channel! Love your videos with milking and working around the cows! Miss those days! I drive truck now. Grew up in a farm! Miss that dairy barn smell!
Kip, you certainly seem to be on top of everything...watching your big forage harvester go round and round and round on what looks like small windrows...can it handle merged/larger windrows? It seems a lot of guys merge. Couldn't that ATV pull a small old side rake?
Wish Rochelle, you and your family the best man, love the channel, i was raised on a dairy/grape farm in New York State right close to the Lake Erie Shoreline, i lived there in 75 and remember when the Fitzgerald sank being on the news. When i was a kid i remember thinking at times i could not wait to get away from the life, in 02 after 10 years living in Montana i was between jobs and having no luck, driving by a dairy farm in Corvallis Montana i just pulled in, a farmer in his early 60s shook my hand and asked me what he could do for me, i still call him once in a while, he is in his early 80's now and still doing it.^^ I did his hand line and wheel line irrigation for 2 years on a 200 Honda, walked that hand line 9 miles per day (i did the math), lost 25 pounds and my blood pressure elated my doctor lol, in all the years i had been off the farm i have never loved a job more, how i miss it now, i work on cargo aircraft now, it will never measure up. Again all the best Kip, subbed.^^
not putting you down for way you are doing it but just saying what would happen if i ran a tire in that shape darn thing would blow out as far from the shop as could be with it filled to the brim and no jack big enough to get it jacked up
Random question...Do you know of anyone in your area that chops spring forages like triticale or rye before planting corn like they do in Ohio and Indiana or is Michigan too far north?
