Chopping alfalfa haylage this past summer in 2023 on our upstate New York dairy farm and showing chopping haylage 27 years earlier in 1996 #farming #dairyfarm #barn #cows #johndeere #forageharvester
Mike, watching this is just awesome. Seeing a sound gard cab with a pull behind chopper and self unloading wagon is way cooler to watch than trucks and self propelled choppers any day! Keep up the GREAT work and keep this equipment setup going as long as you can!!!
@@mikep7810 there will probably be a day in the near future when you won’t have a choice. One of the salesmen from Whites was under the impression that Case IH was going to end production soon and New Holland at the least stopped making the FP230. I think Dion will be the only company making a pull behind before too long.
Go Grandma, what a legacy. So cool that you are going through these and sharing them with us. What a difference in video quality these days. Imagine the meaningful legacy you are creating with each of your videos today. Thank you Mike!
Mike love these old videoes brings back memoriers for me see the older tractors i miss dairy farming but with my health now and the prices of everything i dont see how you all hang on hats off to you and your dad its a lot of hard work for very little money
Thanks Josh. I have a cool clip I found of my uncle and grandfather in the same field both moldboard plowing with 4wd Ford tractors. I'm going to show Jason that one, I bet he'd like it
That is so cool these old vidoes. Things change a little bit from them days. I could relate to them chopping days when I was a young boy working on the farms doing the raking hauling silage to up rights or a bunker.
Man 1996… I was in 7th grade in Marcellus Schools. Filling silo with haylage can be a pain… the hay has to be just right or you’ll get trouble… ask me how I know… lol it’s not like corn silage and you can unload full send and it’ll go as fast as you can take it. Very nice… I love throwback videos. It’s like a time capsule… keep them coming bud..
Rick! Think of all the farms still milking out our way in 1996, now there are only 3 farms between Skaneateles and Cazenovia on Rt. 20 who still ship milk.
Hello mike great vidéo thanks I love the revivals of our childhood, it goes back to my childhood in silage at my boss's father's house with the 6030 on the John Deere forage harvester, 3 row corn cutter and a 2.4 meter for grass, it was the one of the biggest in my village and the 2640 jd on the gehl silage wagon and the 5020 on the other wagon and the 4320 on the blower and we had a total of 4 wagons we were equipped as in the us but in Alsace in France and we took us for sick people in terms of construction site performance, I thank you again for reminding me of my childhood
yes we had a 6030 a 5020 an 830 a 620 a 7520 articulated and the biggest an 8440 one of the last John Deere V8 series and the 2640 real solid material as we do more we still have the 2640 and the rest some farm equipment went to our breeder friend and the 5020 we made a reepower 12v 71t detroit diesel because the original 6 cylinder is ruined, impossible to repair it and with the exploitation of 1300 or 1500 hectares it was necessary to renew the equipment because we do eta and the 1300 or 1500 hectares are exploitation plus customers
Really great video! Even though the newer equipment has some small technology added to them the process is still the same! In the 70's you had to move the blower chute and flap with a hand crank and rope! Thanks Mike 👍😎
@@mikep7810 I think just having a Soundguard in general would be better than what I have now, lol. Although, I was in Lejune back in 96, still a helluva time to be alive.
Were the Sealstores new or used when you put them up? You mentioned the corn silage unit was recently built at the time of '96 video but I thought they were out of business by then already. Not much info available on the Sealstores, unlike the Harvestores.
All the sealstors my dad put up were used and bought from another farm. He put the high moisture corn unit up in 1993 or 1994. He had just put up this haylage unit in 1996 and the one for corn silage was put up in 2000
Who's that kid in the chopper tractor? 😂 I ran NH 892 behind a JD 7800 , with Gehl and JD boxes then. I was about as good looking as I was ever going to be then.. 🤣 Great video! 👍👍
Thanks Morgan. My mom was chopping at the beginning of the video in 1996. Once my brother was unloading my dad took over chopping. I was in the barn with my other brother milking
This was cool. The chopper that you were using in 1996 looks like the chopper we used in 1996 which is the same as we still use in 2023. I don't know what it is about your videos Mike but they make me feel younger. Pretty strange phenomenon. Love that 3020. Most times it's on our blower though.... We still pull our Meyer's wagons with the JD A. Good chance I will be doing that until I retire. This really was a great visit down memory lane.
Haha I was just at an auction last spring and they had 4 or 5 of those John Deere forage wagons. It was pretty cool to see them again and go over them a little bit
We can definitely put a lot more material through the chopper now. I see that 790 chopper and thinking about how it looks like a toy compared to the fp240. I don't think I would ever tried to put a merged row through the 790 like we do with the fp240
The thing it came down to was the unloaders. My dad didn't like the looks of the goliath unloaders in the harvestore. The sealstor has the Laidig unloaders which is an auger going around in the silo so there is no long arming or short arming them
No I was in the barn milking in 1996. In the 2023 video that was my son hooking the wagon up to the chopper. I thinking the only one hooking up the wagon in 1996 was my dad
8:55 Interestong leak in front of the right-front wheel of that chopper box. And judging by the little pile in front of the newer H&S box 9:36 , it was a common problem. 😃 Your grandma did a great job of capturing the action with good, level framing and very little shake for an old videocamera with no stabilization control. Also interesting how much your son looks like you when you were young.
