Just started playing farming simulator 17 recently, and it's the first sim I've played seriously. I've been having a lot of fun playing, and have appreciated your archive of videos.
Awesome! Arthur's first FS17 tutorial. Another great video. The FS15 silage tutorial is what prompted me to subscribe to the channel a couple of years ago. Thank-you Arthur for years of info and LOTS of fun. God Bless you and your family.P.S. it was a blast watching Mater run around the farm the other as well as your other kids.
Omg i been shoveling my pits to sell for the last few hours im off to buy those conveyors asap.. Thank you for all your vids i play on real time over 200 hours now and have made good progress and had loads of fun great game and you have given me good guidence thank you..
When you turn the wheels sideways on that last belt, you can then hire a worker, and he will move the unit side to side to spread out the pile you are creating. You can set the size of the arc with the degree setting. Not real useful for silage, but if you are just making a pile on the ground or in a storage shed, you can make a nicer pile.
The best way to set up the belt thingys is to place the one that picks it up from the ground first and then the one that can reach very high up so you set out those 2 first and THEN you get out the middle peice because its so flexible since you can move it in all kinds of ways
In my opinion this whole silage levelling/compressing stuff is nice if you are into doing such fiddly tasks. But if you want to be most effective, the best way of levelling and compressing is during filling. I always compress the load I fill in - usually I have the Strautmann Collection Wagon which can hold 50K or the Krone chaff-wagon you mentioned. These trailers are heavy enough that about 3-4 passes will compress the load (The first 2-3 loads may need 4 or 5 passes to compress, but the more the silo gets filled, the faster a single load will compress ). You can reduce the need of leveling if you set your cruise control to a value so that the unloading makes a straight pile from one end to the other (or to the half if it is a long silo). But how can you know which value to set. You can simply do it by try and error or a bit more sophisticated: fill your trailer up till it is full. Then go out on a field and force dump it at maybe 15 kph ( the speed doesn't really matter - it is just easier to get the mess cleaned up when you have a line you can go over with your collection wagon than just one huge pile) but what matters is the time your trailer needs to unload fully. Remember that time and then go to the silo. Now take your fully loaded trailer and set any cruise speed and let drive thrugh the silo. Was it longer than the unloading time, you have to go faster. Was ist less, than you have to go slower. Try this till your speed setting let's drive you from one end to the other in the same time your wagon needs to unload. Then dump - 1. dump on one side - compress - 2. dump on the other side - compress - 3. dump in the middle - compress - first layer leveled out. and compressed ;)
I figured out how to get a nice level pile in the silage pit after messing around with a leveler and following some of your advice! I will have to upload a video to explain it
Hi Arthur been watching you since 15 nice to see some proper farming videos on your channel again I gave up when you started that cartoonish simulator awaiting FS17 release now i should be watching more often!
A trick to get layers is when unloading to run the tractor over at cruise control at a certain speed, first on the right side of the silo, then on the left side, and so on and so forth. For the biggest loading wagon I found what works is setting it to about 11-12 kph, hit Ctrl+I about 2-3 meters into the silo (leaving a bit of space cause compacting will spread it out) will mean the wagon runs out of grass about 2-3 meters before the end of the silo. Without it, when you start getting to about 1M liters per silo, it'll really be a pain in the ass to be able to drive over that with the wagon. If you run something like a John Deere 9630 with triple wheels, it'll finish up to 100% in just one extra run over each silo. I suppose getting the heaviest weights on each side of the tractor plus maybe wheel weights might be the cheapest way to do it though. One question I have is how do you use the silage addatives? It says on the shop page (under pallets) that it's supposed to make it more valuable, but I haven't found out how to use it yet.
Dang... now I wish I hadn't sold all my bailing/wrapper equipment. Nice video - new subscriber here. I look forward to more FS17 from you. (Six kids and zero wives? I don't know if I am more impressed or terrified. Best of luck!)
Yeah, be terrified lol - I am a good Dad, but not so good as a Mom. I try though, and I definitely am more sensitive to my kids needs than most men, but I also have my butt head moments.
The reason you would actually attach all the belts together, is it ensures they are always correctly lined up, since the hitches are lined up with each other, to keep all the ends of the belts directly over the beginning of the next. I think you may be able to use them as well for the same method you did, but having them all hitched up will let you pull the entire line with the first conveyor.
Are you still playing Multiplayer? I would love to just grow hay/silage on your farm. (I'm ~40yrs old, married w/kids, US military, and play sims to relax).
Yes sir - We do South Mountain Creamery every Friday at 7pm EST. All the information can be found here - www.twitch.tv/vbluguitar. Hope to see you there!
Man I love your videos I've learned a lot but watching you I'm learning more. Sometimes it gets over wellming specially trying to figure out what the best vehical to use for different jobs. I'm farming for silage, and I'd like to do green houses.... I know I know but it's something I'm interested in. My question is can I just have cows and only feed what I have to for manure??? I don't need them for anything else. Can that work if I have enough cows and only feed them to make manure will they just do that?? Didn't want to spend money to be wrong. Wish I could use slurry from the bioplant to fill the manure at the green houses.
Hey Arthur great video. Been waiting for you to start the tutorials again. Just have a quick question because I'm totally stumped. I put corn silage in the bunker at the cows and used most of it so I thought it would be good to clean it out and fill it back up. Now I have 2444 litres left in it and I can't get it out . I've tried everything and nothing has worked. What can I do to get the last little bit out ?
You will need to use this mod to clean it out. Becareful though - it can erase your fields, so just use it in the bunker. drive.google.com/file/d/0B0AW9-3R406IT3NxQUphQjBUNTA/view?usp=sharing
Excellent tutorial. It helped a lot. Although you might want to create future tutorials using all vanilla items for people that aren't interested in modding. I'm referring mainly to the custom map you're using.
Oh, yeah - that. I figured for this one the map didn't make much of a difference cause the plant is the same on most maps, but yes, in general I do not use mods in tutorials.
Can someone help please? Just started playing FS17. I cultivated and sowed 2 fields with grass. Now what? Do i have to weed and fertilize or no? How long until the grass will grow?
Weeding and fertilizing will increase your yield for sure, so I say "do it". The grass just keeps growing, so you won't have to replant until you decide to change crops.
Just came across two issues with silage, I'm in the middle of unloading silos right now. 1: There seems to be a sell limit like there was in FS15, 50,000. When the bin hits that it will stop accepting, or staggers accepting. 2: I can only seems to suck up silage with conveyors from the left hand side of each silo, not the middle. This maybe a update thing, or a Courseplay mod thing, as I only noticed it after I got both of those.
Kyle and I have been working with it - its still the best way to make money in the game - the wrapped bales are easy to do and worth 980 per bale at the bale barn, and the price doesn't fluctuate.
Yea, I don't really like those get rich quick things, most of them still feel broken, that silage bale for example seems to be way over priced, but maybe I'm wrong on that one. I'm content just working crops. Another thing I don't understand is people who put it on hard and then complain "money is too hard to make on hard". Not quite sure why they don't play on a different difficulty. Also, will the NH forager tow that massive Krone now?
I just now started playing farm sim 17. I didn’t realize how fun it is. But I was wondering, where is the best place to get mods that you can’t find in game? And what would you recommend? Btw love your videos!
hey art, i found a bug with the rostelmash forage harvester/trailer combo too. same sort of deal but i didnt run over anything else. the pipe just wouldnt free flow into the bin, even though it was picking up the trailer. great vid!
This may have been discussed but I'm new to FS17 but have you noticed when you plant grass in Field 14 on Valley Crest and let it grow out, an American flag will appear in the grass?
You can't attach two TKD 302 tippers together only the HKD 302 will attach to the TKD 302. I think it didn't give you the dump option because the tipper was still covered, I don't use the cover so I wouldn't know.
I'm about to play around with this and I realized.... Couldn't you just y'know dump the chaff from the trailer and bail it with a bailer then wrap it? I bet that would be easier than trying to pack the whole thing with the blade.
An efficient way i use is put a big M on a meadow and then use the snowblower with a trailer and then you turn growth to fast and by the time he gets done he just turns around and keeps going. Unlimited silage
Hey Arthur just started playing 17 the other day I was doing the bull double pull trailer with the krone it filled the first trailer but did not change to the second trailer either
I silage easily made at the area by the cattle I was thinking instead of moving all the silage by tractor could I use a coveyor belt system to transport is to the feeding area?
Yes, that would work. I have a friend that uses like 20 conveyors to deliver grain all over the map lol. The sky is the limit and conveyors aren't very expensive, so have at it :)
i found a unimog baler and i added a bar to it to pull the wrapper or bale trailer and i got the bar to rotate to off set the wrapper or trailer to the left of the baler or the right side but when the bar rotates the wrapper or trailer if already attached stayes there it wont move with the bar
"we gunna" haha your awesome! great vids and love how you are with the kids! anyways im in ohio too brotha! do u have a server? love to play some day . anyways God bless n keep up the good work!
Cool dont rush with me it ment the world you even considered me! Ill add you though and maybe some day we can hang out at the farm :) thank you for your time my steam is AHardKnockLife and my logo has a joker holding a flower. Godbless
Excellent tutorial as always, Art. It was nice to get some clarification on the changes from FS15. Just a note, though, you missed a method for Corn chaffers. The really cheap, tractor mounted forage harvester MEX 5 is a thing still, right? The harvesting would be super slow, of course, but it would save the massive rental costs on a Krone for a starter biofuels farm!
I know this was posted some time ago, however there IS (at least now.. not sure about then as I'm still rather new to FS17.. ) a placeable fermenter silo now. Kinda Cheaty, but you collect, dump, and over time it processes into silage. Same concept as the bunker I suppose, without the spreading and compacting and covering. Dump the silage into an Auger Wagon, sell, profit..
Hello! I am new to fs17, bought it on Steam Christmas sale. Can someone tell me what mod Arthur uses to speed up time by 1000x, is there a mod that allows for editing of how fast the times goes through simple editing of files i.e. I can set a custom 500x time speed? Also, how do I install mods? Thank you. P.S. I know that it is best to play at 1x and that is what I normally do. I want the higher speed to mess around on my test farm to instantly grow crops.
Nope - they made the easyflow only chaff grass and hay - this is more like real life - in real life it can't turn straw into chaff, so they made it more realistic, but it SUCKS :)
Hehe - way late response on my part - None of you noticed that I was going 43 KPH not MPH - so I was going about 25 mph, not busting the speed limit lol
Arthur one of my friends has 17on there Xbox one and he was wondering if you could drop wood chips on the ground than use a conveyer to put it back into your trailer
Honestly its far quicker to buy a big mower, mow the grass, tip the clippings into the silage hopper at the biogas plant. Then when you have enough cash, buy a field near the biogas plant, sow grass, then mow the grass tip it into the silos at the biogass plant till full. Rap the silo and tip the silage into the hopper. Big cash. Especially if you mod the xml files a little ie 100000l big mower at 50kmh mow speed you fill those silos quick!
Serious complaint...............Have watched all the Fs15 Videos. (which got me into the game in the 1st place). Am now going through the Fs17 videos. Did you actually give any kind of warning of how addictive this bleeding game is? If not I think you have a moral duty to give fair warning. haha. love your work man keep it up.
300$ for internet? What kind of internet you use? Is it dsl, optics or one of the 4G routers with sim card in it? And what is the speed? The price sound crazy. In Europe(Latvia) where i live we can get the crapy dsl internet about 1 megabyte/s of speed +interactive TV for 24eiros/month. And use internet how much you want. And in places where the optical internet is available( in city center and apartment bildings) internet speed up to 40 megabyte/s+ interactive tv for less than 40eiros/month.
garaiselvis the issue was not the speed, but the data cap they had. I have a much better package now because they restructured, so I have unlimited data 300 down 30 up for 150 a month.
a little trick i do with forage harvester, donload the bsm 70k litre trailer, get that on a semi, go behind the harvester, hire a worker, engage crusie control on truck pushing the harvester boom, 1mph speed boast and u dont have to tip
Chaff is chopped up crop. It can be chopped up Wheat, Barley, or Canola, or Corn. Mostly corn though as its dense and its high sugar content causes it to ferment easily. You can either put chaff or grass into a silage bunker (silo) and cover it. Overnight (in game) or in about 90 days real life, it will become Silage. Hay is just dried grasses. You can't use hay or straw to make chaff because its dry, and you need moisture for stuff to ferment. Hope that helps.
@@Vbluguitar Thanks, it does help quite a lot! If you don't mind another 2 quick questions, are there any uses for Chaff/Silage besides selling it after? What differentiates in-game grass that can be put into Silage from hay as both come from grass, right? How do I choose to get dry grass or "wet" grass? Thanks again!
I sold my bales to the silage company and got 5-6k out of it a bale. Load it in the same bins you use the belts for and itll work just as well, will need a bale loader for the height or the mod belt for bales
The nice thing about doing that is that you get the slurry at the BGA. I am not sure you get it if you sell it at the farm. A little trick though - bales sold at the farm don't fluctuate in price, they are always a set amount regardless of the market, so maybe the best thing to do is sell them at the farm, as you will make way more money.
Yes. I wish youtube would allow revisions. There are several things I would change about this tutorial. I made it too soon after the game came out and made some mistakes.
This may be a little late but the reason that bugged out was because at the end of th he first pass with the krone rig you didn't raise the header and mowed grass so it converted your chaff you had to grass but didn't convert back when you started the second pass lol
Definitely install ad blocker plus before you start browsing. I use modhub.us and only download the files that are available directly from Modhub. Also, don't forget that the game now has its own built in mod interface where you can get tons of mods without having to surf the web.
Alex, if you are on PC left ctrl + B will switch directions (must have tractor selected if you have attachments, hit G until tractor is white). Then you drive it like a harvester. Front becomes rear, rear becomes front. Have fun!
The Valtra T and S series tractors have reverse drive as well. Not sure if any others do or not. When I do it I run the Pottinger mowers on the back and a tedder on the front and go into reverse drive.
You have to run a tractor over it till it says "100 % compacted" on your help/command menu (upper left). Once it reaches 100% you will have the option to cover it. It takes a lot of driving over it when you have that much material.
We have Alfalfa in Europe as well (well... Europe... I know we use the word in the Netherlands) but the most common name is Luzerne.and we tend to put it in salads (well... not me, I hardly eat salads? I do have some grass related questions but since I have FS15 and not this one.... yet (no funds atm) I will first check your FS15 vids if the answer is given there and if not ask them there :D
when i tried to make silage i put it in the cow bin and when i uncovered it the cover stayed on but it said i had silage now but i can't pick it up. what do i do?
