Filling a Silo on a Small Dairy Farm! l Harvest 2022 

That old MTA didn't miss a beat on the blower.

I like when the dad talks and tells stories in the videos. Can learn a lot from him! And he works like a beast

Old MTA on the blower is so cool! Just proves you don't need big and fancy to get the job done. Keep up the good work men.

Old school cool! Filling a silo with a Super MTA and a 1066! Keep the great content coming.

Something about the sound of corn silage going up a metal blower pipe you never forget.

I personally love filling the silo makes silage harvest easy when only one person is needed to unload a wagon.

It was satisfying to me seeing the Super M-TA running the blower. Love listening to the older tractors snort a little.

My silo ladder did not have a protective cage to make it a bit safer. I hated to just climb straight up, so I had a permanent tube installed. I did not have an unloader either, but, it kept me in good shape. I still have one of the silage forks that I used over forty years ago, but, I just use it to clean up leaves in my yard and garden these days.

Very nice video, just how we used to do it. Looks like you got the wagon unloaded before the rain started. See you next time!!

That was some very awesome cool footage today thanks for sharing!!!!!!!!!!!

Great video thanks taking time to share

You just made my day! Hooking up the M-TA to the blower brought me back about 70 years when we filled silo on our farm in DuPage County, IL. Our custom operator at the time belted his Farmall Super MD to the blower and I would watch in awe as it blew the wet silage 35 feet up and into our silo. I could almost smell the silage from my computer screen. Thanks again for the wonderful memories of "filling silo". Take care in WI and be safe.

I definitely enjoy seeing the big farms but you can’t beat this. You guys are awesome!

Just found your channel. I have a 26 cow dairy about an hour away from you. I really enjoy your content and seeing another small farm still in operation. It is sad to see all the big farms getting bigger. It makes it impossible for a young person to get into farming. Keep up the good work!

Thank You for sharing your wonderful videos with us 😊

Hi there. Cows and apples do not mix. If the cows pick the apples off the ground, there is usually not a problem, but if the cows pick the apples off the tree, and believe me they do, there is a good chance that the apple will get caught in their throat. If you don’t catch it in time, your lose the cow. If you do catch it, make sure that you have a bottle of mineral oil or Vaseline (either works) and a stiff 1 1/4 or 1 1/2 inch stiff rubber hose or poly pipe about 4 feet long as long as you take the burrs off the end of the pipe. Lube the pipe with the mineral oil or Vaseline, get the critter restrained, get its mouth open and insert the pipe down the throat and push the apple through. The was a common occurrence on the farm when I was growing up, every time the cattle got in the orchard.

We had a 20x60. We used an old Gehl Brother's blower to fill it. It had an attachment on top of the blower that attached to the pipe that rotated the blower pipe and pulled on a chain attached to the hood at the top that would raise and lower the hood. There was not much leveling to do especially if I went up to the top during the last couple of loads to operate the hood manually. I could fill in the hole and get it pretty level. We'd let the silo settle and chop enough corn for the cows everyday. When we went up to set up the unloader we also set up the blower to blow air up the silo so we didn't have to get carried to our graves with the help of the fire department.

Top video 👍Regards from Down Under.

❤ how the cows want to help😀

I always enjoyed filling tower silos. Its nice to see them off in the distance and know its full. You know if there was a good reliable way to unload them they would still be the best. Those silo unloaders are just always broken.

I was waiting for the super M to use the belt pulley. First video I’ve seen where you pitch fork out the silage since we did it on our farm in the late 50’s and 60’s. We actually burned down a barn while blowing silage into the silo. Brought the stalk bundles to the silo and chopped them as it was being fed into the silo.

Glad to see you take silo gas seriously. I always took the doors off my 966 for the summer months too, made the tractor much more user friendly. Great old tractors, we had a M also.

Very cool that is how we did it. Great video

Good job with the camera work. Felt like I was up there helping you finish topping it off. A+

Awesome job love you farm

Hello good video now you have to climb back up to retrieve camera. Is there better quality in the silage from the silo? Than the pile? Have a great day.

Adding the air in while working in the silo is a must. I remember my grandpa's pasture had apple trees in it. The apples were pretty sour but the angus did eat them. The deer probably did too. Thanks for sharing.

just a beautiful farm and property, well kept. And your rolling pasture areas are especially picturesque. Reminds me somwhat of the farm I grew up on in NY. Yours is definitely hillier though....

We used a Super MTA to fill a 16×40 for years. The good old days!

The 3 farmers dying in the recent silo mishap was tragic. Every time I see those silos, it reminds me of the dangers with them. Glad you mentioned the gas. Eaglegards...

Man, you are working that M hard! Lol.

Not sure how I got to this channel but I like it , beautiful farm 👍👍

I aways wondered myself how the hell the old silos get filled up. Thanks for showing this

Look's like your dad and I go to the same barber!!! HAHA

two of the best tractors on the farm!

such a beautiful farm...........

Great awesome video, like ur operation, doesn’t have to be big , like the smaller operations and how u do day to day stuff

Nice way to get any carbon out of the old MTA. She handled the blower well.

Nice job on the video...dad...

Thank you fror. A great video

I love looking at farms. We don’t see them in the city of course. I’ve always wondered how they fill silos.

You guys make such interesting and nice looking videos that I crossed the road and started planting corn in my neighbor’s canola field because I wasn’t paying attention. Good thing it’s just Farming Simulator.

Nice looking silage

Thanks so much for taking the time to do all the camera bit on top of doing your work as well. I go back many years when that was done on the farm. some what different but in the end it was just like you are doing.

Another great video. Love all the corn videos. Never get old. Looking forward to the rest of them. Have a good one guys

Thanks again gor sharing and waking up more memories. Yes in fact too many apples can kill a cow as i was once told. If I can remember long time ago, as a 12 year old, dad calling the vet for one of the cows foaming at the mouth, drooling, bellering, and layed down at her manger and wouldn't get up. After the vet determined this one got a taste of our orchard in some new pasture, I remember helping dad and the vet dump a full bottle of dawn dishwashing soap down the mouth of the guernsey. He explained the fermenting stomach was making alcohol and making her drunk. The soap stopped the fermenting I was told. Well, Alice made it to the next day, but had to rearrange pasture after that. Thinking about it later, how many apples were needed to make a 900 pound cow drunk?

Thanks for sharing your day. Fun story, out family milked cows and we had a cow that if you had a apple in your back pocket she could steal it out with her tongue. Once you figure that out it became a game.

Back in the late 60s I spent a lot of time throwing down sileage from the silo. I'm glad to still be alive

I enjoyed that video I remember that's how we felt all of silos those super MTA sounded good

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We use to fill our silo with a John Deere D with a belt. Love the old days thanks for sharing

I don’t know what it is about these old concrete silos that dot the landscape. Around me many are abandoned, so cool to see one still in use and how it works!

The smells...I will never forget the smells. Corn silage is sweet....moneiy.

Great job love your videos thank you

Absolutely beautifully filming capturing lovely content vloggs keep it up well done Sir gorgeous editing millions thanks for sharing take care stay safe Redgs Canada 🇨🇦

Nice video first time I saw a silo being filled with a silage blower while the forage box unloading.

I grew up in SW Iowa on a farm with rolling hills. Your place reminds me of it. We also ran Int. Farmall M and Super M tractors, Oliver 1850 and a lot of Gehl machinery as well. I like listening to your dad. Smart farmer! Thanks for the videos.

Boy does that bring back memories. You can really blow silage. We had a 70,80 and 96 foot silos That M would have enough guts to get it up them. We used our 200 HP John Deere on it Love the shot up in the silo. Lots of memoriesLove that he had the blower running when he went into the silo. I am a methane gas survivor. Dam near got me.

Great video

great farn great video ! thanks for bringing me back in time! too many huge farms out there

I hated filling silo. My job as soon as I got home from the one room country school was to climb up in the silo and direct a funnel as my grandfather fed bundles of corn into the chopper. Our silo wasn't large enough to hold the entire crop so as it settled, every day my grandfather would be waiting for me with the Farmall H to run another load of stalks thru the chopper. I was only 5-6 years old and the silo was already filled above the top opening. There wasn't much room for more and the top door opening was almost covered. I feared getting trapped up there or falling down the chute as I had to slide down into the opening and there was nothing to grab on to. My grandmother hated silo filling too as I had on cowboy style dungarees with the cuffs turned up halfway to my knees. I would come into my grandmother's kitchen with my cuffs filled with ensilage and get escorted right back out the door. I was never so happy as when they built another open top silo a couple of years later.

I can't the grass to shoot out from under my lawnmower let alone go 30 yards up in the air,,, sort of amazing.

Awesome 😎👍💯

kinda deadly move there stepping over the spinning pto, guess thats why u cut out that part cause seeing how close the 2 tractors were, even the boss might not have squeezed through to walk around the tractors. one needs to get hurt before one learns from their deadly mistakes.

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Thank you for being careful and mentioning silo gases! They can be deadly. Do you use a monitoring device or meter and what kind of gas does the silo give off? My son worked at a Geothermal Power Plant and they had dangerous Hydrogen Sulfide and Sulphur Dioxide. They were trained extremely well, and had Confined Space Rescue training and drills. My son knew I was worried about safety, and he told me that simple swimming pool digging and the air down in there. The idea is if someone goes down, you don't immediately rescue them. Your suit up/respirator up, call for help and then go into rescuing. He mentioned that one pool installer went down, then the next guy went to rescue him and he went down, then the third and last guy went to rescue and went down from toxic gases. The first and second guy lived, while the last rescuer died. I've heard of silo gases killing, and it's so sad because it's usually a family of Dad & his teenage boys.

Cow: "It really looks like that's some feed there. Are you sure you don't need any help with it?"

At about 5:15 in the video I thought the M-TA was about to get rocked by the blower 😆. She did just fine though.

I still have an IH56 blower and an Allis Chalmers motorized blower. Original engine gone,was repowered by a WD gas engine. Filled a 14x45 Harder. 56 bounced between farms, filled also a 16x40 Madison and 16x50 Harder if needed.

Apple loving cows 🐄 🤣 who knew!

We used to walk with no shoes or boots on it just barefoot and we found out that work good

Can’t beat Red tractors I had a Super M TA good tractor

One year we were set to make cider - a neighbor had brought his apples to add to the bunch and they were all sitting in the front yard. The cows got out that night and ate all the apples - very embarrassing! None of the cows got sick though.

That'll probably settle down two doors overnight at least you got a ladder to climb the silo where I worked we didn't have a ladder we went from Loop to Loop and that was always a lot of fun one slip up and down you could have went right in the blower

how many problem do you have with raccoon and possum

No! Thank YOU for filming! (after realizing he had ta climb BACK UP AND DOWN the ladder to retrieve the camera...) Thanks for all the extraordinary effort you invest in creating imaginative video! Your almost-daily vignettes of dairy farm life are informative as well as entertaining, and it is my considered opinion that liquid milk is a real nutritional (and cost) "Bargain." But you gotta love "the life" in order to perform it! I produce food (veg produce...a whole different "thing...") and frequently marvel at the dedication and real relationships small "animal" farmers evince. When you're at the scale of knowing each animal by name you're certainly not playin' the same "game" the "big" producers are! IMO the jury is still "out" re: large-scale mono-culture as practiced by many here. One even wonders if the cattle (in their dimly-lighted consciousnesses...) appreciate the personal relationship with their care-takers by performing better than would be otherwise..... and perhaps reward the farmer than better-than-average output (be it meat and/or milk...) All I'll say is that a pungent memory of mine is driving north towards the stockyards of Chi-Town and for 40 MILES (downwind) it definitely smelled of live (soon-to-be-dead) stock HELL! And also, the miser in me notices that you scoop up every bit of chop, corn, etc. so that no "sunlight" goes to waste. So we'll hafta just SEE which system is superior, given all things. Anyhow, thanks for takin' us along! Yours, not-in-the-silo-climbing-mood-at-the-moment, bob

I read about a tragedy on a PA farm recently where 3 men perished in a silo from gasses. The youngest was 14 years old.

That filler makes that ole bark!

Corn silage is so much easier to blow than haylage!

Years ago when I worked on a bee farm we had to unload them wagons 7 minutes so we could get back to the field cuz we had a maniac owner that would go like crazy when he was feeling silo or cutting hay he had one speed and that was go like hell

In Denmark, in the citys where they have the horse riding schools they always want people to bring them their apples because the accid in the apples kills of the bad germs in their stumach and i guess its the same for cows

Krikey, getting out of the silo onto the ladder looks scary, I woudnt have the nerve to do it

Which state is this? Love this type of landscape, beautiful.

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How many cows do you have on your farm. Great videos

Do you guys have any machinery that runs off the flywheel on that tractor?

Why don't you guys get 18ft chopper boxes? I only have around 100 cows and four 18ft long chopper boxes are still too small

That looks like about the size of my silo it's 20 x 60

Do you know what the distance is between the rings on the Concrete Silo? I got an old color picture from 1959 of the Silo my Father had on the old Dairy Farm. There was 13 rings on that Silo. Any clue how high our old Silo might have been ?

Had a blower blow up on my dad and me. Sheet metal 40 foot in the air. Shattered my dads shin.

At the 5:08 mark . . . did you really just step over the top of a spinning shaft off the PTO?!!! Please, we don't want to lose you to an unfortunate accident.

Don't know if I like the way those silos work, seems like their could be lots of danger

I miss the smell of corn silage.

you guys I've notice have a lot of safety issues around equipment ! NEVER leave a PTO driven machine unattended ! serious injury or death can occur, I have a lot of exp.on farm accidents of this nature

Mr Gierok: I really enjoy watching you operate your small farm. Keep up the good work! However I must speak up in several safety issues. Your PTO shaft is missing it’s plastic cover and you seem to move VERY close to it as you film. Also you have no safety cage for you silo ladder. I love your old M but if you use it for anything more than power you should add a ROPS to it. I’m not trying to be a buzz kill but over 350 farmers died in farm accidents during 2020 according to NIOSH. Your occupation is one of the most dangerous in the US. When I was young safety was something little old ladies worried about. Then I suffered hearing loss and saw a colleague killed and a relative crippled in separate tractor rollovers. I told myself I wanted to see my children grow up and to be there for my future grandkids. I now own a lot of PPE and even a harness for my ladder and roof work. My forty five year old tractor has a ROPS and I am very cautious when using the PTO. Even so I’m certain I need to improve. Take it from me it does not take much extra time to add safety to you daily work and you quickly get used to it. You owe it to yourself and your family. Best Regards!

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