Running Over Our Crop! l First Day of Chopping Corn Silage on a Small Farm l Harvest 2022 

I always hated running down two rows of corn to open up a field. Seems like something would aways break on the chopper head trying to pick up the down corn.Happy corn 🌽 filling. Thanks 😊.

Simple machines can make things so much easier. And those were made in the USA! It can take longer, but you're not always broken down with computer problems. I can smell that sweet corn smell now. The TP trees are in full bloom here. May God grant you a safe and bountiful harvest. Stay safe and God bless.

had a sheer bar slide back on a 717 NH! bought it used, you can imagine the damage it did! Hey Son, you're supposed to get a corn sickle and cut a hole!!😂 I loved that job! I got pretty fast at it!

Got to be super careful on that silage pile. I'm sure the duels help a lot. Loved the knife sharpening and set up explanation!!

One of the things I miss most about milking is chopping corn. I always enjoyed that. Unloaded easy, wouldn't plug up, easy and quick (as compared to cutting, raking, chopping). I just needed better wagons. Thanks for the video. Stay safe!

Very nice feed keep the girls happy lol. Homecoming is a challenging time for the kids that havent been doing good. Hope they have fun though.

Back in the 50's we hired a guy to chop our corn to fill our silo in late August just prior to Labor day because we did not own a chopper. My job was to open the up field, so about the middle of August I would drive our 49 Studebaker pick-up to the cornfield, and back down the 2 rows Dad selected. Using a very sharp corn knife of about 2 1/2 foor long, I would cut the stalks of corn and throw them into the back of the truck bed till it was filled. I then drove back to the barn yard, unloaded the corn stalks after our evening milking for the cows to eat. I did this on a daily basis until the field was open. I must have been abouf 10 or 11 at the time. That is how I learned to drive a 5 speed stick shift on the floor pick-up.

Kind of nice you said the date that the end a lot of times you wonder when people are doing their projects on RU-vid and never throw a date on it it's nice to know that

Thanks for showing the knife sharpening. I had no idea. Yep, TPing is also popular where I grew up, southeast Iowa. Various teachers’ houses and most of the street leading up to the high school were liberally covered. We had a teacher next door and across the street, so our property always got a bit of collateral damage.

My grand parents lived in a small town in south Dakota. back in the 1960s. Back then I was in grade school but the high school kids on occasion tip over out houses that ppl had in there a back yards. They really didn't use them but still had them from back in the day .

Have you considered ag bags? We milked 50 cows till our kids were all left the farm. I bagged hay corn silage and high moisture corn really kept nice feed for a small herd. I do miss chopping corn one of my favorite jobs.

When the daughters were in school, we woke up to TP'd trees EVERY year....LOL. Nice job on the silage.

Toilet 🚽 Paper and old toilets on the yards works down here in Fort Atkinson as well. We lost the HC Game in a slug fest 42-41.

Looks just like home. Two tractors in tandem pulling the wagon through the bunk to unload.

As a fellow Wisconsinite, its great to see Meyer and Gehl on your equipment

We didn't have a silo so we only grew about 12 acres of corn for green feed. We tried growing corn for picking, but we had wet falls so we only filled our crib once in all the years.

hello from france, good video

Your grass silage looked great. Placing that corn on top will make it even better. Your cows will be happy with your efforts. 😂.

Love the duals for packing slid off a pile years ago without them very scary lucky I didn't roll over another great video

looks like the first day went good. I am looking forward to seeing the rest of your guys harvest videos. keep up the good work.

Looks to me that the corn silage is well under way and the crop looks amazing and the chopper is well setup making some outstanding feed

When we did corn we stopped back-cutting the first 2 rows as they always broke the gathering belts on the chopper head. We started either leaving it or getting our neighour with his old self-propelled Uni chopper to take the first 3 rows with our wagons. Saved the breakdowns of having to change belts.

Hello that's a bit of a pain driving up the pile to unload. I've never put in a pile allways blown into a silo. Have a great day.

I am from a small town that also had some good years and some bad years with homecoming games, but the TPing was definitely going strong in the '60s. In fact it was done several other times of the year as well. Kind of pretty, but a mess when it rained. You guys freak me out with your silage pile work. I don't even like looking down a stairwell. Great video though. Hope your team won.

Yeah that looks kind of dangerous. Love the self sharpening chopper, really cool man!!!!

I remember those days.

OSHA has entered the chat! I grew up on a farm in the 70-80s and we did a lot of no-no but I had to laugh at some of your ‘violations’.

Great video

Our neighborhood has been covered in to with homecoming this week here. We also buy from Lindstrom.

Great awesome video

Our trees & front yard got toilet papered the night after the girls basketball team won the Minnesota state girls basketball tournament. Our youngest daughter was a starting guard on the team. We found out that the assistant basketball coaches did the deed. We slept right through it. Our dog must have too.

Looks really great 👍👍👍👍👍

We are on our way corn is a little on the dry side but so far 16 loads corn is short in the first field I think I am going an hour away and getting a rental chopper with a processer but not sure yet

Thanks for the video

Awesome video 💯💚🌱 you guys rock 💯😎

Sweet video! We are just about finished with corn silage this year!

Please make a blade sharpening video for silage chopper. The equipment is interesting

Every time I watch one of your videos you are hanging on to the sides of hills farming or hanging on to the sides of silage piles. You guys like things exciting…. Years ago Dad was helping neighbor pack silage pile with ih 1026. While on top, the side of pile beneath him blew out & tractor slid sideways & nearly rolled over. Fine chopped silage doesn’t interlock & crumbles east, please be careful.

On an other channel I made comment on what I thought a self propelled chopper without the head cost. I got told to add $300000.

Beautiful farm and a well managed operation. I wish there were many more small farms like this.

New London WI. Clean the store out of tp. that week lol. Kinda rough go at it when there was a shortage of it😬

do you have any problems getting gehl ag parts for your chopper ? do you use a distributor or dealer or salvage yards ? thanks

Back in my hometown of Sauk-Prairie we had a tradition of having a homecoming parade in which the local beauties led by the homecoming king and queen rode through town in the back of new convertibles furnished by a local car dealership. Each high school class decorated a hay wagon for a float with some appropriate rallying theme in support of the home football team and there was an award for best float as determined by the parade judges. Tom Davidson and I were lowly scorned and ridiculed freshman back in 1966 but Tom's dad let our freshman class decorate and store our freshman float in a warehouse of his lumber and hardware business before the big parade. The night before the parade a group of upper classmen, some that were members of the 69ers drinking and hellraising club, broke into the warehouse and destroyed our float. Before leaving one of the individuals whose first name I can't remember but whose last name was Wiley left an enormous brown stinking calling card on the football helmet that was the central decorative feature of the float. He later bragged about it, although back in 1966 most of us thought it was too disgusting to talk about. Today in Seattle where my brother now lives, it's no big deal, happens all the time. The city makes little accommodation for such behavior but mostly it's just "watch your step."

Cool video of yall chopping corn....wonder what ya thoughts of small self propelled choppers like JD 5820 vs pull type chopper

My house got TPd my senior year. I'm surprised anyone cared to drive all the way out there, even tho I was on the football team. Oh, and supposedly a kid got fastened to the goalpost with saran wrap one year, that's the wildest thing I remember.

You have such a great farm there. I really enjoy your channel.

great job thanks

I always leave the two outside row boxes on the corn planter empty when I plant then when I chop it in the fall I do not run over those two rows.

same here in berlin,wi

Homecoming week the senior girls TP the senior boys that play football

You guys run a nice operation how much silage do you guys put up a year between corn and alfalfa?

I've started not planting 2 rows that would be run over. Don't have good luck going back around, get maybe 1/2. Saves seed and fertilizer

Hey very nice Channel. Have you Swiss roots? Greetings from Switzerland.

Lord, I thought the sparks were corn kernels...

Do you Guys leave up any corn for the deer/ wildlife?? Weather was looking really good and dry for corn choppin' ....Nice job.

Love seeing that. Thats the way we did it 30 years ago. Now it is just not cost effective to do it that way. Too much fuel and too much time. They would be better served to milk extra cows and selll their equipment and have a big cropper come and do it or share with neighbor farmers. I give them credit though; they are making it work. Guys please please fix that exposed PTO shaft.

Used to chop a lot of corn with that same model chopper

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Any thoughts on pouring a bunk for just corn silage?

Hi nice video

Who are they playing again for homecoming game ??

Thank you for correcting your English from, "Are to Our".

How did you make a pile in old days before you had fancy John deers

Did you get another tractor or do you unhook from the chopper?

you should get the guards back on that pto shaft It Killed my cousin 45 years ago

How come you dont push with the bucket

Now a days it's TP and Chalk drawings on sidewalks. Bay View Milwaukee

I've reached out to "Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin" for one of those "I Support Wisconsin Dairy Farmers" shirts. Is that where you got yours?

Are you guys running 30” rows?

How does it work to put third crop haylege on the bottom then corn silage on top

T P on the trees

Is the corn variety different for silage and ear corn.

Did you say something? There's a tractor and chopper running

Stone sharpener is almost like our New Holland 892, but it looks like a better Stone holding assembly 😀. There are 12 knives on the New Holland, and over the years they have been replaced a few times. Also double edged. Rocks, center punches, and even a hammer that a loser purposely threw into a row tends to wipe them 😳 out. Replacement stones seem 🤔 to be made out of sandstone from cheap ass New Holland! your videos. We farm in Oneida, just outside Green Bay. 😊

Save that paper for next covid 😂

My dad used too pay my brother and I to cut the rows rather than run them over. He then let them dry and we sold them in bundles at the end of the driveway to city folks

Was zum Henker machen die dort? Für so einen schmalen Silohaufen diese Spezial Siloanhänger? Sieht so aus als wenn die ihren Mais gewöhnlich in Hochsilos einlagern!

My god watching your dad pulling them knifes round with bear hands make me cringe thing there go the fingers on new sharpened knifes 🇬🇧🤣

Why not just bag it?

This is so much easier in farming simulator.

Why don't you just make AG bags

Good vids, "our" not "are".

Gets very hairy on the sides

We stole all your outhouses for Homecoming a good 50 years ago.

Soap windows big time

Good day sir,,,,I am from Philippines i really love this job but in my age too much hard for me to hire...can you do something sir to get me and to apart of that job...thank you and keep in safe always...god bless

You would be better off to use a Ag-Bag. You will have to much waste with this way!!!!

Trovo il vostro "modus operandi" a dir poco anacronistico.

You need another cutter then you would not run over your corn

Any reason you don't pack your piles in the other direction it would be much safer .

Please make a blade sharpening video for silage chopper. The equipment is interesting