A short video on Silage taken in 1974. Location Newtownshandrum, Co Cork Contractor Dermot O'Mahony, Buttevant Co Cork Self propelled Silage Harvester Dania D5000 Video quality is not great as the original video is quite old. Enjoy! Tim
@@patcoakley7980 Sorry I picked you up wrong, our local contractor had 2 double chops side filling 3-4 trailers and a ford industrial loader around the mid to late 70's.
I wonder was that silage been cut on Donal Cashmans farm a few miles north of Cork city. I remember that outfit with the Styer tractors. I was working for Donal that summer when the silage was been cut and I seem to remember a new silage pit been built but had not been roofed. Donal was milking 300 cows that time using a 22 unit milking parlour, it was a New Zealand make. If I remember right it was either the first or second rotary milking parlour in Ireland. Two men could milk 300 cows in an hour and a half. It's amazing to think back all the work was done on that farm with a 165 Massy Ferguson tractor. I spread slurry with that tractor using an slurry buggy they were a tank that was filled by the agitater for agitating the slurry. The weather in 1974 was good up to about July after that it broke. I remember silage been cut the first week of December that year on a farm near Athenry.. The pit was opened a week later I can still remember the stink of that silage it was not good.
yes i remember 74 as a child ........we made silage that year andput in fields that were destined for hay as the weather was showery all summer .......we had enough to feed the cattle forthe winter ,,,,,,,lots around here had nothing only bad hay or rotten hay .........the price of cattle collapsed in the autumn .........calves were very cheap the following spring .......we went to charlevele mart and purchased 10 calves , went to where the trailer was parked to load them up for the journey home , to find it full of calves already ...............
very interesting to read that comment, just as interesting as watching the video. I wasn't even born until 82 and it's amazing to think that kind of gear existed back back in the 80s never mind the 70s. Up until the early 90s our silage was done with a double chop Taarup behind a Ford 7600 and with a David Brown 995 drawing. My father on pit with another David Brown 995 on dual wheels and tanco front loader(2 wheel drive, no power steering). That self propelled outfit was unimaginable to me even in the early 90s.
The Mullagh CO OP in co Cavan had all the same machinery in 1972 .Cut in Cavan /Meath area for a number of years along with pull typ class pickup and Kidd double chop harvsters . Deutz John deere and Steyr tractors .one Steyr i rember was over 110 hp
Looks very like it to me with that white cab profile. My guess would be a Steyr 760 (60 hp) which would be in period then but it looks more powerful. So it could also be an 80 hp 980 model which came out in 1974. www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/tractor-brands/steyr/steyr-tractors-horsepower-sorted.html
They are styer 1090a .they were 100 hp .and the dania d 5000 was powered by a scania 310 hp engine .he had two styers and two d5000 dania selfpropeled had havester.
had twin wheels on .. makes a huge difference .....silage not coming in too quick like today ........also you will be more careful when you know that if you tip the loader over it could well be the last thing that you ever do ........
@@cattlewranglerwalsh116 My oul fella overturned a Super Major with anti-roll bar and a Ford 5000 with a safety cab on a pit. Walked away from both. I used to joke with him that he saw the frame or cab, not as a safety device, but as a control, same as an aileron on a plane, that allowed him to roll anytime he felt like it.
