Corn chopping is a sure sign the Autumn season has arrived. One neighbor has been chopping corn, spreading lagoon manure on the stubble, disking it in, and has drilled some of their triticale for Spring forage. Added to your haylage and dry hay stored already, the corn silage will give you a stockpile of feed to carry on during the long Winter season!!! Best wishes for a safe and productive harvest season.
I always loved when corn season came I don't know maybe it's just the smell of the corn And at juice use the roll right out of the Silo At the bottom But again I always love to go out and cut corn But that was back in a day Now all I do is cut wood Stay safe stay healthy and have a good day
Also, you cut and process hay all summer it seems, but corn is a one trick pony with acts……Silage, cob-corn and dry corn for market. Versatile crop but expensive to raise and harvest and vulnerable to stress. Always fun to view your videos.
Didn’t realize you guys had some flat land as well, and up against a paved road. How cool. Your hilly land is pretty intriguing. Love your stuff and the info re: the processor in the corn pickup was nice.
Had a Gehl blower with a variety of recut screens for processing silage. One made specifically for crackiing high moisture corn. Made some really nice feed. This was back in late 70s, early 80s.
You're supposed to take a corn sickle and cut a hole by hand, then you don't run over it!! ( that was my job back in the day, loved doing it) then pick it up and throw it into the chopper! Thanks for showing the corn kernels, wanted to see if you have the processor dialed in! And i wanted to see the chopper pick up the downed corn going the other way! So, why didn't the old timers do that when they went to a chopper? I can see cutting a hole by hand using a corn binder!
Corn must be pretty good. That chopper is working hard.The M plays with the blower.Chopping corn is the start of fall to me!! Be safe on those hills Chopper boxes full of corn silage are heavy. Thanks 😊.
The back rows or outside rows you run over have you ever use a flail chopper to cut corn knocked down we had a old john deere one we paid 600 dollar for we pulled it with a little 50 pto horse tractor and didn't off set it we would chop 2 rows then chop out side then 2 more rows on inside then do I row back it cleaned it up really good we feed it with dry hay to heifers
I hope your close to Mondovi. The Gunderson locker plant makes great sausage, butt bacon so you can one day sell retail direct and online. Only way to cut out the 4 monopolies killing growers off and making bank.
Would’ve made my dads fox 900 chopper look like a ertl farm toy. It had a straw/ hay head an a single row corn head. But overall loved this time of year filling silo on a warm fall afternoon leaves Turing colors.
I grew up on a small dairy farm in Prince Edward Island (Canada). I could listen to you guys all day, really enjoy your videos, it really takes me back to working with my father. He loved his New Holland silage chopper.
It's hard to beat the smell of freshly chopped corn. Thank you for sharing another day on the farm. May you be blessed with a safe and bountiful harvest. God bless.
Great video! The 7810 is walking the dog with that Gehl chopper, even though the Processor can eat HP. I always liked the Gehl choppers, never got to run one. I know that Gehl made some of the best farm equipment you could get, twin spin blowers and the Mix-Alls were hard to beat. God Bless and keep at it 👍👍
How come you guys don’t have someone with a self propelled chopper come open up and cut through the middle of the field. Are there not many self propelled choppers around your area or are they all just to big. We used to have a 3 row new idea uni chopper but sold it as we switched planters this last spring. Around me though there is a good mix of both pull type and self propelled choppers.
Love seeing the 7810 humming along.Many dairy farms farms around here in central indiana have fields already chopped for silage.Looking forward to more corn silage videos and getting the silo as full as needed to get through the winter feeding.May you and your family stay safe during this silage season.
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Enjoy your videos! What type of maintenance do you have to do on silage wagons annually? Use to long belt coming off R John Deere flywheel blowing our silage! This was early 60's. Keep up the great videos and taking time to explain. Always appreciate learning again after so many years!
One task after another, gotta have it all lined up and workin in harmony to get that job done. I’m proud of the dedication you fellas have for getting the cows fed the best silage you can. Awesome job !!
Great video!! I was wondering what you guys go for with silage corn do you go for taller corn to get more tonnage or not so tall corn with more grain in it to make higher quality feed but less tonnage
This brings back memories for me. Baling 2nd cut and chopping corn. That means cold weather will be coming soon. Good luck and God bless the harvest 🚜🚜
We used to use long machete knives. and cut down the first two rows of corn all of the way around the field (where we needed to) and stack it up and then after a while, we would come back and run the corn through the chopper.
Please tell us about the old cream separator. * What is its estimated age? * Do you have all the parts? * Who made it? * What else can you tell us about it?
I agree 100% on the 23 degree tread, they are great going straight forward but be very careful going across a side hill especially on wet or frozen ground.
I've been watching your video's for the last couple of months and I can honestly say I'm hooked, so at the end of this one you got a new subscriber. Now for the dumb question time.. I've seen farmers harvest corn fields in the past, but they were using combines and I'm guessing just getting the corn cobs. You're cutting the whole stock with the corn, why?? Lastly whats the difference when it comes to the corn itself.. I've said it before, never in my life have I been on farm or did this kind of work but its fascinates me, sorry if you have to dumb it down for the new subscriber..
I grew up helping my grandad and uncles on the dairy farm. There used to be 2 kinds of corn that was harvested. Chopped corn which is used as cow feed called "silage" and dry corn used to make "grain". The dry corn gets harvested with a combine which separates only the kernels to later be ground and mixed with oats. That is another type of feed. Hay is a different feed. Cows also "graze" on fresh grass in the pasture for a 4th type of feed. I'm sure feed technology has changed now days but we were doing this in the '60's and '70's to feed 100 milking cows.
So the chopped corn like this , is called silage also?? See I watched another video on another farm, they were making silage also, but they mowed a big field of grass, bailed it into big round bales then put a plastic wrap around the bales and were calling it silage, thats why I'm getting confused on whats silage and what you call feed.. @@mikewithers299
Hey there, New subscriber here from Montreal. I truly enjoy your channel. Very informative and helpful. Love the mix of farming, mechanical repair and chainsaws, all my favourite things. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe Dirk
900NH had a Hourning crop processor. 1990 😂 always liked the processor get your corn cracked up, but leave your cut in a longer length for stomach health. Hey, like the metal sign at the back of the barn on the eighth day !! Thanks young man!!!!
Processors also help crush the cob pieces, so you don't end up with lots of "wooden nickels" that the cows spit out or nose aside, because they are hard to eat.
Boy you guys chopping silage, reminds me of when we did it. we were not a big farm we did not have all of the fancy equipment , so there was this guy that came around and did custom chopping I believe he had a Farmall 400 with a one row Gehl chopper and a Gehl belt driven blower. three wagons that emptied from the back to a cross feed auger to the blower. we filled the 60 foot X 15 foot silo I believe. it seemed to take all day, we started early Saturday morning and filled all day and the let it settle couple days and fill er back up, God I sure do miss that THANKS
I always enjoy your work, gentlemen. And it's a good thing farmers aren't afraid to get their hands dirty (and greasy!) But your poor camera..... Re: Duals. I thought it was to keep you from tumbling off "Suicide Hill." How much rollover protection do cabbed tractors provide versus std. "ROPS" models? Do you wear (your) seat belts? There ain't much use holding out one hand/arm out to prevent a tractor rollover...but I've heard that the impulse to do so is almost overwhelming in the moment! Best to stay fastened to the seat, elbows pinned tight to your ribcage. Oh, an' prayin' madly.....
Running farm machinery in the ditch is usually a no-no in most townships in Wisconsin. You must know someone on your township board or there must be one or more farmers on the board to put that on a video for all to see.
