Rolling back the pit cover and quick chat on the quality of the silage.
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- In this video i show you how we roll back our silage pit cover and a talk on silage quality.
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Hello from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks for sharing your great video’s please keep them coming.
Looks good stuff what I do is back tipping trailer in front and throw tyres into it
That scraper is a handy wee machine 👌
Great video's, from the south. My old man surprisingly actually fire's the tyres down to the side, and that's about it until he complains about them been in the way. We do the same aswell with the sheets except we use two. Silage so good ud ate it urself. LOVE the Massey. Would be a good idea to roof the pit. LOVE the shed series👍🤜
Aaron L 6480 cheers lad 👌
Great film. Love how farmers over the water have clean and well maintained.farms
The holes at the bottom of where you have the grab take out of is because the spikes on the grab are to short we had the same problem and the new spikes made a big difference
Good video on our farm we use a wheeldigger and sheargrab its a good job and its handy for taking tyres off too
The best way to do a quick silage test is to grab a handful and squeeze it, then put it down and clench your fist. And when you open your hand if it feels a bit sticky thenthere are good sugar levels in the feed. On the subject of silage pits/clamps a few farmers here in England are having tarmac floors because the acid effluent cannot attack the surface (it's tar based) like can concrete because concrete is alkaline and vulnerable to acid attack. If I was a farmer I would always try to go for a covered silage pit because of the many benefits of having a roof! A nice tidy farm you run their young man so keep up the good work!
DingleZilla cheers mate, never heard of having a tarmac floor on a silage pit b4, very interesting to know, our sugars levels ere quite low this year because of the horrendous weather we had at first cut.
@@IFarmWeFarm No problem. On the sugars in your silage, may I suggest that you mowed the grass at the wrong time?
DingleZilla we had near a month of wet weather just when our time came to cut, we got one day when it didn’t rain so we mowed and lifted straight away, It was soaking but it had to be cut at that stage. I can’t believe how well it tested considering that.
@@IFarmWeFarm Ahhh ok. To get the best sugar levels you need to mow grass between 10:30am and 3:30pm. Otherwise the Sun hasn't had time to lift the sugars in the grass in the morning and after 3:30pm the sugars start dropping off quickly. But you probably know that anyway. You could try adding straight molasses or mineralized treacle to increase energy and feed values which will also make it more palatable. But you need to mix it in ideally.
DingleZilla you are 100% correct but unfortunately that just was not possible this year. We’re feeding a mixture of roll barley, beet pulp and maize which the cows are doing extremely well on. When we start calving we will be starting on our second cut which should be excellent as conditions were perfect.
Good pit of silage and very tidy yard I definitely love that wee case modern classic, that wee petrol powered scraper could you put a brush on it
wheaten bread you can get a brush for it but it’s mad money
If only my father would be like you when uncovering the pit, he will keep firing tires backwards until the donkey here comes along and takes them off 😂
If shes not blue she'll not do, trust me I’ve been there 2 🤣
Very clean farm fair play👍
The holes in the face in our shear grab it was the tines were wore an wen I changed them it made a massive difference
Super video, the yard is a credit to you. Am all bales here so don’t miss clearing back the pit covers I’ll tell you!! Are you in winter milk or all spring calving? Will you be milking on for long more?
Panchdeburca thanks, we have a few calving this year b4 Christmas but normally calve from early January to late March early April.
Nice vid. Could you do a farm tour at some point please
Hecy-t123 will do 👍
Very tidy yard. Credit to ya
When you close the grab tight then before you pull the block out open the grab 3 or 4 inches that will cure the problem of leaving holes in the face
Kieran Rafferty that’s a good tip, I’ll try that 2moro and c what happens, cheers lad
Great video lad
Who does your silage? We have a jf and we push up with a jcb 526s loader. We find it handy as we can go at it whenever we want to and we know it's trapped enough. What county are you from?
jaysus i spoke too soon see ya da power scraper , hand scraper do same job doesnt need petrol either ,,good breakfast roll in da morning do da job ,,lol handy we scraper but ,,
Gordon Anderson trust me I wear down a brave few hand scrappers. Ya it’s a great job on certain jobs
Would you consider buying a teleporter or a loader for the tractor
Sean McDonald a loader for the tractor is on our list, I wouldn’t have enough use for a teleporter at the moment.
Handling the tyres 4 times?🙈 if you roll the covers separately or even in twos the wont be as hard to roll either👍 nice farm though👌
A good vid would be taking cattle to market
That baldy tyre looks familiar, I was wondering what happened to it. !
aoifeone I’d get a few more miles out of that 🤣
Do you like your scraper and what brand and model is it
Richard Garry keep tuned, I’m working on a video on that very scraper that will be up this week.
What model is the Massey and how do you like it? Thanks.
Gerard Broderick 6470 Tier 2, Dyna 6. Good tractor for sure
Will a front loader be on the Santa list
agri master if only!! 😊
lovely silage. can smell the sugar :)
How many cows do you have and how many are being milked
Trystan Gaynor Brady 50 milking cows
Keep up the good worl
Trystan Gaynor Brady cheers lad
Use the Sher grab.
Why don't you have a front loader on tractor ? And we wrap hay and straw for people and they are very happy with it . Make sure they get the full wrap like silage
nick Lad, I plan to get a front loader very soon along with a diet feeder. All in time
@@IFarmWeFarm ya wont know yourself lad with one best thing we ever bought for tractor
Do you not own a loader for lifting the bales and feeding cattle this is my first time looking at your videos so I don't know much about your farm
adam b1234 welcome to the channel. no front loader as of yet, hopefully next year, we have a double bale lifter and McHale bale splitter for handling them
What size pit is that if you don’t mind me asking
I’ve seen a farmer stack them on pallets then just pick it up and put them away looks a lot easier and less work
Why don't you separate the covers when you're stripping the pit,it would be much easier on you?
73% dry matter????
Jim R yes we were very surprised at that ourselves
73% DMD. Second D for digestability. Big difference from Dry Matter
silage is very good for cow and its smelling because it's get onto your old clothes
you run a tidy outfit see ur not afraid to burn few calories hand balling ,, im of the same frame mind manual labour never killed any farmer but sitting in a seat would certainly be a factor in da waistline expanding lol,, keep ur country,,
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