Good to see yall making feed again. Mike you are you fathers younger man to do the harder stuff, won't be to long before your gonna have a younger man yo the hard stuff for you! I'm 40 years old and growing up riding with my "pa", are stil the best days of my life!
I remember riding with my Mom as she chopped hay and my Dad hauled / unloaded wagons back & forth. I would jump out unhook her and hook her up to the next wagon. We had 3-4 wagons so we usually had an empty one waiting for us. When I was old enough to haul wagons back & forth, my Dad would unload & Mom would chop. It went quick enough where I would unhook/hookup my Mom.
That has got to get old real fast doing all they climbing. I can remember when I was about 16 I forgot to unhook pto shaft from unloading wagon and I broke the shaft making a sharp turn, you only do that once! Be safe Mike doing that climbing make sure your boots are clean.
I had dairy in Brockville ontario north of ya and it had a sealstore silo 21 60 and the distribution chute broke I took out never ever use it to be honest it made better dome in side it and the light dry feed went walls so not freezing in winter .the harvestore brand silo has no distributor either .I love dairy, keep up good work .ps I think the only good thing about distribution chute is first few loads so all feed don't plug unloader .I just took some card board cover the hole
We have harvestore brand and put in a distributor ,the silos would hold about 25 to 30 % more feed, and you are right with a distributor they unload harder, but we could take the distributor out thru the opening on top
Love the round cab Deere's! Still cranking out the HP, as usual. Just have to ask: what's the 7810 in your handle mean? Haven't seen one yet, and I do love the one I use at my work.
That was one of my favorite jobs was filling silo with silage or blowing straw in the barn(depending on the wind direction) hay looks good Mike an hoping the motor is fixed?
Q1: What is the June 2023 cost of the motor that you are waiting on? The Western truck service and repair channel guy had a spare comments 5.9 2-valve engine and some sort of greater in the event that the one in his work truck went kaput switch it has in his latest videos.He likely got the machinery cheaper than what the cost was to get a rebuilt Cummins 5.9. however, I'm using this theory for your motor on top of the Cyril to maybe have two of them on hand so that you don't get caught-in-a-mosh climbing 60 ft and turning the pan. Q2: I guess I should not even ask-but the chopper trailers probably have some sort of a walking floor, correct? Q3: Why chooping hay over baling hay?
A1: I have to get a hold of the guy fixing them and see how much labor and parts he has on the job. We do have 2 of them, however, they were put somewhere in the off season where they shouldn't have been stored and they both were set up. A2: The forage wagons have a chain that brings the forage to the front, the beaters that spin around knock the forage down, and we have 2 augers in the front that shoot the forage out the side of the wagon into the blower. A3: We do both. Chopping the alfalfa and putting it in the silo so it ferments in the silo the cows really milk well on that. We also bale dry hay to feed the cows as well
We did in one field but mainly haylage is just alfalfa. We have a field that has been alfalfa for a couple years now and that has a lot of grass starting up in that so we'll probably plow that one up soon
@@mikep7810 From the research I've done online the past few years, it was determined, as I recall, by the University of Wisconsin that around four or five years after establishing an alphalfa crop is the point where it is no longer cost-effective to maintain alfalfa stands for dairy quality hay. If memory serves, the specific criteria for a field that was no longer cist-effuective was less than three alfalfa plants per square foot.
@@michaeldunagan8268 We usually chop our alfalfa for 4-5 years then plow it up and put corn in for 2 years, then seed it back over to alfalfa to chop for another 4-5 years
Great footage....
Drove by your place today.
26 is getting bumpy
Thanks for your videos
Thanks Alan. Yeah its getting a little bumpy in places
Almost to 20K, you should do a giveaway once you get there
I was thinking of doing something and having a bunch of different people on it
@@mikep7810 raffle off chisel plowing with the 4555, lol
@@dembeckfarms Haha. Sounds like a great idea.....1/64 scale!
@@mikep7810 😂😂😂
Good to see yall making feed again. Mike you are you fathers younger man to do the harder stuff, won't be to long before your gonna have a younger man yo the hard stuff for you! I'm 40 years old and growing up riding with my "pa", are stil the best days of my life!
Glad you enjoyed the video. I don't mind taking on the more harder stuff
Great job and you got a lot of exercise !
Thanks Jack. I sure did
Very nice video. Watching thr 4555 is always a pleasure. Too bad that deflector motor went bad. Always something.
Thank you. You're right, always something. Gotta love the 4555
I remember riding with my Mom as she chopped hay and my Dad hauled / unloaded wagons back & forth. I would jump out unhook her and hook her up to the next wagon. We had 3-4 wagons so we usually had an empty one waiting for us. When I was old enough to haul wagons back & forth, my Dad would unload & Mom would chop. It went quick enough where I would unhook/hookup my Mom.
One of these days we will have to pick up another wagon. That way we can run 3. That should speed things up
@@mikep7810 … and NOTHING is cheap these days, even very used equipment.
Another great vid! That outside ladder allways gave me the willies.
Thanks Gene. Yeah its always fun going up and down the ladder
That has got to get old real fast doing all they climbing. I can remember when I was about 16 I forgot to unhook pto shaft from unloading wagon and I broke the shaft making a sharp turn, you only do that once! Be safe Mike doing that climbing make sure your boots are clean.
It did get pretty old
Great looking feed Mike the milk pounds will go up for shure
Thanks Paul. I hope so
Good that grandpa has a hitch helper!
Yeah I think he liked having a little helper
Looks like nice stuff Mike. You get a thumbs up for sure. Our weather here not so much
I hear that. Hopefully it turns around. Its amazing how you can go a month with now rain then just get dumped on non stop
I had dairy in Brockville ontario north of ya and it had a sealstore silo 21 60 and the distribution chute broke I took out never ever use it to be honest it made better dome in side it and the light dry feed went walls so not freezing in winter .the harvestore brand silo has no distributor either .I love dairy, keep up good work .ps I think the only good thing about distribution chute is first few loads so all feed don't plug unloader .I just took some card board cover the hole
We have harvestore brand and put in a distributor ,the silos would hold about 25 to 30 % more feed, and you are right with a distributor they unload harder, but we could take the distributor out thru the opening on top
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoy the video
Nice to see 3 generations out in the field at one time.
It definitely is
Love the round cab Deere's! Still cranking out the HP, as usual. Just have to ask: what's the 7810 in your handle mean? Haven't seen one yet, and I do love the one I use at my work.
Its the tractor that I really want to get. Been close a couple times but its always eluted me. Hopefully someday
Your surely getting your exercise
Absolutely
Great video Mike
Thank you Paul
What do you like the moisture of the crop to be when going in the sealstore silo. Usually tad drier then 60% moisture -40% dry?
We try to keep it around 50%
Your alfalfa always looks really good. We have blessed with some rain too. Best wishes for no major breakdowns.
Thank you Anthony. Hopefully the rain allows us to get some hay made
That was one of my favorite jobs was filling silo with silage or blowing straw in the barn(depending on the wind direction) hay looks good Mike an hoping the motor is fixed?
Thank you Clint. My dad called the other day and the motor is fixed so we should be good for 2nd cutting
@@mikep7810 awesome 👍🏿
🚜💪😁✌️ greeting from burley Idaho mike
Thanks Carlos
Q1: What is the June 2023 cost of the motor that you are waiting on?
The Western truck service and repair channel guy had a spare comments 5.9 2-valve engine and some sort of greater in the event that the one in his work truck went kaput switch it has in his latest videos.He likely got the machinery cheaper than what the cost was to get a rebuilt Cummins 5.9. however, I'm using this theory for your motor on top of the Cyril to maybe have two of them on hand so that you don't get caught-in-a-mosh climbing 60 ft and turning the pan.
Q2: I guess I should not even ask-but the chopper trailers probably have some sort of a walking floor, correct?
Q3: Why chooping hay over baling hay?
A1: I have to get a hold of the guy fixing them and see how much labor and parts he has on the job. We do have 2 of them, however, they were put somewhere in the off season where they shouldn't have been stored and they both were set up.
A2: The forage wagons have a chain that brings the forage to the front, the beaters that spin around knock the forage down, and we have 2 augers in the front that shoot the forage out the side of the wagon into the blower.
A3: We do both. Chopping the alfalfa and putting it in the silo so it ferments in the silo the cows really milk well on that. We also bale dry hay to feed the cows as well
Wew saw😅 za
You guys mix grasses w/ yer Alfalfa or not?
We did in one field but mainly haylage is just alfalfa. We have a field that has been alfalfa for a couple years now and that has a lot of grass starting up in that so we'll probably plow that one up soon
@@mikep7810
From the research I've done online the past few years, it was determined, as I recall, by the University of Wisconsin that around four or five years after establishing an alphalfa crop is the point where it is no longer cost-effective to maintain alfalfa stands for dairy quality hay. If memory serves, the specific criteria for a field that was no longer cist-effuective was less than three alfalfa plants per square foot.
@@michaeldunagan8268 We usually chop our alfalfa for 4-5 years then plow it up and put corn in for 2 years, then seed it back over to alfalfa to chop for another 4-5 years
Great video Mike.. that chopped hay smells wonderful. How’s the yield this time around?
Thanks Rick. 1st cutting always yields pretty good
is your boy old enough to run the tractors🙂🙂 and some of the other equipment on your farm
He runs some things but only if I'm there. He isn't old enough to take off on his own yet
But think of the views the videos would get! 👦🏼🚜🏎️🏁
Looks a good crop 👍 hopefully the motor is repaired for next time
Take care stay safe
Thanks
Thank you. We should be good to go for 2nd cutting
i can see where climbing the silo every load gets old quick hope your motor shows up soon
Thanks Dana. Should be good to go for 2nd cutting
Great awesome video mike , great time of the year to do that , u gonna fill the corn silage silo this year ?
Thank you. Yes we will be filling the corn silage silo again this year
Just think of the exercise you’re getting maybe you should try and climb it with just your arms you’ll be the hulk by the time first cutting is over 😂
Haha just in time for the hay mow
What’s the length that you chop the haylage at?
We chop it short so its easier on the silo unloader
Your dad needs your son for ev😅load
Haha I'm sure he wouldn't mind it
@mikep7810 the great thing is they would both love it