Lovely scenery. I don't think I ever seen any other brand of selfpropelled forage harvesters than Claas in videos from the US. Thanks for great videos.
You are certainly right about the rain here in Ohio this summer. The corn and beans in southern Delaware County are looking fantastic despite the late planting.
Nice to see the JCBs running - I did missionary work 25 years ago for Fastracs - not much interest then but these earned their keep. The 960 is an impressive chopper - lots of capacity
Nice to see another Penta dump wagon in another video, I've heard a lot of good things about Penta and it makes very good silage trailer or regular crop dump trailer if you need it.
You guys need to lighten up on the concrete blocks! What were you thinking? looks like 6 blocks, nearly 12,000# bouncing on that little hitch. Fill the tires with water and 2 blocks maximum. In my not so humble opinion.
I remember back in the good old days at the bottom of the silos there was corn liquor you drank that you were drunk but out in the country there were no liquor stores around the corner
Quite a few university studies show shrink/waste in packed piles to be 30%. Bagged only 5%. Bags also came out as least cost, as no CAFO issues, no pads needed, no tires, and safer handling. This system seems heavily flawed. I would rent a construction compactor during harvest, that's the only way to get density fast.
@Googly Pops Not really. They system and bagging is fairly common in Europe and more starting in USA. If you build a forage heap, you still have to cover it with plastic and then you have the burden of throwing hundreds of tires on it to keep it from blowing to the neighbors
Claas Jaguar...Best Chopper from Germany...Greets from South Germany... Claas Jaguar ... Bester Chopper aus Deutschland ... Grüße aus Süddeutschland ...
There is an immigrant family west of Cactus Texas building their second large Dairy. Just these two are 40,000 milk cows each. I understand that they started with 8 cows in California after coming from Portugal. If Mike could get permission to make a video that would be his mother of all. Around here an 8,200 cow operation like the MVP is not seen as viable. This is from 2009 www.progressivedairy.com/topics/barns-equipment/largest-rotary-parlor-in-us-began-milking-this-year
@@robertreznik9330 Sounds like a Portuguese family from Hanford, California that I know. He came there with an orange in his pocket and now his shade barn runs to the horizon. Garcia maybe.
Wow that seems early for chopping corn for this area at least! Our Guys get going in a month or so. They also do not chop it so green, they allow it to just change colour a bit.
Have to design a homing device that would keep the chute in the trailer at all times. Seems a real chore to try and drive and aim behind or alongside at the same time
It's not that bad if the guy driving beside you knows his part of the ballet, once steady chopping speed is established it is easier on the neck muscles to leave the chute locked at full fwd position and to simply adjust the choppers ground speed slightly to enable you to slowly move foward as loading or to drop back to load rear, only chute inputs required then are the flap angle to load trailer evenly, and if you lucky enough to have a real operator in the tractor alongside you can sit back while he loads 80% himself just by observing which end of trailer the spout is aiming in allowing the chopper driver to do the final top off. however even after 18 hours of that shit the body begins to ache.😂😂
That could be an accident waiting to happen. In 1972 I was driving a dump truck behind a New Idea Harvester which was chopping Corn for silage in a feed lot, when a blade broke on the blower on the harvester just missing the front windscreen on the truck which was the last time we followed behind the harvester, from then on we drove beside the harvester. Safety First Always. First ropund pull the trailers with the Harvester.
That doesn't look like the best way to load silage cart. I bet by the end of a work day, they have lost a cart or two from silage being blown everywhere but in the wagon!!
So much of that stuff is missing the wagon?? Doesn't that cost a lot of money? I am not a farmer it just seems like plenty is spilled on the ground like this?
im not a farmer either, but i can also see that everything(not just the corn) is being shot out of it, so whatever they lose is probably a lot less than what you think
Interesting, but I thought silage went into a big silo and fermented not on a concrete slab with covered tarp. Learning new things. Would have been better if prossess was described.
Not many farms use the concrete silos anymore because they take too long to fill and unload. Putting it on a pile like this and packing it down then covering it will still let it ferment and make great silage.
Hi mike I live in the UK and see a lot of JCB fast track tractor. I watch a lot of USA farming videos just wanted to know is the fast track common over in the USA as it is here in the UK?
Thank you Mike. At least it was not me that broke something lol. Things happen on a farm that should not happen but, they do no matter how carefull you are. How do they like the Penta end dump. I love your drone footage it gives a better view of the machine moving across the field.
Extremely high workload driving chopper when compared to combine as you have to be paired next to wagon 100% of the time due to no hopper, very easy to reach task saturation when in close confines and usually shute control is the first thing to suffer as priorities dictate you don't hug the machine next to you inadvertently therfore drive first...aim second, think that was there first job for the season so usually takes few loads to get your edge back. However an attentive tractor driver should always have his trailer in the correct position relative to the chopper which makes chopper dudes job alot easier, My boss I used to work for could never keep up during cornering and always made a mess😂😂
... Sure wish I could say something farmery, like Silo's 20 feet tall, xyk z255 John Deere tractor things like that, it's all made up because I am not a farmer, wish I could drive one of those machines around in a field full of corn rice oats wheat blue Lucas and soybeans, but all I can do is watch it on this video, looks like you guys are having all the fun...
I can't tell all of my secrets. Its extra work to do it but people did not like music or silence during the drone shots so I overlay machine sound over the drone clips.
If you have ever seen a Playstation controller with the up down left right buttons...well that's what controls the shute slew and flap angle. Just gotta watch where it aiming when turning as arc radius applies...ie turn left and end of chute will have near zero foward speed as it is on inside of the turn so if tractor driver doesn't adjust speed to maintain position under the chute then chopper driver gotta be awake to compensate and adjust aim. Opposite applies for turn other way, chute speed actually increase dramatically causing tractor to have to increase speed while on outside of the turn or as more often than not chopper driver gotta do all the compensating if you don't want any spillage left to be seen at end of job. When opening up and you firing it over your shoulder then mirrors the way to go, just got to remember it's all in reverse when watching in mirror in regard to adjusting aim, left is right etc
I cringe every time he misses the silage trailers...we used to use a tow behind Allis Chalmers chopper and a Jiffy dump wagon when I was a kid partnered with two dump trucks to make the haul back to the silage pit
Amateur at opening a field! They have a row independent head!! Completely idiotic to follow around the bends and loose all that silage. Start in 20 rows and then clean up the outside at the end.
It's not idiotic to follow and we'll planted curve mate, any loss to the ground is the operators lack of attention, I have thousands of operating hours in claas forgers running 8 row head in New Zealand where fields that size are but a dream, average field size here 4 acres with stock fences on all sides. I spent half my day going round corners because even with your theory of starting in however many rows you choose you still have to clear the headlands in the field to achieve room at ether end of the rows for manurvering. I bet he has autopilot also which should mean he can monitor where he pointing that hose a little more Acura try.
Hopefully you can come back this year. I just started working on this farm 3 months ago!
Lovely scenery. I don't think I ever seen any other brand of selfpropelled forage harvesters than Claas in videos from the US. Thanks for great videos.
New Holland have FX Series foragers too
That claas is a beast! We have a 940 and love it!
You are certainly right about the rain here in Ohio this summer. The corn and beans in southern Delaware County are looking fantastic despite the late planting.
Nice to see the JCBs running - I did missionary work 25 years ago for Fastracs - not much interest then but these earned their keep. The 960 is an impressive chopper - lots of capacity
Good to see Mr Joseph Bamfords yellow tractors across the pond:)
Just watched this for the second time. Great video!
Good video as always...love watching them opening up the fields..
Nice to see another Penta dump wagon in another video, I've heard a lot of good things about Penta and it makes very good silage trailer or regular crop dump trailer if you need it.
You guys need to lighten up on the concrete blocks! What were you thinking? looks like 6 blocks, nearly 12,000# bouncing on that little hitch. Fill the tires with water and 2 blocks maximum. In my not so humble opinion.
What are talking about. They can easily handle that much weight
Even the laid plans have gremlins mucking up the plan. Great chopping Mike
Nice to see JCB's working so far away from where they were made. A couple of Kane trailers would look well with them.
I remember back in the good old days at the bottom of the silos there was corn liquor you drank that you were drunk but out in the country there were no liquor stores around the corner
Would liked to have seen the tractor repair!
Wouldn't it help prevent turning damage to the wagon if you remove duals?
Quite a few university studies show shrink/waste in packed piles to be 30%. Bagged only 5%. Bags also came out as least cost, as no CAFO issues, no pads needed, no tires, and safer handling. This system seems heavily flawed. I would rent a construction compactor during harvest, that's the only way to get density fast.
@Googly Pops Not really. They system and bagging is fairly common in Europe and more starting in USA. If you build a forage heap, you still have to cover it with plastic and then you have the burden of throwing hundreds of tires on it to keep it from blowing to the neighbors
Claas Jaguar...Best Chopper from Germany...Greets from South Germany...
Claas Jaguar ... Bester Chopper aus Deutschland ... Grüße aus Süddeutschland ...
That was a lot of wt on that 3 pt. Great job mike tanks for showing.
Yeah, about 3x what they should have done.
Hey Mike I think you need to come to Celina Ohio were they are silageing for the new MVP dairy farm that is a bigg silage operations
There is an immigrant family west of Cactus Texas building their second large Dairy. Just these two are 40,000 milk cows each. I understand that they started with 8 cows in California after coming from Portugal. If Mike could get permission to make a video that would be his mother of all. Around here an 8,200 cow operation like the MVP is not seen as viable.
This is from 2009 www.progressivedairy.com/topics/barns-equipment/largest-rotary-parlor-in-us-began-milking-this-year
@@robertreznik9330 Sounds like a Portuguese family from Hanford, California that I know. He came there with an orange in his pocket and now his shade barn runs to the horizon. Garcia maybe.
Why doesnt the first tractor drive in the grass by the road
Wow that seems early for chopping corn for this area at least! Our Guys get going in a month or so. They also do not chop it so green, they allow it to just change colour a bit.
How big is the silage pit?
That is the best made use of a drone makeing this video,operating the drone and takeing this video so profesionly, you are to be commended. thankyou .
Super video For us non professionals what is the reason for tamping the silage?
Silage ferments in the absence of oxygen so packing it down is important. If you don't get the oxygen out it will spoil and become toxic.
Have to design a homing device that would keep the chute in the trailer at all times. Seems a real chore to try and drive and aim behind or alongside at the same time
It's not that bad if the guy driving beside you knows his part of the ballet, once steady chopping speed is established it is easier on the neck muscles to leave the chute locked at full fwd position and to simply adjust the choppers ground speed slightly to enable you to slowly move foward as loading or to drop back to load rear, only chute inputs required then are the flap angle to load trailer evenly, and if you lucky enough to have a real operator in the tractor alongside you can sit back while he loads 80% himself just by observing which end of trailer the spout is aiming in allowing the chopper driver to do the final top off. however even after 18 hours of that shit the body begins to ache.😂😂
That could be an accident waiting to happen. In 1972 I was driving a dump truck behind a New Idea Harvester which was chopping Corn for silage in a feed lot, when a blade broke on the blower on the harvester just missing the front windscreen on the truck which was the last time we followed behind the harvester, from then on we drove beside the harvester. Safety First Always. First ropund pull the trailers with the Harvester.
You were driving a much older machine (at or over 46 years older.) They engineer safety into these things anymore.
That doesn't look like the best way to load silage cart. I bet by the end of a work day, they have lost a cart or two from silage being blown everywhere but in the wagon!!
Nice to see the JCB working the fields in the US...
So much of that stuff is missing the wagon?? Doesn't that cost a lot of money? I am not a farmer it just seems like plenty is spilled on the ground like this?
im not a farmer either, but i can also see that everything(not just the corn) is being shot out of it, so whatever they lose is probably a lot less than what you think
Interesting, but I thought silage went into a big silo and fermented not on a concrete slab with covered tarp. Learning new things. Would have been better if prossess was described.
Not many farms use the concrete silos anymore because they take too long to fill and unload. Putting it on a pile like this and packing it down then covering it will still let it ferment and make great silage.
@@farmhandmike thanks for the return comment. Like I said, learn new things every day.
Would Tractors with tracks do better packing silage?
No, the weight would be spread out to much to actually pack it.
Maybe the harvester is leased when I think about it...
How fast are they chopping at,looks like damn near 6 miles?
Are some of those fields Alafalfa?
that claas is brilliant
Always support the farmer without them we ALL would starve stop & think about it
Hi mike I live in the UK and see a lot of JCB fast track tractor. I watch a lot of USA farming videos just wanted to know is the fast track common over in the USA as it is here in the UK?
We dont see much JCB here, has a fairly low reputation.
Real nice tractor chopping work. Keep it up guys.
Good video, looks like May a lot of waste. ??
Thanks, love chopping videos
What's the deal with so much spillage? Is that supposed to happen? Or is that just the cost of efficiency?
Dude driving the chopper controls where the spout is pointing....
2020 STILL A 👍 VIDEO LOVE THE FOOTAGE MIKE
Thank you Mike. At least it was not me that broke something lol. Things happen on a farm that should not happen but, they do no matter how carefull you are. How do they like the Penta end dump. I love your drone footage it gives a better view of the machine moving across the field.
I really like that drone work.
How does the harvesters discharge Shute always hit the wagon or truck? Who is driving it?
Randy Keller lots of thumb work on a D-pad
Extremely high workload driving chopper when compared to combine as you have to be paired next to wagon 100% of the time due to no hopper, very easy to reach task saturation when in close confines and usually shute control is the first thing to suffer as priorities dictate you don't hug the machine next to you inadvertently therfore drive first...aim second, think that was there first job for the season so usually takes few loads to get your edge back. However an attentive tractor driver should always have his trailer in the correct position relative to the chopper which makes chopper dudes job alot easier, My boss I used to work for could never keep up during cornering and always made a mess😂😂
... Sure wish I could say something farmery, like Silo's 20 feet tall, xyk z255 John Deere tractor things like that, it's all made up because I am not a farmer, wish I could drive one of those machines around in a field full of corn rice oats wheat blue Lucas and soybeans, but all I can do is watch it on this video, looks like you guys are having all the fun...
Great video. How do you record the sound when flying the drone, it sounds like you are right beside the chopper
I can't tell all of my secrets. Its extra work to do it but people did not like music or silence during the drone shots so I overlay machine sound over the drone clips.
I really like the two JCB's working.
It's all farmer's gear or contractor's ?
Custom harvester
Awesome Mike...love your stuff !!!
Is that a limefloor or cement
Looks like concrete.
Guys are from my neck of the woods
Whats controlling the spout on the chopper? Especially when the tractor is running straight behind
Amaranthian450 The operator of the chopper
Not too well though. Id be a cranky farmer watching ten rows shooting all over tge ground!
If you have ever seen a Playstation controller with the up down left right buttons...well that's what controls the shute slew and flap angle. Just gotta watch where it aiming when turning as arc radius applies...ie turn left and end of chute will have near zero foward speed as it is on inside of the turn so if tractor driver doesn't adjust speed to maintain position under the chute then chopper driver gotta be awake to compensate and adjust aim. Opposite applies for turn other way, chute speed actually increase dramatically causing tractor to have to increase speed while on outside of the turn or as more often than not chopper driver gotta do all the compensating if you don't want any spillage left to be seen at end of job. When opening up and you firing it over your shoulder then mirrors the way to go, just got to remember it's all in reverse when watching in mirror in regard to adjusting aim, left is right etc
Amazing feeding the world & the cattle so we have fresh beef
I cringe every time he misses the silage trailers...we used to use a tow behind Allis Chalmers chopper and a Jiffy dump wagon when I was a kid partnered with two dump trucks to make the haul back to the silage pit
Yeah me too! 👏😆
Very neat video thanks for it. Can’t wait for the next one
I agree ,excellent video,keep them coming
I hope that was the owner that turned too sharp and hit the wagon. That would require a serious explanation.
No it was not the owner. But I was standing by the owner as it was brought back to the pile.
I really like to see your videos
Amazing stuff!👍
Great work. Watching this, I wonder what a oldtimer from the 1840s would think of it lol. Throw his reaper in the fire...
Another great video Mike thanks
That is alot of men and equipment to keep track of.
Great video...Thanks for sharing....
MIKE GREAT JOB
Quite impressive
Claas is the best
Jesus that was a lot of talking.
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it doesn't sound to good. oh wait they come out the factory like that.
Lol ikr those Mercedes always sound like they have a miss with the factory bus sized muffler,
AMAZING
Corn too green to chop for silage.
Did you see the dry matter test data to make that statement?
Didn't you see it on the silo floor? Not to mention in the opened field. That stuff is way drier than you think.
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Amateur at opening a field! They have a row independent head!! Completely idiotic to follow around the bends and loose all that silage. Start in 20 rows and then clean up the outside at the end.
Time is money when chopping, if they lose a couple hundred pounds of silage to save 10 minutes, no big deal
It's not idiotic to follow and we'll planted curve mate, any loss to the ground is the operators lack of attention, I have thousands of operating hours in claas forgers running 8 row head in New Zealand where fields that size are but a dream, average field size here 4 acres with stock fences on all sides. I spent half my day going round corners because even with your theory of starting in however many rows you choose you still have to clear the headlands in the field to achieve room at ether end of the rows for manurvering. I bet he has autopilot also which should mean he can monitor where he pointing that hose a little more Acura try.
Maybe true, but that's no cause for being an a-hole about it.
The tone was set in the first post.
@@kiwidieselsorry, that's who my comment was directed towards.
Good video
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