Good video. Reminds me why my favorite silage wagon tractor was a 66 series back to a 400 Farmall/ international. Something to be said for being able to operate the PTO from the ground.
I used to do just what your doing when I was younger the dairy had two 80 footers a 70 footer an a 50 footer good memories they are thanks for the video.
I suppose this was one of the last times you filled Big Blue with haylage. It'll be nice to see you getting back to this whenever your beef herd makes it necessary and cost-effective.
That New Holland model 40 is a great silage blower. My grandfather and uncle's farm had the same blower for quite a few years before they switched to ag bags. They never ever had that thing plug once I don't believe. It's a much better design in my opinion with having the one fan getting the silage moving so the other one isn't starting it from a dead stop. It helps too that it is 1000 rpm pto speed. The only thing to be aware of is when you first start filling the silo is to do the first load at a little slower pace because the inside of the blower pipe might be rusty from sitting all winter.
all these pencil pushers telling you how to do your job but yet you do it the way you're used to doing it and still around to make the videos they're all watching good job keep it up bud from Nebraska
I was nervous watching him bounce between the two pto shafts, but then, like you said, I thought that he's probably done it a thousand times before and lived to tell. I'm always exceptionally cautious, but I also don't have the experience that this fella does.
@@mrdhoughton1 I knew several people who did it longer than he's been alive and a live shaft made closed caskets it's when it becomes routine and you let your guard down things get ya
Unfortunately, I don't believe so. We unload as fast as possible, without plugging the pipe on the silo (which turns into a long job of trying to unplug it). Unloading from these can be pretty slow at times, also. Most large operators use bunker silos to my knowledge.
Be more careful around live pto shafts even with the plastic safety sleeve I've lost friends and neighbors from clothing getting caught in them and your shirt came close a few times
Thanks for the video, around here they started small squares and round a few days back, and I also saw some farmers chopping silage =P Nice to know how it works! Keep up the good videos ;)
The big fan powers it up at high speed. Smaller silos use a bigger fan on a 540 RPM PTO, bigger silos use a slightly smaller fan but running on a 1000 rpm pto on bigger hp tractor. Some of the most powerful have a gearbox to spin it up faster.
There's a blower that's hung from the top by a winch with an auger that slowly spins around pulling everything to the center and blows it back down the pipe after the tractor and blower are removed from the ground and you lower it every few days a little bit till it's empty
@@TheRobertralph no problem it's alot of work but if you love what you do instead of do it expecting to make a bunch of money it's very rewarding farming definitely pays less than minimum wage I guess that's why I'll never think a burger flipper deserves 15 bucks an hr over 20 years ago I kept track of how many hrs I worked in that year and how much I made before taxes were paid and it came out to less than 4 bucks an hr but I don't care if I break even or if I even lose a few thousand a year that's what our other businesses are for farming is just something I love to do nobody's going to get rich doing it the farmers with millions of dollars of equipment running around don't have tons of money they have good bankers or lease the equipment they don't own it they have big payments and alot of acres to be able to use as collateral if stuff goes sideways me and my 7 kids own nearly 2000 acres it's not all crop land we have cattle pastures too and we rent ground but all our equipment is paid for so repairs is our only equipment expense no payments on it our newest machine is a 1998 model but everything is ours free and clear most of our vehicles have antique tags but if they break we can rebuild any of them over a weekend that's also a plus side of having a salvage yard I've got parts 2 of my kids run a mechanic shop with me 3 run our fabrication/welding shop and this spring 1 of my youngest will be opening our auto body and collision repair shop we're building it now along with finishing the youngest 2s houses on their 10 acres of land my only regret I've ever had was not finishing high school so I made a deal with my kids for a high school graduation present they got 10 acres and we'd build them a house on their land 1 of my boys converted a nice barn into a house with parking for 3 vehicles and 1 in his mechanic area with a lift my oldest daughter turned the hunting lodge we didn't know what to do with into her house we've remodeled more than we built my place is the only 1 we built from basement to roof the rest have storm shelters incase they can't make it to my house when they're older I'll offer my grandkids the same deal but we all live close enough most of us share a driveway and can walk to work depending on the side job we have that day another plus to owning a salvage yard we have antiques to restore and sell the ones we part out and crush between the catyletic converters the starter alternator and AC compressors getting pulled and sold as cores we usually make more off those than we pay for the vehicles themselves 1 of these days the price of iron will go back up and we have several semi trailer loads ready to load and haul but for now I'm off to rid a nearby town of some houses and sheds they condemned going in with the bobcat this morning to pull up privacy and chain link fences to repurpose for our chickens goats and keeping the dogs off the road then off to look at and hopefully buy a big pile antique tractors equipment vehicles and farm scrap I should remove houses since it's raining it'll keep the dust down but the roll off dumpsters aren't there yet I might take my generator around and test appliances so I can advertise the good ones
Good videos, but you need to watch it around those shafts. Also, the blower power unit doesn't have a kill switch. I would rig up one. I'd wear gloves on the job.
The lever he moved before starting the tractor is a clutch nothing will stop the blower fast but that's how to do it from the ground good call on the shafts I've been to too many closed casket funerals in my time from those
It's basically like bagging you don't have to it gets pretty tight settling before you chop enough to fill it the bottom 2/3s gravity does a good job from falling from the top running 4 wagons 2 wagon tractors and a 2 row chopper with the pickup head unit on we never got more than 20 ft a day filled of an 80 ft tall 25 ft diameter silo filled and after a month you could get a decent days worth of late cutting in before starting on a bunker for alfalfa haylage silage fills faster and don't settle as much and bunkers and packing came into play
no pto shield. I CAN'T LIKE IT BECAUSE OF THE MISSING SHIELD. A 540 pto shaft can take 9 feet per second and your only about 6 foot is my guess. I'm glad others have supported my opinion.
The black plastic around it is the safety shield in perfect condition you can grab it while the shaft spins full speed and the plastic will stop in your hand while the shaft continues spinning but it's only perfect till it's off the dealers lot and hooked up but it's the only kind of guard that can be put on something that turns so sharp
The Bike man cut the grass turn it with a hay turner for few days until golden dry then bale it. haylage is pretty much the same but it's wrapped up in plastic.
I took ours out in the 90s when I got rid of the dairy cattle and went solely beef first year I was in charge brought 4 brick ones down in a day with a sledge hammer the next few days were miserable
Generally, OSHA enforces farms which higher 10 or more employees and requires these farms to follow OSHA. The act does not allow the necessary funds to enforce on smaller operations. Furthermore, immediate family members are not regarded as employees, so therefore they are not covered under OSHA. In short, we can do what we want.
OSHAT is overrated just another government way of grabbing money from the working man they're like the seatbelt law I don't need the government to protect me from myself
Did you seriously just attach a PTO shaft to a running tractor? Not to mention the fact that it doesn't have a guard either. You're asking to die fella, come on it takes two minutes to turn the machine off and on and guards are cheap as chips.
As long as nobody's in the cab to play with the power switch the tractor don't need to be off and the black plastic around the shaft is the guard you can grab it and it stops while the shaft spins inside is the concept but for something that turns so sharp it's all they got
Good video. Reminds me why my favorite silage wagon tractor was a 66 series back to a 400 Farmall/ international. Something to be said for being able to operate the PTO from the ground.
I used to do just what your doing when I was younger the dairy had two 80 footers a 70 footer an a 50 footer good memories they are thanks for the video.
Thanks for keeping farming alive.
Makes for some happy animals this Winter, lol. Enjoyed it, thx.
I suppose this was one of the last times you filled Big Blue with haylage. It'll be nice to see you getting back to this whenever your beef herd makes it necessary and cost-effective.
That New Holland model 40 is a great silage blower. My grandfather and uncle's farm had the same blower for quite a few years before they switched to ag bags. They never ever had that thing plug once I don't believe. It's a much better design in my opinion with having the one fan getting the silage moving so the other one isn't starting it from a dead stop. It helps too that it is 1000 rpm pto speed. The only thing to be aware of is when you first start filling the silo is to do the first load at a little slower pace because the inside of the blower pipe might be rusty from sitting all winter.
all these pencil pushers telling you how to do your job but yet you do it the way you're used to doing it and still around to make the videos they're all watching good job keep it up bud from Nebraska
I was nervous watching him bounce between the two pto shafts, but then, like you said, I thought that he's probably done it a thousand times before and lived to tell. I'm always exceptionally cautious, but I also don't have the experience that this fella does.
@@mrdhoughton1 I knew several people who did it longer than he's been alive and a live shaft made closed caskets it's when it becomes routine and you let your guard down things get ya
The worst part about this job is when its chopped too dry and the wind is blowing nice video
We've got the same 980 boxes.. wish they had the flip down conveyor on them like that.
Unfortunately, I don't believe so. We unload as fast as possible, without plugging the pipe on the silo (which turns into a long job of trying to unplug it). Unloading from these can be pretty slow at times, also. Most large operators use bunker silos to my knowledge.
Be more careful around live pto shafts even with the plastic safety sleeve I've lost friends and neighbors from clothing getting caught in them and your shirt came close a few times
Interesting how-to video
We don't; It tends to settle downward within 24 hours.
Thanks for the video, around here they started small squares and round a few days back, and I also saw some farmers chopping silage =P
Nice to know how it works! Keep up the good videos ;)
Very interesting. Thank you.
NIce video thanks for doing it !!
fix that pto shaft cover !!!! you are working very close to it . remember smarter men than you have been killed with pto shafts ,
Yeah that wagon is long gone.
How Farms Work Are you guys done with silage for good?
How many acres did you have on the whole farm ?
Good video
Cool video. Thanks!
How does the silage get up into the silo? Is it blown with air? An auger?
The big fan powers it up at high speed. Smaller silos use a bigger fan on a 540 RPM PTO, bigger silos use a slightly smaller fan but running on a 1000 rpm pto on bigger hp tractor. Some of the most powerful have a gearbox to spin it up faster.
How do you feed the silage from the silo? Do you have a video on that?
There's a blower that's hung from the top by a winch with an auger that slowly spins around pulling everything to the center and blows it back down the pipe after the tractor and blower are removed from the ground and you lower it every few days a little bit till it's empty
@@davidwoermansr Very interesting. I have always see the put in, but never the take out. Thank you.
@@TheRobertralph no problem it's alot of work but if you love what you do instead of do it expecting to make a bunch of money it's very rewarding farming definitely pays less than minimum wage I guess that's why I'll never think a burger flipper deserves 15 bucks an hr over 20 years ago I kept track of how many hrs I worked in that year and how much I made before taxes were paid and it came out to less than 4 bucks an hr but I don't care if I break even or if I even lose a few thousand a year that's what our other businesses are for farming is just something I love to do nobody's going to get rich doing it the farmers with millions of dollars of equipment running around don't have tons of money they have good bankers or lease the equipment they don't own it they have big payments and alot of acres to be able to use as collateral if stuff goes sideways me and my 7 kids own nearly 2000 acres it's not all crop land we have cattle pastures too and we rent ground but all our equipment is paid for so repairs is our only equipment expense no payments on it our newest machine is a 1998 model but everything is ours free and clear most of our vehicles have antique tags but if they break we can rebuild any of them over a weekend that's also a plus side of having a salvage yard I've got parts 2 of my kids run a mechanic shop with me 3 run our fabrication/welding shop and this spring 1 of my youngest will be opening our auto body and collision repair shop we're building it now along with finishing the youngest 2s houses on their 10 acres of land my only regret I've ever had was not finishing high school so I made a deal with my kids for a high school graduation present they got 10 acres and we'd build them a house on their land 1 of my boys converted a nice barn into a house with parking for 3 vehicles and 1 in his mechanic area with a lift my oldest daughter turned the hunting lodge we didn't know what to do with into her house we've remodeled more than we built my place is the only 1 we built from basement to roof the rest have storm shelters incase they can't make it to my house when they're older I'll offer my grandkids the same deal but we all live close enough most of us share a driveway and can walk to work depending on the side job we have that day another plus to owning a salvage yard we have antiques to restore and sell the ones we part out and crush between the catyletic converters the starter alternator and AC compressors getting pulled and sold as cores we usually make more off those than we pay for the vehicles themselves 1 of these days the price of iron will go back up and we have several semi trailer loads ready to load and haul but for now I'm off to rid a nearby town of some houses and sheds they condemned going in with the bobcat this morning to pull up privacy and chain link fences to repurpose for our chickens goats and keeping the dogs off the road then off to look at and hopefully buy a big pile antique tractors equipment vehicles and farm scrap I should remove houses since it's raining it'll keep the dust down but the roll off dumpsters aren't there yet I might take my generator around and test appliances so I can advertise the good ones
Good videos, but you need to watch it around those shafts. Also, the blower power unit doesn't have a kill switch. I would rig up one. I'd wear gloves on the job.
The lever he moved before starting the tractor is a clutch nothing will stop the blower fast but that's how to do it from the ground good call on the shafts I've been to too many closed casket funerals in my time from those
never seen done like this, interesting. How do you compact the grass in the silo? Great vids by the way
It's basically like bagging you don't have to it gets pretty tight settling before you chop enough to fill it the bottom 2/3s gravity does a good job from falling from the top running 4 wagons 2 wagon tractors and a 2 row chopper with the pickup head unit on we never got more than 20 ft a day filled of an 80 ft tall 25 ft diameter silo filled and after a month you could get a decent days worth of late cutting in before starting on a bunker for alfalfa haylage silage fills faster and don't settle as much and bunkers and packing came into play
90-100? I believe. It's our larger 4020.
how much horsepower is on your blower?
Can alfalfa be stired into the silo as well ?
That's what haylage is alfalfa ran through a chopper
So haylage and alfafa can be stored into silo ???
Pretty much it's like bagging except you have to climb that thing a bunch to empty it
no pto shield. I CAN'T LIKE IT BECAUSE OF THE MISSING SHIELD. A 540 pto shaft can take 9 feet per second and your only about 6 foot is my guess. I'm glad others have supported my opinion.
The black plastic around it is the safety shield in perfect condition you can grab it while the shaft spins full speed and the plastic will stop in your hand while the shaft continues spinning but it's only perfect till it's off the dealers lot and hooked up but it's the only kind of guard that can be put on something that turns so sharp
How do you get hay
The Bike man cut the grass turn it with a hay turner for few days until golden dry then bale it. haylage is pretty much the same but it's wrapped up in plastic.
I did this when we had are feed lot
I took ours out in the 90s when I got rid of the dairy cattle and went solely beef first year I was in charge brought 4 brick ones down in a day with a sledge hammer the next few days were miserable
like it
u need a new pto cover buddy be safer you never know
What's wrong with the one on it I didn't see anywhere it looked damaged
gehl 980 wagon. not as good as the 970 gehl wagons.
We had 980's. One of the three was always broke. H &S way better.
No OSHA in Wisconsin?
Generally, OSHA enforces farms which higher 10 or more employees and requires these farms to follow OSHA. The act does not allow the necessary funds to enforce on smaller operations. Furthermore, immediate family members are not regarded as employees, so therefore they are not covered under OSHA. In short, we can do what we want.
OSHAT is overrated just another government way of grabbing money from the working man they're like the seatbelt law I don't need the government to protect me from myself
Was für eine primitive Technik... Ammis...
Still widely used on dairy farms mainly just not as popular as bagging or bunkers
Did you seriously just attach a PTO shaft to a running tractor? Not to mention the fact that it doesn't have a guard either.
You're asking to die fella, come on it takes two minutes to turn the machine off and on and guards are cheap as chips.
As long as nobody's in the cab to play with the power switch the tractor don't need to be off and the black plastic around the shaft is the guard you can grab it and it stops while the shaft spins inside is the concept but for something that turns so sharp it's all they got