Chopping First Cutting Hay at Keller Farms near Burkettsville Ohio
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- Video from Keller Farms in Burkettsville Ohio as they mow, merge, chop and haul their first cutting of alfalfa back to the farm where they push and pack it on a silage pile. This video was actually shot in May of 2018 but I had misplaced the SD card with the drone footage and recently came across it. Due to the rainy weather for this spring of 2019 planting and haying is way behind as I edit and upload this video
Nice to see they set the wheels out to not run over the cut hay😎
I have subscribed to your channel and I am from Ohio
Thanks. What part of Ohio?
Fabulous Video Mike, thanks for sharing
I really want to always drive a self driven forge harvester. My bucket list. Want to at least cut hay or corn. Maybe some farmer would do that.
Spent a lot of time on a 460 and 560 growing up. They had their good and bad like all brands but one thing I loved as a 12 year old kid was driving down the road between fields. Them things would move!! At least back then it was fast and for a kid used to Masseys that weren't known for their road speed normally. I'll stop rambling. Nice video Mike
Beautiful farm and as always great video. Thanks for taking the time to show us 👍
Very cool, and kind of a unique approach. 2wd tractors all widened up, front/rear unload wagons on running gear, center pivot moco, upright silos still in use... I'm from NE WI (from your description, it sounds like this area has traditionally had similar types of dairy operations as us), and when I was growing up an operation like this would have been unimaginably huge. Now it's almost quaint.
Mike Thanks for showing the IH 460. Was one of the first tractor I can remember my dad owning. It was a big tractor in our area at the time. I can remember it running the forage harvest or and belt driving the thresher machine. Who would think they would still be using a 55 year old ?? Tractor on what obviously is a modern farm. Must be a family jewel !! I know I would love to own it. Dad had a front mounted snow blower on his and we had a lot of snow and a long lane way to town so it got lots of use in the wintertime....
All that mowing in this video looks just like in Kip Siegler Farming.
Another great video Mike. Thanks for posting. Just loving the selection of two wheel drive tractors. 🚜
Awesome. That man on the Moco is running like a scared rabbit!!
Pretty slick operation!! that chopper is chopping 100% of the time going around and around like that rather than waisting time turning in and out on the headland. I like their thinking 🤔
Mike have have you not video's of the new holland bidirectional tractor that was built by versatile
Thanks for replying Mike. I worked 45 years on my godfathers grain farm until his death. It was a second job and I’d love to do it more but know one will hire me.
Awesome looking farm! Would love to visit this area of Ohio sometime
Mike, your appreciated. Thanks
Wow great video👍lot of nice equipment and a absoluty beautiful countrysite 👍👍 ohio is defnetly beautiful
It is such great fun to ride along especially on such a monstrous farm... truly beautiful to see... thanks so much for your great channel Mike !!
Well done ! I came here to your ch from seeing you on Welker Farms.
When I worked the dairy farm a mile from home we milked round 135 twice a day they had 4 a.o. Smith harvestor 2 of them was 80 footers 1, 70 footer and a 50 footer
and you're telling us this why?
Great farm and video.
Beautiful farm
do these guys own the chopper?
Hi Mike, congratulate the Welkers on 200.000 subscribers >>>
Who built the one barn crooked? Lol
Whatch doing in the background?
Amazing! Looks like river bottom land? Sandy? Sure grows nice alfalfa
Another long video, Thank you
Great video!
It changes from France
Those are the widest stance tractors I’ve seen.
Cool drone footage. But why are they cutting in a square. Looked like the mergers easier time looping around.
Nice video love drone footage
My boss would have my ass for missing hay on the corners. "you're just leaving money standing there"
Také koukám,že si podruhé více nenadjede,aby napravil chybu.Z té výšky to vypadá neprofesionálně posečené...
That was a great video, Mike! I typically won't watch heavily JD orientated videos, but this had a great mix, great shots, great angles, and just had me hooked the whole time! Thanks for the video! Keep up the good work sir!
Nice sound
I didn't notice a single fire ant mound in the entire video. So very lucky!! We just finished our first cut of close to eighty acres here in southern middle Tennessee. I bet we hit at LEAST 75 mounds in that hay ground. Terrible!! Try laying on the ground to fix something with those things on the warpath.😬
Yes luckily we don't have fire ant or armadillos in Ohio yet. But I'm familiar with both. When I was a rep for Gehl I spent some time in Tennessee south working on hay equipment and been bit up by those fire ants.
@@farmhandmike nasty little critters. Great video and awesome drone work. Enjoyed!
How fast are they going while mowing? It looks pretty fast.
Do you know what the moisture was. Enjoyed the video
Is all that equipment owned and operated by Keller Farms? A lot of larger dairies around here use custom services for most of that work. Just curious about Keller's.
It is all their own as far as I know.
Nice vid mike 👍
I appreciate you reply Mike. I know you are busy, but l’d like to ask you a couple of questions. First, I sometimes see a video that is chopped in three sections. The left and right seem to be the same but just the center has the video. Sometimes the sides are black or blurred video. Second, what video editing software do you use. Is it for OS or PC.
I use iMovie on my MacBook Pro to edit my videos. Not sure what you mean by blurred video as I'm not seeing it on my end nor would I use blurred video footage if I had it. I do my best to bring quality video to TH-cam.
Excellent
Why does it It look like the tires on the silage are imbedded in the plastic? Or are they cut in half or some5hing?
Yes tires are cut.
Great footage Mike!
great video, I had to look were your farm is. It appears to be dairy. My dad started IBA of Ohio and your dealer would have been my uncle Norm from the Greenville area.
Question: I can't see any blossoms on the Alphala, I understood it is at it's peak with 5% blooms. Things might have changed. Also do you know what your moisture is on the silage, it justs looks real green.
Awesome video! I like the look of the tractors with the wider wheel stance. Are they only used for hay or do they adjust the wheels for field work?
How full are their silos or is that something nobody knows
nope, nobody knows how much is in them. all just a big guess :)
if you look at 927 you will see that they go back and mow the corners out.
I’ve been to Broeing’s farm which is right across the street
Wtf
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what is the difference when some framers put in it in seal bags, or store it in a silo than leaving it out in the open air pile up
It really depends on the farm,
Why are they cutting in a square on and operation like this? Wouldnt less corners be easier? Or is it for less headland compaction?
you want the mower mowing and not in the up position
I do understand their filosofie, but they miss spots in the corners
@@rindertmeindertsma6514 they go back and make one quick pass and catch all the missed corners. it's not really that hard to understand. it's not like its this farms first time doing things, they know what they're doing despite all the know it alls here on u tube lol
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Why does the mower cut like that. Those sharp turns must be hard on the pot. Plus the grass left behind that doesn’t get cut. And I’ve never seen someone widen there wheels that much before.
They come back and mow the corners straight on after the field is all cut.
mower needs to be mowing and not in the up position. cv joints are wonderful things
bonjour du nord de la France
That is not hay that's silage.
I saw a Massy!
With all that green equipment, I think Keller Farms needs to demo a new 9800I chopper.
Hi Mike, great videos but why confuse viewers by calling silage HAY!?
Because it is hay. Thats what we say. It's not silage/haylage until after it's chopped in my opinion. We don't say we're going out to mow and rake silage. We are going out to mow, rake and chop hay.
@@farmhandmike OK, I'm British, ' just seems really confusing like when people don't know the difference between hay & straw and now hay is non-wilted/dried grass/forage! Not over here it's always silage grass unless it's bone-dry and baled without covering of any sort.
Check dictionary: Grass that has been mown & dried....
I understand why they do it but for my opinion on cosmetics alone , those 2wd tractors look like hell with fenders
Probably be best if I don't say what I think about mowing around and around in circles until there's nothing left in the middle..🤪..!!
yeah that would probably be best since nobody cares what your opinion is from your couch :)
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Shame he's going around in rings with mower, that centre pivot was designed for mowing both sides.
annoys me that the movertraktor driver misses a bit of the corners 😅
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Mowing round and round is literally the dumbest thing I've ever seen, loose so much efficiency with the mower and chopper
The instant you stop putting forage through your head you lose all productivity N will continue to run the entire length of field as opposed to cutting acres per hour n never being stagnant. Some scenarios its best but not when you are in wide open long straight fields like this. you can rake or merge it accordingly not decisive on the mower .
So how is it supposed to be done? Since you're so smart please share with us the proper way of doing it. The time wasted at the end of a row swinging a mower if it's capable or running across end rows to get to the other side is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard of :) actually try it sometime, in real life , not on your farm sim. add up the time and then you'll realize your comment is full of %$#
So constantly reducing the length of each run by going round and round, thus increase the amount of turns as the area decreases is more efficient. And mowing the longest runs you can with the exact same turn each time is less productive.
That doesn't add up, also you have to go and cut the corners again because you've missed a load..that's efficient. God bless murica
@@ChalkyDaBoss Looks like it works for them :) The more time the mower is cutting the more production you're getting. No hay is hitting the ground when you're turning on the ends. And it depends on the field, they just happen to be in one that they feel like mowing like this to stay ahead of the chopper. If it was long and narrow they probably don't do this. Heck I've mowed in circles before just to piss off my brother the raker/baler at that time. and you are correct, God Bless America
ChalkyDaBoss not sure if we’re talking bout turning or putting tons of forage on the ground now ? This isn’t your backyard we’re mowing. N headlands aren’t always your ground to run equipment across either. These guys are chopping n moisture isn’t a concern when leaving skippers at the same level of hay making. Even if he only cut half his width running his headlands he’s still reducing his travel n still cutting forage. Now let’s say he is baling it. It’s all bout how fast you can dry down that crop n just think you coulda been baling by now has you run your headlands instead of that crop being the very last pass you made 5 hours later 👌. There may be a point that it becomes too aggressive on pto etc to turn round but til then cut it n don’t stop. Time lost afield with overhead still being used is the worst. Might as well have a breakdown after every pass for 30 seconds.til you turn n drop your head again.
Allen mg. see below