You Are Awesome, Sir !! Worked right along My Dad at Your Sons Age too !! I’m 73 now and just semi-retired from Farming. Spending My time in South Central Florida, Cow, Groves and Sod Farming Territory !! Great Farming Videos, keep them coming !! H.
Ahhhhh brings back memories of frozen silage in dead of winter...all that's missing is an old Patz gutter cleaner to complete my memories...them damn things would freeze up too. (back in the 50's before global warming)..LOL The good old days! 🍺🥨🍺
I helped on a farm for over 30 years and helped set-up that exact unloading system. But, I have never seen this view of it operating. I was the guy on the ground running and lowering the auger. Thank you for sharing! That was awesome to see in operation!
Thank you for taking us along Andy. Junior is learning that there is more to farming life than cruising around in his new toy. He's a willing trooper. Be safe, be well.
We never had any silo unloaders....oh yes we did....ME... and a 12 tined fork!! Great video Andy!! I would candle the eggs, wash them and put them in the fridge. Great on an english muffin!
Your son Andrew going be a an awesome farmer, because he has an excellent teacher. All your children steps in and help with farming operations. That's cool that you have all that support. Andy, I got give you credit you work your ass off to make a living. God bless!! Awesome vid, keep them coming. Be safe!!
Silo unloader, brings back a lot of memories of our old Bager unloader. Then before that, when I was bub’s age the unloader was me, with a pitchfork and shovel ! Bub you got it pretty good !!! The clean shoot is new to me, looks really nice 👍!
I have learned so much about a silo operation. Thanks I have never seen a silo Eqipment so well maintained. And the corn is so protected for the storage time
Hearing that unloader running brings back memories. Sometimes around 7 or 8 pm I could go outside my grandparents house and know that one of my uncle's were feeding the cows because I could hear the unloader running. Both of their cement stave silos had Jamesway unloaders. I had several turns at going into the silo, leveling it off, covering it up, etc. Then when it was time to start feeding, pulling the cover off, letting unloader down. Then periodically climbing up in to it taking out doors and letting the chute down. I see you guys use the plastic bag going down the chute, good idea as it keeps the chute clean so you don't get a face full of hay when climbing up/down the chute.
Lots of good memories there. I remember climbing the silo chute. We didn't have any "clean chute" either. Climbing with your eyes squinted closed so the crap doesn't get in your eyes. Then being afraid of the unloader as it comes around. Too little to jump it. Depending on Dad to throw me to the other side of the auger. And then yep, Dad goes down first to catch me. You know he got a load of crap in his face with me climbing down right on top of him! Then as a teenager--leveling off that silo with draw forks. Our silos were open topped. Man that haylage is hot when you start moving it around!
Great lil farmer you have there.. This brings back memories. I would always be the one who set up... And yes ive climbed up the inside and went down the outside too..
30 years ago, I worked with my brother installing feed equip, We started out selling Clay unloaders, then Patz...... But worked on Badger, Silo-matic and James Way..... Most of the farmers abandoned the uprights in the 80's..... in favor of pits or bunkers......Quite a few big diameters still standing.....Monuments to a bygone era
Makes me remember the time we filled a silo that had stood empty for a while. I dropped down into what I thought was old silage broke through into a monumental rats nest. Had a rat go up my pant leg did the quickest job of dropping my pants I’ve ever done. Great 👍 content
Really appreciate the "inside" of your operation. Awesome! I loved to climb the silos as a kid knowing if I was caught there was a butt warming coming.
I remember having to do that with my uncle when I was 11 or 12... worked on his farm for 3 years in the summertime...bought my first car with that money....
This silo chore reminds me of my summer time job on a dairy farm. Climbing silos was a little scary especially setting up all the equipment for filling. Then this farms didn't have an unloader i was all by hand. Memories.
Thanks for sharing! I've always been fascinated by silos and how they work. Very few of them left here in Kentucky and they were very small. I heard they filled them with a blower chopper combination. Very nice video as usual and thanks for explaining how it works.
Andy, this is a similar video when I first started watching your channel a couple years ago! Still as informative as it was a couple years ago. I believe you had a couple thousand subscribers! I remember commenting that this was a “dirty job “ and you replied, “it can be “!😎 Still as interesting! Thank you for the great videos!
A friend had two 40 x 60's side by side that was pretty impressive. They took a Case 700 to throw the corn silage high enough to get it in the center of the silo the Ford 8000 couldn't get it to the center. The long stroke on a Case engine would get the job done. This is 1975 or so you had to use what you had to get the job done.
Being from the uk we don’t use this type of thing these days Really interesting video and lots of insight. I do enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for making them
In high school, I and buddies would go out at night and catch live pigeons in barns.. they would sit (roost) on the barn timbers and with a flashlight, would climb the timbers, catch them and throw them down to buds who would put them in a gunny sack. Sold them for a dime each to the dog trainers. Once noticed a 90' silo that thought was filled, so I went up the outside and buddy went up the inside. Got to the top and there was one long 2x6 board across the top, with pigeons sitting on the tie bars. We both walked to the middle on the 2x6 and picked off several pigeons. Because the silo filler had been there two days before, figured the silo was full. But never shined the light down to see that it was really empty. Found out the following day that the corn wasn't ready so they pulled the silo blower off to another farm. Scared the hell out of us, thinking that it could have been a bad trip down to the bottom. Guess what you don't know is sometimes a good thing. But thanks for the info on the silo unloader.
We always had our concrete silos for silage. One unloaded down the door like yours the other down the center. Used to store high moisture milo in our Harvestore. Since switched it over to a false airreation floor and auger for storing soybeans. Ours is a 31/89 the other four our 25/75 with one a 20/60 for dry grain. Hammer Down
Thank you! I was curious as when I've seen those type of silos since I was a kid,for how they were emptied. Another of lifes' curiosities solved. And the end , almost thought you had a unique clod shredder!
Same thing here in Tennessee,most of the county's near me have been closed down. To many rules and regulations ! Seems one side of the government,hint blue side. Are making it to where only the large corporation's. have the funds to pay. Wonder how many in both sides of Government get kickbacks to let this happen ?.
We weren't lucky enough to have an unloader when i was growing up. Every morning at 4 AM i had to climb the silo and toss down the silage. I think starting at the age of 10. Did this until i graduated from high school. Then fed from 20 to 25 calves on the bottle. This was all before having breakfast and then going to school.
We still have the old funnel chain distributor in our silo and a 2 man shovel unloader. No electric no belts no motor, it works good for our 30 head operation till it's in the 80s or 90s and you're 1 of the 2 running the shovels. We only do haylage in our silo and our corn in a bunk.
I don't miss climbing silos in winter. Or summer. Good thing about the old Jamesways was a pair of 9/16 and a pair of ¾ wrenches, and s screwdriver or two, and you could tear them completely apart. The tripod lets go long before the cables will.
Dad always told us kids to stay out of the barn for a few days because of silo gas. A brown looking cloud of gas would hang around about 2 ft high off the barn floor and silo room. We had to open all the barn doors and let it air out.
Every time you show this unloader I get a little envious, ours get so rusty with the silage, the high moisture corn seems to be a lot easier on them. They are a great unloader though, center fill is the way to go.
I remember doing that when we lived on the farm, corn silage though it was rough in the winter time it would freeze and the unloader wouldn't unload it had to dig it out but we tried to use a ground silo in the winter time,upright in the spring and summer.
@@TheGrumpyFarmer Impolite to demonstrate your immaturity on another person's channel. And yet with that paltry and pathetic volume of subscribers you boast, it is only fitting you are out trolling. You stand accused of blatant racism. Let's explore that fact for all to see.
Wait till you see Andy after he moves doors as he empties the silo.and when they run the unloader back up to the top and reverse the process we just saw. LOL
I remember leveling out the top of the silo with pitchforks when I was about Junior's age...I got a little too close to the corn coming in and it hit me and dragged me under...luckily the owner was there and pulled me back to safety..dangerous job
Hauled shot crete to silos for years never really seen what was inside a silo. Those old concrete silos go up and down all the time. One of the last jobs I went to they put up two brand new silos I believe they were 45' around not sure how tall but it was a good sized farm. You have to do some stuff that's really pretty dangerous on a farm. Good luck be safe all.
Up until I was in my early 30’s, I had a rope inside the goose neck opening. I would pull my self up the silo wall to avoid the dirty hay chute. (Walking the wall, hand over hand.) Did that for a few years, but you guessed it, the old rotten rope broke, best I could do is turn my body around in mid air and land on my chest on the Jamesway power ring. I knocked the wind out of me, seemed like forever. It was maybe 5 doors. I would be dead if it was 9-10 doors like yours. Like you, that was the last time !
You used to be able to tell who built a solo by looking at the colors of the top two rows of staves. Every builder had their own color pattern. Does the unloader damage the corn any when it hits the impeller? With silage, it didn't matter,because you can't really hurt silage. I don't remember who built our unloader, but I spent many hours making sure it ran properly, especially right after the silo was filled.
I wish we had used those clean shoot things. Would have made haylage more bearable. Also would save the shoot. Those aluminum shoots wear out after years of being hit with feed. We ran Van dale unloaders. We had one Patz till the cable broke pulling it up. That was the end of the Patz.
great video, aren't you afraid when you are on top of that corn you might have a cavity fall through and suffocate! How does that wet corn sit in there all winter and not spoil
We had to shovel rotten corn silage out of the old wooden silo, what a stinky mess that was! Felt sad tearing down the old wooden silos that had stood for so many years...
Is the floor of the silo cement or dirt? How many inches do you feed out each day? Thank you for today's video. I always appreciate the time you take to film and explain what your doing and how things work.
You Are Awesome, Sir !!
Worked right along My Dad at Your Sons Age too !!
I’m 73 now and just semi-retired from Farming. Spending My time in South Central Florida, Cow, Groves and Sod Farming Territory !! Great Farming Videos, keep them coming !! H.
Thanks for the comment
watching you guys remind me of the days on our farm fixing the unloader on 30x 60 silo open top
Ahhhhh brings back memories of frozen silage in dead of winter...all that's missing is an old Patz gutter cleaner to complete my memories...them damn things would freeze up too. (back in the 50's before global warming)..LOL
The good old days! 🍺🥨🍺
I helped on a farm for over 30 years and helped set-up that exact unloading system. But, I have never seen this view of it operating. I was the guy on the ground running and lowering the auger. Thank you for sharing! That was awesome to see in operation!
I worked at the parts warehouse filling orders driving forklift and loading trailers.
Thanks for showing us around your farm. Dairy farming doesn't ever leave your blood even being off the farm.
Thank you for taking us along Andy. Junior is learning that there is more to farming life than cruising around in his new toy. He's a willing trooper. Be safe, be well.
Nice video Andy. Glad to see junior climbing the silo at his age 👍always liked silos for our size operation.
We never had any silo unloaders....oh yes we did....ME... and a 12 tined fork!!
Great video Andy!! I would candle the eggs, wash them and put them in the fridge. Great on an english muffin!
Awesome video Andy thank you for sharing! You have some great kids!
Your son Andrew going be a an awesome farmer, because he has an excellent teacher. All your children steps in and help with farming operations. That's cool that you have all that support. Andy, I got give you credit you work your ass off to make a living. God bless!! Awesome vid, keep them coming. Be safe!!
Always enjoy your videos Andy, you do a great job of explaining what you are doing ! Thank You..
I sure remember this Andy on a cold day it would always happen . This is why we went to bunkers we find it better when we were farming
great video , Andrew is learning it all...so young , good for him
Silo unloader, brings back a lot of memories of our old Bager unloader. Then before that, when I was bub’s age the unloader was me, with a pitchfork and shovel ! Bub you got it pretty good !!! The clean shoot is new to me, looks really nice 👍!
It's amazing how much hard work it takes to produce our dary products.Thank you!!
I have learned so much about a silo operation. Thanks I have never seen a silo Eqipment so well maintained. And the corn is so protected for the storage time
One more summer and Jr will your star hand. Great job Andy.
thanks for explaining how it works andy, great video from you all great to see the younger generation learning about it, enjoyed the video thanks.
Hearing that unloader running brings back memories. Sometimes around 7 or 8 pm I could go outside my grandparents house and know that one of my uncle's were feeding the cows because I could hear the unloader running. Both of their cement stave silos had Jamesway unloaders. I had several turns at going into the silo, leveling it off, covering it up, etc. Then when it was time to start feeding, pulling the cover off, letting unloader down. Then periodically climbing up in to it taking out doors and letting the chute down. I see you guys use the plastic bag going down the chute, good idea as it keeps the chute clean so you don't get a face full of hay when climbing up/down the chute.
Lots of good memories there. I remember climbing the silo chute. We didn't have any "clean chute" either. Climbing with your eyes squinted closed so the crap doesn't get in your eyes. Then being afraid of the unloader as it comes around. Too little to jump it. Depending on Dad to throw me to the other side of the auger. And then yep, Dad goes down first to catch me. You know he got a load of crap in his face with me climbing down right on top of him! Then as a teenager--leveling off that silo with draw forks. Our silos were open topped. Man that haylage is hot when you start moving it around!
Great lil farmer you have there.. This brings back memories. I would always be the one who set up... And yes ive climbed up the inside and went down the outside too..
30 years ago, I worked with my brother installing feed equip, We started out selling Clay unloaders, then Patz...... But worked on Badger, Silo-matic and James Way..... Most of the farmers abandoned the uprights in the 80's..... in favor of pits or bunkers......Quite a few big diameters still standing.....Monuments to a bygone era
Were you in Minnesota. Had most of those brands around us.
@@peterhejny363 South Carolina......Got a cousin in Minnesota
This brings back memories. I spent many years growing up with a Jamesway silo unloader
Makes me remember the time we filled a silo that had stood empty for a while. I dropped down into what I thought was old silage broke through into a monumental rats nest. Had a rat go up my pant leg did the quickest job of dropping my pants I’ve ever done. Great 👍 content
Really appreciate the "inside" of your operation. Awesome! I loved to climb the silos as a kid knowing if I was caught there was a butt warming coming.
andrew is a very valueable part of your operation.
That was really cool...never seen the inside of a silo work! Thank you for that.
My first gander at a silo. Too cold for too long here in north central Alberta. Every thing freezes solid. Thanks for the video boss.
I remember having to do that with my uncle when I was 11 or 12... worked on his farm for 3 years in the summertime...bought my first car with that money....
This silo chore reminds me of my summer time job on a dairy farm. Climbing silos was a little scary especially setting up all the equipment for filling. Then this farms didn't have an unloader i was all by hand. Memories.
Thanks for sharing! I've always been fascinated by silos and how they work. Very few of them left here in Kentucky and they were very small. I heard they filled them with a blower chopper combination. Very nice video as usual and thanks for explaining how it works.
Brings back memories. Hated when they broke and you had to hand shovel.
I've always wondered how a silo worked. Very interesting videos.
That's a real machine you've got there! Thanks for showing us how it's done in the real world!
A real insight into corn storage in the USA , very enjoyable from the U/K.
Great video Andy
Andy, this is a similar video when I first started watching your channel a couple years ago! Still as informative as it was a couple years ago. I believe you had a couple thousand subscribers! I remember commenting that this was a “dirty job “ and you replied, “it can be “!😎 Still as interesting! Thank you for the great videos!
Yes I remember your comment
I always wore a hooded sweatshirt up and down a silo chute. Made sure it had a good drawstring on the hood.
Jr Is a lucky kid. No better teacher than doin!
Boy wished we had one of them back in the day. The old pitch fork was our unloader 12' ×42' silo 🌽🌽🚜🚜👍
That video was awesome Ben 35 + years since I've been at a top of a silo keep up the good work Andy or whatever your name is
It's Andy
That was a great video! That’s some huge silo. 🙂👍
A friend had two 40 x 60's side by side that was pretty impressive. They took a Case 700 to throw the corn silage high enough to get it in the center of the silo the Ford 8000 couldn't get it to the center. The long stroke on a Case engine would get the job done. This is 1975 or so you had to use what you had to get the job done.
enjoyed the silo opening video . interesting on the way the power cord was run over the unloader.
Being from the uk we don’t use this type of thing these days Really interesting video and lots of insight. I do enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for making them
Thanks for the explanation on the unloader. Never see them in NZ .Cheers .
Jr likes the tractor work, Just like I did when I was his age.
In high school, I and buddies would go out at night and catch live pigeons in barns.. they would sit (roost) on the barn timbers and with a flashlight, would climb the timbers, catch them and throw them down to buds who would put them in a gunny sack. Sold them for a dime each to the dog trainers.
Once noticed a 90' silo that thought was filled, so I went up the outside and buddy went up the inside. Got to the top and there was one long 2x6 board across the top, with pigeons sitting on the tie bars. We both walked to the middle on the 2x6 and picked off several pigeons. Because the silo filler had been there two days before, figured the silo was full.
But never shined the light down to see that it was really empty. Found out the following day that the corn wasn't ready so they pulled the silo blower off to another farm.
Scared the hell out of us, thinking that it could have been a bad trip down to the bottom. Guess what you don't know is sometimes a good thing.
But thanks for the info on the silo unloader.
We always had our concrete silos for silage. One unloaded down the door like yours the other down the center. Used to store high moisture milo in our Harvestore. Since switched it over to a false airreation floor and auger for storing soybeans. Ours is a 31/89 the other four our 25/75 with one a 20/60 for dry grain. Hammer Down
Some of the best video content on TH-cam Andy thank you very much
You are welcome, share where you can
You have great videos me and my dad farm but no livestock like learning about it from your videos
Thanks
I grew up in Southeast Wisconsin surrounded by farms & silos. I had no idea what they were used for or how they worked. Thanks!
Great young man you've got their going to be a good farmer
Learning something new with every video. Thank you. 🙃🙃🙃
My how things have changed since I fed cows... 40 years ago your setup I think would have kept me running cows here on the farm
Thank you! I was curious as when I've seen those type of silos since I was a kid,for how they were emptied. Another of lifes' curiosities solved. And the end , almost thought you had a unique clod shredder!
Got a laugh out of yea, don't tell mom what we was doing! Lol! Man I've heard that line many of times! Lol!
nice video there was a dozen or more silo's in the county where I live all been torn down now & all the small dairy's long gone
Same thing here in Tennessee,most of the county's near me have been closed down. To many rules and regulations ! Seems one side of the government,hint blue side. Are making it to where only the large corporation's. have the funds to pay. Wonder how many in both sides of Government get kickbacks to let this happen ?.
We weren't lucky enough to have an unloader when i was growing up. Every morning at 4 AM i had to climb the silo and toss down the silage. I think starting at the age of 10. Did this until i graduated from high school. Then fed from 20 to 25 calves on the bottle. This was all before having breakfast and then going to school.
We got a orange Jamesway this one it’s new ours has some newer red parts. Good video.
We still have the old funnel chain distributor in our silo and a 2 man shovel unloader. No electric no belts no motor, it works good for our 30 head operation till it's in the 80s or 90s and you're 1 of the 2 running the shovels. We only do haylage in our silo and our corn in a bunk.
Nice job at explaining Andy!
That’s a cool unloader didn’t know jamesway made a unloader like that other than the big Jim that fills that way
They started making the ring drive at least 45-50 years ago.
Scot Coon I think he means he didn’t realize they made a side discharge self leveling model. The big Jim is center discharge I believe
I don't miss climbing silos in winter. Or summer.
Good thing about the old Jamesways was a pair of 9/16 and a pair of ¾ wrenches, and s screwdriver or two, and you could tear them completely apart.
The tripod lets go long before the cables will.
Dad always told us kids to stay out of the barn for a few days because of silo gas. A brown looking cloud of gas would hang around about 2 ft high off the barn floor and silo room. We had to open all the barn doors and let it air out.
Yes dangerous
Every time you show this unloader I get a little envious, ours get so rusty with the silage, the high moisture corn seems to be a lot easier on them. They are a great unloader though, center fill is the way to go.
Yes the haylage gets them pretty good
I remember doing that when we lived on the farm, corn silage though it was rough in the winter time it would freeze and the unloader wouldn't unload it had to dig it out but we tried to use a ground silo in the winter time,upright in the spring and summer.
Great video. I now what it’s like to be in a silo With Haylage and silage both were bad.
Great video Learnt a lot, very enjoyable
Hated climbing into the silos as a kid
Hey it’s the mower guru how’s it going
@@TheGrumpyFarmer Impolite to demonstrate your immaturity on another person's channel. And yet with that paltry and pathetic volume of subscribers you boast, it is only fitting you are out trolling.
You stand accused of blatant racism. Let's explore that fact for all to see.
I used to hear stories about high moisture silo corn fermenting & cattle getting drunk eating it (lol)
My buddys folks had a feedlot when we were growing up. I vividly remember the smell of the run off from the silage pile
Interesting ride along today Andy, corn removal from the silo. Looks like a Mike Rowe “Dirty Jobs”. Never a dull moment on the farm 👍
Wait till you see Andy after he moves doors as he empties the silo.and when they run the unloader back up to the top and reverse the process we just saw. LOL
That's what a nice silo unloader looks like. Some old ones are creepy as hell
I did the same thing coming down till I got older and smarter looking back like you said not the smartest decision I ever made. lol
I remember leveling out the top of the silo with pitchforks when I was about Junior's age...I got a little too close to the corn coming in and it hit me and dragged me under...luckily the owner was there and pulled me back to safety..dangerous job
Never get in while your blowing it in
When I was younger was in silo with dad chute plugged. Dad gave me a quarter if I would climb cable to slide down tripod to get out and unplug chute.
We used to have silos 1 for haylage and 1 for corn silage hated using them especially the haylage silo. Best day was when we took them down
They defiantly are a thing of the past
Nothing runs like a Deere, beautiful bark.
Best idea a deere engineer ever had was an expired patent.
I just plain hate silos! Great video
Great video!!!
Junior will be running the show in no time
Hopefully
Hauled shot crete to silos for years never really seen what was inside a silo. Those old concrete silos go up and down all the time. One of the last jobs I went to they put up two brand new silos I believe they were 45' around not sure how tall but it was a good sized farm. You have to do some stuff that's really pretty dangerous on a farm. Good luck be safe all.
Very interesting.
Up until I was in my early 30’s, I had a rope inside the goose neck opening. I would pull my self up the silo wall to avoid the dirty hay chute. (Walking the wall, hand over hand.) Did that for a few years, but you guessed it, the old rotten rope broke, best I could do is turn my body around in mid air and land on my chest on the Jamesway power ring. I knocked the wind out of me, seemed like forever. It was maybe 5 doors. I would be dead if it was 9-10 doors like yours. Like you, that was the last time !
Great story’s
This really good video bud like videos were see how farm works
You used to be able to tell who built a solo by looking at the colors of the top two rows of staves. Every builder had their own color pattern.
Does the unloader damage the corn any when it hits the impeller? With silage, it didn't matter,because you can't really hurt silage.
I don't remember who built our unloader, but I spent many hours making sure it ran properly, especially right after the silo was filled.
No it doesn't
Cool now I know how they work.
I remember doing that job that's one dirty job Andy
You should make a couple large wheeled dollies to move the auger sideways. Similar to what they use for cars in shops and museums.
I wish we had used those clean shoot things. Would have made haylage more bearable. Also would save the shoot. Those aluminum shoots wear out after years of being hit with feed. We ran Van dale unloaders. We had one Patz till the cable broke pulling it up. That was the end of the Patz.
You do not want them for haulage. They plug all the time
great video, aren't you afraid when you are on top of that corn you might have a cavity fall through and suffocate! How does that wet corn sit in there all winter and not spoil
Could you do a video about the different types of corn and siliage
Looks simpler than the blue tubes I’m used too
You mean poverty bins?
Scot Coon blue tombstone s ,cause all the farmers whom died trying to pay for them
We had to shovel rotten corn silage out of the old wooden silo, what a stinky mess that was! Felt sad tearing down the old wooden silos that had stood for so many years...
I think you need a few 20x90 harvestore's for that corn!!
Maybe a 25x90 would do you better!! Their a big hole to fill!!
Is the floor of the silo cement or dirt? How many inches do you feed out each day? Thank you for today's video. I always appreciate the time you take to film and explain what your doing and how things work.
Gravel floor feeding 6-7" a day
This was really cool compared to wheat harvesting etc
How many bushels does that silo hold roughly? That looks big. a lot of work! I can relate! Thanks for the vid
It holds 1,000 tons
Impressive machine.
Your son is a heck of a lot braver than me I'm 37 and I hate heights.