Running Over Our Crop! l First Day of Chopping Corn Silage on a Small Farm l Harvest 2022

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  • Today we open up the corn fields and finish off our smaller silage pile! Watch the mighty 7810 and the 1085 Gehl Chopper eat some corn. We show you our process when it comes to corn silage along with how we prepare the chopper the day of. Thank you for watching. We hope you enjoy the video!
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  • @stanhensley3082
    @stanhensley3082 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I always hated running down two rows of corn to open up a field. Seems like something would aways break on the chopper head trying to pick up the down corn.Happy corn 🌽 filling. Thanks 😊.

  • @br927
    @br927 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    had a sheer bar slide back on a 717 NH! bought it used, you can imagine the damage it did! Hey Son, you're supposed to get a corn sickle and cut a hole!!😂 I loved that job! I got pretty fast at it!

  • @champagnesimulation9407
    @champagnesimulation9407 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    hello from france, good video

  • @heatherkohlwey8379
    @heatherkohlwey8379 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Simple machines can make things so much easier. And those were made in the USA! It can take longer, but you're not always broken down with computer problems. I can smell that sweet corn smell now. The TP trees are in full bloom here. May God grant you a safe and bountiful harvest. Stay safe and God bless.

  • @fullers1966
    @fullers1966 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Kind of nice you said the date that the end a lot of times you wonder when people are doing their projects on TH-cam and never throw a date on it it's nice to know that

  • @8tomtoms8
    @8tomtoms8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Got to be super careful on that silage pile. I'm sure the duels help a lot. Loved the knife sharpening and set up explanation!!

  • @bhain40
    @bhain40 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    One of the things I miss most about milking is chopping corn. I always enjoyed that. Unloaded easy, wouldn't plug up, easy and quick (as compared to cutting, raking, chopping). I just needed better wagons. Thanks for the video. Stay safe!

  • @tomhill4765
    @tomhill4765 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Back in the 50's we hired a guy to chop our corn to fill our silo in late August just prior to Labor day because we did not own a chopper. My job was to open the up field, so about the middle of August I would drive our 49 Studebaker pick-up to the cornfield, and back down the 2 rows Dad selected. Using a very sharp corn knife of about 2 1/2 foor long, I would cut the stalks of corn and throw them into the back of the truck bed till it was filled. I then drove back to the barn yard, unloaded the corn stalks after our evening milking for the cows to eat. I did this on a daily basis until the field was open. I must have been abouf 10 or 11 at the time. That is how I learned to drive a 5 speed stick shift on the floor pick-up.

  • @mikeandcolleenk9831
    @mikeandcolleenk9831 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Very nice feed keep the girls happy lol. Homecoming is a challenging time for the kids that havent been doing good. Hope they have fun though.

  • @jonhusby7573
    @jonhusby7573 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My grand parents lived in a small town in south Dakota. back in the 1960s. Back then I was in grade school but the high school kids on occasion tip over out houses that ppl had in there a back yards. They really didn't use them but still had them from back in the day .

    • @trig5454
      @trig5454 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I heard a story about a fellow who got tired of having his outhouse tipped over every Halloween, so one year he moved it back a few feet and left the open (full) pit just in front of it. According to the story it there were a couple of 'casualties' in the dark, and he had fewer problems after that year.

  • @dalebraun5497
    @dalebraun5497 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When the daughters were in school, we woke up to TP'd trees EVERY year....LOL. Nice job on the silage.

  • @unklegus4834
    @unklegus4834 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Toilet 🚽 Paper and old toilets on the yards works down here in Fort Atkinson as well. We lost the HC Game in a slug fest 42-41.

  • @alanjantzi4102
    @alanjantzi4102 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Have you considered ag bags? We milked 50 cows till our kids were all left the farm. I bagged hay corn silage and high moisture corn really kept nice feed for a small herd. I do miss chopping corn one of my favorite jobs.

  • @r.scotthill3082
    @r.scotthill3082 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Looks just like home. Two tractors in tandem pulling the wagon through the bunk to unload.

  • @ArmpitStudios
    @ArmpitStudios ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for showing the knife sharpening. I had no idea.
    Yep, TPing is also popular where I grew up, southeast Iowa. Various teachers’ houses and most of the street leading up to the high school were liberally covered. We had a teacher next door and across the street, so our property always got a bit of collateral damage.

  • @dennisdole1764
    @dennisdole1764 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Your grass silage looked great. Placing that corn on top will make it even better. Your cows will be happy with your efforts. 😂.

  • @lenkasten
    @lenkasten ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As a fellow Wisconsinite, its great to see Meyer and Gehl on your equipment

  • @philrogers8160
    @philrogers8160 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We didn't have a silo so we only grew about 12 acres of corn for green feed. We tried growing corn for picking, but we had wet falls so we only filled our crib once in all the years.

  • @johnhenderson299
    @johnhenderson299 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video

  • @teenagefarmer
    @teenagefarmer ปีที่แล้ว +6

    looks like the first day went good. I am looking forward to seeing the rest of your guys harvest videos. keep up the good work.

  • @MBAZIIRALENON
    @MBAZIIRALENON 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the video

  • @glenmomrik727
    @glenmomrik727 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the duals for packing slid off a pile years ago without them very scary lucky I didn't roll over another great video

  • @doncc6080
    @doncc6080 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Yeah that looks kind of dangerous.
    Love the self sharpening chopper, really cool man!!!!

  • @jamesbreault5762
    @jamesbreault5762 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Looks really great 👍👍👍👍👍

  • @taylorkueppers8595
    @taylorkueppers8595 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    great job thanks

  • @wayner806
    @wayner806 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    OSHA has entered the chat! I grew up on a farm in the 70-80s and we did a lot of no-no but I had to laugh at some of your ‘violations’.

  • @herbhouston5378
    @herbhouston5378 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember those days.

  • @cliffblackburn8102
    @cliffblackburn8102 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome video 💯💚🌱 you guys rock 💯😎

  • @farmshoffman8475
    @farmshoffman8475 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great awesome video

  • @matthewdavis4081
    @matthewdavis4081 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Looks to me that the corn silage is well under way and the crop looks amazing and the chopper is well setup making some outstanding feed

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      @nathancarlson6005 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586
    @leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am from a small town that also had some good years and some bad years with homecoming games, but the TPing was definitely going strong in the '60s. In fact it was done several other times of the year as well. Kind of pretty, but a mess when it rained.
    You guys freak me out with your silage pile work. I don't even like looking down a stairwell. Great video though. Hope your team won.

  • @jonbruce536
    @jonbruce536 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful farm and a well managed operation. I wish there were many more small farms like this.

  • @jamesmorrison1884
    @jamesmorrison1884 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hello that's a bit of a pain driving up the pile to unload. I've never put in a pile allways blown into a silo. Have a great day.

  • @bkoutdoors6517
    @bkoutdoors6517 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sweet video! We are just about finished with corn silage this year!

  • @dennishayes65
    @dennishayes65 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Our trees & front yard got toilet papered the night after the girls basketball team won the Minnesota state girls basketball tournament. Our youngest daughter was a starting guard on the team. We found out that the assistant basketball coaches did the deed. We slept right through it. Our dog must have too.

  • @ghorner11
    @ghorner11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When we did corn we stopped back-cutting the first 2 rows as they always broke the gathering belts on the chopper head. We started either leaving it or getting our neighour with his old self-propelled Uni chopper to take the first 3 rows with our wagons. Saved the breakdowns of having to change belts.

    • @Florida239
      @Florida239 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just don’t plant leave yourself enough room greed is a sin 👍🇺🇸

  • @Ticky66MN
    @Ticky66MN ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Our neighborhood has been covered in to with homecoming this week here. We also buy from Lindstrom.

  • @tonybunch543
    @tonybunch543 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👌

  • @jeffhuntley2921
    @jeffhuntley2921 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Please make a blade sharpening video for silage chopper. The equipment is interesting

  • @louGriggs1944
    @louGriggs1944 ปีที่แล้ว

    You have such a great farm there. I really enjoy your channel.

  • @angelawegner4790
    @angelawegner4790 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    same here in berlin,wi

  • @hankelrod7315
    @hankelrod7315 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Every time I watch one of your videos you are hanging on to the sides of hills farming or hanging on to the sides of silage piles. You guys like things exciting…. Years ago Dad was helping neighbor pack silage pile with ih 1026. While on top, the side of pile beneath him blew out & tractor slid sideways & nearly rolled over. Fine chopped silage doesn’t interlock & crumbles east, please be careful.

  • @timgeissler6045
    @timgeissler6045 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We are on our way corn is a little on the dry side but so far 16 loads corn is short in the first field I think I am going an hour away and getting a rental chopper with a processer but not sure yet

  • @wolfriverratt1302
    @wolfriverratt1302 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    New London WI. Clean the store out of tp. that week lol. Kinda rough go at it when there was a shortage of it😬

  • @charlieboy9297
    @charlieboy9297 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi nice video

  • @joelzeigler1519
    @joelzeigler1519 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Homecoming week the senior girls TP the senior boys that play football

  • @hanksfarmvideos
    @hanksfarmvideos ปีที่แล้ว

    Used to chop a lot of corn with that same model chopper

  • @Blackwellll3066
    @Blackwellll3066 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cool video of yall chopping corn....wonder what ya thoughts of small self propelled choppers like JD 5820 vs pull type chopper

  • @jimball816
    @jimball816 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    do you have any problems getting gehl ag parts for your chopper ? do you use a distributor or dealer or salvage yards ? thanks

  • @jacobmueller9227
    @jacobmueller9227 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My house got TPd my senior year. I'm surprised anyone cared to drive all the way out there, even tho I was on the football team. Oh, and supposedly a kid got fastened to the goalpost with saran wrap one year, that's the wildest thing I remember.

  • @glenngordon9733
    @glenngordon9733 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lord, I thought the sparks were corn kernels...

  • @greggseidl3490
    @greggseidl3490 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love seeing that. Thats the way we did it 30 years ago. Now it is just not cost effective to do it that way. Too much fuel and too much time. They would be better served to milk extra cows and selll their equipment and have a big cropper come and do it or share with neighbor farmers. I give them credit though; they are making it work. Guys please please fix that exposed PTO shaft.

  • @williammatzek4660
    @williammatzek4660 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    On an other channel I made comment on what I thought a self propelled chopper without the head cost. I got told to add $300000.

  • @rebelgaming7718
    @rebelgaming7718 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You guys run a nice operation how much silage do you guys put up a year between corn and alfalfa?

  • @brandonhoad9033
    @brandonhoad9033 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've started not planting 2 rows that would be run over. Don't have good luck going back around, get maybe 1/2. Saves seed and fertilizer

  • @Andaman1979999
    @Andaman1979999 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Any thoughts on pouring a bunk for just corn silage?

  • @bobrat
    @bobrat ปีที่แล้ว

    Now a days it's TP and Chalk drawings on sidewalks.
    Bay View Milwaukee

  • @tomcarlisle2459
    @tomcarlisle2459 ปีที่แล้ว

    I always leave the two outside row boxes on the corn planter empty when I plant then when I chop it in the fall I do not run over those two rows.

  • @mitchz.6234
    @mitchz.6234 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Do you Guys leave up any corn for the deer/ wildlife?? Weather was looking really good and dry for corn choppin' ....Nice job.

  • @Navet63
    @Navet63 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for correcting your English from, "Are to Our".

  • @dairy-farmer616
    @dairy-farmer616 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey very nice Channel. Have you Swiss roots? Greetings from Switzerland.

  • @repairmanjoe8081
    @repairmanjoe8081 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Stone sharpener is almost like our New Holland 892, but it looks like a better Stone holding assembly 😀. There are 12 knives on the New Holland, and over the years they have been replaced a few times. Also double edged. Rocks, center punches, and even a hammer that a loser purposely threw into a row tends to wipe them 😳 out. Replacement stones seem 🤔 to be made out of sandstone from cheap ass New Holland! your videos. We farm in Oneida, just outside Green Bay. 😊

  • @terrykoch1250
    @terrykoch1250 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    T P on the trees

  • @mikeapenhorst7706
    @mikeapenhorst7706 ปีที่แล้ว

    How does it work to put third crop haylege on the bottom then corn silage on top

  • @markenge9348
    @markenge9348 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Back in my hometown of Sauk-Prairie we had a tradition of having a homecoming parade in which the local beauties led by the homecoming king and queen rode through town in the back of new convertibles furnished by a local car dealership. Each high school class decorated a hay wagon for a float with some appropriate rallying theme in support of the home football team and there was an award for best float as determined by the parade judges. Tom Davidson and I were lowly scorned and ridiculed freshman back in 1966 but Tom's dad let our freshman class decorate and store our freshman float in a warehouse of his lumber and hardware business before the big parade. The night before the parade a group of upper classmen, some that were members of the 69ers drinking and hellraising club, broke into the warehouse and destroyed our float. Before leaving one of the individuals whose first name I can't remember but whose last name was Wiley left an enormous brown stinking calling card on the football helmet that was the central decorative feature of the float. He later bragged about it, although back in 1966 most of us thought it was too disgusting to talk about. Today in Seattle where my brother now lives, it's no big deal, happens all the time. The city makes little accommodation for such behavior but mostly it's just "watch your step."

  • @jamesmckay9966
    @jamesmckay9966 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is the corn variety different for silage and ear corn.

  • @deanbinek4893
    @deanbinek4893 ปีที่แล้ว

    you should get the guards back on that pto shaft It Killed my cousin 45 years ago

  • @duaneschmitz2674
    @duaneschmitz2674 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Who are they playing again for homecoming game ??

  • @andrewbrown8704
    @andrewbrown8704 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Did you get another tractor or do you unhook from the chopper?

  • @markpigman209
    @markpigman209 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How did you make a pile in old days before you had fancy John deers

  • @chefbobbysponge3833
    @chefbobbysponge3833 ปีที่แล้ว

    Save that paper for next covid 😂

  • @novaka240
    @novaka240 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Are you guys running 30” rows?

  • @maxinerose6664
    @maxinerose6664 ปีที่แล้ว

    My dad used too pay my brother and I to cut the rows rather than run them over. He then let them dry and we sold them in bundles at the end of the driveway to city folks

  • @59panelvan
    @59panelvan ปีที่แล้ว

    I've reached out to "Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin" for one of those "I Support Wisconsin Dairy Farmers" shirts. Is that where you got yours?

  • @michaelmartin5851
    @michaelmartin5851 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How come you dont push with the bucket

  • @PhoenixtheII
    @PhoenixtheII ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Did you say something? There's a tractor and chopper running

  • @peterrosson.5385
    @peterrosson.5385 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My god watching your dad pulling them knifes round with bear hands make me cringe thing there go the fingers on new sharpened knifes 🇬🇧🤣

  • @aceplaysgamesnetwork9566
    @aceplaysgamesnetwork9566 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is so much easier in farming simulator.

  • @Xabor07
    @Xabor07 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Was zum Henker machen die dort? Für so einen schmalen Silohaufen diese Spezial Siloanhänger? Sieht so aus als wenn die ihren Mais gewöhnlich in Hochsilos einlagern!

  • @verl20
    @verl20 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why not just bag it?

  • @kevinwittstruck8764
    @kevinwittstruck8764 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Soap windows big time

  • @richardcleasby105
    @richardcleasby105 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gets very hairy on the sides

  • @josephscottlandis7084
    @josephscottlandis7084 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why don't you just make AG bags

  • @WYOMINGBEN
    @WYOMINGBEN ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good vids, "our" not "are".

  • @randymanabat4472
    @randymanabat4472 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good day sir,,,,I am from Philippines i really love this job but in my age too much hard for me to hire...can you do something sir to get me and to apart of that job...thank you and keep in safe always...god bless

  • @cousinfester4621
    @cousinfester4621 ปีที่แล้ว

    We stole all your outhouses for Homecoming a good 50 years ago.

  • @federicogalbusera3197
    @federicogalbusera3197 ปีที่แล้ว

    Trovo il vostro "modus operandi" a dir poco anacronistico.

  • @davidpidgeon7320
    @davidpidgeon7320 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You would be better off to use a Ag-Bag. You will have to much waste with this way!!!!

  • @jessieblanton8871
    @jessieblanton8871 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You need another cutter then you would not run over your corn

  • @jeffreyhall5679
    @jeffreyhall5679 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Any reason you don't pack your piles in the other direction it would be much safer .

  • @jeffhuntley2921
    @jeffhuntley2921 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please make a blade sharpening video for silage chopper. The equipment is interesting