Thank you for the corn silage harvest start video , brings back memories... we have a few old black and white photos of dad chopping corn with a 1 row Gehl chopper , next , in the 1960's dad had a Gehl 2 row corn forage harvesters, by that time he was planting a 36 inch row spacing. recall early 1970's he bought a John adeere model 3800 2 row chopper , as well as a Richardton 12 foot long high dump wagon... a 3 man operation , dad chopping corn , older brother driving a 1960 International 3 ton model B170 dump truck to haul the corn silage , my job pushing up each load and packing... we stored on the flat ground , a back wall as well as side walls , round straw bales stacked 2 wide , 2 high , with a single layer of bales level#3 lined with plastic , tiered top with plastic , weighed down with some old car tires , harvested perhaps 80 acres each fall , lots of feed per acre.
I have never seen a chopper plug up like yours, but Aaron gave a good explanation for it. Go Aaron! You make a good team and I hope you can both work together for many years to come.
Man, I miss the smell of freshly chopped corn. That was one of my favorite growing up was filling silos. Dad’s 730 case comfort king diesel on the blower.
Plugging on occasion is just part of it. I like how you guys stayed calm and methodical to clear it out, I know of people back in the day that lost limbs from being in a hurry.
I just want to say Thank You for creating your channel and putting in all the hard work to make the content great to watch and interesting at the same time and educational also.
My uncle opened corn fields two ways, First he would plant the two outside rows as sweetcorn then when he started chopping he would just run them over seeing that the sweetcorn was done, second way he opened the field was by hand, he would hand chop around the sides that didn't have an open field next to them and hand chop the corners to make the turns, he would feed out what he hand chopped to the cows in pasture and give some to the pigs if he had any that year. Love the sound of the old Farmall Mta on the blower , my uncle did the same lol
we did that also, using hand sickles to take down the 2 outside rows, put the stalks in a pile every few feet, that got hand feed into the chopper, and cut "V" notches into the corners so the tractor could make the turns,
We did a few methods. Planted an outside round of oats to combine. Or used an M-C flail chopper to fill a feeder wagon directly. Or later years used a JD 3300 to take the outside rounds for high moisture grain.
Been there done that corn a little to wet plugs the blower and man does it plug it right packed tighter than heck! I can almost smell the corn silage watching the video what a awesome sweet smell never forget it!!!
Rule of thumb is 1HP per foot of silo. MTA can handle that tiny silo easily. We used to fill 40 footers with a super H. Had to feed it a bit slower with an old girl.
Glad you didn't edit out the plugging/unplugging. Solving problems is among the most interesting of your videos. Still wondering about the Oliver. See it now and then, but nothing about the water-in-oil issue you were diagnosing a while back. Please, we need an update.
For some reason, I can't recall you putting the corn silage into the silo, but it just must be that I'm getting old. Anyway, its always interesting and I learn each time I watch you. Thanks for the video and hopefully things go well after this.
At least it wasn't the blower pipe on the silo that plugged!!! All part of the farming experience. You had a good plan of attack for the first day...easing into things and testing the waters before going full bore.
I'm 67 now & I sure miss all of it !! 😪😥😐🙂😀🥰 I am a Hodgskins Lymphoma survivor & a 10 year Army disabled Combat Engineer Veteran , I would come home on leave & 1 of the 1st things I would do is go see my Aunt & Uncle then retired & talk about ol' times they're long gone now , along with all but 2 cousins who are now in their 70's .
It looks like the ole Super M is working pretty hard your feeding it pretty heavy but the ole girl gets the job done! I remember filling silo 60ft blue silo we had a 1000 rpm Badger blower and we had a 806 on the blower because it had 1000 rpm PTO Man that could blow corn silage as fast as the Badger Wagon could unload it I'm not kidding WOW it was fun even though it was work!!
Heh, haven't seen the little John Deere in the air cleaner for a while. I don't remember seeing you guys use your silo before. I was thinking you'd switched totally to piles. Glad to see it's still in use.
Hate to see breakdowns, but a clogged spout is just a hassle, nothing broken but maybe some bruised pride 😮 I ran NH pull types, and they had a slip clutch on the blower. After a clog or 5, they needed adjustment. Great video, corn almost to the cab top, and the big 7810 was using most of its horses. The MTA was really getting a workout with the Gehl blower!👍👍
My dad never silaged anything. Corn was kept in a crib and hay was baled. My uncle on the other hand, had a huge silo and would fill it with corn silage. One of my favourite things as a kid was visiting my uncles farm and going into the barn just to smell the corn silage. The added bonus was watching all the drunk birds who ate the fermented corn at the bottom of the silo.
I have never had that problem and I have been chopping corn silage 25 years and never had that problem loaded many tractor trailer loads for delivery and no problem
Tar spot. It's everywhere this year. You'll have to start putting a fungicide on. There are certain varieties and brands that are more resistant to it.
Headlands usually more weeds , generally foxtail . Chopping Corn Silage is the 3rd best thing about dairy farming ....new calves born second ...and getting to cash the milk check is the best thing ....granted if you're actually making any 💲 🐄🚜🧀🤔🤗😎
Been there done that lol...many times. I don't like seeing guys breakdown, I do like when you guys have issues that you just correct it and keep on rolling I don't think I've heard you or your father complain about anything ever in a video
So ein hochsilo ist eigentlich das beste. Man hat keinen müll wie bei ballen das futter ist am Hof. Nur hier in Deutschland wurden die meisten abgerissen wir hatten auch zwei aus Holz
Love your video---Why cant you take a dozer and push back about 10 feet of dirt so you can get your trailer unloaded at the silo with out jamming it in that small area. push back some of that hill.
Trailers haul skid loads and round bales. Semi’s haul trailers Only people from town would call a self unloading chopper box a trailer. Get your terminology correct! And who asked for your 2 cents anyway!!
@@gregfredrick283 Nobody asked you for your little boy answer . For your info- the definition of trailer is a van or wagon being pulled by a tractor or truck. Next time get your terminology correct !!! and yes spent many years on a farm !!
Hi...how do you store corn silage in vertical silo? And then how do you consume that? From top or from bottom. Can anybody please explain this? I have a space issue and I want to use vertical silo but I have no idea about it's working.
Depends on the silo. Harvestores feed from the bottom. Most concrete silos feed from the top. Need a silo unloader or fork it out. If you’ve never done this read up on silo gas. Very dangerous.
I don't like it when anyone breaks down. Or plugs up, I can remember getting our old MF 550 combine plugged front to back and let me tell you there was nothing fun about that. Myself I wasn't as nice as you guys were my dad and I would have been kicked off the You Tube for sure by the time we had it going
I don't like seeing anybody break down because I know what it's like but you just showing that you are real keep it up and stay safe
Thank you for the corn silage harvest start video , brings back memories... we have a few old black and white photos of dad chopping corn with a 1 row Gehl chopper , next , in the 1960's dad had a Gehl 2 row corn forage harvesters, by that time he was planting a 36 inch row spacing. recall early 1970's he bought a John adeere model 3800 2 row chopper , as well as a Richardton 12 foot long high dump wagon... a 3 man operation , dad chopping corn , older brother driving a 1960 International 3 ton model B170 dump truck to haul the corn silage , my job pushing up each load and packing... we stored on the flat ground , a back wall as well as side walls , round straw bales stacked 2 wide , 2 high , with a single layer of bales level#3 lined with plastic , tiered top with plastic , weighed down with some old car tires , harvested perhaps 80 acres each fall , lots of feed per acre.
covered top
I have never seen a chopper plug up like yours, but Aaron gave a good explanation for it. Go Aaron! You make a good team and I hope you can both work together for many years to come.
Your breakdown makes your farmer operation more real , and it’s most time something different on breakdown and repair.
Man, I miss the smell of freshly chopped corn. That was one of my favorite growing up was filling silos. Dad’s 730 case comfort king diesel on the blower.
Corn looks good, I’m surprised your yield is down . Nice seeing the M still making a contribution . Great video fellas , what a view
Plugging on occasion is just part of it. I like how you guys stayed calm and methodical to clear it out, I know of people back in the day that lost limbs from being in a hurry.
So relaxing watching you folks working the Family Farm love it!
I think my favorite part of this video is seeing the super M TA on the blower. 👍
I just want to say Thank You for creating your channel and putting in all the hard work to make the content great to watch and interesting at the same time and educational also.
My uncle opened corn fields two ways, First he would plant the two outside rows as sweetcorn then when he started chopping he would just run them over seeing that the sweetcorn was done, second way he opened the field was by hand, he would hand chop around the sides that didn't have an open field next to them and hand chop the corners to make the turns, he would feed out what he hand chopped to the cows in pasture and give some to the pigs if he had any that year. Love the sound of the old Farmall Mta on the blower , my uncle did the same lol
we did that also, using hand sickles to take down the 2 outside rows, put the stalks in a pile every few feet, that got hand feed into the chopper, and cut "V" notches into the corners so the tractor could make the turns,
We did a few methods. Planted an outside round of oats to combine. Or used an M-C flail chopper to fill a feeder wagon directly. Or later years used a JD 3300 to take the outside rounds for high moisture grain.
Been there done that corn a little to wet plugs the blower and man does it plug it right packed tighter than heck!
I can almost smell the corn silage watching the video what a awesome sweet smell never forget it!!!
I'm impressed the ole farmall MTA can throw that much wet silage and not get bogged down
Sounds like it makes her grunt a little.
Rule of thumb is 1HP per foot of silo. MTA can handle that tiny silo easily. We used to fill 40 footers with a super H. Had to feed it a bit slower with an old girl.
Glad you didn't edit out the plugging/unplugging. Solving problems is among the most interesting of your videos. Still wondering about the Oliver. See it now and then, but nothing about the water-in-oil issue you were diagnosing a while back.
Please, we need an update.
For some reason, I can't recall you putting the corn silage into the silo, but it just must be that I'm getting old. Anyway, its always interesting and I learn each time I watch you. Thanks for the video and hopefully things go well after this.
At least it wasn't the blower pipe on the silo that plugged!!! All part of the farming experience. You had a good plan of attack for the first day...easing into things and testing the waters before going full bore.
MOW * NOT now
I'm 67 now & I sure miss all of it !! 😪😥😐🙂😀🥰 I am a Hodgskins Lymphoma survivor & a 10 year Army disabled Combat Engineer Veteran , I would come home on leave & 1 of the 1st things I would do is go see my Aunt & Uncle then retired & talk about ol' times they're long gone now , along with all but 2 cousins who are now in their 70's .
WOW what a Beautiful Day for you Folks!
I love chopping silage and your videos are so great too watch and brings back lots of memories!
me too
It looks like the ole Super M is working pretty hard your feeding it pretty heavy but the ole girl gets the job done!
I remember filling silo 60ft blue silo we had a 1000 rpm Badger blower and we had a 806 on the blower because it had 1000 rpm PTO Man that could blow corn silage as fast as the Badger Wagon could unload it I'm not kidding WOW it was fun even though it was work!!
Great video Gierok Farms i enjoy all of your videos keep up the good work ya do in making all of your videos!!!
Like how you keep it REAL! Breaking down, getting stuck and all the other experiences of farming! That life!
I’m still waiting for the farm channel that doesn’t have trouble, even with brand new equipment
I have never smelled corn silage but I can imagine what it smells like. Good.
Heh, haven't seen the little John Deere in the air cleaner for a while. I don't remember seeing you guys use your silo before. I was thinking you'd switched totally to piles. Glad to see it's still in use.
Thanks for posting
Para nada de derrumbado, es el momento donde los duros salen a patear el terreno para seguir adelante!!! Felicidades!!!!!!!
That clogging can be maddening alright! I get the same with the brush chipper.
LoL that old M is getting a workout
Thanks for sharing another great video.
The hours ive spent unplugging the chopper 😂 At least you guys have a smaller one lol
Größer ist halt nicht immer besser 😅
Excellent Job!! I'm cheering for you!! (I don't like it when you're broke down or stuck lol)
Great video for sure loving it
You made Jackie do all the real work while John just drove around 🤣
Enjoy your videos great.job with the silage.
Cleaning the cobs out of the super M
Nice video Aaron
Beautiful farm
Good video, enjoyed watching it 👍. Regards from Down Under.
GOT SOME BEUTIFUL LAND
The drone shot at 10:10… didn’t realize the farm sat in such a bowl. I see why water runoff can be an issue now…
Hate to see breakdowns, but a clogged spout is just a hassle, nothing broken but maybe some bruised pride 😮 I ran NH pull types, and they had a slip clutch on the blower. After a clog or 5, they needed adjustment. Great video, corn almost to the cab top, and the big 7810 was using most of its horses. The MTA was really getting a workout with the Gehl blower!👍👍
Nice to plug on main road so all the neighbors see it then have to mention it when they see you rub it in a little 😊
Great awesome video
Wow in my opening it up I didn’t know I said what it will go to the last and found filling myself I can’t no
Thanks for sharing the video.
I have watched your videos since they came out. This is the first time I realized you used a silo.😮
I've never seen one of these clog. That sucker was jammed.
Another great video. I love to see the M working!
My dad never silaged anything. Corn was kept in a crib and hay was baled. My uncle on the other hand, had a huge silo and would fill it with corn silage. One of my favourite things as a kid was visiting my uncles farm and going into the barn just to smell the corn silage. The added bonus was watching all the drunk birds who ate the fermented corn at the bottom of the silo.
Super machine
I have never had that problem and I have been chopping corn silage 25 years and never had that problem loaded many tractor trailer loads for delivery and no problem
we love seeing how you handle the unexpected. ps. what happened to the corn picker?
Nice job guys..have you ever considered going to a deere chopper? We went from GEHL to 3950 deere and would never want to go back..good luck..
Tar spot. It's everywhere this year. You'll have to start putting a fungicide on. There are certain varieties and brands that are more resistant to it.
Headlands usually more weeds , generally foxtail . Chopping Corn Silage is the 3rd best thing about dairy farming ....new calves born second ...and getting to cash the milk check is the best thing ....granted if you're actually making any 💲 🐄🚜🧀🤔🤗😎
Been there done that lol...many times. I don't like seeing guys breakdown, I do like when you guys have issues that you just correct it and keep on rolling I don't think I've heard you or your father complain about anything ever in a video
I hate to see you guys break down and have to deal with that, BUT, it's usually really educational listening to your dad and how he fixes it.
How long do you need to keep the silage pile covered before you can open it up? I know there is some sort of pickling process?
We have a pumpkin cannon and ours is air powered we are i southern Ohio
At least it wasn’t plugged with wet haylage that’s a lot harder to unplug
Does that silo start out in the ground?
How does the cows like chewing on crushed corn ,,,Darrell
So ein hochsilo ist eigentlich das beste. Man hat keinen müll wie bei ballen das futter ist am Hof. Nur hier in Deutschland wurden die meisten abgerissen wir hatten auch zwei aus Holz
Where in Deutschland are you from?
How many loads to fill your silo?
Love your video---Why cant you take a dozer and push back about 10 feet of dirt so you can get your trailer unloaded at the silo with out jamming it in that small area. push back some of that hill.
Wagon!
@@gregfredrick283 Nobody asked you
Trailers haul skid loads and round bales. Semi’s haul trailers Only people from town would call a self unloading chopper box a trailer. Get your terminology correct! And who asked for your 2 cents anyway!!
@@gregfredrick283 Nobody asked you for your little boy answer . For your info- the definition of trailer is a van or wagon being pulled by a tractor or truck. Next time get your terminology correct !!! and yes spent many years on a farm !!
Well I live on one so get bent!!
I Always seem to break down or plug something where the neighbors can see me
We leave the two outside rows and two rows up the middle unplanted
Hi...how do you store corn silage in vertical silo? And then how do you consume that? From top or from bottom. Can anybody please explain this? I have a space issue and I want to use vertical silo but I have no idea about it's working.
Depends on the silo. Harvestores feed from the bottom. Most concrete silos feed from the top. Need a silo unloader or fork it out. If you’ve never done this read up on silo gas. Very dangerous.
Whenever something goes wrong or breaks, it has to be by the road.
Always plugs when you are along the road doesn't it!
You really shouldn't cut corn silage until the black layer appears at that time the plant will be at the right moisture
👍🏻🆙❣️🫡
the plant ran out of Nitrogen
I hate to see anyone broke down. Seems like we are broke down more than we are running Gets aggravating sometimes
Oops.... Plugging the chopper happens sometimes.
I don't like it when anyone breaks down. Or plugs up, I can remember getting our old MF 550 combine plugged front to back and let me tell you there was nothing fun about that. Myself I wasn't as nice as you guys were my dad and I would have been kicked off the You Tube for sure by the time we had it going
corn silage is expensive feed
That's looks like a piece of shit
Immaculate 7810 john deere
It's a pretty sweet tractor!