Snowy First Silage Forking 2022
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Silage chopping wasn't early this year at all, and winter started early with some snow in November. So far, I am tickled to death with the silage and the neighbor's chopping job. Forking silage is a good winter workout to keep me in shape for summer hay baling. The only nuisance to all the hand work is that it's hard for dad to feed alone when I want a vacation.
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Jacob my friend, I hate to be a safety Sally. But if that stuff has mold on it. You might want to wear a respirator. I sold some hay to a guy one time. Had all kinds of health problems. That stemmed from a episode he had shoveling molded gain as a teenager. In a gain bin. His buddy that was helping him actually died!
Loved the intro music. I’ve farmed for years, but I know absolutely nothing about loading/unloading a silo. Keep the content coming.😀😀😀
We had a couple ribstone silos brother still has one of them. I remember climbing up to fork silage the steps would be wet when the wind was blowing had silage coming back uo the chute. Always happy when we put the unloadsd down. Got up change doors. There was a time when we just forked the entire silo empty. Happy when we got unloaders. Until a raccoon got wrapped up in them. Met them a few times going down as I was going up. Glad those days are behind me.
Hello there Mr. Boehm❄☔. This keeps you in good spirits
and lets you stay warm in the cold snowy landscape.
I am a Boehm Farm fan so keep it coming. We had a 55-foot silo that I never had to climb thankfully.
We have an 80 ft silo😊
Almost all the upright silos around me are empty. Extremely few small herds left, the big guys use bunks. Any small guys left are too old to climb a silo.
With that intro music I was getting ready for a parade or a war.
Dad had two 12 X 40 silos unloaded by hand.They had no roof so we didn't have to run the blower for ventilation . In winter the top 4 inches
of sileage would be frozen daily but un frozen under that. Then around 1970 he bought a Harvestore and a second one ten years later.
I always hated going into the silo. In fact, i was thankful when hurricane Carol wrecked it in 1953 and my Dad never rebuilt it.
Yep to heck with that... bunker silage is the way to go... 3 concrete walls and pack it in with a tractor...
You should just keep a nylon rope hung from top to bottom in the chute to use to pull forks up and lower doors down. So much easier (and safer) than tying them to yourself and then trying to get up and down the chute while carrying their weight.
Be glad you don't have the extra insulation... it comes with age pretty much on its own. When you get old and fat like me, you'll be done with stuff like that silo, and be ready to go to a bunker silo system where you can just scoop it out with the tractor fork bucket and then feed... no more climbing and shinnying through tiny doors sixty feet up...
Later! OL J R :)
Great video Jacob 👍👍
Ah I see how it works. Cut off your air supply so you'll stop pitching silage lol.
Good stuff
Good video.
Huh, November 12th? I guess thats when diesel got real stupid. My family in California are paying over 6 bucks a gallon for diesel. Friken politicians.
December 7th where I live. Thanks for the fun videos. You're a crack up to watch and listen to.
There is a patz dealer in Green Bay Wisconsin that might have the part you need.
1-11-23 Diesel $5.32 in Western NY still high as ever.. no end in sight.. still hurting us
I remember that job when I was younger working on my neighbors dairy farm. Don't think there are too many guys left that have silos in use able condition around here...
We built this one fifteen years ago.
Boehm farm fan. I like all the videos, you tell a good story with each one. I was wondering how your dad is? And could you give a current inventory of machines? What ever happened to the chopper that took on metal? I think it was a unisystem? You give the date could you also give the year in your videos. Good job, Skip, Western PA
I haven't done anything to the new Holland 1890 since it ate metal again this year. Dad's still going. He'll never quit.
Why don't you use a silo unloader wouldn't that be easier
Still have to climb up there to level it. And an unloader would be nice.
Should keep that tractor at high rpm when up in the silo
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Never seen an operation like that, thought you will use from the bottom silage first
Not a Harvestore
That's a Harvestore that unloads from the bottom... they have a chain unloader thing in the bottom to unload. They also have a "gas bag" at the top to seal the silo off from the atmosphere to act as a bladder to let air in and out as the silage settles and produces gas, so it's an impermeable separation from the outside air (oxygen) and the silo and silo gas itself-- less molding, crusting, and waste. Course that requires a bottom unload system to work.
These are the old stave type silos... no separation from the outside air, but silage gas is heavier than air and can still accumulate on top of the silage, so you have to be careful not to get gassed entering them. If they have an unloader, it's winched up to the top and hangs under the roof til ready to unload, then lowered down onto the silage surface once it's leveled out, set up, and turned on. It will then blow silage out the doors which then falls down the chute, same way he was pitching it out the door and down the chute. Still have to go remove doors one by one as it works its way down, though. When the silo is finally emptied out, the unloader has to be winched back up to the top before its refilled... heard of dummies forgetting to winch it back up and then loading the silo with new silage on top of the unloader... then they get to pitch it out by hand the old fashioned way when it's time to feed. Kinda hard on your unloader as well being buried at the bottom of all that wet silage.
Really this is "old technology" from the first half of the last century and earlier... although they only put this silo up a number of years ago. Most guys now use bunker silos-- basically 3 concrete walls on a concrete pad; you drive in and dump the wagons and then push the silage in with a big blade and drive on it to pack it down as much as possible. When it's full you drag plastic sheeting over it to seal out the air as much as possible and then weight it down with old tires to keep the plastic down tight on the surface and prevent it blowing away. Then just let it ferment and do its thing. When it's time to feed, a tractor bucket with a silage fork on a front end loader is all you need to scoop it out, though bigshots sometimes have a "silage facer" that is basically a rotating thing with teeth that they raise and lower on the front end loader while it chews away at the face of the silage pile and breaks it loose, then they scoop it up with a regular bucket on the front end loader (or maybe with a silage fork, depends on their preferred setup...) These old silos work, but they're a lot of work and easy to get injured, and if you do, you're kinda screwed... course in the old days there were plenty of kids to send up there to do it or hired men around usually... Now not so much...
Hey, November 12 was my birthday....
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The weather is so messed up
You should like the processed silage. Less kernels going through the cows.
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I'd be a little cautious of the gases emitted from the silage. Have a great day.
Why they turn on the blower fan to blow some fresh air up in there... not a stellar job considering how much mold/steam was blowing around in the air up there, but better than nothing I suppose. Silage gas is heavier than air, so once the door is off is SHOULD kinda work its way over to the door and down the chute on its own and not so prone to build up. Definitely don't want do climb down into a silo that the doors are still on, because it can be full of gas because it's trapped by the doors and "filled up like water". Same thing they taught us in mechanic's school-- had more than one mechanic get gassed or even die from guys in the old days working on A/C systems in one bay and venting the stuff (prior to the 90's when they mandated refrigerant recycling machines) and its heavier than air, and it could spill across the floor like water and collect down in grease pits where another mechanic could be working-- fill it up with freon gas and displace all the oxygen and gas them... they collapse in there unnoticed and die of asphyxiation from lack of oxygen... Same thing happened to some guys working on the Space Shuttle back in the early days-- aft end of the shuttle (engine compartment) was flooded with pure nitrogen gas on the pad to displace oxygen out of the compartment in case of any hydrogen or oxygen leaks, to prevent explosions or fire... After a test on the pad or scrubbed launch, some guys entered the rear compartment to work on the systems in there, went in and no oxygen only nitrogen, they passed out and one died and the other was brain damaged after they pulled him out... air is 78% nitrogen but we gotta have that 21% oxygen to live...
How many days after opening up the silo do you run the blower?
About three weeks. That's typical fermentation period and the steam stops.
Can we see some corn picking
Hold your horses.
What’s wrong with the unloader?
Needs the drag chain.
Never enough money to spend on safety my neighborhood died forking out a silo
Have you thought about an air supply for yourself when you are in the dust of the silos? Sure would not be fun to lose a good TH-cam host, such as yourself, due to asphyxiation or acute lung damage from the airborne molds. Interesting but scary video today, take it safe and easy!
Not a bad idea... We had an elderly preacher at a church I used to go to, he dragged his oxygen tank around all the time and sat on a stool beside it to preach... He had an aviary and raised game birds like pheasants and a bunch of others for market when he was younger, and all the airborne dust and mold and stuff from the bird crap ended up ruining his lungs which is why he was on oxygen... no bueno...
You can do "anything" when you're young, but when you get older all that crap catches up to you and THEN you pay the price, if you live that long...