I give your son a lot of credit for doing a "man's job" running the stalk chopper. He has a much better set-up than I had on dad's farm. I graduated H S in 1963, and we had a Farmall M and a WD-45 Allis for tractors. I pulled a Case 2-row chopper with the M and it made it talk going up a hill in 3rd gear. I felt lucky to be surrounded by a Heat Houser that threw enough heat back to the seat. I learned a lot about farming from dad and think about him often. The experience was wonderful!
Thanks Mike, and thanks for sharing. My son is my shadow, and he’s been running tractors and equipment for years. The farm is a great place to grow up, and an even better place to raise my kids.
After the war they had hand corn picking contests. Horse drawn wagon with high side boards man walked along side picking corn throwing it against the board into the wagon. Uncle a WWII vet made it sound like gunshot never missed a beat
Good to see someone cribbing like we do! Didn’t know anyone else still did that. We fill the silage bunker with 35-40 zacres or so then crib the remaining 75-90 acres.
You need to collect the stalks and ferment them properly into fertilizers. If you leave them in the field, you're give off too much to the air. It's not neccessary.
A corn picker is much cheaper than a combine. Plus we don’t have the cost of drying the corn that we would if we combined it. We pick it around 23% moisture and it air dries in the cribs. When we grind it and mix it with soymeal for grain, the cob adds some fiber which helps buffer the rumens.
I have in the past and it worked good, but it’s tricky because our weather is usually cold and snow or mud when we are picking corn. The year I did this video was a 1 in 10 year exception where we had beautiful dry weather. I usually chop some old hay for bedding. We always have extra hay.
We try to shoot for 23% or less. It depends on the forecast for the days after we crib it. If it will be breezy and dry, we can get away with 25% without it molding. If it’s going to be damp and cool, then we make sure it’s 23% or less.
The big ones are 16’ in diameter and a little over 20’ tall. The small one in the middle is 14’ diameter and about 17’ tall. They hold around 1600 bushels in the big ones and 1200 bushels in the small one.
I give your son a lot of credit for doing a "man's job" running the stalk chopper. He has a much better set-up than I had on dad's farm. I graduated H S in 1963, and we had a Farmall M and a WD-45 Allis for tractors. I pulled a Case 2-row chopper with the M and it made it talk going up a hill in 3rd gear. I felt lucky to be surrounded by a Heat Houser that threw enough heat back to the seat. I learned a lot about farming from dad and think about him often. The experience was wonderful!
Thanks Mike, and thanks for sharing. My son is my shadow, and he’s been running tractors and equipment for years. The farm is a great place to grow up, and an even better place to raise my kids.
This has always been the case.
The children learn early to later take over the farm.
This is what has kept agriculture going for many centuries.
Parker was doing a great job shredding stalks! Perfect job to turn them loose on and let them learn about operating. Great video!!
Thank you!
That young man brings back memories for many of us that were young farm kids both boys and girls helping out
Great video. Awesome to see your son able to run the shredder.
Never to early to build confidence and a sense of worth in the kids.
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Nice to see other folks still picking corn. Love it.
I thank you sir.
This was informative about
how a corn picker works.
This is worth a subscription.
Isn’t that how we all started? Big enough to reach the pedals; big enough to do the job.
Excellent to see young people working. So many life lessons on a farm.
After the war they had hand corn picking contests. Horse drawn wagon with high side boards man walked along side picking corn throwing it against the board into the wagon. Uncle a WWII vet made it sound like gunshot never missed a beat
Good to see someone cribbing like we do! Didn’t know anyone else still did that. We fill the silage bunker with 35-40 zacres or so then crib the remaining 75-90 acres.
Awesome video, makes me miss putting up ear corn. Except shoveling it out of the cribs lol. 👍👍
It’s great when it slides out of the cribs, but it’s definitely a lot of work once you have to start shoveling it 🤣
Great video. Thanks.
3 generations right there awesome feeling
With such a large diameter, will the corn inside become moldy? Is there anything to put inside to ventilate?
wow that is amazing thanks for sharing the video
We followed the picker around with burlap sacks picking up missed ears.good times.
I've been there done that a nice easy job!!! My grandad always said grinding the whole ear contains more protein than just grinding the kernels alone.
Plus if one grinds whole ears of corn the cattle do really good without any hay. They get all the roughfage needed from the cob and husks....
How many acres does it take to fill one of the cribs?
Після подрібнення стебла, згорніть його і зберіть прес-підбирачем, для годівлі худоби, худоба дуже гарно його поїдає.
That young kid chopping stalks will find out how fast a day goes by if he is missing school. When in school, seems like a day lasted a week.
Amen!!!!
We round bale our stalks and use it for heifcer and dry cow bedding
I see your hat says Athens. Hello from Dushore. Just stumbled onto your video.
Thanks. Small world!
Very interesting! Loved the video!
Nice video 📷
Great video I think you need a bigger tractor on the elevator lol
Lol! Thanks!
Great video!
How many loads of corn does it take to fill a crib?
Great video THANKS ✌️
Class! Combines'ar! THE! BEST!
Great job!!!!
You need to collect the stalks and ferment them properly into fertilizers. If you leave them in the field, you're give off too much to the air. It's not neccessary.
I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO SELL IT ...
THX FOR THE VIDEO.
MIAMI FL.
At what percentage of moisture is the corn at,,,I was just a kid back in the early 60s when dad switch to shelling it out in the field
23% or less is what we shoot for to start cribbing it.
Это очень круто. Как вы кукурузу далее используете?
D'ya try discing the stalks, does that work? Best wishes from Germany!
We have disced the stalks in the past. The stalk chopper does a much better job of cutting them up.
Good going young feller
USA ?
Good job bro 💪👍 watching from Nagaland
Bravo ,!
How do you protect corn from rats?
We have lots of cats. We do get some rats in the cribs occasionally, but nothing too serious.
Do you use any of the stalks for bedding?
I have in the past, but usually I just use old dry hay.
I don't understand why you pick the ears instead of just combining them in one step? Please explain.
A corn picker is much cheaper than a combine. Plus we don’t have the cost of drying the corn that we would if we combined it. We pick it around 23% moisture and it air dries in the cribs. When we grind it and mix it with soymeal for grain, the cob adds some fiber which helps buffer the rumens.
@@bradleydairyfarm7985 Thanks! 👍
How you fight with mouses?
I'm sure you have your reasons but why not dale up the husks for bedding?
I have in the past and it worked good, but it’s tricky because our weather is usually cold and snow or mud when we are picking corn. The year I did this video was a 1 in 10 year exception where we had beautiful dry weather. I usually chop some old hay for bedding. We always have extra hay.
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At what moisture you put cobs in these cribs?
We try to shoot for 23% or less. It depends on the forecast for the days after we crib it. If it will be breezy and dry, we can get away with 25% without it molding. If it’s going to be damp and cool, then we make sure it’s 23% or less.
@@bradleydairyfarm7985 what are the measurements of crib?
The big ones are 16’ in diameter and a little over 20’ tall. The small one in the middle is 14’ diameter and about 17’ tall. They hold around 1600 bushels in the big ones and 1200 bushels in the small one.
@@bradleydairyfarm7985 thank you
Never really understood the reason why they put it in the crib
How it's made circular steel tank please
Bought my first car sheeling out round cribs
We used formall ms to grind worked well.
You mean farmall
@@bennyboi1132 yes
Hi I'm from Sri Lanka can I buy corne picker machine from your country because there is no corne picker machine. Can u help me