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@@Countryboy316 winter wheat for cover crop. Terminated it with round up after planting.

This will be the fifth year with ours. It's been good so far. It needed some work on the knotters when we got it. Ours turned over 40,000 bales this year during first crop.

@@Dairyland-Dairyman what baler doesn’t need work when you first buy it!😂. The pickup attachment was destroyed on ours and very dirty. We put new bill hooks and tucker fingers on it and rebuilt the pickup and it’s had very little problems so far. Just did 400 bales in 4 days. Over 600 total for the season. My goal is a 1,000!

@@Dairyland-Dairyman ours has 54,000 on it. Not what I was told it had but oh well still not terrible.

The pickups were light built on the 4750/55 balers. There is a kit to add a cam on each end of the tine bars, which is a big upgrade, I guess haven'tdone it on ours yet. But went through new cam bearings and tines where needed and checked it all over. One thing I will say is make sure you grease it when the intervals come up on the monitor. The previous owner didn't know what a grease gun was, I guess. I always do the 50 bale grease before I start baling for the day. That covers the stuffer shaft and drive. That hollow shaft and the bushings that hold it that run across the front are not cheap. I found that out. Ours would jump time on the knotters slightly every tie cycle, found out the keyway on the knotter shaft was slopped out, had to fix that, and a new knotter brake. The other thing is to make sure the stuffer brake is adjusted correctly so the stuffer clutch arm is not slamming into the stop arm when it cycles.

This was the fall seeded stuff. This was chopped back in May, but I forgot to post it. I did plant some trit and peas for nurse crop on new seeding.

In the video was a 92-day silage corn. But I did get 30 acres of the 83 day in that night after milking. Planted till 1:30 am.

Was a long night. Planted the corn in video, milked, and went to the daughters last/championship softball game for the season. Got back and finished chores, then got to the field around 10:30 pm.

80-90 DT

You don’t need to stress your planting date. Replanting my brothers silage corn now.

I'm hoping some of what I planted will make high moisture grain.

Sure did. I'm hoping to find a 5-16's to pull with the series 2 tw5, and pull the 4-16 with my series 1 tw5 when I get it back together. The series 2 was turboed before we bought it.

@@Dairyland-Dairyman will make a great video when you have it all in place.

That's because it was wetted down with the manure tanker right before it was plowed.

I'm hoping to put some corn in yet. I only have a 1/3 of my corn in do far. I'm still trying to finish first crop yet too, between the inches of rain every time it does rain.

What do you have to put in yet?

Woah! I didn't relize you were that wet. Here every time it drys out I might have a couple days to get something done. I got all my corn and soybeans in a couple weeks ago but I need to get them sprayed yet. I haven't cut any hay yet though.... Hopefully we can get something done eventually, like the 10 acres of sorghum sudan and all the first crop hay.

We've gotten around 5 inches of rain within the past 7 days. I've got 83 day corn to plant, so it should make it if I can get it in yet by the end of this week. Have some 90 day silage corn too, might swap some corn for some bmr sorghum sudan yet.

Over here I got 2.75 inches since Friday, a few 10ths here and there before that.

I think it worked pretty well for the year we had last year. With it being very dry, most of it didn't germinate until fall. The hairy vetch really took off this spring, and a good bit of clover grew this spring as well. Didn't get the growth I was hoping for going into winter, but I can change the weather. I'm hoping to post an update on the cover crop soon. The guys that did the seeding also do spraying with their drone.

Yes, I tripped it to tie. If I was going to bale more afterward, i normally leave the part bale in. Thanks for watching.

I had that problem, too. That's why I put the notched marker discs on my planter. I know there are doughnut weights you can add to the maker disc to make it cut deeper. My marker arms, I think, are heavy enough since they are so long being bifold. The only challenge I had was closing the seed trench having the single press wheel on the back of the planter, but the furrow v closer helped with that. They were only $60 a row. But for 40 years old, I think it still does a great job. I think my corn looks just as good as the neighbors' brand new $150,000 planter with all the bells, whistles, and gizmos on it. Maybe I do give up a few bushels compared to them, but I have a lot more leeway without the cost of the new planter.

@@Dairyland-Dairyman I do have notched blade and added 10 lb weights even though I didn't think they'd do a whole lot. 😂😂 Being an older JD 7000 I don't think the marker arms are designed for a lot of weight whipping around picking and dropping the arm. If I really got into planting no till I thought about using a foam marker along with the disk.

I had the same problem on my 7000 12 row front fold. Switch to notched blades with a donut weight on it, works great!

Thanks for watching! I am partial to the blue ones, but I do have some other colors as well.

I do not own the drone. I custom hired it done, so I don't know all the technical details about the drone. This was the first time I tried the drone seeding. If you get adequate rain fall, it should germinate being below the corn plant in the shade and moist environment. We were very dry until harvest time, so germination wasn't as good as I had hoped for. But there is a lot of hairy vetch that germinated and grew late fall and this spring. I am planning on doing an update video on the drone cover crop before I plant the field and spray it off. It took them about 7-8 minutes, I'd say per acre. But I was putting a heavier rate on, so that determines acres covered. And required more refills of seed. It spread 40 feet wide. They manually flew the perimeter of the field to plot any obstacles and to set boundaries, and then the unit calculated the best route to cover the field and used GPS to fly itself. It even returned by itself to the landing area to refill and swap batteries.

Thanks for the reply. Seems like this technology could really be useful.

Hi, any further info after a while pls? How effective was this method? Did sufficient number of seeds make it through to the ground and started actually growin? How about this year? Are You gonna do it again?

Here is the link to a follow-up video from this spring prior to termination of th cover crop before planting this years corn. ua-cam.com/video/gf-Ke2yVIzs/v-deo.htmlsi=8pIZoPzx0XvYgwBM I'm not sure if I will be doing any this year due to crop rotation this year and what is planned for next year's crop rotation.

Round up and a form of 2-4D. Not 100% what else is in the mix. I custom hire the spraying in.

Did you get hit hard with the storms last night?

It wasn't too bad. Had just over an inch of rain come down in a short time, and the wind didn't seem that bad either.

Thanks for watching! The teeth are tappered and spring-loaded and are pushed down as the bales normally go over them. When the ejector carriage is moved, the teeth pivot upward and dig into the bale when the carriage is moved backward. The teeth retract from the bale and pivot back down. There are selector levers on each side of the baler to lock down some of the teeth if you only want to take out the rear bale.

Ahhh I see this is helpful so for flow of hydraulic how do you get the bale ejector to work

The hydraulic flow from the tractors remotes is on all the time. The same hydraulic circuit controls the bale density as well as the ejector. The switch can only be operated when the baler is not running, the first press of the switch will dump the hydraulic pressure on the bale chamber, then when the pressure is off the balers monitor switches the hydraulic flow over the hydraulic circuit that operates the ejector.

By the rain gauge, none. I forgot to put it out yet. Otherwise, 1.5 inches. I've got about 5 acres left to plow for some new seeding. The rest of the moldboard plowing was done last fall. The rest is either no till or will get gone over with the manure dragline for its primary tillage.

Thanks for watching. It's one of those things you don't use very often, but I'm sure glad to have it when it's needed.

49 hours, power went out 8pm Tuesday night, came on Thursday 9pm. Ran pretty much straight to keep water going. Plus, everything takes longer since the generator is not big enough to run everything at once.

The dealer told me that dry hay and balege are actually harder on the mixer than if you were mixing straight silage. I try not to get to fancy into editing, I use the free version of the Kinemaster app for editing on my phone. There are some shots that I think would be cool to get, but I would hate to sacrifice my phone if something didn't go right.... my kids keep telling me to get a gopro since I told them I would if I got to 150 subscribers. Now I'm double that, and they don't let me forget that I said that. But I always have my phone, and I would have to carry the gopro along in case something came up, I wanted to film.

Does kuhn offer a liner to drop in? Maybe you could find a welding shop to roll one to fit. Otherwise, maybe some heavy plastic sheeting. That's what our first mixer had from the factory as a wear liner.

Both are options that I'm going to look into. I have a feeling that the local kuhn/knight dealer won't be much help. My local welding shop is awesome for many things, on some stuff I help with my projects to save on time and labor. It would be great in many ways for you to get a gopro. One channel it has helped the creator figure out just what he did on some longer projects just haveing the documentation. Heck sometimes random pics I've taken with my phone have been lifesavers.

@@burrridgefarms good luck with finding a solution for your mixer

They got a new parts guy at the dealer and he did figure out they have a liner in-stock down at Broadhead. Price didn't seem so bad, I think it will be enough work to install.

@burrridgefarms Good luck with it. I'm sure it will just fall right into place, hahaha. Do you feed once or twice a day?

I didn't know they were still available from Agco. The dealer told me $200 a piece for shares from them...

Yup

You're welcome, and thanks for watching! Yes, that corn has been harvested. The combine had just started on that field when I took that video. I plan to give an update on it now that it's been almost two weeks since it was harvested. It was interseeded with a drone at the end of August. Here is that video: ua-cam.com/video/Shv9MnECljM/v-deo.htmlsi=vkGhKWV32vdNT0RS It didn't do as well as I would have liked it to, but that was due to the lack of rain we had this summer. I'm going to try doing some more next year. Sorry I haven't replied to your other comments yet...

Thanks for watching along! Yes, it is a roller mill. It does have a cob crusher on it as well for grinding ear corn as well. When it was purchased, we were still picking ear corn. As far as Derco, for what I've heard/researched, is their no longer manufacturing farm equipment and were bought out by a company that makes materials handling equipment. The wagons are quite popular around Wisconsin.

Yup, sometimes the fire-wrench is the best tool to get rusty bolts out. Notill can work long term on some ground, but I still believe that some types of soil need turn be turned over and mixed up every now and then. Did you ever get your 7700's cooling system figured out?

@@Dairyland-Dairyman I haven't figured anything else different, so I'm not sure if there is an issue to worry about. Temp stays around 180 with a 188 thermostat. Lower radiator hose still stays cool but none of the other hoses feel over hot. Don't know what else to be checking but still keeping an eye on it.

I'm gonna block the radiator with cardboard next to see if I can get it up to 200 to see what that does. Maybe it just is cooling that good. As long as it's not overheating I'm not too worried about it.

250 acres.

How many acres you run?

@@Dairyland-Dairyman 1400 owned/700 rented, milking 1400 cows

@@Dairyland-Dairyman also for context I’m still in high school live there with family

@Datonefarmer milking around 90 here and working on purchasing the farm from my parents.

The northeast part

How close to Appleton?

Thanks for watching! Yes, they are definitely a handy wagon for unloading wet corn out of.

They are Derco power gravity wagons. They were built by Derco manufacturing in Waupun, Wisconsin. And I don't think they are being built anymore. There are plenty of used ones for sale around the state though.

Thank you

Yes. Put about 2200 bushel in it. Put some plastic over the silage and pulled it off to do hmc. Normally, just fill the 16x50 with hmc. But figured I had the room why pay drying and storage to the mill.

Have a 9x200 bag of corn silage from last year to finish up, plus the 20x80 of silage, besides what got put in the 20x70 under the hmc. Should be sitting good on corn silage inventory.

Well it must be good to have the surplus. I figure I've got enough feed to get by this winter, I bought alot of hay last year so I had carryover there and the first corn silage bag had a week to ferment before I started feeding it. My beef cows outta be happy this winter they will get some silage sense I'll be finishing less animals this comming year.

@burrridgefarms I try to put up the extra corn silage so I'm not feeding all fresh silage. Plus, I'm probably to paranoid about having enough feed and put up way more than enough....

We do have him close it up some. Probably could've opened the chaffer and sieve a little more, though.

They were built by Derco manufacturing out of Waupun, WI. Quite popular brand here. I think they were built originally for unloading cob corn (which they are awesome for) years ago. But they also sold alot of them for use as a normal gravity wagon. They work really well for wet shell corn too. They stopped building them only a few years ago as far as I know. They still go for good money when they come up for sale.

@@Dairyland-Dairyman I bet they do go for a good penny. They look like they would work really well.

@@Dairyland-Dairyman Are they hydraulic drive? I've never seen one. Enjoyed your well done vid.

They're PTO drive. Some people have switched them to hydraulic drive. Mostly to drive the second wagon if they run them in tandem. The neighbors wagons I borrowed, he actually coupled a shaft to the drive and ran it out to the back to run the second wagon, used one of those pto adapters from a Ford 8n for the 540 splines.

There is a jack shaft with a set of two belts that run the apron and uses a lever to move a tighter to engage and disengage the apron chain.

This year, 25-26%. Normally, I like it 30-34% range, not as dusty coming down the silo chute, and think it ferments/cures out nicer.

Yeah when Dad put up hmc he did it at about that. My feedman always said we should have done it wetter.

The neighbor mile up the road, took some corn into the mill, and it was down to 16% off the field. Corn is all over here this year. Spoty emergence, and very dry after planting all through summer.

I'm in the same boat. I'm in central Wisconsin

@@burrridgefarms Did you get the 5-6 inches about two weeks or so ago? We didn't get any of that on the east side of the state.

I have a ring drive Valmetal unloader in it the last two years. Prior to that, It had a Vandale surface drive in it prior that unloaded ground corn for 15 years or so and silage before that since the silo was built. Dad used to fill a 14x30 silo with high moisture cob corn before we tore it down to build the first 20x70, and that had a pack drive in it as well. Just made sure to grease the collector ring up good with a quality synthetic grease so it would turn easy and didn't have to much trouble with either. The vandale pack drive was rebuilt once that I know of was just plain wore out and our Valmetal dealer knew of this ring drive that was only 3 years old from a guy that sold his cows and unloaded the silo three times. Plus that's what is in the 3 silos for silage, so it's nice having the same unloader in all of them for having spare parts and belts on hand.

Northeast

@@Dairyland-Dairyman northwest here

Thanks for watching!

@@Dairyland-Dairyman you bet

Thanks for watching! Yes, the bale tension is released automatically as soon as you start to operate the switch to run the bale ejector. There is a monitor for the baler in the tractor cab that adjusts bale tension on the fly using the tractors' hydraulics to keep where I set the bale density.

It's a product called Preserve One, and yes, it is for mold prevention. It also has some bacteria/enzymes that help with fermentation and oxygen removal. This is my second year using it on silage, It seems to be working well. I have been using their dry hay product called Evergreen in my big square baler for 4-5 years with no problems.

You must be moving along. How big are your loads? Takes them about 6 hours with 3 20-foot boxes and 8 row chopper to fill 20x80. But they also are filling a 16x40 at the heifer farm at the same time as the 20x80. Usually, the blower is the bottle neck.

20’ Meyer boxes on semi’s. We were filling 3’ a load.

I don't think you can ever have too much horse power on the blower.

Thanks!

Thanks! No, the corn is a conventional hybrid and was bred specifically for silage production. It's King Fisher 42C20, a 92-day maturity corn from Byron seeds.

I think silos are a good way of storing feed yet. The 20x80 was built in 2015. The four silos on the main farm all have the same model Valmetal unloader in them. So I don't have to keep as many spare parts or belts on hand. Nice thing is pretty much everything on those Valmetal unloaders takes a 9/16 or 3/4 wrench, so you don't need to take too many tools with you when you need to fix something. I always make a point to go over every unloader before we fill silo to make sure everything is good to go on it before it gets raised up. Then in winter, I make sure to go over each unloader and adjust the chipping wheel to keep the walls clean and grease everything with a good synthetic grease to make sure everything works in the below zero weather in January/February. A lot of people seem to complain about silos and silo unloaders, but I think that's because out of sight out of mind. They only see it when they change doors or breaks and don't go through it and give it good mantinace, and when their is something broke, they only put in just the parts needed to get it running that day.