It's funny how many farmers progressed from wagons to trucks when I think about my Grandfather and Dad how they used trucks from the 40's through the 60's. My Dad had cousins that later mounted self unloading wagon boxes on trucks.
Thanks Andy another great video you truly show how most of the farmers work, you surely don't set around and watch the crop s grow and drive to town most every day for lunch I've said it before and I'll say it again you run a well manage farm and it shows I don't farm anymore but still work 15 hr days and love it God bless you and your family as always looking for next video your the best on utube
Used a set up similar to this a few years ago working on a friends dairy farm in Hilton, NY. Had 2 older Uni choppers. Later on helped another farmer with trucks like yours and Claas choppers. Hauled quite a distance more with the trucks than the tractor drawn trailer. Enjoy the videos. Thanks.
Like everyone else says , how there's gotta be a better way or that you should be high enough up the totem pole that you shouldn't have to do that yourself but all I see when you come down covered in dust is an awesome worker and more importantly a great boss! There's nothing you don't ask of your men that you haven't and probably still, do yourself. Sometimes almost to a fault maybe. But your guys should definitely respect you and give you their all . I know I always did for bosses like yourself. Have a good one bud. Thanks for your time making these videos for us. God knows you have plenty of other work to do!
I have ben watching you for a long time.their are so many people that think farming is easy.end of this vid shows some of the crap you have to do every day and showing and telling people what time your day starts and ends every once and awhile is a good thing.thanks for the vid like always please keep them coming every time I think my job sucks and hard I watch vids like yours.oh It would be cool if you showed us more of the milking and calving part of the farm.thanks again.
Coming out of that silage silo, Sir, you have one strong constitution. I'm amazed. I remember on the ranch and dirt, grease and sh.t and mud up to my knees
Nothing like doing a dirty job!😎 We've never done silage ourselves, but spent about 35 years hauling for pretty much every dairy in the county (back in the day, I honestly can't tell you how many there were, but now, I can count all of them on one hand.. from 20 head to 500 head..., Most used to be 500+) Haven't hauled a load of silage in about 8 years. Miss it!!!! Most silage trucks here run cable gates, I converted one from barn doors, but I needed to be able to open it with the bed down, so it's made like a cable gate, but the frame is on the outside of the racks with hydraulic cylinders. As I don't pull a trailer anymore since swapping chassis many years ago, I used the trailer hydraulic valve for the tailgate. Works great!! Gets the gate up about 8' above the floor 😎
Nice to see all aspects of the job Andy. Cant beat the sweet sounding 4620👌 Tractors are the main Farm Haulers over here our roads are always busy with Tractor and Trailer combinations. Thumbs up again 👍
Man that 46 sounds good love that old iron. That trailer would gave come in handy last fall. Good back story on chopper history, growing up we had a small beef operation and did silage with an old jd34 1row chopper behind a jd2010 gasser on 1000pto talk about a scream, we blew directly into some old trucks. Couple other places i helped at had dump wagons or self propelled and at my job now we still use a dump wagon and trucks it works well for only 150ac or corn.
Hope some of your employees appreciate you doing that door switch , most bosses whole pass that job off! Your clean chute must help with the feeding into the auger but I'd say it doesn't do much for the human element ! Looked a little scary dumping that wagon without being able to raise the tailgate first! Glad Jerrod can get his 46 fix! Thanks for the video!
That trailer has your name all over. Overbuilt 20 years old still looks good no bent plate Skilled operators Great video. Great information on slige and trucks trailers You need to train someone else to remove doors
Great video Andy! I’ve climbed a silo of my neighbors many times and around five years ago for some reason it hit the dirt full of corn silage!! Now that was a mess!!
We have an unloading table for silos sitting out back! I think its been back there 13 years or so sits next to self unloading wagons! I use to climb three silos twice a day used to pitch down silage from the silo with no roof usually changed a door every 3 or 4 days in the smith silo for grain it was only 12' round! Our unloader was wore out and then some!
This trailer is identical to all the types of farm trailers used in the UK, we never got in to the front steering running gear type you have here in the USA, The UK also have 'pick up hitches' on their tractors, which are heavy duty hooks mounted where the tow bar would be and these hooks are lifted and lowered by the 3 point lift arms and locked in place until you want to unhitch the trailer, it is a pretty good system. The UK uses tractors to haul loads more then you do here in the USA because the taxation and licencing laws are so much more expensive and stricter for trucks then here (in the USA).
Mr. Andy when is your corn planting season. When do u start? I was thinking of a vacation maybe in the spring and we might head your way to check out your farm
Everytime I see you come out of that door after climbing The Silo looking like Casper the ghost all I can think is there's got to be a better way, I enjoy your videos, try to stay clean.
As long its another JD thats all that matters.. Here in washington county ny we have 2 types of farmers. We have the ones who own John Deeres and have ones who wish they did..
I really enjoy your videos ,being a fairly new subscriber and myself a field service technician working on both farm and construction equipment just curious do you have a service truck with hyd crane ,air compressor if not have you ever thought about getting one. With the size of you operation I think a service truck would be a great investment.
Two possible stupid questions. What's the difference in the syncro range transmission and powershift? And do your guys dump the air from the suspension when unloading the trucks?
I've got to ask, did you buy the trailer cheaper than you built it for the customer? Seems like I always get the short end of the stick at auctions, but maybe I geta touch bid happy
@@benbuck9133 I know it will!!! I've seen them drink a couple hundred gallons or more on a good day! But it will chop a lot of Chow per gallon!!! I haven't paid too much attention to time, but I would guess he's putting 15 to 16 tons on a truck in about 4 minutes, maybe a little quicker 😎
My son was helping me type he’s 20 months. Sorry about the jjj. But I will also add my 3975 pull type will put about 1 ton per minute in the wagon hooked to an 8870 on 8 gallons per hour.
ANDY,ever one says it different ,you say remove a couple doors,i use to say drop the unloader 2 doors same thing mane get your self a mask,that cummins in that chopper has some balls watching that performance monitor.cool seeing the old equipment in the field
Get wreaked semi farms in good shape and place a 40 foot shipping container on the frame and either put a hoist on it or and live floor in it. Just creating!!
I'll take 1 of those trailers but if you could make it with a steel tub for rip rap and dirt. Oh yes can remember or old fox pull type chopper with the 2 Row head it was great back the until something came loose then it would literally eat itself.👍👍
The guy I bought the Mas silage trailer and the frac tank from he sells the back end of those dirt haul trucks. He makes a trailer out of them to be pulled with an articulator.
why don't you get 2 tractor pulled silage carts who have mechanical driven tires so when it gets wet you still can get treu the wetspots we over here have silage cart like that bigger then your dump drucks and the tractor you other wise have on the dump wagon have more then enough horse power for on the road heck even whitout the mechanical assist in the field.
Very few guys around here use dump straight trucks use combo silage bodies or now seeing more semis with meyers or H&S trailers. No matter how boring packing is I'd still rather do that than an upright silo and bags make a mess. My opinion of course I know nutritionists and university studies say upright silos the best.
Jeramy Schaub A bunk put away right will defeat a silo with consistency especially when it comes to hay, better for dry cows and keeps fresh cows up longer gets them higher in the beginning of the lactation also.
I understand and that's why I said I'd rather deal with bunks but if you look at feed quality studies the outcomes are usually upright silos have best feed quality a lot of it goes back to management. Every nutritionist I've dealt with says same thing but silos are labor intensive
How many hours do you run the chopper per year Andy? Also look over your left shoulder. I know your a bit older than I am, but if you helped me milk in the tie stall you would feel week on the right strong on the left from over twisting on the right. You’ve gotta feel it climbing the silo.
The way Jerid continuously guns that poor 4620 up and down seems like that has to be very hard on it ! Seems like he is just out to make all the smoke and noise he can !
Hello Andy just got through watching you go in that silo that was a dirty job are you low man on the pole LOL 😄 that was interesting on cutting the grass with those trailers you know Andy when you came out of the silo I said to myself what the hell that cannot be healthy it's time for a six pack 👍🇺🇸🍺🍻 thank you
@@wanderleipintomrbean7377 not my channel it's Andy's but he's so busy with everything if I see something that I know the answer to I try and help him out
Andy why do you get the dirtiest job on the farm you should give that job to the younger guys lol I really enjoyed the video thanks for sharing God Bless you and your family.
@@FarmingFixingFabricating that's what figured I'm just joking with you I always got that job myself that dust goes every where lol but it was part of farm work best thing we ever got was the blue harvest silo bottom unload never had to change doors on that thing
Videos get better every day Andy. Interesting back story and info on the use of dump trailers and trucks. Cheers and thank you
Erated78 thanks Ed
Hi andy im a fan of your page from ireland.,do ye look for lads to come out to the states during harvest season?
Ding Dang Andy , you REALLY should wear a respirator when opening and or , closing those silos doors OMGoodness !!!!!
Your old school and depth and stability to the operation!! Love this!!
Hey, everybody watching how stable the operation flows!! Thank you.
Thanks bud
It's funny how many farmers progressed from wagons to trucks when I think about my Grandfather and Dad how they used trucks from the 40's through the 60's. My Dad had cousins that later mounted self unloading wagon boxes on trucks.
Thanks Andy another great video you truly show how most of the farmers work, you surely don't set around and watch the crop s grow and drive to town most every day for lunch I've said it before and I'll say it again you run a well manage farm and it shows I don't farm anymore but still work 15 hr days and love it God bless you and your family as always looking for next video your the best on utube
Thank you sir
Great video Andy. Good to see good feed being made and stored for the winter.
Used a set up similar to this a few years ago working on a friends dairy farm in Hilton, NY. Had 2 older Uni choppers. Later on helped another farmer with trucks like yours and Claas choppers. Hauled quite a distance more with the trucks than the tractor drawn trailer. Enjoy the videos. Thanks.
Like everyone else says , how there's gotta be a better way or that you should be high enough up the totem pole that you shouldn't have to do that yourself but all I see when you come down covered in dust is an awesome worker and more importantly a great boss! There's nothing you don't ask of your men that you haven't and probably still, do yourself. Sometimes almost to a fault maybe. But your guys should definitely respect you and give you their all . I know I always did for bosses like yourself. Have a good one bud. Thanks for your time making these videos for us. God knows you have plenty of other work to do!
That 4620 sure sounds nice. What a cool tractor
She is an old bear
I have ben watching you for a long time.their are so many people that think farming is easy.end of this vid shows some of the crap you have to do every day and showing and telling people what time your day starts and ends every once and awhile is a good thing.thanks for the vid like always please keep them coming every time I think my job sucks and hard I watch vids like yours.oh It would be cool if you showed us more of the milking and calving part of the farm.thanks again.
Thanks for the comment
Great video Andy! Loved seeing the 4620 running next to the 8700I 👍🏻👌🏻Music to my ears!!
Thanks for the comment
Love the way that 4620 sounds! Really interesting history of the choppers throughout the years
mikep7810 time changes things
@@FarmingFixingFabricating That's very true!
Coming out of that silage silo, Sir, you have one strong constitution.
I'm amazed.
I remember on the ranch and dirt, grease and sh.t and mud up to my knees
Nothing like doing a dirty job!😎
We've never done silage ourselves, but spent about 35 years hauling for pretty much every dairy in the county (back in the day, I honestly can't tell you how many there were, but now, I can count all of them on one hand.. from 20 head to 500 head..., Most used to be 500+)
Haven't hauled a load of silage in about 8 years. Miss it!!!!
Most silage trucks here run cable gates, I converted one from barn doors, but I needed to be able to open it with the bed down, so it's made like a cable gate, but the frame is on the outside of the racks with hydraulic cylinders.
As I don't pull a trailer anymore since swapping chassis many years ago, I used the trailer hydraulic valve for the tailgate.
Works great!! Gets the gate up about 8' above the floor 😎
Nice to see all aspects of the job Andy. Cant beat the sweet sounding 4620👌 Tractors are the main Farm Haulers over here our roads are always busy with Tractor and Trailer combinations. Thumbs up again 👍
4620 is awesome! Bonus footage, frosty the snowman crawled out of a silo! Lol
Man that 46 sounds good love that old iron. That trailer would gave come in handy last fall. Good back story on chopper history, growing up we had a small beef operation and did silage with an old jd34 1row chopper behind a jd2010 gasser on 1000pto talk about a scream, we blew directly into some old trucks. Couple other places i helped at had dump wagons or self propelled and at my job now we still use a dump wagon and trucks it works well for only 150ac or corn.
Thanks for the history lesson and providing an explanation of why and how you transitioned to your current state.
Hope some of your employees appreciate you doing that door switch , most bosses whole pass that job off! Your clean chute must help with the feeding into the auger but I'd say it doesn't do much for the human element ! Looked a little scary dumping that wagon without being able to raise the tailgate first! Glad Jerrod can get his 46 fix! Thanks for the video!
Lee Steele yes that’s really the only thing that is any good about the clean shute
That trailer has your name all over. Overbuilt 20 years old still looks good no bent plate
Skilled operators
Great video. Great information on slige and trucks trailers
You need to train someone else to remove doors
That thing has been tipped over a couple times
You could not tell it
Great video Andy! I’ve climbed a silo of my neighbors many times and around five years ago for some reason it hit the dirt full of corn silage!! Now that was a mess!!
Changing silo doors, you make it sound like fun.
You tell some great stories.
Great video love getting little history of the farm
Great video Andy👍
We have an unloading table for silos sitting out back! I think its been back there 13 years or so sits next to self unloading wagons! I use to climb three silos twice a day used to pitch down silage from the silo with no roof usually changed a door every 3 or 4 days in the smith silo for grain it was only 12' round! Our unloader was wore out and then some!
Perhaps the best chanel??? I think so!!!
Hey thanks
Now your doing silage just like we do, tractors n trailers 👍👍👍😂😂😂😂
Yes almost
Great video I remember when I moved from Canada and started at Sycamore Hill there were a lot of them trailers in Onondaga County
Yes there were, everybody had a couple
great video andy enjoyed it thanks
Love your videos Andy,the content is amazing.
Thank you
@@FarmingFixingFabricating Your very welcome Andy
You come out at the end lookin like a ghost lol. Thanks for the story and footage Andy.
Yeah sometimes it sticks to you pretty good..I clean up good though. Lol
Hey not for nothing but I used that black wagon for years when I work there glad to see it go to good home if any questions just ask I will tell ya
Good video andy thanks for sharing
Great video Andy. Should wait to take a door out of the silo until the end of the day when you go in for the night that’s a dirty ass job lol
Maryland Farmer it’s dark though when I get done at night
This trailer is identical to all the types of farm trailers used in the UK, we never got in to the front steering running gear type you have here in the USA, The UK also have 'pick up hitches' on their tractors, which are heavy duty hooks mounted where the tow bar would be and these hooks are lifted and lowered by the 3 point lift arms and locked in place until you want to unhitch the trailer, it is a pretty good system. The UK uses tractors to haul loads more then you do here in the USA because the taxation and licencing laws are so much more expensive and stricter for trucks then here (in the USA).
Good information
You look like Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs coming out of the corn silo. Great video!
Looks like you guys are having great fun rolling coal 👍😂
Thank you buddy great video
Man I love that 4620 lol!!
They were nice old tractors back in the day
I always love our 4620 we Dino it out to 152 hp that was the beast back in it days
Xxx von e
Looks like fun, getting a sun tan too on that tractor
Mr. Andy when is your corn planting season. When do u start? I was thinking of a vacation maybe in the spring and we might head your way to check out your farm
Mid May
Everytime I see you come out of that door after climbing The Silo looking like Casper the ghost all I can think is there's got to be a better way, I enjoy your videos, try to stay clean.
you sure put enough on the ground ... sure makes my 3975 look great
Not any more percentage wise than what you spill on the ground at the blower
Nice looking trailer!
beautiful video
First? Keep those great videos coming Andy!
Thanks for the video won't climb the silos unless I have on a hooded sweatshirt.
Andy I love farming! What’s your next major equipment purchase for the farm?
Not sure yet
As long its another JD thats all that matters.. Here in washington county ny we have 2 types of farmers. We have the ones who own John Deeres and have ones who wish they did..
I really enjoy your videos ,being a fairly new subscriber and myself a field service technician working on both farm and construction equipment just curious do you have a service
truck with hyd crane ,air compressor if not have you ever thought about getting one. With the size of you operation I think a service truck would be a great investment.
Yes I have a service truck with a welder and a compressor on it. It doesn't however have a crane on it.
Two possible stupid questions. What's the difference in the syncro range transmission and powershift? And do your guys dump the air from the suspension when unloading the trucks?
Synchro is harder to shift than a power shift and I think stronger. We don't have any trucks that dump with air ride suspension
said it before will say it again love the stance on that chopper
Hello , I was wondering how much pressure those walls can take?
Not sure the exact amount of pressure but we have never broke one.
I've got to ask, did you buy the trailer cheaper than you built it for the customer? Seems like I always get the short end of the stick at auctions, but maybe I geta touch bid happy
Yeah we did, however not much to be honest with you
Well it sure looks good behind a coal rolling John Deere
Your fuel bill must be the scariest thing since the cold war
🤣😂 every farms fuel bill!!!
Most bigger equipment will easily burn 100 gallons per day.
Gosselin Farms Ed Gosselin I bet that chopper will laugh at 100 gallons if it gets a long hard day
@@benbuck9133 I know it will!!!
I've seen them drink a couple hundred gallons or more on a good day! But it will chop a lot of Chow per gallon!!!
I haven't paid too much attention to time, but I would guess he's putting 15 to 16 tons on a truck in about 4 minutes, maybe a little quicker 😎
Gosselin Farms Ed Gosselin jjj
My son was helping me type he’s 20 months. Sorry about the jjj. But I will also add my 3975 pull type will put about 1 ton per minute in the wagon hooked to an 8870 on 8 gallons per hour.
Awesome video
Love the black smoke out of that old john Deere
Sweet tractor
Great videos
O story time can't wait lol,got my beer ready
Would love to see a video of y'all mowing hay if not to late
Nice dump wagon for those too wet to drive on fields. If chopping close by.
Great job 👍
ANDY,ever one says it different ,you say remove a couple doors,i use to say drop the unloader 2 doors same thing mane get your self a mask,that cummins in that chopper has some balls watching that performance monitor.cool seeing the old equipment in the field
Edward Niemyjski yes I know I should wear a mask
Nice old trailer you got there
Get wreaked semi farms in good shape and place a 40 foot shipping container on the frame and either put a hoist on it or and live floor in it. Just creating!!
Lift cylinder on the dump wagon bent didn’t it?
They were both screwed up when we bought it
Nice story, how fast do you merge hay at?
Deron Logterman 6-8 mph
No more ag bags this time??can relate to doing things bit by bit and piece by piece 👌👍
Not this year
great vid...got any older pics of your first self propelled chopper..why don't you have a picture video and tell us all the stories
Not sure if I have any or not
Changing doors I thought that would be hired man's job lol
They have never done it before
I'll take 1 of those trailers but if you could make it with a steel tub for rip rap and dirt. Oh yes can remember or old fox pull type chopper with the 2
Row head it was great back the until something came loose then it would literally eat itself.👍👍
The guy I bought the Mas silage trailer and the frac tank from he sells the back end of those dirt haul trucks. He makes a trailer out of them to be pulled with an articulator.
@@FarmingFixingFabricating that's what I have been wanting Hanesworth farms?
why don't you get 2 tractor pulled silage carts who have mechanical driven tires so when it gets wet you still can get treu the wetspots we over here have silage cart like that bigger then your dump drucks and the tractor you other wise have on the dump wagon have more then enough horse power for on the road heck even whitout the mechanical assist in the field.
We never really harvest when it's that wet
Looks like it was already starting to heat up a little bit
Very few guys around here use dump straight trucks use combo silage bodies or now seeing more semis with meyers or H&S trailers. No matter how boring packing is I'd still rather do that than an upright silo and bags make a mess. My opinion of course I know nutritionists and university studies say upright silos the best.
Jeramy Schaub if done right bunks are just as good
Jeramy Schaub A bunk put away right will defeat a silo with consistency especially when it comes to hay, better for dry cows and keeps fresh cows up longer gets them higher in the beginning of the lactation also.
I understand and that's why I said I'd rather deal with bunks but if you look at feed quality studies the outcomes are usually upright silos have best feed quality a lot of it goes back to management. Every nutritionist I've dealt with says same thing but silos are labor intensive
What’s your opinion on grouser blades Andy?
John Williams I have never used to one,but from what I have seen of them they look good
You spilled some hay ledge!
Lol
How about a shipping container that is setup for chop and buck ship
👍😊
How long have you had the chopper that you have now?
This is it's 2 ND year
Can I ask what you had to give for trailer like that? Thanks
8k
Why dont y'all use a pull behind roller so there not that much wear and tear on the tractor
Tractors work good
G'day, just thinking do a Google on handheld metal detector be ideal for what you are doing. Cheers.
Thanks
When you pack the silage are the tractors using GPS to track
No
Andy do you chop for anybody else? I know that’s a very expensive piece of equipment.
No we don't
Informative and Entertaining!
Thx for the video Andy, you don't wear a mask in there? ( should) cough cough..
Lee James no I don’t wear a mask
What's the horse power on the 4620?
Out of the box it’s 135 currently I’m not sure
Andy the high moisture ghost lol
How many hours do you run the chopper per year Andy? Also look over your left shoulder. I know your a bit older than I am, but if you helped me milk in the tie stall you would feel week on the right strong on the left from over twisting on the right. You’ve gotta feel it climbing the silo.
I climb that silo enough I don't feel it
Those gehls were good choppers for there days.
When will y’all start shelling high moisture corn
Chris White late october
I live in North Carolina and we are shelling dry corn now shell some today that was checking 16.9 moisture we are running it through the dryer
The way Jerid continuously guns that poor 4620 up and down seems like that has to be very hard on it ! Seems like he is just out to make all the smoke and noise he can !
It won’t hurt it
Good afternoon alright tractor show John deere, a hug from Wanderlei chick's channel Mr Bean 😎🇧🇷
Hello Andy just got through watching you go in that silo that was a dirty job are you low man on the pole LOL 😄 that was interesting on cutting the grass with those trailers you know Andy when you came out of the silo I said to myself what the hell that cannot be healthy it's time for a six pack 👍🇺🇸🍺🍻 thank you
What is your city and country
Syracuse NY
Nice, im a big fan for your Chanel! Keep do It !
@@wanderleipintomrbean7377 not my channel it's Andy's but he's so busy with everything if I see something that I know the answer to I try and help him out
@@cntslesfabrication Nice ! Check my vídeos too.
Thanks rynne
Andy I thought the hydraulics on that trailer needed work? Looks like it works.
Yes but it doesn’t work that great
man I do NOT miss using a silo lol
Andy why do you get the dirtiest job on the farm you should give that job to the younger guys lol I really enjoyed the video thanks for sharing God Bless you and your family.
It's easier for me to do it I can run in the house and clean up quick.
@@FarmingFixingFabricating that's what figured I'm just joking with you I always got that job myself that dust goes every where lol but it was part of farm work best thing we ever got was the blue harvest silo bottom unload never had to change doors on that thing
Didn't know that we where going to see a ghost.............🇺🇸