Chopping Corn Silage near Greensburg Indiana

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  • Опубліковано 29 лип 2021
  • Chopping Corn Silage at a large dairy farm south of Greensburg Indiana. In this video I made two different visits to this farm to video them chopping corn silage and hauling it back to the farm and building a large silage pile for their dairy cow herd.
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  • @MysticalAgricultureTV
    @MysticalAgricultureTV 29 днів тому

    As someone with a background in agriculture, I can attest to the game-changing impact of these machines. They're revolutionizing the way we farm.

  • @thomasmccardle725
    @thomasmccardle725 9 місяців тому +1

    When the quality of the video is as good as yours the longer the better, stay safe and keep these awesome farm videos coming please!

  • @davidspringer4019
    @davidspringer4019 Рік тому +1

    I like the long videos, thank you. Im older now, but back in the day I worked for Furman's Foods in central PA and these videos bring back memories, of course using different equipment. Take care and thanks again.

  • @danstraughn295
    @danstraughn295 2 роки тому +5

    Thanks for taking the time to make these video. My daughter and I have learned so much about tractors now.

    • @tractorhunter
      @tractorhunter 2 роки тому

      Now it's time for learn something about combine's:) ua-cam.com/video/K95D7sBZCdU/v-deo.html

  • @timothyosborn1697
    @timothyosborn1697 2 роки тому +10

    I used to watch a huge farm plot get combined, when I was a young teenager. I remember the stalks being thrown away and the corn kept. It looks as it the whole corn plant is used for this silage. I never knew that. Cool. I have to say that it's kind of satisfying to see the combine going through the lush field and mowing it down so slick and clean. Sweet operation.

    • @DavidThomas-qu8mh
      @DavidThomas-qu8mh 11 місяців тому

      By the way, that's not a combine, that happens to be a forage harvester which chops the stalks into silage.

  • @AgritechFutureUS
    @AgritechFutureUS 10 місяців тому +5

    *I'm a fan of your combine and silage videos! The diverse angles and footage are top-notch. Your content stands out with the best variety I've seen. It's truly enjoyable to watch and learn about the equipment and techniques. Keep up the fantastic work!* 🚜🎥🌾

  • @herbhouston5378
    @herbhouston5378 2 роки тому +3

    Great video. I live in Greensburg and several years ago I visited this farm, and since I had a history in farming, I walked around with the owner and we talked about the farm operation. It was a great time for me a I really enjoyed talking with the boss. Quite an operation! Very impressive!!

  • @dannaumann9758
    @dannaumann9758 2 роки тому +15

    My grandad built the first self-propelled chopper in the country. His model “G” JD didn’t have the power to suit him, so he mounted a 550 c u tank engine on the hitch, put a model “B” tri-cycle front end under the tongue, and a seat on it! He would have been amazed to see how these machines gobble up the corn! Thx Mike!

  • @tomkaraitiana6136
    @tomkaraitiana6136 2 роки тому +5

    I've got to say that I'm a Mike Less fan, I watch all you videos or as many as I can find and if I may say, rock on. Big tractor power is another favourite of mine. Keep up the good work.

  • @swagzoneus
    @swagzoneus 6 місяців тому

    I really enjoy the combine videos but these silage videos are my favorite. You get awesome footage from every angle. You have the best footage and variety of anyone else I've seen on here. Really fun to watch! I can spend hours just watching all the big equipment and think it's really interesting how each one does things and why.

  • @billwhitman1529
    @billwhitman1529 2 роки тому +4

    Good video, I can almost smell it! They put up in 6 hours what we used to take 6 weeks to do. Amazing. Thanks for sharing.

  • @masonsmith9222
    @masonsmith9222 2 роки тому +15

    Was great to meet you mike. All of us drivers are always very proud of this huge, efficient operation

    • @farmhandmike
      @farmhandmike  2 роки тому +1

      It's definitely quite the operation.

    • @raynere4154
      @raynere4154 2 роки тому

      @@farmhandmike hi Darren

    • @MrKaba1985
      @MrKaba1985 2 роки тому

      nice to see the Fliegel Trailers build only 10 km or about 5 mails away from my home town in Germany nice to see them in other Countrys also.

  • @user-tj2df5rs3d
    @user-tj2df5rs3d 2 роки тому +6

    Great video Mike !! I would like to see this whole farm, feeding, keeping and caring for the animals .. 👍💪

  • @Titantech.1
    @Titantech.1 Місяць тому

    Great video. a few years ago I visited this farm. It was a wonderful time for me. Very impressive!!

  • @ndtschau
    @ndtschau 2 роки тому +1

    Another first CLAAS silage video!!!😉
    Thanks a lot for showing! 😊👍🏻

  • @thomasallen4340
    @thomasallen4340 4 місяці тому

    Love huge farms like this. The way that forage harvestor shoots the corn just wow

  • @kladpapier
    @kladpapier 2 роки тому +14

    My God that's a huge farm!!
    So many tractors and trailers o.O Fun to watch though, thanks for recording ;)

  • @coryfritz295
    @coryfritz295 2 роки тому +3

    I wish I could double like this video!! What an operation! Thanks Mike!

    • @CountyLineCowpokes
      @CountyLineCowpokes 2 роки тому +1

      It really is an incredible operation! Farmhand mike does a great job with these videos, also! If you want to see a much smaller multi-generational family farm with a few antics sprinkled in check out the County Line Cowpokes channel!

  • @briand5521
    @briand5521 2 роки тому +3

    Great movie Mike really enjoyed it what an incredible amount of equipment.

  • @rebacorddesignstudio7470
    @rebacorddesignstudio7470 2 роки тому +11

    The smell of silage reminds me of fall. Grew up around a feedlot and that smell always coincided with the start of school. I remember riding the school bus with the windows down and the silage trucks would sail past and that smell would fill the bus. Good memories.

    • @sarragount5141
      @sarragount5141 2 роки тому

      🤔👍Très joli ccommentaires psychanalytique. ✋✋🍀🇫🇷🍀✋✋

  • @jessberg4763
    @jessberg4763 2 роки тому +4

    Great job Mike! That's some excellent footage! 👍

  • @sunkings5972
    @sunkings5972 Рік тому

    Something about the way the Forager turns a lush green field of mutant grass into a barren wasteland with a little hp left over is mesmerizing to watch. Amazing photography Mike.

  • @Fedharrison5634
    @Fedharrison5634 2 роки тому

    One word says it all WOW... That's for sharing Mike.. God Bless from Georgia...

  • @SimonKL11
    @SimonKL11 2 роки тому

    That's a serious operation😁👍 that silage pile is massive👍👍
    Nice video😉👍

  • @Madswiss600
    @Madswiss600 2 роки тому +4

    Just a few Fliegl wagon herd😍😍

  • @tonyburelle6633
    @tonyburelle6633 2 роки тому +1

    Always enjoy your chopping footage, even year old, still great

  • @Zeke-yv3nw
    @Zeke-yv3nw 2 роки тому

    Awesome video Mike! Man thats one heck of a farm!!

  • @rauloropeza7496
    @rauloropeza7496 2 роки тому +1

    Hello from Mexico Mike Less you are the best

  • @winkletown8828
    @winkletown8828 2 роки тому +4

    There's something about watching forage harvesters eating everything in sight so quickly that just mesmerizes!!!!! Love these videos!!!! Thanks Mike!! You rock for this.
    I needed this today.

  • @Growplantss
    @Growplantss Місяць тому

    very good video, thank you for sharing❤

  • @Chisszaru
    @Chisszaru 2 роки тому +1

    I love big farms and big farm equipment

  • @johnmccarter5541
    @johnmccarter5541 2 роки тому

    WOW! Great video, Mike!!!

  • @charlesjenkins8078
    @charlesjenkins8078 2 роки тому +1

    Mike,great video. I wish I was there.

  • @TheMilwaukieDan
    @TheMilwaukieDan 2 роки тому

    Here in Oregon Willamette Valley we grow a wide variety of crops. Some of it is corn silage. I never seen how it’s accomplished though. One day the corn is there. The Baxter day it gone. At some point later I gave dairy products snd meat available. Thank you for feeding America

  • @davereynolds6145
    @davereynolds6145 2 роки тому

    Nice big flat fields, no mud, what the heck! To do that much silage is a monumental job, I know I help the very large dairy near me. Around 85,000tons, running 3 choppers, 5 tractor trailers and 7 straight trucks! One thing that caught my ear was them having a drivers meeting, I wish we would do that! Good work Mike!

    • @get__some
      @get__some 2 роки тому +1

      meetings mean bad things have happened

    • @davereynolds6145
      @davereynolds6145 2 роки тому +1

      @@get__some yep bad things happen, one truck on its side, 3 others that radiators got backed into!

    • @get__some
      @get__some 2 роки тому +1

      @@davereynolds6145 oh no.
      tell em "slow down, turbo"
      some of these youngins are full of beans

  • @tonymckeage1028
    @tonymckeage1028 2 роки тому

    Great Mike Less Video, thanks for sharing

  • @gr82bcrazy1
    @gr82bcrazy1 2 роки тому

    That was such a good video I could smell the silage.

  • @stormlantern5199
    @stormlantern5199 2 роки тому

    Couldn't help but to watch the entire video.

  • @Snowtruckdriver
    @Snowtruckdriver 2 роки тому +1

    I used to work for my Dad doing custom chopping back in the 70's. I've seen 100's of thousands of tons done but I've never seen a pile built like this.

  • @kiwidiesel
    @kiwidiesel 2 роки тому +1

    ahhh i still remember that sound of a Claas Jaguar forager chopping maize. Done thousnds of hours driving them. My neck still hurts from looking out that left side all day and night long.

  • @randyoesch64
    @randyoesch64 2 роки тому

    Loved it Mike great video.

  • @mw9953
    @mw9953 2 роки тому

    Awesome video, Thanks Mike!!

  • @jeffschwering1300
    @jeffschwering1300 2 роки тому

    Awesome! Where I was born..Our farm is 10 miles south of Greensburg, near Millhousen

  • @NaTech94
    @NaTech94 7 місяців тому

    *Observing the corn swaying from up above, I couldn't help but notice that your Mavic Pro creates quite a powerful prop wash.*

  • @danvanninhuys745
    @danvanninhuys745 2 роки тому +1

    Wow, what a massive dairy farm

  • @paulchill458
    @paulchill458 Рік тому

    love the corn siliage vidoe,s mike keep them comming great as i did do that at 1 stage in my life but great mike

  • @farmshoffman8475
    @farmshoffman8475 2 роки тому

    Great awesome video mike, biggest corn silage video ever

  • @verdagarner5112
    @verdagarner5112 2 роки тому

    Great video and fantastic music

  • @scottpykare801
    @scottpykare801 2 роки тому

    AWESOME Mike really AWESOME!!👍👍

  • @29rosslyn
    @29rosslyn 2 роки тому +6

    Looking at the corn blowing from overhead, I was thinking your Mavic Pro has a pretty strong prop wash.

  • @pavelkubes1
    @pavelkubes1 9 місяців тому

    Great job, very very nice harvest.😃😃😃

  • @hubertwebb9869
    @hubertwebb9869 2 роки тому

    Great mood music, i love the cowboy stuff.

    • @wadewalker6231
      @wadewalker6231 2 роки тому +1

      I think the music is "the year of the cat"...?

  • @rbwplwjd
    @rbwplwjd 2 роки тому +1

    Great video as always!!! I'm curious about how they take silage out as the open face would be more than 50 feet high.

  • @toddmorris2353
    @toddmorris2353 2 роки тому

    They are great folks down there i live about 35 miles from them and use to deliver fuel and oil to them it is an amazing operation

  • @jeanneg6550
    @jeanneg6550 2 роки тому

    wow wow ,, j'avais jamais vue ça ,, très bon travail d'équipe ,, Bravo

  • @slabrankle9588
    @slabrankle9588 2 роки тому

    Now I know what those piles covered in tarps and tires are. Lots of 'em in Pennsylvania. It's satisfying to watch the process.

  • @gardnermiller6820
    @gardnermiller6820 2 роки тому +2

    Those Claas Jaguar's are corn eating machines!

  • @donmedford2563
    @donmedford2563 2 роки тому +19

    I am a trivia nerd. I love details. Thanks for saying the pile had 80,000 tons but in future videos please tell how many total acres, how many acres per hour they harvest, how many tons her hour, etc. Great video.

  • @martincowley815
    @martincowley815 2 роки тому

    Nice to see the JCB fastrac making a appearance. Don’t see many of them over in the states.

  • @jeffhumpert7228
    @jeffhumpert7228 2 роки тому

    That farm doesnt look that big in person but man seeing your footage that place is huge, my wife even said the same thing. I remember Honda chopping all the corn and donating it to them when they bought the land to build the plant so they would have a stockpile to start out with as a welcome to Greensburg from a fellow new comer to Greensburg. I have a bucket list item to be able to drive a couple different types of those massive 4 wheel drive tractors like they use to pack the silage with.

  • @tomcleghorn4005
    @tomcleghorn4005 2 роки тому

    My goodness that farm sure is big!

  • @jasonkmaylee
    @jasonkmaylee 2 роки тому

    Love the long video!!!

  • @donaldlewis9734
    @donaldlewis9734 2 роки тому

    Great video. Thanks 😊

  • @IronGears.186
    @IronGears.186 10 місяців тому

    Machines are a great friend to man

  • @DrMGomezJr
    @DrMGomezJr 2 роки тому

    Great drone shots...

  • @christiangauthier1264
    @christiangauthier1264 2 роки тому

    Magnifique vidéo 👍😉

  • @Kiwimaihifishing
    @Kiwimaihifishing Рік тому

    Hi Mike, iam Alan from Tokoroa New Zealand, awesome videos of your AGG Contracting over there, I will come over one day an meet you, cheers from the Kiwi land,

  • @sasquatch5680
    @sasquatch5680 2 роки тому

    Thats some nice team work

  • @kennethcarlton2860
    @kennethcarlton2860 2 роки тому +2

    Does the farm leave any corn to combine it for grain ? Thanks Mike for your great videos . And Thanks for also showing the pile of silage .

    • @gerhard583
      @gerhard583 2 роки тому

      No, they make silage off all the corn they grow

  • @frantisekleiterman2082
    @frantisekleiterman2082 2 роки тому

    Krásné záběry!

  • @marcusnord1267
    @marcusnord1267 2 роки тому +1

    Hey!
    Interesting video.
    I'm wondering why are the packing the corn with the tractor? I'm not from USA, I'm from Sweden....so, at home we uses a packning machine for roads, it's like a big cylinder with a vibrator machine in the machine for packing the roads. So we can uses a smaller tractor that don't cost so much in fuel capacity? I might spell something wrong, hope you understand 😅 love to see how it works in the US!

  • @rnpasupalanfarm
    @rnpasupalanfarm 2 роки тому

    wow lovely .. this work in very impressive . we dont know when can we be doing husbandry like the way you guys are doing ,,,, wow lovely and ,, even im engaged in farming life of animal husbandry. keep on supporting and sugesting us.

  • @Highriskroller
    @Highriskroller 2 роки тому

    Great Video! Why do they use twintyres only on the rear axle?

  • @craigsimon935
    @craigsimon935 2 роки тому +2

    What an incredible operation! That is a lot of activity going on and the corn started pretty green but was getting pretty dry by the time they were wrapping up.
    I have to agree with you o the way they build that pile. Minimal moving of silage, the wagons just drive in and never stop and back up, they are not pushing the edge of the blade into the pile but getting a nice even spread across the blade with each push making it a nice even spread on the pile. Nobody was in anybody's way. There is not an unsafe activity, i.e. not backing up where they cannot see, not an edge of the pile with a steep slope that is unsafe, lots of space for each to work. It makes a lot of sense.

  • @MrDabaja
    @MrDabaja 2 роки тому

    Great video!!

  • @otismartin132
    @otismartin132 2 роки тому

    Selling silage is a great business opportunity! The machine cleans the fields, and the only lost cost that I can think of is the manure and chemicals for growing. Other than that, EASY MONEY!!!

  • @robertogonowski9027
    @robertogonowski9027 2 роки тому

    Nice video, specially in night time :)

  • @loyaltyndrespect24
    @loyaltyndrespect24 2 роки тому

    Woo i wonder how many cows you milk up in here, beautiful farm, i work in the biggest dairy in connecticut. I love farming

  • @paulpochan9631
    @paulpochan9631 2 роки тому +2

    Nice Mike...... don't see many JCB tractors around....!!!

    • @masonsmith9222
      @masonsmith9222 2 роки тому +1

      I was mostly running that jcb! It’s a Cadillac!

  • @404nitro
    @404nitro 2 роки тому

    That 8300 is such a great looking tractor. 160,000,000 lbs of corn.......that' a lot of corn! Maybe you said and I missed it, but do you know the total number of acres it took to make all that corn?

  • @jerrymoore471
    @jerrymoore471 2 роки тому

    On packing ground silo didn’t I see a BIG BRUTE with 8 tires front and 8 in back and were they the biggest tires made if so they would pack a sili

  • @ovidiuciuparu6421
    @ovidiuciuparu6421 2 роки тому +6

    Do you plan to get any footage with the farm operation? I will be curious to see how big is the mixer that they use to feed the cows and other equipment that they have for daily activities.

  • @Adshop
    @Adshop Рік тому

    Loving the content. Please indicate size of farms. Wouldn't mind just a tard bit more commentary with some details on the farms. Great content all the same!

  • @lasereyes555
    @lasereyes555 9 місяців тому

    I’m curious, since they shredded everything into pieces, what do they use all that shredded corns for?

  • @giuseppebacoccola9209
    @giuseppebacoccola9209 Рік тому

    Straordinaria organizzazione complimenti 👍

  • @eddyandresfernandezmarin8990
    @eddyandresfernandezmarin8990 10 місяців тому

    Saludos desde Costa Rica

  • @paulpeters5199
    @paulpeters5199 2 роки тому

    Oh yeah good cup of coffee and snacks and I'm good to go I was curious how fast are the choppers are running great video and keep up the great work

    • @paulpeters5199
      @paulpeters5199 2 роки тому

      Roughly how much is each wagon weighing in at

  • @westernwifarmer9770
    @westernwifarmer9770 2 роки тому

    All the land must be close to the dairy im assuming since they are using all them pull boxes????

  • @michaels4841
    @michaels4841 2 роки тому +1

    Claas Jaguar and Fliegl push-off trailers, it is surprising to see so much German vehicles in the USA. At 25:05 the cam crashes with a chain - bad luck.

  • @hubertwebb9869
    @hubertwebb9869 2 роки тому

    Do they cover those giant piles of silage with tarps after a period of drying?

  • @hubertwebb9869
    @hubertwebb9869 2 роки тому +2

    How long does that 80,000 ton of silage last the dairy cows?

  • @bickabraham2397
    @bickabraham2397 2 роки тому

    They ought use the same wheel configuration as what they use in garbage dumps for compacting the silage .

  • @kathymcbride2425
    @kathymcbride2425 Рік тому

    love it x

  • @emadeldinhessain3272
    @emadeldinhessain3272 2 роки тому

    Great. Well done.

  • @annkus3
    @annkus3 2 роки тому

    How do you get the rest of the corn out of the ground. Those roots really grab on.

  • @markbrett4273
    @markbrett4273 2 роки тому

    Mike, I love watching your videos very informative. Mike I would like to get one of your farm hats.How can I get one?

  • @boagrious101
    @boagrious101 2 роки тому

    looks like the CIH and JCB tractors have the faster hydrualics with the JCB having a slight edge. The John Deere's appear to take a little longer. Not a dig at all just an observation I love these silage videos see you at the national farm machinery show 2022 Mike.

    • @coreysandness2529
      @coreysandness2529 2 роки тому

      The John Deere are pulling larger wagons, they have three axles and are longer. That could be the difference in time

    • @boagrious101
      @boagrious101 2 роки тому

      @@coreysandness2529 Figured since we were both interested I'd do some digging and these are specs a pulled from tractordatabase.com. JD 8120 has a 37 gallon capacity, and flows at 33.5 gpm and 2900 psi max pressure. A CIH magnum 275 has a capacity of 45.5 gallons and flows at 44 gpm but they have a 59 gpm option as well as a twin flow pump option that flows 75gpms, they didn't however have the max pressure listed. Finally and I kind of guessed at the model number but the specs on a JCB 8330 is 39.6 gallon capacity and flow rate of 36.2 gpm or 47 gpm depending on the option and a max pressure of 3045psi. Would really like to try one of those JCB's on my hay roller just to see how it rides. All that said they were several minutes at the beginning and end where the CIH and JD were pulling tri-axle wagons together.

  • @neontriangle274
    @neontriangle274 4 дні тому

    so why did they cut through the middle of the field? i saw a lot of wasted silage go out the back of the trailer, why not just stay on the outside like before?

  • @user-qp1ns9wj7s
    @user-qp1ns9wj7s 2 роки тому

    Это лучше любого сериала )!!

  • @DrMGomezJr
    @DrMGomezJr 2 роки тому

    What a view...