I did what you and Travis were doing in that video one time;in about a week ,on my uncle s farm we filled up an 80 feet high cement silo using a JD2130 on a NH #56 blower,a JD2350(the tractor i used) carrying and unloading 2 Dion 20 feet long sillage wagons and a rented JD6400 pulling a JD chopper like yours!Great times! ;)
Man.. I have such fond memories as a young kid that this video rekindled. A warm summer night with my bedroom window open, falling asleep to that growl of my neighbor chopping alfalfa.
i'm from Ireland and i just wanted to say i think its great u run a fleet of john deere tractors we only have a 6430 john deere and a case 5150 that runs our cattle only farm
it's nice to see how it's done in other countries, since here in norway we're lucky if we have 1 week of sun, we have one JD, one valmet and a old volvo bm
Most corn is harvested with a combine and used for animal feed, ethanol, plastic, and human consumption (corn syrup, corn chips and mass products, etc.).
Cool Video!! There is one job i really enjoy, and that's silage like this or grass silage, with high dump and dump truck or or buggy, Tons of fun!! the old 4440 looks like it does a great job!
id say theres some drive off that cutter on the back of the jd i cat call it a harverster like we do in ireland because ye call the harverster the silo/ bin as wed call it
you can really see a difference in the parts of the state.. I grew up in Northeastern Wisconsin our corn never got ripe enough till late August early September it may be all them hills and different soils to get yours planted earlier maybe also shorter day corn perhaps maybe both. that corn dried off nicely looks like heavy ears, But I see that High Dollar green equipment I almost shudder to think about it
Everything is so cool and seems easy. One thing , whats the machine called in which you was transferring the cut corn. Please make a video of that too. We would like to know more about it thank you very much for the video
I Like the way you farm. Reminds me of my childhood when it needed to be profitable. Farmers in Europe are getting extinct due to subsidary politics of EU and crazy overinvestment.. We hardky have any cattle anymore in my country and all farmers are in huge debt. Many of them are obliged to go broke as their farms must remain for legal- environmental reasons. So farmers sometimes have a regular day job to pay the bills and do farming after work at night.
now this is farming lol all i see is big cash crop stuff its great to see a two row pull type harvester. we use a high dump wagon into a mayer forage trailer rather then wagon but me and my dad can put corn way quick. id like to go back to switching wagons like that but it wouldn't work with 2 guys. when i was6 years old my dad had a jd pull type like that.
Ryan, I love your videos. I have a small suggestion. Maybe you could give a very brief name and descriptoin of the machinary you use, how many acres that was, etc. It's just that most folks don't have any exposure to farming at all, it would be good to educate a bit. Was the drought up there as bad as it is down here in S Indiana? Was that corn planted specifically for your cows to eat, or was it just stunted? Don't have to answer any of that, lol. Thanks for sharing your work.
It ferments... yeast/bacteria in an anaerobic (no oxygen) environment will eat some of the sugar in the fodder and produce lactic acid and alcohol, which act as natural preservatives-- it's too acidic for bad bacteria and molds to make the stuff "rot" into humus. It heats a little but then stops as the lactic acid builds up to sufficient levels to "pickle" it, essentially. It's the same basic process as making cucumber pickles, only you add white vinegar and pickling spices and salt to make pickles instead of using naturally-produced lactic acid (and a slight amount of alcohol produced by natural and ever-present wild yeasts). Of course, making good silage is predicated upon SEALING OUT THE OXYGEN, which Harvestores are very good at, since their essentially "airtight". Concrete stave silos usually aren't as well sealed, and the top is usually exposed to air, so the first couple feet or so of silage on top tends to be pretty nasty. Bunker or pit silos rely on using heavy tractors or equipment to spread and pack the silage down tight, driving over it to squash it down and press out most of the oxygen-- what remains is rapidly used up inside the packed silage and then the fermentation process "pickles" the rest... A good tight cover of plastic and heavy objects (usually old tires since they're cheap and heavy) completes the seal... the outer layers are usually kinda nasty but the better the seal the less waste there is. Later! OL J R :)
Do they still call that a model 38 chopper? Years ago out west my Dad and I used to chop 200000 tons of corn per year as a custom operator. He had a three row self propelled JD and two 38's. We pulled one with a 4020 and the other with a 4520
Its just cow corn, u chop it while the stalk is still green and while the cernals aren't to hard for the harvestor to break, cause I assume his doesn't have a con smasher
How Farms Work That is awesome. I work for the NASDA as a statistician. The GPS guided vehicles for farming can run up to $300,000 on the low end. I'm very impressed.
Damn Ryan you were skinny as hell here. It’s crazy how your videos have changed (for the the better) over the years. Though the older ones are still great.
How Farms Work I do not like musics in work place. Please, keep your video out of fake sounds (musics). I love the song of the nature instead. It is true sounds of life.
Sorry to sound like a dummy but is silage the cob and the stalk both ? Or just the stalk ? Again sorry to sound like a cidiot lol OLF term .. i do live in the country in the mountains of PA,, and grow my own Large (for me) half acre hobby farm ...i am retired and is the most relaxing thing i do,, well for a 52 year old lol..
Good eye! I missed that too the first time I watched it-- after reading your comment had to go back and see for myself-- you're right! The bearing is shot and the tire rolls a little then slides a little on the chopper... Hope they didn't road it that way or they'd probably ruin a tire. Not good for it even sliding out in the dirt like that... Later! OL J R :)
i evny you the great life of beein a farmer, i got a small farm, but its hard to make money of it here in norway if you dont have a huuuge farm so now its all rented out to one of the big farmers. :(
Out of every single video you have, this one is still by far my favorite one!! Keep up the good work!
I did what you and Travis were doing in that video one time;in about a week ,on my uncle s farm we filled up an 80 feet high cement silo using a JD2130 on a NH #56 blower,a JD2350(the tractor i used) carrying and unloading 2 Dion 20 feet long sillage wagons and a rented JD6400 pulling a JD chopper like yours!Great times! ;)
I don't understand why people downvote these videos - unless their allergic to working long days in the clean, country air!
Cause of unprotected PTOs.
"Unprotected" PTOs and vegans.
Nope, I think it's that 4 letter word, ' work '. Some people got nuffin better to do.
I just would like to say how much I appreciate movies like these. Keep on doing more of them.
Man.. I have such fond memories as a young kid that this video rekindled.
A warm summer night with my bedroom window open, falling asleep to that growl of my neighbor chopping alfalfa.
This is the way we did it when I was a kid, except we had pits instead of silos. Lots of work. Love the smell of pickled silage in the winter.
Didn’t know #chopping corn silage would be so easy! Very well explained video showing proper utilization of #machine. Nice work
i love your videos and your farms and your tractors plus keep up the good work
I kinda like these older episodes. Very cinematic, especially the end.
I miss chopping corn in the fall!!
Just saw this video realizing that the video was on the 27 of July and that is my birthday.
Same
i'm from Ireland and i just wanted to say i think its great u run a fleet of john deere tractors we only have a 6430 john deere and a case 5150 that runs our cattle only farm
Your videos are some of the best.Don't stop!!
it's nice to see how it's done in other countries, since here in norway we're lucky if we have 1 week of sun, we have one JD, one valmet and a old volvo bm
very interesting. Never seen the whole process before. Thanks for filming it!
I've got to say this video was both interesting and enjoyable for me a city boy.
2020 you have come alongway congrats
Thanks!
Love the land gestion and rotation on this farm.Real family farm with respect for the nature and future.Keep it this way.
We used to plant sorghum in with corn rows in the fields we new we were going to chop. Sure sweetened up the silage.
Nice to see! My mom was from Lady Smith.
Most corn is harvested with a combine and used for animal feed, ethanol, plastic, and human consumption (corn syrup, corn chips and mass products, etc.).
great video, the 4440 is looking great.
I live in wisconsin
Awesome video, and very good filming!! Thanks!!
Cool Video!! There is one job i really enjoy, and that's silage like this or grass silage, with high dump and dump truck or or buggy, Tons of fun!! the old 4440 looks like it does a great job!
depends on size our field that we do silage with takes about 2 days
cool !! we just have the one 5095 m but we also have a Case/ David Brown 990 and a Valtra 700
id say theres some drive off that cutter on the back of the jd i cat call it a harverster like we do in ireland because ye call the harverster the silo/ bin as wed call it
Thats a clean ol 4440. Ive always wanted to chop silage but we dont have cattle. Mabey someday!!!
Great to see how it use to be done before these big silage combined
What a lovely Setup! Good condition for an old 40 like that ay!
Older tractors come in handy around farm to run silage equipment !
always did love filling silo and chopping corn silage I sit at My Computer just wanting to be there filling the silo for you
you can really see a difference in the parts of the state.. I grew up in Northeastern Wisconsin our corn never got ripe enough till late August early September it may be all them hills and different soils to get yours planted earlier maybe also shorter day corn perhaps maybe both. that corn dried off nicely looks like heavy ears, But I see that High Dollar green equipment I almost shudder to think about it
Everything is so cool and seems easy. One thing , whats the machine called in which you was transferring the cut corn. Please make a video of that too. We would like to know more about it thank you very much for the video
wow potosi i live in fennimore, wi that like 30 minutes away
I Like the way you farm. Reminds me of my childhood when it needed to be profitable. Farmers in Europe are getting extinct due to subsidary politics of EU and crazy overinvestment.. We hardky have any cattle anymore in my country and all farmers are in huge debt. Many of them are obliged to go broke as their farms must remain for legal- environmental reasons. So farmers sometimes have a regular day job to pay the bills and do farming after work at night.
Here in Holland the corn season isn't earlier than October.
love the john deere working
now this is farming lol all i see is big cash crop stuff its great to see a two row pull type harvester. we use a high dump wagon into a mayer forage trailer rather then wagon but me and my dad can put corn way quick. id like to go back to switching wagons like that but it wouldn't work with 2 guys. when i was6 years old my dad had a jd pull type like that.
Ryan, I love your videos. I have a small suggestion. Maybe you could give a very brief name and descriptoin of the machinary you use, how many acres that was, etc. It's just that most folks don't have any exposure to farming at all, it would be good to educate a bit.
Was the drought up there as bad as it is down here in S Indiana? Was that corn planted specifically for your cows to eat, or was it just stunted?
Don't have to answer any of that, lol. Thanks for sharing your work.
If you didn't use the corn for silage then what would it be used for?
that's a serious combination. I never saw that. We Always use selfdrivers, Jaguars mostly. Does that combine function on wet soil too?
Love the sound !!!!
one I want purchase this send price this MECH Ashiqhussain from Pakistan
Im curious what you guys spend on diesel per yr for all your tractors
july 27 2012? pretty early to be chopping corn? we usually are in september
Dedra Kuhn don't want dry 🌽 for silage.
2012 was a drought year for most of the midwest. I remember a lot of corn getting harvested early that year
Great video. What number chopper
What about the ears? Or the cobs? Do you harvest them separately?
This grinds everything down - ears and cobs included.
You make some really good videos
hi please work done where can get the silage machiny
how long does it take to finish one field
Does that chopper have a corn processer on it?
how long does that take with that small harvester?
When do you make the painful decision to cut a cash crop for feed...i.e., how far in advance of possible catastrophe must one act?
A lot of farmers raise corn for the feed sometimes you will make more putting it into cattle other times not
Harvesters produce the best feed, little tough if the unloaded breaks down but good silage.....
What's that old Deere on the blower I love ole Deere's
4020
what is this unitin the back who collect the chopped corn?
how do you prevent corn heating in a tower?
It ferments... yeast/bacteria in an anaerobic (no oxygen) environment will eat some of the sugar in the fodder and produce lactic acid and alcohol, which act as natural preservatives-- it's too acidic for bad bacteria and molds to make the stuff "rot" into humus. It heats a little but then stops as the lactic acid builds up to sufficient levels to "pickle" it, essentially. It's the same basic process as making cucumber pickles, only you add white vinegar and pickling spices and salt to make pickles instead of using naturally-produced lactic acid (and a slight amount of alcohol produced by natural and ever-present wild yeasts).
Of course, making good silage is predicated upon SEALING OUT THE OXYGEN, which Harvestores are very good at, since their essentially "airtight". Concrete stave silos usually aren't as well sealed, and the top is usually exposed to air, so the first couple feet or so of silage on top tends to be pretty nasty. Bunker or pit silos rely on using heavy tractors or equipment to spread and pack the silage down tight, driving over it to squash it down and press out most of the oxygen-- what remains is rapidly used up inside the packed silage and then the fermentation process "pickles" the rest... A good tight cover of plastic and heavy objects (usually old tires since they're cheap and heavy) completes the seal... the outer layers are usually kinda nasty but the better the seal the less waste there is.
Later! OL J R :)
alway wonderd how you got the stuf out of those damn wagons
Do they still call that a model 38 chopper? Years ago out west my Dad and I used to chop 200000 tons of corn per year as a custom operator. He had a three row self propelled JD and two 38's. We pulled one with a 4020 and the other with a 4520
They now call it a 3970. That's the main model anyways, there are smaller and larger models.
I am looking for this machine exactly. may I know where can I get this ? and what is its cost?
Go to tractorhouse.com it has the stuff for farming
you can also go to Craigslist.org and find everything there to
can you tell me the name of that machine,..
Ryan how would you plant corn silage
Its just cow corn, u chop it while the stalk is still green and while the cernals aren't to hard for the harvestor to break, cause I assume his doesn't have a con smasher
Chris Fischer with a regular corn planter
Absolutely love your videos man! Thanks for posting these. I'm very interested in all this.
What were you feeding it into at 3:47
an auger which puts it into storage
Is this tractor one of the GPS guided ones ??
Nope! We're just that good ;)
How Farms Work
That is awesome. I work for the NASDA as a statistician. The GPS guided vehicles for farming can run up to $300,000 on the low end. I'm very impressed.
do you ever get multiple cuts of corn in one season?
m brady gtaming nope, one cut only.
It’s a shame you guys couldn’t have kept the 4440, even if it was getting tired it looked really good.
green green and more green :D Lol I use a S717 NH one row with a ford 5000 turbo hi crop in 2nd gear on 2100 RPM
Damn Ryan you were skinny as hell here. It’s crazy how your videos have changed (for the the better) over the years. Though the older ones are still great.
have work on many farms where they chop corn just like this vid
what is realy weird.all the same kind of equipment i have work with,exact same.tractors,chopper,blower,wagons
Great job on the video..
How do you like that style of blower?
How long does it take u to fill a wagon?
If i remember correctly i think it depends on the yield (could be wrong)
Yeah yield is one of the factors in time to fill...probably also other things
+Vincent Sluga like maturity of corn
Before I read the discription, I was thinking that looks like Wisconsin.
What is the price of this machine
That's my birthday at the beginning
Do you still chop silage
How Farms Work# Please give name song from 8:29 Please !!!
I do not know, I made this video two years ago, and no longer have the music file names.
I very sad :((((((((
How Farms Work
I do not like musics in work place. Please, keep your video out of fake sounds (musics). I love the song of the nature instead. It is true sounds of life.
What’s with the sound going on and off some in that video
What name music form 8:29 ?
What music is that at 8:29?????
PTO covers please.
Really like your channel, keep it up!
Sorry to sound like a dummy but is silage the cob and the stalk both ? Or just the stalk ? Again sorry to sound like a cidiot lol OLF term .. i do live in the country in the mountains of PA,, and grow my own Large (for me) half acre hobby farm ...i am retired and is the most relaxing thing i do,, well for a 52 year old lol..
Corn silage is the whole plant! Thanks for watching!
do you all use TMR up there?
good stuff, thanks.
whats the name of the music ???
Was your grandparents around at this time?
Yep, both were alive
it is a very good video but no one sees that the left tire on the chopper that the bearing is froze up and tire is not moving
Good eye! I missed that too the first time I watched it-- after reading your comment had to go back and see for myself-- you're right! The bearing is shot and the tire rolls a little then slides a little on the chopper...
Hope they didn't road it that way or they'd probably ruin a tire. Not good for it even sliding out in the dirt like that...
Later! OL J R :)
Loved the video; Do you know of anyone who does projects for feedlots?
where are you guys based out of?
i evny you the great life of beein a farmer, i got a small farm, but its hard to make money of it here in norway if you dont have a huuuge farm so now its all rented out to one of the big farmers. :(
hey cool video !! How many John Deere tractors do you have ??
cody harrison now they have 4 tractors a 4020,4640,7600 and and 8325r the rest they sold in an auction
Always protect your shaft
Wow that is really great love the videos
Great video
what town in Wisconsin
what that on your neck ?