Well that was worth waiting for Adrian,not even rot on front of silage pit ! Always seen rotting grass in front of pit,, great start to your winter feeding 👍 anyway Merry Christmas and Happy new year to you and yours matey🍻
Same lads cut for us 3 days before you and they are th soundest lads doing it and when they say something they mean it and since getting then in has brought better silage and thats very important
Christmas came early! Your honesty was one of the first things that drew me to the channel. It's probably the same for a lot of your fans. Great to see a good outcome from the experiment!
It is so lovely to see you so happy and so enthusiastic about the job, people don’t understand our pride in what we do! When it isn’t right, it’s like tooth ache or a head ache; it’s in your head hurting for days. Keep going, we all love it. Ps hope the little one is sleeping well. Merry Christmas Adrian, Mrs Adrian and your lovely happy girls. Richard - Brunyee Salers of Dorset.
My father said he remembers covering turf or hay with plastic years ago. Always one side worse than other. Probably due to condensation and weather hitting it. Great channel, Niall and father Brendan Mullen 🙂👍
Very well done Adrian, its the walls that create a bid off un avoidable waste, but obviously u need them for health and safety, u hardly a have a barrow of waste there so you can be proud.
That's probably the sidewall the most rain runs down. "Farming with the pattersons" is a young lads dairy farm channel in NI, he's a good bank of video for watching over the Christmas. He learning from Adrian, Gerry,Phil, and Tp. A few extra subs, he might get the price of a drone in the sales.
The pit looks good, as you said risky messing about with a farmer's fodder, people wouldn't realise the cost of a foot deep of rotten silage on a pit 😨.
Perfect video, love factual content and not some of that contrived stuff some UA-camrs put up. Always love watching your input as it’s always an education of some sort 👍. Onwards & upwards Adrian.
Well done grate to see your pit is so good as you say only farmers will know what it's like opening pit .glad you stopped video for dad that is emportent he knows what anticipating you have good to see pit is good 👍
Wow great pit of grass!! FairPlay to the men who gave you the covers for standing by their word!!! Look forward to seeing how it goes further into it!!!
Adrian happy Christmas to you and your family have a good one,thanks for all the videos over the year looking forward to 2022 and more videos brilliant honest stuff that’s what we like to see here in west Clare ,well done Adrian 🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶
Could the reason for that side always having problems be down to the prevailing wind/rain? Or possible the drainage? Can't see what else could cause you to have problems in the same spot year on year
Great to see you’re so happy mate. Like to see satisfaction eh! I wonder if there has been some water ingress via the porous concrete? Maybe seal the concrete after water blasting the pit next year? Just speculation mate , but I do know that concrete tends to absorb water over time
Well done great video very nice looks good 👍 wish you and your family a happy Christmas and thanks for the enjoyment you have given us all year keep it up 🚜
My god It looks good enough to eat !!! But and there is always a But What did your Dad think ??? Always good to get a 2nd opinion, from a wish head. A very Happy Christmas to you all. I hope you get plenty of time to relax enjoy the family and maybe a shot or two or some « Irish Water of Life « All the best from Nice France
that silage looks perfect, do you think that plastic on the inside of the wall will help, anyhow great video. and a very merry xmas to you and your family.
The silage looks pretty good, a bit dry perhaps but looking forward to the true test - if the wee beastys eat it. I still havent got my head around not using tyres, i get that some people think its not green. I beg to differ, Tyre will exist and be the by product of transport for years to come. The best bit of using tyres is that your recycling. Giving somthing a second use is better than it being disposed of after a single use. Its going to be really good for you not getting covered in wet gunge stripping the pit back through the winter - that is a huge positive, a job i hated with every sinue of by being. Thanks for sharing your experiment and results, Its great having it come direct from a farmer than a sales pitch from a manufacturer. Still wish i could get over and put some work in for you, You are an absolute top bloke. Happy Christmas to you and your family and all the best for the New Year.
Well the results speak for themselves. Look very good at leat now that's one worrie off your mind . I don't think anyone that has watched you from the start would say your not brutally honest, and that what I like about your channel. I have to say the sand bags look the job, my dad was a man for covering the pit with dung for years . Ah the memories of trying to put back the sheet in the hight of the winter 🥶 then we moved to tyers ,what a difference but you would still be drowned and covered is s..t , but the sand bags look great. I would have thought smaller heavier bags would be better on the sides and maybe two side by side to increase the surface area . Anyway great video and happy Christmas to you and yours
Do you moderate or delete posts? I posted a comment yesterday; it has disappeared. I shared this: "Silage at the top surface near bunker silo walls is notorious for excessive spoilage. Borreani and Tabacco (2010), in a survey of 54 corn silage bunker silos, noted elevated temperatures at the top of the silo near the wall even in silos with no visible spoilage under the film. This is because it is almost impossible to seal this joint to exclude air and runoff water. Recently, the practice of lining the walls of bunker silos with plastic and lapping at least 1.2 m of the plastic over the top of the forage when the silo is full and then applying a top layer of plastic over the lapped plastic has proven an effective way to seal that joint (Bolsen, 2006). Muck and Holmes (2009) showed losses were lower and fermentation products were higher when the wall was lined with plastic compared with when a top cover of plastic alone was held against the bunker silo wall with gravel-filled bags. Borreani and Tabacco (2014) compared 200-μm PE to a 130-μm OB film in 2 farm bunker silos where the walls were lined with the same films used for the top cover. Even using film down the wall, samples in the upper parts of the silo near the wall showed higher DM losses than those far from the wall. There was also a significant interaction of film type and distance from the wall, with the difference in DM losses relative to the wall smaller using the OB film. Lima et al. (2017) evaluated 2 covering systems in 8 dairy farm bunker silos: an OB film (45 μm thick) on the walls, which extended approximately 2 m over the top, compared with no wall film. Both treatments had a single layer of standard PE film (180 μm thick) top cover. The shoulder silage under the OB film was similar to that in the central core of the silo (positive control) and significantly better than the shoulder silage under the standard covering system, with lower counts of spoilage microorganisms, lower DM loss, and greater estimated milk per tonne of silage. These effects were more pronounced at 0 to 101 cm from the wall (Lima et al., 2017)." www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030218303205 Might be helpful to you.
No I haven’t deleted anything in weeks, so if it was posted yesterday it should definitely still be there. I only delete bad language or vulgar statements as I don’t want young kids to read them. It could of went straight to spam if there was a link attached to it so i’ll check that and if it has i’ll approve it. That’s good info to have for sure, that wall facing the south and gets battered by the rain and wind so that’s probably the cause right there. Thanks Gerry 👍
@@IFarmWeFarm It is possible I had a senior moment and deleted it in error when editing!! (54 yrs old and messing up more often) Someone else has also recommended lining the walls with plastic in an earlier comment. I grew up on a farm, in Longford, and Johnston Farm Machinery is at the end of my road! I did Agricultural Engineering at UCD in the late 1980s, so I'm always interested in the technical side of farming. I live in London though, so no farming for me! You have a great channel Adrian, and keep a great farm, always improving and developing, very impressive. Best wishes for 2022
Hello Adrian, a Dutch dairyfarmer here, watch your great video's for about 1,5 year. What silages additives do you use in Ireland. Merry Christmas and a happy new year everyone.
Great video again.its great to see little or no waste in the pit. Another tip for you is to get plastic pallets for the bags as they won’t rot or break..wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas and a great new year 🎉🎉
Great looking silage adrian. I have the same problem at 1 side of our pit. I bought L walls a few years ago for the front of the pit. It was the best money I ever spent. No waste whatsoever and safe for rolling. Happy Christmas 👍👍
Adrian: where does your weather come from? Would the rain/moisture settle against the wall on the left of the clump as you face it? Is that the colder wall where condensation might occur? So glad to see you so motivated and happy.
That’s a south facing wall so rain hits it’s head on, that probably has a lot to do with it, but I was surprised to see it still get through the side covers. 👍
@@IFarmWeFarm Adrian: don’t think it gets through the cover as my much as the colder wall creates a temp drop that allows condensation inside the pit. I am thinking you couldn’t have done a better job. There’s moisture in the silage with the covers on and the cooler wall allows it to condense. Like when warm air hits the side of a cooler beverage bottle-condensation occurs. You’ve done the very best with what you’ve got. Excellent as always, man!
If you want a good, thorough honest Review theres not many better men 👍🏻 impressive results Adrian great stuff
Well that was worth waiting for Adrian,not even rot on front of silage pit ! Always seen rotting grass in front of pit,, great start to your winter feeding 👍 anyway Merry Christmas and Happy new year to you and yours matey🍻
Same lads cut for us 3 days before you and they are th soundest lads doing it and when they say something they mean it and since getting then in has brought better silage and thats very important
Class vid adrian, keep up the great work!
Great to hear your opinion Adrian, on the sandbags as I'm well used to getting soaked by them filthy tyres
Fantastic upload yet again!
I am so happy (and a little bit relieved) for you. You work so hard and it's good to see things working out well for you. Great silage and great film.
Adrian, I don’t think anyone can question your honesty. The feed does really look good. Thank you for sharing.🐄🐄🐄
Looking good 👍friend very little waste to fork out keep the great work up and please keep the great videos coming friend from Scotland 👍😀
Christmas came early! Your honesty was one of the first things that drew me to the channel. It's probably the same for a lot of your fans.
Great to see a good outcome from the experiment!
Cheers Eamon 👍
Well said Eamon👍
👍
AGREE
It is so lovely to see you so happy and so enthusiastic about the job, people don’t understand our pride in what we do! When it isn’t right, it’s like tooth ache or a head ache; it’s in your head hurting for days. Keep going, we all love it. Ps hope the little one is sleeping well. Merry Christmas Adrian, Mrs Adrian and your lovely happy girls.
Richard - Brunyee Salers of Dorset.
Holy cow it scared the crap out of me when u opened it up it’s a great grass 👍👍
Seasons greetings to you and your family
Nice one Adrian got to be happy with only a little wastage.
That silage is sure lookin good stuff,could the weather be hitting that side of pit alot more.
My father said he remembers covering turf or hay with plastic years ago. Always one side worse than other. Probably due to condensation and weather hitting it. Great channel, Niall and father Brendan Mullen 🙂👍
Very well done Adrian, its the walls that create a bid off un avoidable waste, but obviously u need them for health and safety, u hardly a have a barrow of waste there so you can be proud.
That's a brilliant result Adrian, well worth trying it out. Nothing ventured nothing gained and think you are after gaining big time. Great stuff 👍
Great to see Adrian, can understand how nervous it is when opening the pit. A lot of money invested in making silage.
Congratulations on such a nice looking silage pit - looking forward to seeing the test results in January
Great results in the pit. Happy Christmas from Kilkenny.
That's probably the sidewall the most rain runs down. "Farming with the pattersons" is a young lads dairy farm channel in NI, he's a good bank of video for watching over the Christmas. He learning from Adrian, Gerry,Phil, and Tp. A few extra subs, he might get the price of a drone in the sales.
I’ll check him out and give him a sub, cheers lad👍
The pit looks good, as you said risky messing about with a farmer's fodder, people wouldn't realise the cost of a foot deep of rotten silage on a pit 😨.
Perfect video, love factual content and not some of that contrived stuff some UA-camrs put up. Always love watching your input as it’s always an education of some sort 👍. Onwards & upwards Adrian.
Cheers lad 👍
Well done grate to see your pit is so good as you say only farmers will know what it's like opening pit .glad you stopped video for dad that is emportent he knows what anticipating you have good to see pit is good 👍
Another great video Adrian the silage looks great 👍 Adrian merry Christmas to you and your family 🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶
And your Sandy 👍
That silage Adrian is just brilliant brilliant brilliant well done result 💪👍👍👍
Gr8 stuff adrian. So pleased for you. Congrats on a job well done. 👏
Great video thanks hope you and your family have a merry Christmas from northern Wisconsin USA
Wow great pit of grass!! FairPlay to the men who gave you the covers for standing by their word!!! Look forward to seeing how it goes further into it!!!
I didn't even watch the video but I know it will be great!
Adrian happy Christmas to you and your family have a good one,thanks for all the videos over the year looking forward to 2022 and more videos brilliant honest stuff that’s what we like to see here in west Clare ,well done Adrian 🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶🤶
Merry Christmas to you and your family from Saskatchewan, Canada.
Loader man is the key to good pit silage, nothing will compensate if the pit isn't rolled well.
That’s very true
So pleased for you Adrian with the silage it must be a great relief. To solve the problem of quad sharing why not buy 4 more !!! ( sorry)
I never thought I’d be fascinated by silage. Could the prevailing wind and rain be blowing into the left-hand side more than the right?
Yes that could very well be the culprit, that wall faces the south so it gets hit hard. Thank you 👍
Great video as always I really enjoy watching your videos and I would love to be back farming your pit looks good
Could the reason for that side always having problems be down to the prevailing wind/rain? Or possible the drainage? Can't see what else could cause you to have problems in the same spot year on year
I wish uTube had smelly vision I can only imagine how divine that Silage smells… like a mown meadow in Summer mmmmmmm 😋😋😋👌.
Great Video Adrian. Delighted for you that the pit turned out great. Well done. Merry Christmas.
Happy Christmas Adrian and family best wishes for the new year
Good result,Well done.
MERRY CHRISTMAS from the UK.
Great to see you’re so happy mate. Like to see satisfaction eh! I wonder if there has been some water ingress via the porous concrete? Maybe seal the concrete after water blasting the pit next year? Just speculation mate , but I do know that concrete tends to absorb water over time
Yes I would agree with you, that pit was built in 2001 and has never had any sealer put on the walls. I’ll look into that. Cheers mate 👍
@@IFarmWeFarm cheers Adrian. Hey , btw. Have a great Christmas. Enjoy making content mate . Love to see it and listen to your ideas.
Merry Christmas Adrian, you and family
Great result Adrian, your cows are spoiled rotten, or i mean well, keep at her Lad!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Brandon mb Canada
Ye won't be fit to carry it to the cows. They'll hoover it up.
Looks a lot of phaff and expense to achieve same result that is easily possible with side sheets, top sheet and tyres.
That's a perfect pit 👌 we'll done , ull have happy cattle , great video as always
Well done great video very nice looks good 👍 wish you and your family a happy Christmas and thanks for the enjoyment you have given us all year keep it up 🚜
Happy Christmas Adrian and mrs and family !
I could nearly eat that myself 😋😋
Great silage very good important
My god It looks good enough to eat !!! But and there is always a But What did your Dad think ??? Always good to get a 2nd opinion, from a wish head. A very Happy Christmas to you all. I hope you get plenty of time to relax enjoy the family and maybe a shot or two or some « Irish Water of Life « All the best from Nice France
My dads opinion is normally short and sweet, in this case it was a quick smell and a nod of his head 🙈🤣
that silage looks perfect, do you think that plastic on the inside of the wall will help, anyhow great video. and a very merry xmas to you and your family.
whe put 2 covers and cover the pit whitsand never had any waste
Thanks for information n the extra effort it is to film it. U deserved a great result for all your efforts 😎🤠💪
Fantastic, was nervous for Ye there Adrian, great result 🐄 👍🏻
Great Christmas present for you and the farm, good quality silage well done 👏 merry Christmas to you and the family
Delighted to see that Adrian great result , happy Xmas to you all keep up the the good work 👍👍
Great result 👍! Really happy to see that all the effort was rewarded! 🏴
Sure is a game changer , lovely job , well done 👍
Great video as always Great to see the silage turning out go
Good man Adrian. Mighty looking pit.
One wonders what difference it might make if your Concrete Walls were covered with Timber Boards and then Black Plastic?
Don’t really know, see timber can naturally contain and grow mould. It would add a lot of cost too but would be interesting to see for sure 👍
Dont mess with my fodder
Nice looking silage. Great video
The best result b n the tank
Boom! Hahahahahaha. Loved it.
The silage looks pretty good, a bit dry perhaps but looking forward to the true test - if the wee beastys eat it. I still havent got my head around not using tyres, i get that some people think its not green. I beg to differ, Tyre will exist and be the by product of transport for years to come. The best bit of using tyres is that your recycling. Giving somthing a second use is better than it being disposed of after a single use. Its going to be really good for you not getting covered in wet gunge stripping the pit back through the winter - that is a huge positive, a job i hated with every sinue of by being. Thanks for sharing your experiment and results, Its great having it come direct from a farmer than a sales pitch from a manufacturer. Still wish i could get over and put some work in for you, You are an absolute top bloke. Happy Christmas to you and your family and all the best for the New Year.
Thanks mate, appreciate that. Have a great Christmas 👍
Excellent result Adrian Happy Christmas to you and all your care
Thank you, likewise Ciaran 👍
Great enjoyable honest video, but its the smell of pit silage, does your heart good, great stuff Adrian 👍
Very true, cheers Martin
It's nice to be done with the tyres that's for sure! Great video Adrian. Thanks for the info - it's always good to be learning!
Well the results speak for themselves. Look very good at leat now that's one worrie off your mind . I don't think anyone that has watched you from the start would say your not brutally honest, and that what I like about your channel. I have to say the sand bags look the job, my dad was a man for covering the pit with dung for years . Ah the memories of trying to put back the sheet in the hight of the winter 🥶 then we moved to tyers ,what a difference but you would still be drowned and covered is s..t , but the sand bags look great. I would have thought smaller heavier bags would be better on the sides and maybe two side by side to increase the surface area . Anyway great video and happy Christmas to you and yours
Cheers mate, same to you and your 👍
Do you moderate or delete posts? I posted a comment yesterday; it has disappeared. I shared this:
"Silage at the top surface near bunker silo walls is notorious for excessive spoilage. Borreani and Tabacco (2010), in a survey of 54 corn silage bunker silos, noted elevated temperatures at the top of the silo near the wall even in silos with no visible spoilage under the film. This is because it is almost impossible to seal this joint to exclude air and runoff water. Recently, the practice of lining the walls of bunker silos with plastic and lapping at least 1.2 m of the plastic over the top of the forage when the silo is full and then applying a top layer of plastic over the lapped plastic has proven an effective way to seal that joint (Bolsen, 2006). Muck and Holmes (2009) showed losses were lower and fermentation products were higher when the wall was lined with plastic compared with when a top cover of plastic alone was held against the bunker silo wall with gravel-filled bags. Borreani and Tabacco (2014) compared 200-μm PE to a 130-μm OB film in 2 farm bunker silos where the walls were lined with the same films used for the top cover. Even using film down the wall, samples in the upper parts of the silo near the wall showed higher DM losses than those far from the wall. There was also a significant interaction of film type and distance from the wall, with the difference in DM losses relative to the wall smaller using the OB film. Lima et al. (2017) evaluated 2 covering systems in 8 dairy farm bunker silos: an OB film (45 μm thick) on the walls, which extended approximately 2 m over the top, compared with no wall film. Both treatments had a single layer of standard PE film (180 μm thick) top cover. The shoulder silage under the OB film was similar to that in the central core of the silo (positive control) and significantly better than the shoulder silage under the standard covering system, with lower counts of spoilage microorganisms, lower DM loss, and greater estimated milk per tonne of silage. These effects were more pronounced at 0 to 101 cm from the wall (Lima et al., 2017)."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030218303205
Might be helpful to you.
No I haven’t deleted anything in weeks, so if it was posted yesterday it should definitely still be there. I only delete bad language or vulgar statements as I don’t want young kids to read them. It could of went straight to spam if there was a link attached to it so i’ll check that and if it has i’ll approve it. That’s good info to have for sure, that wall facing the south and gets battered by the rain and wind so that’s probably the cause right there. Thanks Gerry 👍
@@IFarmWeFarm It is possible I had a senior moment and deleted it in error when editing!! (54 yrs old and messing up more often)
Someone else has also recommended lining the walls with plastic in an earlier comment. I grew up on a farm, in Longford, and Johnston Farm Machinery is at the end of my road!
I did Agricultural Engineering at UCD in the late 1980s, so I'm always interested in the technical side of farming. I live in London though, so no farming for me!
You have a great channel Adrian, and keep a great farm, always improving and developing, very impressive. Best wishes for 2022
Great result for the silage the time and effort has paid dividends .
Hello Adrian, a Dutch dairyfarmer here, watch your great video's for about 1,5 year.
What silages additives do you use in Ireland.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year everyone.
Great honest opinion and great silage Adrian. Keep up the good work. Another very enjoyable video. Merry Christmas to ya all. Alan.
Great video again.its great to see little or no waste in the pit. Another tip for you is to get plastic pallets for the bags as they won’t rot or break..wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas and a great new year 🎉🎉
Thank Tim, same to you and yours mate
Good honest review 👍
Great video
Great video
No waste now that's good silage
Love your videos, I think they are absolutely brilliant, keep up the good work!
Great result Adrian, very little waste. Enjoying your videos, keep them coming!
Great looking silage adrian. I have the same problem at 1 side of our pit. I bought L walls a few years ago for the front of the pit. It was the best money I ever spent. No waste whatsoever and safe for rolling. Happy Christmas 👍👍
Have you ever tried salt along the wall
No never did, have you had success with this?
@@IFarmWeFarm yeah we put it on when the grass goes in and we have next to no waste
Salt is a great job on the pit well worth doing
@@benwelch2850 that’s interesting, and great info to get. I’ve never heard that of that before. It’s worth a go for sure, thanks for the tip 👌👍
Adrian. People love watching ur videos. U always tell the truth. 👍great silage this year🌟.we be the same when we open our bale's. For the horse's 🌟🚜🚜
Great vid Adrian wishing you and your family very happy Christmas 🎄
Really looks good although the smell is always the acid test (forgive pun).
👍👍. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
And yours mate 👍
Lovely pit of silage Adrian,really enjoy the channel,always very interesting and informative, Merry Christmas to you and all the family
Honesty......is best...
Oh the smell must be great
Great video again
Great video adrian as always delighted it worked out for you. Happy Christmas to you and your family
Theirs milk in that pit 😂 very good
Hopefully so 😜
Great silage lad
Great video
Adrian: where does your weather come from? Would the rain/moisture settle against the wall on the left of the clump as you face it? Is that the colder wall where condensation might occur? So glad to see you so motivated and happy.
That’s a south facing wall so rain hits it’s head on, that probably has a lot to do with it, but I was surprised to see it still get through the side covers. 👍
@@IFarmWeFarm Adrian: don’t think it gets through the cover as my much as the colder wall creates a temp drop that allows condensation inside the pit. I am thinking you couldn’t have done a better job. There’s moisture in the silage with the covers on and the cooler wall allows it to condense. Like when warm air hits the side of a cooler beverage bottle-condensation occurs. You’ve done the very best with what you’ve got. Excellent as always, man!
You're always going to have a bit of waste Adrian but i think it's going to be minimal in that pit. Silage looks great from what i can see👍
Sound for video Adrian, thats a great job and very little waste in pit.