So awesome to see you guys have really improved your operation over the past year with the 2+2 and combin and new chopper head. Next year will be all profit and bigger fields keep it up boys I'll watch all of them
@@boehmfarm4276 Yup that's the thing most non-farm (and some who DO farm) don't get... it's a SYSTEM and improvements in one part of the system mean backups elsewhere, necessitating improvements in other parts as well... has to be a WELL BALANCED approach! For instance I've lost count of the number of comments I've read on various farming channels about "get a bigger combine-- dump the 6 row head get a 12 row head" and all this sort of stuff but when you DO then you find you need an auger cart twice as big, or two carts, or another semi, or a leg and pit to unload faster, or all sorts of other things... otherwise the combine just SITS twice as long waiting on the auger cart to get unloaded and back, or the truck to get unloaded and return, etc... My BIL has about the perfect setup... 9600 Deere combine with an 8 row head, 600+ bushel Killbros auger cart, and a semi, plus a couple of big Killbros 450 bushel wagons for hauling corn to the bin. When we're running stuff straight to town and got everything humming, I'd have the cart staged for him while I made a run to town. He'd fill it and fill the combine and usually be sitting about 5-10 minutes at most before I got back, sometimes I made it back just as he was filling the combine full. I'd park the semi, jump down and get in the cart tractor, he'd pull up to the semi and dump the combine, then I'd pull in behind and dump the cart, by which time he'd be back in the field and have another part load, I'd chase the combine and empty him out again, run back and top off the truck, stage the cart right by where he was picking, jump down and roll the tarp, hop in the semi, and hook and book it to town, weigh in, unload, weigh out, grab the scale ticket, and hook it back out to the farm just in time to do it all over again. THAT is a well balanced system, where everything is performing at peak efficiency. When the nephew was available to run cart or drive truck, we could ALL pretty well go nonstop. Shelling corn to put in the bin usually went well too... use the cart to hold the load while the full wagons are pulled up to the bin and augered in, go back by which time the cart was full and combine had just filled or was about just full, and do it all over again. Does NOBODY any good to have a mega-size machine, if it's sitting most of the time waiting on the cart or trucks or wagons to empty out and get back so it can go back to work... OL J R :)
Just read an ag news blurb that every county in Ohio has been declared an agriculture disaster area because of late planting or no planting ! If that corn was planted in July it did pretty well I'd say , just right for your purposes , old girl looks to be doing pretty well better make all the feed you can gonna be a long winter !! Thanks for the video !!
We did fairly well for being a disaster. One local farmer had hundreds of acres of corn replanted late to satisfy insurance. I wanted to see if he would sell it to us for Silage so we could stock pile for a few years, but you'll see soon why that wouldn't work out for us.
Sorry it didn't work for whatever reason but around here I'm pretty sure you could use that forage off prevent plant acres for feed , but not take it to saleable grain .
It seems to be going well, even though the raccoons are stealing corn. Your father is very good at running that machine. It's not easy, in such a field.
@@boehmfarm4276 You could always plant a camera looking "over his shoulder" in the cab out the front... Was hoping for more views of the header from the cab... OL J R :)
Nice vid... enjoy seeing the chopper, something we don't see down in our part of the world. I only know of one guy who was doing silage with NH pull type and filling a bunker silo, for backgrounding steer calves. I haven't seen him do it in years though, and he was 45 miles away from both farms in between them! Anyway, looks like that corn did really nice and made good silage... You mentioned frost damage-- did you check for Prussic acid poisoning?? Johnsongrass (and to a lesser extent other grass crops like sorghum-sudangrass and grain sorghum and corn) can develop Prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide) due to frost injury... not sure if it's connected to that super-deep green color after it frosts or not. Prussic acid isn't a problem with dry hay even in a stand of nearly pure johnsongrass, because when it's cut and cures down to baling moisture it will naturally outgas with the moisture in the leaves and stems. Green chop and silage is another matter, since it's harvested and put up WET or fed wet so it has no TIME to outgas; same thing happens when frosted johnsongrass is grazed off. Cattle can die of a single mouthful of the stuff if high levels of prussic acid are present... blood turns a bright cherry red due to the cyanide locking the oxygen tightly to the hemoglobin in the blood, supersaturating it with oxygen, but NO oxygen can be released from the blood to the animal's tissues, causing them to asphyxiate. Usually after johnsongrass (or other susceptible grasses) are frosted, if one waits 3-4 days afterwards it will naturally dissipate on its own, and is safe to graze or chop. I think it's sort of a physiological response of the plant to the frost injury. Sudden rains after a drought or prolonged dry spell can cause prussic acid to accumulate too, not sure why, maybe it's the sudden growth spurt after a good rain that does it. I just know you have to be careful about it, and know when to look for it and how to manage it. Later! OL J R :)
Local guy would go to 4th of July parade and go plant late silage corn on his wheat stubble acres. Would top off the silo with those acres and ear pick what was let in December.
Could you offset where you hook the wagon to the chopper so you don't run over the rows on the hills and sharp turns? That 112 day corn was impressive!
you had mentioned cobs would get below the gathering chain. on our new holland header theres cob pushers that are bolted to the chain to keep debris flowing threw and not resting down there. anyone know if these are an option on this type of header?
A local farmer had a hundreds of acres of corn replanted late for insurance. He has no animals. I wanted to make a deal about chopping some of his corn for us to stock pile, but in the next video, we'll see why that wouldn't happen.
Why do you use wide rows? I live in eastern Ontario and I dont know anybody near me who doesn't grow 30 inch corn. I would think that you being in Ohio would benefit from narrow rows. So instead of having a 3 row wide, you could go with a 4 row narrow on your forage harveter. Always a pleasure watching your vids.
@@MrMagnum7220 I know. But I think he is set up that way by design. If he isn't, he will say so. Why ask then? To see another way of looking at things.
We plant wide rows for the ten acres of sweet corn. Narrow rows are tight picking by hand. And I guess we don't want to own two corn planters. I think if we change row spacing, I'd try 24", should be just wide enough for 18.4x38 tires to sneak through. And plant the field corn and beans with it.
@@boehmfarm4276 Thanks for the insight. 18.4s would be a tight fit for sure in 24 inch rows. I know that 20.8s are tight in 30 inch rows. May work though, I don't know.
Hi from NZ,the un fenced fields make me weep,all them inter row weeds ,the odd Cobb,green lower leaves,SHOULD BE GRAZED.Still,you are mostly arable,we are mostly live stock👍🇳🇿
We always seem to be chopping dry corn, so I'm glad it worked out to chop green corn this year. I don't think we had a big storm to race, just chopping green corn late in October.
I don't want 400 cows to feed. I'd be happy with fewer cows. I can sell all we feed our cows for more than we make selling the animals. Then we'd have the time off feeding them everyday back to,,,, I don't know, fix stuff.
@@boehmfarm4276 Yep gotta produce what's making the money. When you said you were getting $1 a pound on the hoof for those finished beeves, I about fell over... is it because they're dairy breeds?? We've been (past tense) getting more than that for Hereford mix calves! The black hide calves the buyers wet themselves over have been bringing $1.45 or more at the sale barns here, and that's for STOCKERS... 500-800 weights! We averaged about a buck a pound for stocker yearlings this fall when we sold, probably due to 1) being red cattle and thus "not as popular" and 2) calf market took a sh!t due to high corn/grain prices... Later! OL J R :)
another entertaining farm show, stay safe Jacob and don't get yourself all chopped up! remember you are the most important tool in the shed!!!
That harvester is in immaculate condition for its age. Nice video
Looks like she’s running good. Love seeing older equipment still getting it done.
Your dad's like my dad used to be. The cross conveyor is just an extra 2' of wagon to fill!
Usually, he leaves it empty, but sometimes you just need the extra space.
Badger wagons bring back fond memories!!!!
So awesome to see you guys have really improved your operation over the past year with the 2+2 and combin and new chopper head. Next year will be all profit and bigger fields keep it up boys I'll watch all of them
I am still searching for this bigger fields. Just trying not to trample all the neighbors toes. Maybe I need a winning lottery ticket.
Good to see you implemented something that saves time, labor fuel etc :)
Adding that third row just about requires another wagon driver.
@@boehmfarm4276 now when the silos fill, if you can fix up the unload-er while you are up there...
@@boehmfarm4276 Yup that's the thing most non-farm (and some who DO farm) don't get... it's a SYSTEM and improvements in one part of the system mean backups elsewhere, necessitating improvements in other parts as well... has to be a WELL BALANCED approach! For instance I've lost count of the number of comments I've read on various farming channels about "get a bigger combine-- dump the 6 row head get a 12 row head" and all this sort of stuff but when you DO then you find you need an auger cart twice as big, or two carts, or another semi, or a leg and pit to unload faster, or all sorts of other things... otherwise the combine just SITS twice as long waiting on the auger cart to get unloaded and back, or the truck to get unloaded and return, etc...
My BIL has about the perfect setup... 9600 Deere combine with an 8 row head, 600+ bushel Killbros auger cart, and a semi, plus a couple of big Killbros 450 bushel wagons for hauling corn to the bin. When we're running stuff straight to town and got everything humming, I'd have the cart staged for him while I made a run to town. He'd fill it and fill the combine and usually be sitting about 5-10 minutes at most before I got back, sometimes I made it back just as he was filling the combine full. I'd park the semi, jump down and get in the cart tractor, he'd pull up to the semi and dump the combine, then I'd pull in behind and dump the cart, by which time he'd be back in the field and have another part load, I'd chase the combine and empty him out again, run back and top off the truck, stage the cart right by where he was picking, jump down and roll the tarp, hop in the semi, and hook and book it to town, weigh in, unload, weigh out, grab the scale ticket, and hook it back out to the farm just in time to do it all over again. THAT is a well balanced system, where everything is performing at peak efficiency. When the nephew was available to run cart or drive truck, we could ALL pretty well go nonstop.
Shelling corn to put in the bin usually went well too... use the cart to hold the load while the full wagons are pulled up to the bin and augered in, go back by which time the cart was full and combine had just filled or was about just full, and do it all over again.
Does NOBODY any good to have a mega-size machine, if it's sitting most of the time waiting on the cart or trucks or wagons to empty out and get back so it can go back to work... OL J R :)
2:14 voicecrack 😂 but that’s why this channel is good
buotta put that to
great minds think alike
I'm trying to overpower the chopper noise.
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Great video, love seeing these old forage harvesters run!
You've come to the right place to see antiquities at work.
Boehm Farm indeed I am!
Just read an ag news blurb that every county in Ohio has been declared an agriculture disaster area because of late planting or no planting ! If that corn was planted in July it did pretty well I'd say , just right for your purposes , old girl looks to be doing pretty well better make all the feed you can gonna be a long winter !! Thanks for the video !!
We did fairly well for being a disaster. One local farmer had hundreds of acres of corn replanted late to satisfy insurance. I wanted to see if he would sell it to us for Silage so we could stock pile for a few years, but you'll see soon why that wouldn't work out for us.
Sorry it didn't work for whatever reason but around here I'm pretty sure you could use that forage off prevent plant acres for feed , but not take it to saleable grain .
@@boehmfarm4276 Pile it up and tarp it?? Bunker silo silage?? Later! OL J R :)
That was cool! Great video.... thank you for posting your videos for us to enjoy!
I'm glad you liked it.
It seems to be going well, even though the raccoons are stealing corn.
Your father is very good at running that machine.
It's not easy, in such a field.
Sadly, I missed filming the good action in the big Field.
@@boehmfarm4276 There will be more occasions.
Now we look forward to seeing the new combine harvest corn and beens.
@@boehmfarm4276 You could always plant a camera looking "over his shoulder" in the cab out the front... Was hoping for more views of the header from the cab... OL J R :)
Thanks for the video! I watched.
Dang you guys got a ways to go before shelling... happy harvest
The shelling corn was getting much drier. Next video we'll see the drier corn. We'll be shelling corn in December.
Nice vid... enjoy seeing the chopper, something we don't see down in our part of the world. I only know of one guy who was doing silage with NH pull type and filling a bunker silo, for backgrounding steer calves. I haven't seen him do it in years though, and he was 45 miles away from both farms in between them! Anyway, looks like that corn did really nice and made good silage...
You mentioned frost damage-- did you check for Prussic acid poisoning?? Johnsongrass (and to a lesser extent other grass crops like sorghum-sudangrass and grain sorghum and corn) can develop Prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide) due to frost injury... not sure if it's connected to that super-deep green color after it frosts or not. Prussic acid isn't a problem with dry hay even in a stand of nearly pure johnsongrass, because when it's cut and cures down to baling moisture it will naturally outgas with the moisture in the leaves and stems. Green chop and silage is another matter, since it's harvested and put up WET or fed wet so it has no TIME to outgas; same thing happens when frosted johnsongrass is grazed off. Cattle can die of a single mouthful of the stuff if high levels of prussic acid are present... blood turns a bright cherry red due to the cyanide locking the oxygen tightly to the hemoglobin in the blood, supersaturating it with oxygen, but NO oxygen can be released from the blood to the animal's tissues, causing them to asphyxiate. Usually after johnsongrass (or other susceptible grasses) are frosted, if one waits 3-4 days afterwards it will naturally dissipate on its own, and is safe to graze or chop. I think it's sort of a physiological response of the plant to the frost injury. Sudden rains after a drought or prolonged dry spell can cause prussic acid to accumulate too, not sure why, maybe it's the sudden growth spurt after a good rain that does it. I just know you have to be careful about it, and know when to look for it and how to manage it. Later! OL J R :)
Looks great with a good cornhead.
Local guy would go to 4th of July parade and go plant late silage corn on his wheat stubble acres. Would top off the silo with those acres and ear pick what was let in December.
Sounds like a solid plan.
Good video
Very cool!
Raccoons are so cute an yet so evil
Could you offset where you hook the wagon to the chopper so you don't run over the rows on the hills and sharp turns? That 112 day corn was impressive!
This little hillside is the only bad spot. If we chop from the bottom up, we'll be fine.
Great video
Thank you
Good video thanks for sharing 👍
I love these silage videos,do you think you could get more hauling silage videos?
you had mentioned cobs would get below the gathering chain. on our new holland header theres cob pushers that are bolted to the chain to keep debris flowing threw and not resting down there. anyone know if these are an option on this type of header?
Love to have an outfit like that great job on video
Thank you.
Excellent
You gonna have a go planting somthing to chop with the direct cut head to fill the silo in spring? Great video as allways.
We planted wheat, but there's no video because it all happened after dark.
You should create a ag bag or two and put the 2+2 on the bagger
A local farmer had a hundreds of acres of corn replanted late for insurance. He has no animals. I wanted to make a deal about chopping some of his corn for us to stock pile, but in the next video, we'll see why that wouldn't happen.
What did you do with the other old combines? You’ve got the new one after all
They still need new homes.
Why do you use wide rows? I live in eastern Ontario and I dont know anybody near me who doesn't grow 30 inch corn. I would think that you being in Ohio would benefit from narrow rows. So instead of having a 3 row wide, you could go with a 4 row narrow on your forage harveter.
Always a pleasure watching your vids.
It’s the way he’s setup. Chopper, combine and planter.
@@MrMagnum7220 I know. But I think he is set up that way by design. If he isn't, he will say so. Why ask then? To see another way of looking at things.
We plant wide rows for the ten acres of sweet corn. Narrow rows are tight picking by hand. And I guess we don't want to own two corn planters. I think if we change row spacing, I'd try 24", should be just wide enough for 18.4x38 tires to sneak through. And plant the field corn and beans with it.
@@boehmfarm4276 Thanks for the insight. 18.4s would be a tight fit for sure in 24 inch rows. I know that 20.8s are tight in 30 inch rows. May work though, I don't know.
Love the video , audio not so much . But I really like your posts
Why do you plant corn for silage rather than sorghum or millet ?
Corn yields more tons per acre, more starch in the grain.
Hi from NZ,the un fenced fields make me weep,all them inter row weeds ,the odd Cobb,green lower leaves,SHOULD BE GRAZED.Still,you are mostly arable,we are mostly live stock👍🇳🇿
I.e.,the green behind the machine.Still,it’ll plow in.
reminds me a a FOX harvestor
How many heads of cows 🐄 y’all run? 🚜🐄🌽🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
We usually have a head count in the low forties.
How old is your chopper, seems to working well. 🚜🚜🚜🌽🌽🌽
I think it was made in 1974.
Wow
@@boehmfarm4276 wow, same year my sister was made... She can put down some corn too if you roll her down the hill 😂😂😂😂👌
Where's the 2+2 haven't seen it in while
It's staying dry in the barn waiting for a clutch.
@@boehmfarm4276 like to see video putting it in
When it happens, there will be a video.
Do you try to recover any of your downed stalks , seems like a good bit of waste ?
We took the flail chopper out to pick the raccoon damage up.
I would need some hearing protectors, being sensitive and all.
Why don't you guys wait till the corn gets more dry before you chop it
We always seem to be chopping dry corn, so I'm glad it worked out to chop green corn this year. I don't think we had a big storm to race, just chopping green corn late in October.
Over here in Wisconsin we usually wait till the corn is a little dry on the stalks before we chop it
20 rolls could work
The chopper has a 3208 CAT motor?
Yep
what is yourplant population?
It's no $400k 500 HP imported from Europe chopper but it gets it done! LOL
A tire on those new ones probably costs more than our chopper.
That was so satisfying... I just got 200 subscribers today! I’m on my wayyy 😂😂😂
какого года выпуска комбайн?
1974 г.
Three wide
Was looking forward to watching the chopper. 3 rows aren’t even half my head but you don’t 400 cows to feed like me.
I don't want 400 cows to feed. I'd be happy with fewer cows. I can sell all we feed our cows for more than we make selling the animals. Then we'd have the time off feeding them everyday back to,,,, I don't know, fix stuff.
@@boehmfarm4276 Yep gotta produce what's making the money. When you said you were getting $1 a pound on the hoof for those finished beeves, I about fell over... is it because they're dairy breeds?? We've been (past tense) getting more than that for Hereford mix calves! The black hide calves the buyers wet themselves over have been bringing $1.45 or more at the sale barns here, and that's for STOCKERS... 500-800 weights! We averaged about a buck a pound for stocker yearlings this fall when we sold, probably due to 1) being red cattle and thus "not as popular" and 2) calf market took a sh!t due to high corn/grain prices...
Later! OL J R :)
If the cows complain about silage you got a problem then but I don't think they will complain
They absolutely love it. The steers always look better when we stop green chopping and give them corn silage.
Hi I wanna be farmer!
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DO NOT GET THAT DAMN CLOSE TO A MOVING MACHINE
You gotta risk it for the biscuit.
@@boehmfarm4276 its not worth it dude
Looks wet
The soil was fairly dry, but corn was nice and green.
Time to upgrade to a rotary head! We had a lot of racoons damage also!
I would love a rotary head, but they cost more than our chopper is worth.
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leaving one-third of the crop on the ground.............