We live in the US Dorset Ohio. There is a milking farm that had a devastating fire a week ago. Two thousand cows. Only lost a few cows. The fire started in the milk house and spread quickly. The community came together to get the cows to other farms in able to milk them. They came from other states to help the family. We are a very small community but it was great to see them all work together. The farm has been there since 1885 called comp farm.
Tom saw something the other day where they bolted tyres together like a honeycomb then used the telehandler to lift them into position on the clamp it looked a good way to do it ratherthan hand balling individual tyres
Hi Tom, Ok right before I saw you covering the clamp with straw. I suddenly recalled from my youth (back in the 1960s) arable farmers building a clamp in the field to store root crops. They started out laying a straw bale floor with a low wall filled the clamp with turnips covered over with a thick layer of loose straw then a layer of soil to weight it all down. Love the closure with the girls. We don't see enough of Katie. Love her sense of humour.
In my contracting days in the 90’s dung (or muck in the UK) was used regularly to cover silage pits. Pain to get off in the winter but it works. People used to add some grass seed on top to keep the crows off as well….
@@ciaranomalley9274Why isn't it allowed ? If the water coming off the cover is treated as dirty water and kept then it shouldn't be a big deal , I understand that could be a huge amount of water to store and then spread ,
7:20 tom what puts you off the smaller clip on DJI mic's, 1. a little cheaper 2. when your got wind or your turning your head it wont lose sound if clipped on your neckline 💙
We put nearly 1000 silage bales through a Kuhn chopper. No problems at all. Although it does have 2 gears. One for straw(fast) one for silage/hay etc(slow). Great job 😊
Love watching your videos Tom, it's prime viewong in our household. ❤ I'm just wondering where Anna has been lately? I haven't seen your banter on screen in a while. Keep up the great work, and please make longer videos 😂 I'm addicted xx
Use to put rough muck on our outside pit every year just scraped a meter off every time sheet was to go back always use 2nd hand sheet and chucked good job
We all love sheeting up ! Tyres need to be touching though to avoid air pockets and the surface spoiling. If there we a way of splitting tyres down the centre of the tread they would be easier to handle and not full of water
The farmer I spend my days at when I was a kid always covered his silage pits with dirt. It was a machine that looked a bid like a big snowblower but it dug a V trench along side the silo and it shooted the dirt on top of the plastic. The silo was covered and excess water could flow away in the trench. The silo's didn't have walls, just concrete flooring.
Man, the ladies at the end were hilarious, thanks for sharing their silliness. Next video should have you telling them to start their own channel and stop hijacking yours! 😂😂😂❤
Needing to sort your panel brackets Tom. 2.38 Always think it's worth checking around our panels, they do come loose and you won't get a chance if they come over on you.
I had a thought they need to make a water bag say 4 sq Mtrs and about 30cm high when filled. You place these bags one after the other filling. With water as you go on top of the plastic on the clamp. The weight of the water will press the clamp down and conform to the shape of the edges etc. when time to open simply drain the water a bag at a time as required. Bags can be reused and would roll up and require little room for storage.
Shame there wasn't a video of Anna getting stuck, would have been very funny. When you were giving her instructions and you weren't sure that she was taking them in, well as a new parent you've got all that to come, daily. 😊😂🤣👍
Moving cattle on rd's was always a challenge for us back end but generally went well . 2 Miles to walk em from far fields home . On push bikes stopping in gate ways then down to the next fast as you could . 😅
Goldendale here too, farmers have just finished cutting alfalfa, barley, and brome here. The fields are done, with big stacks lined up amid high tension lines from Grand Coulee.
I'm thinking there will be another couple of clamps over the road near the shared farming that or they will clear the clamps there a lot quicker so will have more space there for silage last time they waited until they had used the milage away from the separator and stored the fym where they used to until they finished it as they started using it as soon as it was ready. I believe they may have even taken it over the road for the beef cows and then brought the better silage from there back for dairy cows.
@@SlipShodBob a bit of musical chairs with it! Just goes to show the added cattle numbers will add to the slurry storage etc. loving the advances made so far and looking forward to what will come.
@@78mikehayes I believe most of the numbers have been added on the beef side across the road which are on straw with their own dung pile so aren't attached to the slurry system.
it is probably teh best you can do of that balle. I wonder how it will evolve with teh weather in north UK ... Actually,, if you tear down that shed and make a new nice one out of it, you can also have a good wall for your emergency clamp and add a roof over it. but that´s a huge invest again. not sure you want to go for that right now.
Someone needs to come up with a sturdy water filled bag system that is used as a weight for clamps. Think of it like a load of paddling pools but sealed so it's just a giant bag holding water but has the fill and drain valves you can fasten a flexible pipe to (to fill or drain the water)
Lovely, cheerful ladies at the end. Up late in Wisconsin, USA. Beautiful cows! Tom, Ginger Warrior and the rest of the family and crew, take care and have a great week! 💙🐄
I I’ve never seen or heard of covering a clamp like that but one thing I do know is that it’s going to Be such a nightmare to uncover it!I know a green sheet is expensive but there amazing and as long as there dry and clean there quite easy to put over the black sheet and help u keep the air out while u set the sides. U get such better silage there so worth it, but u still need to cover the clamp with tyres and they need to b touching so u have the weigh on and keep the air out. It’s a horrible job n I hate it but putting the work in there is where u make your silage. It’s almost important as cutting in the right conditions.
My father used to use a muck spreader to cover the pit and then sprinkle grass seed on, when it comes to opening the pit the grass has grown and when you pull it lifts all the muck with the roots, worked perfectly
As you finished covering the clamp with plastic, you walked around the outside wall and I noticed one metal clamp on the wall was not clamping the wall. Is that a problem?
Good video! Great idea at the end there! But I'm not sure where maize will go now? That small pit space by the meal bin 🤔 defo won't all fit there anyway 😁
We would put muck on top of our clamp cover, was an absolute bugger and really not my choice. It did keep the air out but having to fork every bit of it off was a nightmare
wow just wow the comments on Katie getting bullied need to grow up. its called work banter. not once did i see Katie get bullied. tom was being a boss and making sure Katie is listing to what he is saying. time is money and letting cow go the wrong way will cost tom
Obviously a new calf shed is the main priority, but gosh a new silage pit would be nice too, especially if corn silage is going to become a regular thing. If only money grew on trees.
The area next to you new clamp and across from the manure tank always seems to be sodden, have you thought that it may be now worth concreting it and just giving you some more space?
Is there any modern technology developed/developing that is used for clamps? Is there trailers that can compact and offload as cubes into a clamp? Or like a giant bin lorry. All the robots and tech in other parts of the industry must be something out there?
Loved the ending
We live in the US Dorset Ohio. There is a milking farm that had a devastating fire a week ago. Two thousand cows. Only lost a few cows. The fire started in the milk house and spread quickly. The community came together to get the cows to other farms in able to milk them. They came from other states to help the family. We are a very small community but it was great to see them all work together. The farm has been there since 1885 called comp farm.
Still campaigning for a Anna and Katie video! Come on Tom, How many likes do we need?? Going by the ending, Katie is up for it! 😎😎
Top tip Tom, sow some grass seed on top of the muck on the clamp. Makes it so much easier and cleaner to take off again
Tom saw something the other day where they bolted tyres together like a honeycomb then used the telehandler to lift them into position on the clamp it looked a good way to do it ratherthan hand balling individual tyres
I love how Tom's dad grabs the fence to test it, and Tom runs away like a little girl 💥😂🤣
Hi Tom, Ok right before I saw you covering the clamp with straw. I suddenly recalled from my youth (back in the 1960s) arable farmers building a clamp in the field to store root crops. They started out laying a straw bale floor with a low wall filled the clamp with turnips covered over with a thick layer of loose straw then a layer of soil to weight it all down. Love the closure with the girls. We don't see enough of Katie. Love her sense of humour.
Just realised I am about 5 videos behind can’t be having that at least it’s my Saturday night sorted thanks Tom and team 👌👌👌
I’m a massive fan today Sunday the 29th sep I went to the farm n I met ginge I had my picture taken with him 😊on my way back home to Macclesfield
In my contracting days in the 90’s dung (or muck in the UK) was used regularly to cover silage pits. Pain to get off in the winter but it works. People used to add some grass seed on top to keep the crows off as well….
I dont think its allowed now ..we used to throw grass seed on it and it came off easier when we were feeding out in the winter ☘️
@@ciaranomalley9274Why isn't it allowed ? If the water coming off the cover is treated as dirty water and kept then it shouldn't be a big deal ,
I understand that could be a huge amount of water to store and then spread ,
7:20 tom what puts you off the smaller clip on DJI mic's, 1. a little cheaper 2. when your got wind or your turning your head it wont lose sound if clipped on your neckline 💙
Love Katie lol so much fun and I agree Anna and Katie film would be amusing lol and fun 😂
Dropped by today and got a milkshake and they are amazing!! Just gutted you wasn’t there tom
Best Video ending ever...Tom has been replaced with a much better looking version... I Love It !
We put nearly 1000 silage bales through a Kuhn chopper. No problems at all. Although it does have 2 gears. One for straw(fast) one for silage/hay etc(slow). Great job 😊
Love watching your videos Tom, it's prime viewong in our household. ❤ I'm just wondering where Anna has been lately? I haven't seen your banter on screen in a while. Keep up the great work, and please make longer videos 😂 I'm addicted xx
Use to put rough muck on our outside pit every year just scraped a meter off every time sheet was to go back always use 2nd hand sheet and chucked good job
We all love sheeting up ! Tyres need to be touching though to avoid air pockets and the surface spoiling. If there we a way of splitting tyres down the centre of the tread they would be easier to handle and not full of water
The farmer I spend my days at when I was a kid always covered his silage pits with dirt. It was a machine that looked a bid like a big snowblower but it dug a V trench along side the silo and it shooted the dirt on top of the plastic. The silo was covered and excess water could flow away in the trench. The silo's didn't have walls, just concrete flooring.
Man, the ladies at the end were hilarious, thanks for sharing their silliness. Next video should have you telling them to start their own channel and stop hijacking yours! 😂😂😂❤
☘️💚very busy video tom hope you and the team all doing well great workers💚☘️
Great video Tom, don’t envy you taking that sheet off.
Loved the girls ending, lol❤
Tom as a non farmer, love seeing livestock being moved , don't panic.😊
You should try gravel bags for around the sides much better than tyres
Love your contented cows!!! Ending was a hoot!
Needing to sort your panel brackets Tom. 2.38
Always think it's worth checking around our panels, they do come loose and you won't get a chance if they come over on you.
I did notice the panel clamp that had moved but think those panels are slotted down between the beam flanges, so can't move very far.
@@DonaldCLARK-e5d
The weight that's in them you would be a fool to trust the little contact there is with the beam and panel edge.
I had a thought they need to make a water bag say 4 sq Mtrs and about 30cm high when filled. You place these bags one after the other filling. With water as you go on top of the plastic on the clamp. The weight of the water will press the clamp down and conform to the shape of the edges etc. when time to open simply drain the water a bag at a time as required. Bags can be reused and would roll up and require little room for storage.
Tom - hope you're okay. Hi to Ginger guy, sweet as always.
Very inventive way to weight your silage sheet. Down. Love it 😂
Great Sunday video.
4-6 inches of separated manure solids on the whole pile all the time here… fantastic results!!
Checking in from a hot and humid Thailand.
Hoping to drop into the farm shop when I visit the UK in late October, it could be my last chance!
Shame there wasn't a video of Anna getting stuck, would have been very funny. When you were giving her instructions and you weren't sure that she was taking them in, well as a new parent you've got all that to come, daily. 😊😂🤣👍
Best end ever! Epic!
If you can source cull potatoes put them on sheet . Holds sheet down well then they can be fed with silage as you move through the clamp
All those lovely green potatoes do the cows a world of good 😮
Goodmorning Tom’s Farm !!!!
Really enjoyed the video, farm life is a busy life. ❤❤
Ye boys fearfull going above the walls of the silage clamps
Good video Tom, Katie is funny sure was a lot going on.
"That was a risk there...they have a Maserati" Great episode
Use side sheets and sandbags
Ran dairies of up to 400 milkers for 45 years and this way of covering sheets was common practice years ago by some.
Great video, as usual, Tom. And a funny ending too!
I think it’s a brilliant idea, Tom. Use what you got. However, you may regret it when it comes time to remove it.
The ending was hilarious.
Great video!
We do the same thing with the bad silage we collect through the year.
Moving cattle on rd's was always a challenge for us back end but generally went well . 2 Miles to walk em from far fields home . On push bikes stopping in gate ways then down to the next fast as you could . 😅
21:14 great content again
Oh Tom, is it time for a tidy up video🤣🤣
Agreed! 😂
Hows the family
Great video Tom
we use to put strow on top of the silage clamp
😂😂You dont have to be crazy to work here but it helps, what a great place to work❤❤
up late here in Eastern Washington, USA great work!
Goldendale here too, farmers have just finished cutting alfalfa, barley, and brome here. The fields are done, with big stacks lined up amid high tension lines from Grand Coulee.
Great video Tom 😊
Good to see you have an ambitious all terrain driver! ;-)
What’s going to happen the dry dung from the separator no that you’ve used up the dung-stead for silage? And where will the maize go?
He can turn it off seemly 🤷🏻♂️
@@jascollinscork still doesn’t get rid of the dry dung! And the bedding. Need to build another dung-stead!
I'm thinking there will be another couple of clamps over the road near the shared farming that or they will clear the clamps there a lot quicker so will have more space there for silage last time they waited until they had used the milage away from the separator and stored the fym where they used to until they finished it as they started using it as soon as it was ready. I believe they may have even taken it over the road for the beef cows and then brought the better silage from there back for dairy cows.
@@SlipShodBob a bit of musical chairs with it! Just goes to show the added cattle numbers will add to the slurry storage etc. loving the advances made so far and looking forward to what will come.
@@78mikehayes I believe most of the numbers have been added on the beef side across the road which are on straw with their own dung pile so aren't attached to the slurry system.
Great video. Why don't you try old conveyor belts on the clamp.
Cute ending!
it is probably teh best you can do of that balle. I wonder how it will evolve with teh weather in north UK ...
Actually,, if you tear down that shed and make a new nice one out of it, you can also have a good wall for your emergency clamp and add a roof over it. but that´s a huge invest again. not sure you want to go for that right now.
Thats exactly how I cover indoor pits only use two last two trailer loads of grass it drys out and cows eat it works well
Someone needs to come up with a sturdy water filled bag system that is used as a weight for clamps.
Think of it like a load of paddling pools but sealed so it's just a giant bag holding water but has the fill and drain valves you can fasten a flexible pipe to (to fill or drain the water)
Great idea. Need to be strong bags. Water expands when frozen could result a nasty mess
except for sloped clamps like his where all the water would attempt to flow downhill.
Also had a heck of a time fighting worms in sheep this year Tom
Wisconsin, USA
Lovely, cheerful ladies at the end. Up late in Wisconsin, USA. Beautiful cows! Tom, Ginger Warrior and the rest of the family and crew, take care and have a great week! 💙🐄
Thank you for the video. Commenting to support the channel. Be well be you
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I’ve never seen or heard of covering a clamp like that but one thing I do know is that it’s going to Be such a nightmare to uncover it!I know a green sheet is expensive but there amazing and as long as there dry and clean there quite easy to put over the black sheet and help u keep the air out while u set the sides. U get such better silage there so worth it, but u still need to cover the clamp with tyres and they need to b touching so u have the weigh on and keep the air out. It’s a horrible job n I hate it but putting the work in there is where u make your silage. It’s almost important as cutting in the right conditions.
Its like you disguised an illegal silage clamp as a midden 😂 19:10
Stealth silage clamp just looks like a muck heap no one would ever know 😂
Take a dung sample off the sheep. Might not be worms. Strong wet grass goes through them
2:00 i can only imagine how painful sheeting up is, done a bit of groundworks in my time and the wind is not your friend in them situations
My father used to use a muck spreader to cover the pit and then sprinkle grass seed on, when it comes to opening the pit the grass has grown and when you pull it lifts all the muck with the roots, worked perfectly
I have had one field like that but they have been in wetter fields the other have been good until this last week or so.
Great vid Tom met ur dad at the ploughing match last Wednesday great man
As you finished covering the clamp with plastic, you walked around the outside wall and I noticed one metal clamp on the wall was not clamping the wall. Is that a problem?
Dose your sheep with zolvix it will definitely work they must be resistant to the other wormer
throw 1/2 bag of grass seed over that cover now, will grow up through the dung, make it drier, nicer looking and easier to remove.
Good video! Great idea at the end there! But I'm not sure where maize will go now? That small pit space by the meal bin 🤔 defo won't all fit there anyway 😁
We would put muck on top of our clamp cover, was an absolute bugger and really not my choice. It did keep the air out but having to fork every bit of it off was a nightmare
Great video Tom, it's not often you hear a farmer saying they have too much grass. 👍.
wow just wow the comments on Katie getting bullied need to grow up. its called work banter.
not once did i see Katie get bullied. tom was being a boss and making sure Katie is listing to what he is saying. time is money and letting cow go the wrong way will cost tom
Evening Tom
Where u going put all the maze with all clamp pits full?
Obviously a new calf shed is the main priority, but gosh a new silage pit would be nice too, especially if corn silage is going to become a regular thing. If only money grew on trees.
Sow some grass seed on it will leave it really easy taken off
How are you ment to get the grass off the off the top of the clamp without it ripping
Just make a sunday video of you opening the clamp.You could even save up footage of a few and make them one video for comparison.
The area next to you new clamp and across from the manure tank always seems to be sodden, have you thought that it may be now worth concreting it and just giving you some more space?
At 2:38 u can see a concrete panels bolt not in a right place, pls fix it Tom
So where are you going to put you’re manure? And the maze when you’ve harvested it?
Is there a a good reason you can’t put your overflow grass on the dirt? Most of our jobs are here is all
Where is the maize going to go?
@@SmithyScotland in the clamp next to the first, we are currently eating up that one ☺️
How about old fire hoses filled with water to weigh down the clamp? 😊
Is there any modern technology developed/developing that is used for clamps? Is there trailers that can compact and offload as cubes into a clamp? Or like a giant bin lorry. All the robots and tech in other parts of the industry must be something out there?
If you could invent something to do away with plastic and tyres then you will be rich…!
You might have crows picking at that cover looking for worms.
I don't need to say my opinion on putting the silage bale on the clamp, because I won't be the one rolling the sheet back.
I think the 6 wheel drive cart would have lower ground pressure and float a bit on that muddy ground.
Love it 😂
Fantastic video thanks Tom ❤❤❤❤
Why dont you use side walle plastic?
Katie is a better driver then u put in hole 0:00 when u got it bk to fram when u got it
If you can't type in clear english, go back to school and actually pay attention this time.