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Bringing in the Haylage Pictures

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Dave Sherburne NY

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I know you guys like pictures so here you go
1st is a Pottinger disc mower on the JD I couldn't get pictures of him mowing.
#2 is the small tractor with the Kuhn rake he rakes four ten foot windrows into one
#3 is the 4960 on the chopper
#4 Is the old reliable Mack truck used for hauling loads.
#5 is a JD 8230 I think with Degleman Blade and a 7000 pound weight on the back.
Got about45 acres the first day before the rake broke 73 the next day and 60 on Friday most was really nice alfalfa This is third cutting 2nd wasn't much lack of rain. Then it started raining so third is turning out pretty good. The corn about 500 acres silage is short, but the ears are coming on nice
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Nice pictures. Thanks for showing them. What is the tank used for mounted on the front of the tractor in the second picture?
 
We used a 1937 JD D to pack our silage with. Nice set up.

I like your idea of ballast too.

I made ballast for my Tonka Toy using concrete. Here is what too much ballast will do.
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Dave Sherburne NY,
Great photos. Like the hills in the background.

Is is dangerous to drive over the haylage to pack it?
 
Nah. Kinda of like driving on a mattress. It's spongy and soft. You keep grading it out smooth as you go and piling it higher and deeper. It's not dangerous unless you start doing stupid things.
 
That tractor is used for spraying and planting corn and the tank is for adding liquid nitrogen. Tractor has GPS, and the cab is like an airplane cockpit . I've never driven it and probably wouldn't know how.
 
This farmer doesn't go to much above the walls so it's not dangerous. One farmer I worked for would go 4 or 5 feet above the walls that's dangerous.
 
Does the rake drag a lot of dirt into the windrow? We tried doing that one year with a Kuhn rake. We quit after 2 fields because I couldn't keep the harvester sharp...

Rod
 
Dave,
50 years ago I grew up on a dairy farm. We did it all. Bottled and delivered milk. Your pics bring back old memories. Glad someone wants to raise cows.

I learned a lot on the farm, how to spread BS. Back then we didn't have cabs on our tractors. It was very important to make sure the tractor was pointed in the wind before you turned on the spreader:)

Thanks for the pics.
George
 
It sure does, I don't think this rake will be around next year. It's only advantage is it will bring 4 windrows together in 2 passes. Outside windrows are 30 feet apart.
 
Thid is a proto type of Daves
Citia: 1950
Oliver Super 66 Diesel
David Bradly (Sears) Running Grar
Home made box W/ false End gate pulled back by gear box driven shaft acroos the rear.
They called this a Trench Silo. Had two wagonSame tractor used on Case Model C fly wheel chopper.

Silage from this trench won both Hay and corn silage at County Three years in a row.Secret was moistur {wilt} length of cut.

Yes it was slow but things learned by thes little thingd make poosible what is done today.
I beleive this is what is called THE LEARNING CURVE.
gitrib
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Never used the sliding endgate wagon in a trench silo but my FIL had 2 that we used to fill tower silos and a long trough New Holland blower.
 
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