King of the hill pics

rrlund · Sep 27, 2012

Just finished filling silo. Pushed and packed 40 acres in a 30x80 bunker with the 1600 Oliver. She'll still do a days work!

NY 986 · Sep 27, 2012

What's your length of cut on the corn silage? A couple of friends are saying over one inch on beef cattle now.

David G · Sep 27, 2012

You braver than me, I would want ROPS.

cd1 · Sep 27, 2012

That pile isn't that high yet. I've seen them up about as high as the bunker walls are, above the walls. I've been on some running in with an MX305 that I found a hole along the edge that makes the but hole pucker.

rustacres sd · Sep 27, 2012

Dad would go at least the height of the sides above the sides. When done, the top was just wide enough for the tractor. Peaked it up there fairly good. Never tarped it either.

thurlow · Sep 27, 2012

Looking good! We quit silage in, I think, 1986; ours were trench (silage pit) silos. Probably my all-time favorite farm job was running the old A-C cutter with the "J"/cut and throw knives; I can still hear that 'moan' in my head.

rrlund · Sep 27, 2012

I really couldn't tell you. It's grinding it up pretty good. As dry as it got,I don't think I'd want it very long. I started last Tuesday,then we had 2 frosts and a lot of wind. I never chopped any as dry as it was this week. Gotta get the plastic on it quick before it evaporates any more. I wish we could get about a 6 inch rain first,but that ain't gonna happen.

rrlund · Sep 27, 2012

8 foot walls and I'm up there about 5 over. It's 30 feet wide and just about the width of the tractor and duals at the top. If I tried to go any narrower,I couldn't get enough tires on it to hold the plastic down.

Hoofer B · Sep 27, 2012

how dense is it once you are done? everyone around here puts the heaviest thing they can find to pack.

Bruce from Can. · Sep 27, 2012

Nice job, looks like it is getting dry alright. I still have about ten loads left for tomorrow, and we will be done too. We have had no frost here yet, and our corn is still wet and green.Bruce

rrlund · Sep 27, 2012

I'll tell you the truth,it never seems to matter what I pack it with. I've put the 2-135 White with singles up there and didn't seem like any better silage than when I used a D2 Cat. I cover it as soon as I can when I'm done. I think that helps.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 27, 2012

They advised me not to use my JD 420 crawler to pack, not enough lbs/square foot. I used the truck at first, then I bought an old 1925 Fordson for packing. I used to pull the spreader and the engine drive baler with it too. I couldn't even crank it now.

Ken Macfarlane · Sep 27, 2012

What do you mean you never tarped it?

rrlund · Sep 27, 2012

I assume he means never covered it with plastic. The MSU guys claim that even though it looks like you only have a few inches of spoilage when you do that,there actually isn't any feed value at all in the top 3 feet. Don't know,but I'm sure not taking any chances myself. I always cover it.

RayP(MI) · Sep 27, 2012

Heck, we FARM hillsides steeper than that!
Right Randy?

randallinMo · Sep 27, 2012

Is that you on the tractor?

Nice bunker silo.
Wish I had one like it.

Bill(Wis) · Sep 27, 2012

We used a John Deere 1 row chopper that was very well designed. The knives were attached to the blower fan blades which when spinning amounted to a huge flywheel. Powered very easily with a '49 WD Alice Chambers.

rrlund · Sep 27, 2012

Ya,that's me. I had a local concrete contractor build the silo for me back in 98. It's just poured walls like a basement,3 sided. He ran two foot braces out on the sides every 10 feet. Concrete floor of course,comes out 24 feet in front of it. I've got the whole pad in front covered too as you can see. 30x80x8,it cost me about $13,000 when I had it put up.

rrlund · Sep 27, 2012

That's for darned sure. That old gal stands up on it's hind legs higher than that just putting round bales in the feeder.

larry@stinescorners · Sep 27, 2012

those olivers are hard to beat,great tractors!

scotc · Sep 27, 2012

We used the skidsteer to level and the old Steiger to pack, until it got real high. Then we put the TD-8 on the pile. Just keep it moving, it'll hammer it in. We'd put it up about 20 feet high, run at an angle to the edge and run one track out over the edge. That would pack the edge of it in pretty well. The more square you can get the pile, the less surface area, the less spoilage you'll have.

thurlow · Sep 27, 2012

Our first cutter (one-row, A-C model 50 iirc) was bought used in the '50s, along with a used WD). In really good corn (20 ton per acre, back then), the cutter couldn't handle the corn as fast as the WD would put it to it.....in 1st gear. I've seen my Dad 'ride' that A-C hand clutch for hours on end.

donjr · Sep 27, 2012

Rick, what kind of floor have you got? My bunk is a prefabbed concrete 'T' wall with an asphalt floor. I know it makes for nice sweet silage, nicest thing is it's clean. Little trick I learned- rather than springing for plastic every year, right after filling, I spread a few busdhels of wheat seed over the top. It germinates in a few days, especially if repacked in, and the root mass seals the silage pile in just a few days. Then we just feed the wheat with the silage and they clean it up as well as the silage.

rrlund · Sep 28, 2012

It's six inches of concrete. I'm heard asphalt holds up better.

Bill(Wis) · Sep 28, 2012

We had our WD for almost 60 years and never did need to remove a shim on that hand clutch and, like your dad, we slipped the clutch whenever it was needed, which in some good years with 12' corn, it was needed a lot.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 28, 2012

That is smart with the wheat,. bet it works fairly weel too ,

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