Nearly flipped the wagon over today--Photos

farmerjohn · Sep 28, 2013

Brother started up the hill to cut corn and the wagon somehow came unattached, freewheeled backwards and came to rest against one of the silo bags. Could have been much worse.

ShadetreeRet · Sep 28, 2013

As I looked at the pictures I was thinking,"Surely someone didn't try to back that thing up there!" Sometimes we get lucky! Just glad it wasn't any worse.

retired farmer · Sep 28, 2013

I have chopped cornstalks, that is all I know about corn. What are those wagons for and how do they work?

JMS/.MN · Sep 28, 2013

They are forage wagons, used to chop hay and corn silage. Self unloading on the front end, into a blower or bagger or onto a pile. Some unload through the rear into a bunker silo.

Absent Minded Farmer · Sep 28, 2013

Glad to hear no one was hurt! Also good to see there was someone to help hold it up & the kid in the bottom pic looks like he has enough energy to pull the wagon up the hill. :v)

Mike

Deere Scotty · Sep 29, 2013

If the chopper has one of those quick disconnect hitches; I would change it to a regular pin style hitch. Sure happy nobody hurt!!!

NY 986 · Sep 29, 2013

Glad nothing happened to the wagon as it looks to be in very good condition yet.

Formerly PaMike · Sep 29, 2013

Whats the yellow band around the silage bag? I have seen them around here but never knew what they were.

JohnS1970 · Sep 29, 2013

I think it's a silo gas warning.

farmerjohn · Sep 29, 2013

I believe it is a mark on the bag indicating to the operator that you are nearly to the end of the bag. Bags are typically 150 feet long.

paul · Sep 29, 2013

Cattle and dairy can get a lot of feed value from the entire corn plant, stalks, leaves, and cob, put up wet. Without oxygen, the silage ferments itself,into a,pickle juice and keeps as green fresh feed. Works with alfalfa and sometimes hay crops too.

Paul

JD Seller · Sep 29, 2013

Glad that it looks like nothing was damaged. Could have been different real easy. Seems like we all have wagons take off sometimes.

Dutchman · Sep 29, 2013

I have been wondering ... HOW do you get the silage back OUT ?? do you have to tear the bag ?? and what about the bottom , doesn't it get stuck on what ever you are using to get the silage out ...
All we ever had was the Upright silo ..{when I was a kid .. back a few years }

Glad no one got hurt and no damage done ..
........... mark

farmerjohn · Sep 29, 2013

You empty the bag with a skid-steer or front-end loader, cut the bag back as you go. It can become a muddy mess in certain soils or locations. We finally fixed that by hauling in rock and building a base to put the bags.

retired farmer · Sep 29, 2013

Thanks.

donjr · Sep 29, 2013

I did something like that about ten years ago. I have three ropes attached to the tractor. One for the hitch pin for when we're pulling wagons. Then, when the chopper goes on that tractor, there are two more tied on- one for the chopper swing and another for the forage wagon so it can be unhitched easily when it's full. I pulled into a field with the chopper in the narrow position, reached back and grabbed the wrong rope and unhitched the wagon by accident. I was on a slight slope, and it rolled backwards down the hill into a tree. Well, DUH----

LME · Sep 29, 2013

Looks like you got lucky. Is that a new building in the back ground?

farmerjohn · Sep 30, 2013

Yes, a new freestall barn.

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