A few chopping pics

Not too bad for corn that was planted June 21st. I'd like to see it a little more mature,but I'm afraid we might get in to the rainy season if I don't get it off.

This corn is at home. I finished up on some rented ground yesterday. I told the wife it was kind of sad to see a barren field after all the trouble I went through to get it planted this year.

Before anybody asks,the spot in the picture looking back at the chopper is manure on the window of the tractor. lol

Lookin good Randy, and thanks for the explanation of the "spot". Wasn't sure when I first looked if it was a half an ear flying through the air or bird sh!t on the window.

Looking good! Nice corn in a nice clean field. And the spot on the window, I recognized it for what it was.See that kinda thing before a time or two. Hope the bunker don't run too much. Bruce

Stuff sure packs nice when it's that green, don't it! Mine was a tad green when I chopped it, but the cows are really cleaning it up, and it seems we're using a bit less each day because it's so tight in the bunk. And does it smell GOOOOODDDD.....

Not much better smells than fresh plowed ground in the spring and silage in the fall. I also like the smell of barns; the liquid waste I can do without. Really cleans the sinuses out. Seven years on the farm wasn't long enough--we moved in second grade-- but sure left some lasting impressions and values.

Larry

About time you posted some chopping pictures! Did I mention I like silo filling pictures?!

Ya,a darned sight different than last year. It was 10 days before that stuff even started to ferment.

About darned time I was chopping,period!
I was done picking by this time last year.

My neighbors used to like to wait for the first frost so that there would not be so much moisture. Actually they used to wait for pretty much anything, and then they would get to fight the mud. They didn't fight it much though because what they really preferred was to collect the insurance money on the crop.

Nice pics. Looks like your cattle will think they are getting candy!

Nice crop and machinery. Nice 830 cutter, they are getting hard to find. Great pictures.

That's an 881. Nice outfit. Beats the 781 that I had hands down going away. I'm pushing that corn right to it with the digital speedo on the tractor showing 2.6 and the digital tach never moves.

They might have to spit out some of the mud that I'm tracking in from out in front. lol

We intended to get a good jump this weekend and fill a 10x200 bag by tonight, but instead the bagger never showed up and we were lucky to get 8 loads chopped. 7 are in our small silo that'll hold 9 if we let it settle some before adding more. Our other silo used to hold 18 loads, but now with the roof blown off from a wind storm a few years ago (tornado just 1 mile North of us) it'll maybe hold 13-14. Just can't pack it like we used to...

I have our Massey 285 set up now to be able to run the chopper and I used that to open up 2 fields as it'll straddle 2 rows w/out running down the 3rd like our 1855 will. We really like our NH 892 we picked up last year. We picked up a second one this spring for cheap, and I'm gonna try it tomorrow in the sudan grass I cut today. Not a whole lot of it, but it'd better than the big open spots. Might get 2-3 loads of it. I'd prefer to mix it 1/2 & 1/2 with corn, but without a bagger here, it's hard to work it in.

Next weekend I've got a wedding on Saturday, so I'll probably end up just going to the reception that night (it's at Lambeau Field) after chopping all day. Hope to have Friday to chop also. We should still manage to get most of it off this next weekend if we can get the rental machine soon.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Man that looks good, what tonnage are you averaging?

Naw....it"ll just save you some money, not buying so much phos mineral!

I should have known it was an 881 with the black stripe, for sure the 8 series run circles around the 7 series, that wider throat and cylinder makes all the difference.