Corn silage harvesting mondern style!!!

JD Seller · Sep 23, 2015

Here is a very good video of modern large scale corn silage harvesting. Also this young man is great at producing very high quality videos. His aerial work with a drone is very good as well. The total equipment is 3 Claus 960 choppers, 3 JD 9560R tractors at the pile, 15 Semi trucks with Meyer's trailers. WOW!!!

The size of the silage pile is just unbelievable. The LARGE JD 9560R tractors look small working on the pile.

It is also interesting watching the fellow open up a new land with switching trucks in the middle of the field. The fact they are blowing silage 50-75 feet and hitting the trailer most of the time is pretty skillful.

He shows harvesting at East Dublin Dairy in MN.
Aaron Zenners silage harvesting video

Bruce from Can. · Sep 24, 2015

That is some thing else . I first thought was , some where there must be a lot of manure to go with that silage pile !

showcrop · Sep 24, 2015

That is cool how they switch trucks when opening the new land. I was wondering what he was going to do as the truck was filling. I get a kick out of watching the son, nephew and grandson of the operator of a farm where I hung out as a kid, when they are filling the silos. Back then they were milking around 80. Now it is 1100. When they are chopping they are running two big new Hollands and around fifteen ten wheelers. They never stop to switch over to an empty truck, If the ground is slippery or has a wet area they have a big tractor right behind the truck. The only time you see them stop is when they are close to the center and the bear finally makes a break for it. The driver jumps out quick with his shotgun while a pickup truck goes flying down the field to try to head him off. One bear does a lot of damage to corn around here.

Lazy WP · Sep 24, 2015

That is quite the operation!!!! For all of you in the know... how do they keep the differentials lubed on the pushing tractor? I have heard that eventually the rear pinion will go out from no oil, and the front will have other issues.
I have always enjoyed being on the pile. Got started packing with a DC Case and a Horn loader, and the last time I packed it was with a 4850 JD. I was always taught that if you couldn't drive a 2 wheel drive pickup up the pile it wasn't tight enough.

Dieseltech · Sep 24, 2015

WOW is right! That's a lot faster than dad's New Idea Uni two row and the Farmhand wagons, and I wouldn't have to climb the silo to help pull up the pipe either. I always enjoyed corn silage time, haylage not so much..

teddy52food · Sep 24, 2015

What do they do in a wet year?????????

Tubacase47 · Sep 24, 2015

It sure is a lot different from the 1950's when Dad and the Wurm Brothers did it with a one row John Deere chopper and 3 old Chevrolet trucks. I think we used an DC Case with an F10 Farmhand loader for packing at our farm and an L at theirs. In 1964, the last year I remember doing it, the Wurm Brothers used a D4 Cat for packing and spreading. They were dumping into trench silos; in 1959 Rex Wurm backed their old Chevy 2 ton over the end of the trench and sat down on the frame. They had to dig the silage out with pitchforks and then used 2 F10Farmhands to raise the back of the truck so the LA could pull it out.

Deere Mark · Sep 24, 2015

Very impressive; must have a lot of cows. Also have never seen a Claas tractor in the USA before.
Around here (SE PA) I see an Amishman using a corn binder and about a mile away a larger farm (with 1500 or 2000 cows) using a crawler dozer and a pad foot roller on the silage piles.

Dave H (MI) · Sep 24, 2015

6600 head per their website. Most of those being milked twice a day. I would imagine the milking parlors make NASA look like a bunch of guys rubbing sticks together.

randallk · Sep 24, 2015

Bruce, that was exactly what I was thinking!

Donald Lehman · Sep 24, 2015

Bruce, ever heard of Marks Farms? They are just a few miles from me. They milk in the 6,000 or more range, too. Yup, a lotta manure to handle! The guy we buy our TMR from has around 600-700 and when they aren't planting or harvesting, they are moving manure.

the tractor vet · Sep 24, 2015

Makes our whimmpy operation look sick . But we have come a long way from the upright silo's to the first bunker That was carved out of a hill side in a day with a rented tonka toy dozer due to a silo collapse a two row fox chopper behind a 1950T three old rickety 16 foot wagons three 706 gassers and two S/MTA's and a 8 foot rear blade . The first year after packing and leveling with a rear blade i thought that my head would never look forward and to the left ever again.

Royboy · Sep 24, 2015

Why don't they add 3' or 4' sides to the blades on the pusher tractors. They could move a lot more material? Years ago as a heavy queipment operator I ran Cat D-8's with a blade with sides. I beleive it was called a Baldersom Blade. Just asking.

INCase · Sep 24, 2015

wow,
he didn't loose much on the swap but would still probably fill an old box with what he put on the ground.

You would want a good truck driver following thru opening up a field.

tomstractorsandtoys · Sep 24, 2015

Sure is different than my 4020 with a one row 35 chopper and a couple 122,125 and 714A Chuck wagons that we use. My son thinks that pile might be bigger than some of our feilds. Right now we are working at snaplage with a 4620 Deere 3940 harvester with a 244 corn head.That stuff sure cuts hard and is a slow go. Thanks for posting. Tom

4xMF · Sep 24, 2015

I am glad I am not the one who has to cover that pile with car tires.

Kent Petersen · Sep 24, 2015

i would not be-leave every thing that you hear there are oil pumps in those tractors that lube as well as supply the Hyds

marloweg · Sep 24, 2015

got a outfit running two 16 row choppers and one 12

JD Seller · Sep 24, 2015

Royboy those blades are already 18 to 20 feet wide. Look at how they cover the tires on the tractors and about three pushes they are done with a full load.

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