Another BIG silage harvest video!! With some extra stuff!!

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JD Seller

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• Sep 17, 2016

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Here is another video of BIG silage harvesting!!! There are several things that make this one more interesting to me.

1) It is muddy there this year. So you can see the Chopper pulling the trucks as they open a field. Also the pull bars and hitches they have on the trucks/tractors so they do not have to stop to unhook or anything.

2) Right at the end they show covering the HUGH pile of silage. There must be fifty people helping pull and hold the plastic down. Then they look like ants spreading the tire sidewalls around to hold the tarp down.

 

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JD Seller

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• Sep 17, 2016

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OOps!!! here is the link!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6BrG8Se3oQ
Silagfe harvesting 2016

 

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PDRuff

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• Sep 17, 2016

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wonder how many acres. would like to see timelapse of the whole pile being built, lots of tonage.

 

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Greg1959

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• Sep 17, 2016

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My neighbors do that but, on a much, much, much, much smaller scale. LOL!

 

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notjustair

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• Sep 17, 2016

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I can't even fathom farming on that scale. I feel like we never catch our tail with 1000 acres. Good heavens.

 

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01gentdc

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• Sep 17, 2016

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wonder if they got the football team to put the tires down

 

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JerryS

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• Sep 18, 2016

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Wow! Where do you even get a tarp that big?

 

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Super Steve

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• Sep 18, 2016

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on another forum he posted that it was about 4000 acres and 4500 loads.

 

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Hay hay hay

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• Sep 18, 2016

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Most impressive is the management skills of the folks that orchestrate and coordinate all the many aspects off this operation. This is the true measure of the ag intellect in our nation. Simply amazing. Training all the many players must have been a challenge. Thanks for sharing.

 

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Donald Lehman

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• Sep 18, 2016

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Some different than the early self propelled choppers. Those early ones couldn't pull a setting hen off a nest. One of our renters has a custom combine come in and do his grain corn. Watched him go over ground wet enough your feet sunk into without hardly spinning a wheel. Amazing.

We had some corn one year that was so wet we had the OC-4 chained ahead of the S88 and chopper, and we had the 88 and JD 50 hooked together on the wagon and we still could only make the first pass and get through. Had to chop up the other side, turn around and go back and chop a second pass up the dry side to get a load on. The hill on the other side was so steep we still had to use the 88 and the 50 together to pull a nearly full wagon over the top. Slow, slow, slow.

Love to watch those videos JD.

 

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centash

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• Sep 18, 2016

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Just imagine the tons per minute going through those harvesters. Am I seeing an apron chain in the trucks or are they dumping get to unload? Ben

 

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larry@stinescorner

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• Sep 18, 2016

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that is amazing!

 

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john in la

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• Sep 18, 2016

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Wow they do a nice job.
Rather than bringing my job to Mexico they brought Mexico to my back yard.

Per the video that is Meadowstar Dairy.
Meadowstar Dairy is one of many owned by Riverview, LLP, Morris, MN

Want to work for Riverview. Here is there application address per their web site.

Not fully qualified to do the job. That's OK they offer a internship.
Will even send you to company taught language classes.

That place is beyond a BTO.
They are so big they have a construction crew that build dairy barns and other Ag buildings.
Riverview

 

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JD Seller

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• Sep 18, 2016

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John I my area there are getting to be more legal Mexicans. They in general are good family people that WORK. I rant and rave about the illegal one and there should be a wall/fence to stop the illegal one. Then open up the emigration to allow more people legally.

Also in many area of the rural mid west there would not be enough people to man a dairy like this one. The town are ghost towns almost. The dairies and such should be in the country where the feed/land is. So if they have to hire legal Mexicans I am not against that.

We hauled feed to a lot of dairies in IA and WI when we had the belt trailers. Just about all of them where manned by Mexican labor. They were not getting slave labor pay either. Usually $12-15 per hour at most of the places. That is not bad for unskilled labor.

 

JoeM(GA)

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• Sep 18, 2016

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I know this is winter feed for the animals, but what happens as this is stored? Surely since it's green when cut it is going to go through a heat as it sits there, also doesn't it ferment some as the sugars in the corn begin to breakdown? Seems like that pile would be smoking all winter!

 

FLOLDFORD

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• Sep 18, 2016

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Great video JD. I look forward to seeing them every year I like how they could hook and unhook to the semi without even stopping

 

T in NE

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Cambridge, Nebraska

• Sep 18, 2016

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Almost went to work for a guy with 2 choppers, 2 big JD packer tractors, and a fleet of trucks. But 100 hour weeks don't appeal to me so much any more.

Nor do the language barrier issues that would arise with the South Africans he gets in on work visas.

I'd have been in the new packer tractor or the self propelled bagger when it was running. I think it takes 12 foot bags.

 

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Hay hay hay

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• Sep 18, 2016

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Well said. Most of the Mexicans are smart, trainable, reliable and very hard working. If we send them all back, a lot of citizens are going to get a very rude shock about what can no longer get done..just stops happening... in this country.

These guys even know the names of (and support)their wife and kids (lots of citizens don't).

But, we need a reliable, factual, enforced, guest worker program (like most other countries have already).

I pay them better than the no-show Americans because they earn it. They are not cheaper...just better, sadly in too many cases.

 

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coshoo

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• Sep 18, 2016

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That's the whole point of silage, to go though a heat/fermentation to make the starches more digestable by breaking them down into sugars. The "heat" will last a couple of weeks, then the fermentation is done and it cools down again, and is much better feed than green chopped corn.

 

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JD Seller

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• Sep 18, 2016

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centash: Your seeing apron chains. They are hydraulic drive with the rear door latch catching on the rear sprockets. So as soon as the sprocket start to pull the load back the doors unlatch too. So do have hydraulic doors but most of the ones I saw in the Picture are Meyers trailer and they use the mechanical latch.

 

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jim buford

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• Sep 18, 2016

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I agree not bad wages. I used to do farm work growing up for 4.00 PER DAY.

 

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jim buford

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• Sep 18, 2016

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In my neck of the woods 50-100 acre fields are unusual. Some farmers grow 2-3000 acres of cotton that is put into modules of 12-15 bales each till the gin can process it. I grew up on a 95 acre farm. Amazing!

 

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Bob Harvey

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• Sep 18, 2016

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Mind boggling ! I helped a Reg. Hereford breeder do silage 2 yrs. when I had my farm. The chopper was pulled by a JD 80, the trucks were 2 '47 Studebakers (single axle) with about 30,000 miles on them. Going up hill loaded, the bearings would rattle (alarmingly) - they had never been off the place. A 40's vintage JD A was used for packing. Man, did we ever eat good ! Beef 3 times a day !. Hard work and good times.

 

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Frank 41

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• Sep 18, 2016

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I think that clip is for East Dublin, MN with a sister dairy, West Dublin, same size that is nearby. They milk around 6000 cows each and have dairies in 3 other states. There are clips of them planting corn and alfalfa. The cutting, windrowing and chopping the 60' swaths of alfalfa is amazing also.