Some silage harvesting pictures!!

JD Seller · Sep 2, 2017

These pictures are not that old. They are all in the last ten years or so.

The first one with the articulated tractor is at my brother's three years ago. The ground was so wet he had to pull the wagons with his tractor. Even then we could only fill them part way or the wagons would get pulled apart in the mud.( I think this picture is from that year. The chopper looks wrong. ??? Old minds and tons of photos. LOL)

Second pictures is of my JD 4010 and JD 4020 that my Grand Father bought new. I looked for the JD 4010 for over 20 years before I found it.

The third picture is of my JD 4450 that I rebuilt after buying it wrecked. I hauled it home in four pieces. It took me three years to get it all back together. I had that entire tractor tore down to the bare castings as I had to replace the transmission and rear end case because they both where broken.

Fall harvest season is just around the corner here. This is my favorite time of the year. I like harvesting and the cooler weather.

Philip d · Sep 2, 2017

Very nice pictures,awesome find to get back your grandfathers old tractor.

RBnWA · Sep 2, 2017

Memories. RB

Part Time Pete · Sep 2, 2017

Great pictures - I always loved corn cutting time. The TW-20 on the chopper, two 5000's hauling and the 8000 on the blower - it was always my favorite time of year...
Pete

Torwood · Sep 2, 2017

Actually JDSeller I posted that pic a few years ago with the articulator. Exactly how I would have explained it. When I saw the wagon, I had to take a double take. Yellow post on the side gave it away. Lol

8NHENRY · Sep 2, 2017

Thanks for sharing!

JMS/.MN · Sep 2, 2017

I like the catch board on the front of the wagon in the last pic- bet it saves a lot of cleaning up at the blower when the loads are full.

JD Seller · Sep 3, 2017

Well Torwood I am sorry for posting your picture. He has a JD 8770 and H&S wagons. LOL I looked and can't find any of the pictures I know are for that year at his place.

We have had to pull wagons with his tractor several times over the years. We even have had to pull gravity wagons with it in some falls.

JD Seller · Sep 3, 2017

JMS/MN: We have four of the JD 716A wagons with that catch board on them. It really cuts down on stuff coming over the top beater when you have the wagon filled to the top. We put the JD boxes on Meyers 15 ton running gears ten years ago or so. Now we over fill them more. LOL

Phil9N3667 · Sep 3, 2017

I helped fill my cousin's 70' silo the summer of '75, had the task of getting the towed wagon unhooked from the cutter and directing the operator back to the empty one. Then had to hook up the full one, go empty it, and all over again!! As a naive 18 year old I thought it was fun, but got tiresome after a few days.

Charlie M · Sep 3, 2017

Sort of beats the one row chopper and the 50 horse tractor we used in the 60's. That beat the old binder and ensilage cutter sitting in my barn. LOL

Bruce from Can. · Sep 3, 2017

Just a couple pictures of my harvest team. Silage can be harvest with other colours too, lol. We won't get to corn silage this year till near or into October. Sure like those pictures JD. Corn silage chopping is a favourite time for me.

showcrop · Sep 3, 2017

One of the three 65 milker farm where I hung out as a kid now milks around 1200. They grow corn on about 1200 acres along the CT river. A lot of the corn ground is over 15 miles from the farm so they have a fleet of around fifteen trucks to haul it and they chop direct into the trucks with two Krone eight row choppers. When the ground is muddy they have big FWD tractors with tires hung on the front circling close behind the trucks.

coonie minnie · Sep 3, 2017

Nice pics. That season is coming quickly... spent yesterday servicing the chopper. I will try to attach an image or two from last year.

coonie minnie · Sep 3, 2017

What makes it happen:

NEKS · Sep 3, 2017

Happy days for this boy when I was old enough to drive tractors at silo filling time. Dad had a 51 WD, pulled a 1952 single row Gehl with its own engine, Use my Uncles 35 Ferguson to pull farm made silage wagons. Packed silage with a F-20, later a M.

larry@stinescorner · Sep 3, 2017

nice pictures!!

Old Scovy · Sep 3, 2017

The best time of the year was silo filling time. The PTO binder was a big deal with the elevating loader on it and then a NH611 one row chopper My god we thought was all we would ever need. Pulled it with a JD "A" in tall corn it almost couldn't make it in low gerd. Then we got a 2 row NH 717 and a biger tractor an Oliver 1800 . My got what a outfit that was. LOL Now one of the best parts of silo filling time was we would raid the peoples garden for those great big matters and grapes and peaches and so on. Yes I see the big operations today but I still think we lived in the best of farming days. Old Scovy

Torwood · Sep 3, 2017

Not a problem, made me do some reminiscing. All the machinery in that picture has been traded or is a backup except for the tractor that I took the picture sitting in. That wagon is only used only a few days a year now as they switched to carts. The picture above is of the one they bought this year. Sadly, we may be pulling carts with the articulators as it's really wet already in Central WI. Oh well, it all comes off one way or another.

Brown Swiss · Sep 4, 2017

A little late in this, haven't been on last few days!

showcrop · Sep 4, 2017

(quoted from post at 10:08:36 09/04/17) A little late in this, haven't been on last few days!

Thats not silo filling that there is art!

Some silage harvesting pictures!!

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