Silo for Saturday

[Not db4600]

 

[Fawteen]

Chopping corn sileage was one of my favorite times on the farm.

Dad never owned the required equipment, always hired it done. Neighbor would show up with a John Deere 720 diesel and everything needed and be done in a day. We did use our Super W6 to run the blower.

That 720 was the biggest tractor I'd ever seen!

 

[Mark-Ia]

1st picture, the tractor is a 18-36 Hart Parr.

 

[caterpillar guy]

Sure would be a change to go back to filling silo that way versus the way it is done now with big HP tractors on blowers and filling 60,80 and 100 ft silos all while keeping up with 2-4row choppers. And then now the 6-12 rows with side dumping wagons or just blowing straight in to semis.

 

[Mark Poss]

Beautiful barns, silos and tractors! Thanks for posting

 

[Larry986]

Sure would be a change to go back to filling silo that way versus the way it is done now with big HP tractors on blowers and filling 60,80 and 100 ft silos all while keeping up with 2-4row choppers. And then now the 6-12 rows with side dumping wagons or just blowing straight in to semis.

Some people still do it that way, with a 130 hp tractor on a two row chopper. And a 100 hp tractor on the bagger, using three old and tired self unloading wagons.

 

[Barts Dad]

Brings back memories from 70 years ago visiting my Grandfather’s farm. Grandpa and Uncle Alan forking corn stalks into a Fox chopper, powered by a ‘29 John Deere GP. Grandpa still had a team of Belgians that pulled the wagons and the corn binder…simpler times back then.

 

[SweetFeet]

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Great photos!

 

[Mcrafty1]

Thanks for the photos, in the era those pics were taken it was nearly as much work to do as the subject they were photoing. Never having been involved in farming I always enjoy the pictures you post.

 

[countryman]

Real action Fotos from the time of yester years! and that would be a New Farmall M of that time. great!

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

Fil was still doing it that way through the 70s. IH binder and Papec chopper run by an E3, later an E4. He hired kids to pick up the bundles.

 

[caterpillar guy]

Sort of went from not doing any thing in the way of silage to full blown program. We had gotten to the 60 cow size in the early 80's and with more corn and need for more feed .We had an old 702 diesel Uni I had bought so dad bought the chopper and heads for putting up silage and haylage with it. He looked at silos and decided on one of the new baggers coming out at that time. And the big bag then was an 8x150. He bought the silopreese a German machine imported from there. IT was the first one around the area and he did a bit of custom bagging for a few years. So that solved the opening up corn fields with 3 rows self propelled chopper and we never looked back the old pulltype Gehl was sold and we did a small bit of custom work with it with it. The 702 burned right after I had washed ip all up before changing from chopper to sheller sheelled one load and it caught fire in the field. Got it to the side where it was bare so no field loss from it. Hauled it home later and dad bought a used 708 with the pukins in it. What a smoking thing smoked like a steamer going across the field but sure would go with chopping hay. We used to fill 7 of those 8x150 bage each year 3cornsilage 3 haylage and 1 ground ear corn. Ear corn going through a 3/4 screen would work it good and took some time to fill a wagon with it at 3 rows at a time. Yes some are still chopping and filling silo just the same as the picture yet. Though since most of the livestock has left this area nobody is filling silos let alone much of any chopping going on now. A few guys still have sosme beef cattle they chop for and one guy does a lot of chopping and is sold right off the field so he uses a big Class or something like that.

 

[Not db4600]

Sort of went from not doing any thing in the way of silage to full blown program. We had gotten to the 60 cow size in the early 80's and with more corn and need for more feed .We had an old 702 diesel Uni I had bought so dad bought the chopper and heads for putting up silage and haylage with it. He looked at silos and decided on one of the new baggers coming out at that time. And the big bag then was an 8x150. He bought the silopreese a German machine imported from there. IT was the first one around the area and he did a bit of custom bagging for a few years. So that solved the opening up corn fields with 3 rows self propelled chopper and we never looked back the old pulltype Gehl was sold and we did a small bit of custom work with it with it. The 702 burned right after I had washed ip all up before changing from chopper to sheller sheelled one load and it caught fire in the field. Got it to the side where it was bare so no field loss from it. Hauled it home later and dad bought a used 708 with the pukins in it. What a smoking thing smoked like a steamer going across the field but sure would go with chopping hay. We used to fill 7 of those 8x150 bage each year 3cornsilage 3 haylage and 1 ground ear corn. Ear corn going through a 3/4 screen would work it good and took some time to fill a wagon with it at 3 rows at a time. Yes some are still chopping and filling silo just the same as the picture yet. Though since most of the livestock has left this area nobody is filling silos let alone much of any chopping going on now. A few guys still have sosme beef cattle they chop for and one guy does a lot of chopping and is sold right off the field so he uses a big Class or something like that.

Dad ran a Uni 702 with the Gimmy gas 6. We had the chopper, combine, and cob picker. We ran it for 10 years and then the cows left. That was a huge step up from the 152D Papec, but we had to hang any available weight on the back end or the boxes would push you around on the hills.

 

[Alvin 41]

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As a kid I helped liading flat wagons beside a IH corn binder with a bundle loader and then going to the IH silo filler . By mid 50's we were using a pull type Gehl chopper and Gehl tip down auger blower with rear unload Decker wagons at the silo. In 1965 went to 702 Uni Harvestor and 2 row corn head . Later went to narrow 3 row head on 704 Uni and then to 709 Allis diesel Uni with a 4 row head Filling upright and bunk silo's.