Silo's full

[rrlund]

Just got done filling silo. Barely ahead of the rain. The 1365 pushed and packed like a dream. Nine days straight of that job,I'm more than ready to be done. Wish we'd have gotten the plastic on ahead of the rain,but I'll take any victory I can get.

 

[Paul from MI]

Looks like your corn yielded well in spite of a late start. Any one job that lasts 9 days can get tiresome. Now what's next?

 

[rrlund]

Haul manure,wean calves,pick corn,bale stalks......eat supper.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Congrats on the job finally done. Gotta feel good!

 

[RayP(MI)]

Good going Randy! You been working yer hindside off the last few weeks. Good to see some jobs come to a finish.

 

[Mike (WA)]

Always great to see the silage spilling out into the approach- a great crop! Congrats- get 'er covered and get those tires up there, then go take a short break, then on to a hundred other tasks. . .

Farming is great work, but its just so STEADY!

 

[showcrop]

Glad to see you didn't stack it up twenty feet over the sides like my idiot friend does.

 

[rrlund]

I'm up there about four feet over. It's hard enough to keep the tires on at that.

 

[JD John]

Always a good feeling when you get a job done and you just beat the rain, better yet!

 

[JayinNY]

Great pic, I only wonder is that tractor heavy enough for packing? I guess if it does the job it's ok.

 

[donjr]

SWMBO gets mad at me for piling over the top, so I stay a few inches below the tops of the sides. Then, I spread wheat seed on top and pack it in. It comes up and seals the silage with it's roots. Then, we just feed it. The cows dig it out first....

 

[rrlund]

I think there's more weight on those narrow tires than there was with the 1600 with duals. Especially climbing up,the front wheel assist pulls in and pushes down while it's doing it.

 

[rrlund]

MSU says doing that or leaving it uncovered is the same. They claim that even though it looks OK,the top three feet have no feed value at all if it isn't sealed with plastic.

 

[Dave Sherburne NY]

Smaller tire footprint equals more pounds per square inch. This is the tractor used to pack the bunker on the farm I worked at. Used it the first year he had it with duals and the heavy blade, but without the weight. The next year, two of these weights showed up for both of the packing tractors. Solid concrete, and they really make the tires squat when the weight is off the ground.

 

[samn40]

Looks like you have a good bunker full, will you sheet it with polythene now? We always do, but when my Uncle went to live in Scotland he couldn't buy polythene sheeting as most of the farmers there don't use it! I would imagine you would get a lot of spoilage without sheeting?
Sam

 

[rrlund]

And to think that Dad and my uncles used to pack with an 8N Ford. lol

 

[rrlund]

Yes,6 mil. Michigan State University studies show that without plastic,even though it might look like you only have a few inches of spoilage,there's no feed value in the top 3 feet.

 

[INCase]

one place we tested equipment at when i was at Gehl used to get reject chocolate from a local choc place and would spread it over the top of the bunker. The heat of the sun would melt the chocolate making a seal. He would just scoop it all out and feed together. Claimed it worked.

 

[Royse]

One more chore done. Glad to hear it!
They got the beans off my place Sunday
so I can get everything ready for winter now.
Might get it done by January. LOL

 

[rrlund]

Now there's an idea. If you have to buy Hershey bars it would run in to some big bucks though. lol

 

[rrlund]

Ya,I need to get back to those trailer brakes sometime. I had to grind feed this morning after I went to Carson City and got that silo plastic. Hauled manure til 2:30. I'm too cold and wet to tie in to much of anything else right now.

 

[jm.]

A guy that works this hard and I can,t belive you did not want to get in the ORGANIC farming discussion.. LOL Looks good hope you got it covered. Wish you were closer to Tennessee thos olivers will just not bring anything down here. Do not see a lot of them traded in but when they do they are almost impossible to get rid of. Just never di catch on in these parts.

 

[rrlund]

I told Lee Little that there were folks down that way who'd never heard of an Oliver. He didn't seem to know any of those folks.
Oliver plows must have been popular at one time at least didn't they? Seems like I see an awful lot of Oliver walking plows down there anyway.

 

[jm.]

Yea in the early hundreds when you plowed with mules I think it was pretty considered you had to have an Oliver plow. Seems like maybe over in eas Tenn. ther were some Olivers sold but here around here in West Tenn just never took ahold. It is told that in 1949 this county here had more IH (Farmalls) tractors per capital than any county in the nation. Lots of small farms back then. Ih and AC both outsold John Deere around here in the early 50s.

 

[rrlund]

Seems like for some reason,Michigan and Wisconsin were hot beds for Oliver tractors. A lot of the big time operators around here ran the big 4 digits with the Hercules,GM and Cat engines in the 60s,early 70s.

 

[Don-Wi]

Tonight I spent a good 1 1/2 hours with my 6 & 8 year old nephews who I caught running on top of a sealed bag of haylage on Sunday. We took all the rolls of tape we had on hand from the past bags, and we taped over every single pock they made. The bag is a 10 x about 150'. Took a while to get that done, but I think they learned a lesson with it.

Did I mention I chewed their butts out when I caught them as well?

Brother didn't do much about it so I took over. I have a good feeling I won't be seeing them up there again.

Donovan from Wisconsin