It’s Official… Corn Silage Harvest Has Begun!

Quick reminder, hit that thumbs up button. Make sure you subscribe to the channel. I appreciate each and every one of you guys. Bag's full. I'm going to loosen this brake, pull the bagger forward, and reset up. Tractor's naturally creeping forward. We'll unhook them back cables, lock and load. Bag's got the new bag waiting for us. Got to unhook these cables. Okay, back up by the bagger, tighten this brake up a touch, and roll up the cables with the auto rewind. Auto-rewind engaged, I'm on one side, Greg's on the other, Jack's running the lever. Beats hand cranking, but no hand cranking means muscles go down, but we're happy that we're able to do it. Save your energy, it's going to be a long day. Five feet, nice! I get in, jerk it forward, and they clean out the back a little bit. We're out of here, guys. And that's how you level a silo. I mean, finish up a bag. Takes about five minutes. A lot easier, a lot safer than a silo. We're going to go to the end, set back up. Another bag. We're going to close this gap up right here. That was Greg and Jack. Took care of that for me. Big marks in front of us, filling wagons. He's got me about three or four full to get started. Pack her up just a touch. Get her straight. You guys missed it. Greg just put his hand up and said, ho. I'm going to pick that up and put it right in the forks. There you go. That's pretty good. Tied there in the center. Pull that, Jack. Pull. Pull. Shoot, did Mark grab that broom? He's out. George, guys, it's getting hot out here. Go see the big John. Hi there, boy. How you doing, buddy? You'll be a good boy, okay? Big old feet on you. Ticky, ticky, ticky, ticky. Be good for mom, okay? Come on, Forrest. Yesterday, I finished that bag. I showed you that. Then we started back up. Mark's over here chopping off this smaller piece, and we're going to move behind the farm. So that's south of the farm. That's west of the farm. And look at how far we got all one day. We stayed focused. I had to go till about a little after milking, wash up the milkers. The goal is to finish this bag today. That's the goal. Finish it and roll the bagger up, be ready for tomorrow. So one bag roughly is going to take us two days. That's the goal. We got rain coming at the end of the week, so five bags. So every bag, I'm trying to even it Pretty good job it looks like, but yeah, that was paid. So technically we've got, we're gonna have five, Dropped over from last night. I was worried this corn wasn't gonna be green enough, but I'll show you a picture this morning where this bagger was sitting. The whole ground was yellow, orange, and you could see fumes just coming off it with the fog. I'll overlay them pictures with my phone. Goes to show you, man, that stuff, it was right. Okay out here, but when you experience fumes in them silos, you're in big trouble. Hooking up, we got a couple fresh ones they just chopped. Yeah, she looks good. Hey, check this one out. I love it when they fill wagons like this for me. He probably was in a tight spot and had to chop to the end, but that's going to be fun to unload. All about having fun. Someone told me that once. 25 and 600 pounds. It's really easier on the tractor. Push the limits because if you blow a bag, some green stuff. You know what I like about these guys? My brother and Jack. Finished this bag yesterday, once I got the bagger set up, started bagging, they came right in here, and they buttoned and tied this bag up, sealed it off, put a slit in it, right on cue, they don't mess around, they know what's got to be done, and they just do it. This is one of our two single axle John Deere 716A wagons, looks a little rough, but it's An extremely sound, extremely fast wagon. See, I've only got it on like two and a half settings. It was all the way down to five. Can't go any faster. It's spilled over the edge. Flying slow. Dad found these at a guy's farm. Sat outside. Yeah. Didn't use them much. Worked like a champ. All we did was put a paint job on them. I can tell that's different corn. Here's my little rope pull. Break pop. That's different corn. The boys moved down, I think, in front of the dry cow lot or behind the dry cow lot rather. So Mark's shopping. That was a dad sighting. He's on that little tractor. Two guys hauling for me because they're about a little over a mile away and he's opening up the headlands front and rear. It takes more time. They're trying to keep me moving. Greg's hauling. Dad's hauling. Big Jack's on lunch. He's going to come in after noon shift. That bagger's drum is inching that tractor forward. That tractor's in neutral. So while you're doing that, you just kind of see it just jump? You're listening and watching and make, I always go around each side of this bag and make sure all these flaps are tucked in that bar, making sure everything's fine. You're listening, you got these earplugs in, you get used to hearing the humming of that engine, the humming of the conveyor, everything. Listen for anything that might start grinding or clanging or flapping. Get out here, hours, hours, eight, 10 hours in that chain of listening. They're a half mile in the back of the field. So they're quite a ways. That bag really grew, didn't it? Yeah, we started pitching these bags off with used tires. Common. That's the best way to do it. Was putting regular dirt on them. Then I switched to gravel. Seemed to work pretty good. How many more we got? Well, we're going to need one for this bag when we're done. Come on. Well, guys, release the brake. Here's your red tape. Bag's full and the cattle are already fed for the night. Nice, cool feed. Smells good. These cows here just got done getting milked. Big jacks over there finishing scraping between the alleyways. Corn silage, haylage, and that ground corn mixed with mineral and salt.