Chopping hay with the 4620

well here buddy how is it going today we have a beautiful day ahead of us we're gonna be chopping some beautiful third cotton today and I can't wait to get going here but before I get going we've got our little indicator telling us that the silo needs a door taken out so before I get going I'm going to run up take a couple doors out of the silo and you guys can get on with the rest of the video here and we will join you at the end of the video in this video it's got a little chopping action going on and and whatnot you'll see what we've got going on and then I've got a little bit of a story time towards the end of the video so I'm gonna run up take a couple doors out of the silo get cleaned up get chopping and we will see you at the end of the video all right I'm sure I'm gonna get some questions about what this unit here is this is an 18-foot silage body that I built for a customer of mine back in 2001 I've built quite a few silage boxes and and whatnot and it sold quite a few of them through the years here and as the farm got bigger I ran out of time building these things but at any rate I built two of these for this one customer of mine and he has since got out of farm and he had an auction here earlier on this summer and we ended up picking this one unit up from him and Jarrod was using it the other day while we were chopping close around the farm here what this is is a silage body setting on a set of trailer axles out of a semi-trailer I built the undercarriage for it which it has a harsh Jay 100 hoist on it we've got to do some work to it this box was built back in 2001 so it's you know it's getting to be you know pretty near 20 years old it's in decent shape we thought we'd get it to have around the farm here to the gist haul in muddy conditions and whatnot now years ago when everybody had self unloading wagons and whatnot they moved over to but now we'll go into that a little bit here so we'll just fly around this thing for a little bit here it's got a hydraulic end gate on it which the cylinders are both broke off of it we bought it that way got a green spout on there it sits just like the the regular silage boxes that we have now this is the wow this is the older way that I was doing it with inch and a half by three rectangle post four uprights now what I use on the silage bodies is like a tapered tapered post and that I end up putting a like a shelf plate against that rub rail and it keeps the crap from sitting on the rub rail right there at the post where the posts are welded to the the angle iron there so that's that but I did belt you know like I said I built two of them for the for this guy and landed up buying one at the auction actually my brother bought it at the auction this was the better one of the two and we'll fix her up this winter get some hydraulic cylinders back on there and paint it at any rate that's what that is [Music] [Music] back in the early 90s we had switched over from self-employed wagons to a silage drunk now the first silence truck that we had was a grain truck that we had converted over we ended up putting barn doors on it now the cyllage trailer that was in the earlier part of this video a lot of farms around the area when they were switching over from silage wagons to dump wagons and carts and stuff like that they had bought silage trailers just like what was in the earlier part of the video and then as their farms increased the mileage between farms also increased and everybody kind of moved or in silage trucks just because of the amount of distance that we haul but for the most part the guys that didn't have to haul that far away like the guy that we bought that silage trailer from all his land he farmed about now eight or nine hundred acres and all his land was right near his farm something he didn't even have to go out on the road and switching over from tractor drawn wagons to trucks was kind of a major undertaking the trucks are a little expensive little harder to find and if you really don't have to go that far on the road you know a tractor style silage cart works out just great however when you do switch over from wagons to silage bodies yet if you're throwing an upgrade silo you have to have a table to dump it to table is and back up to you Cawood your corn silage onto it set up just like a cell phone wagon but it's built low to the ground it's open it's it's wide enough for the cyllage body you know whether it be a truck or a trailer to back up to and don't mind now the reason for the hydraulic end gates was to help aid in dumping off haylage whether it be into a table or anything for that matter you can't really hinge the tailgate on a silent body like you would a gravel body because the haylage just does not want to don't fall from underneath that gate usually it comes all back to the back of the body all at once and that jams itself up and you can't get the load off you have to push it down on the back hole or something there a skid steer to get it to fall out from underneath the top of the tailgate and that's why everybody had went to the hydraulic gates and or a barn door or they hinge the gate up a couple feet above the top side of the silage body now when we had switched our our wagons were shot we have had a pull type chopper at the time and we had bought a dumb flag and bought a used table started out with one truck ran that for a couple years on a second silage truck we are starting to the gain to gain some land get a little bigger and for a long time to silage trucks kept up to the whole plate chopper now we had went from a 3970 full plate chopper to uh Gayle 1275 and we were able to put a little bigger tractor on it we were able to chop a little more in later went on to a third truck and a fourth one so on it's all fourth and then shortly thereafter the 1275 gal chopper we ended up buying our first South felt chopper and I don't even remember what you that had to be 2003 maybe 2002-2003 somewhere in there but at any rate the rest is history so that's a little bit of history on what we used to use and won't be used now and any of the any other farmers that are listening I'm sure you can relate to what I just talked [Music] well okay folks that job is done so I want to thank you for watching and we will catch you at the next video

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Length: 16min 41sec (1001 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 10 2019