Chopping the Last Load of Corn Silage 2021

you know it's the next day we're out here cruising along we're in some of the best corn we've had to chop and we're here way back away from the road way out that way i don't know if you can tell there is a small bit of slope here small but like there's this little knoll way in the back of the field where it's not too bad yeah i finally get out of here for the last load to film some because i'm running wagons and stuff all day i'm doing other things let's see where he goes [Applause] well the johnson grass is gonna add some tonnage for us and like i said in the last video herbicide efficacy was weak it's non-gmo corn and we couldn't get what we wanted this year for weed control so you chop it up into little bits and ferment it and they'll eat it now obviously with the johnson recipient frosted off you got to worry about uh some of the prussic acid so let it permit ferment a small uh small time the silage will fully ferment in three weeks and sometimes yeah the grass makes a little challenging gotta back up and get another go at it oh when we're rolling away again now this yeah some of the best corn is back way in the back here this actually this corn took the first time so it survived all the rain right after it was planted now this was much worse when the corn was greener and right at that spot there was also a lot of downpour the deer have oh had their fun back here i guess obviously there's lots of trees around not a whole lot of open fields so they got a lot of room to romp and play and hide in the woods that doesn't help us out i need to get dad to lower the uh the spout on the blower a little bit he's kind of getting a little bit on the roof so yeah this stuff's a little dry because we didn't replant it back here it's okay corn it's more that the cows are going to eat and that's what we got and they'll survive now the stalks are still really wet i know a few of the ears are hanging like it'd be hard to get all the way back here through the corner replanting just to get to this and if all the corn looked like this yeah we'd probably have quite a bit more silence we're only going to fill the silo uh maybe half full but look at the positives we got the nice new lovely exhaust system on the chopper it's comparatively quieter the spout's lower and uh so far like no breakdowns just digging grass and ears of corn out from underneath the lower gathering chain they get wedged in there and usually that's when there's a stuck that's not standing straight and the ear comes in real low when that happens yeah some really decent corn through here and we're in like a high spot it rolls away that way and rolls down this way towards the woods and even comes back at us that way at least i picked a few almost clean rows to get up here and show off there's not too much grass and the corn is halfway decent definitely glad this thing is a hydro for when it kind of has a little trouble feeding and you got to back up give it a second to pull it all in the real nuisance if it was here drive so we're running 10 blades it's at all 12 because remember uh two years ago when we ate a chain and pretty much destroyed the one side of the blade so we destroyed two of them real good and the other 10 were just nicked and uh well yeah they had uh their marks in them they weren't sharpenable and the blades have a reversible side to flip the blade around and use the other side so a run in 10 that's not a very usual uh configuration but it works we got five and five two blanks opposite each other uh nothing's given out bearings haven't given out the length of chop is pretty good we got that new shear bar in which is real nice that's great okay this corn is a little thin but we'll just focus on the tall stuff we gotta get the positive some days oh and it is getting dark because you know that's what it does we're now in daylight wasting time so it can get dark an hour earlier and light an hour earlier and probably shift our sleep schedule and all that fun stuff um i'll try to get some more footage we'll see if we can squeeze these last few rows on this wagon that'll probably be the last load um of silage i don't know how many we did maybe 20. it takes close to 40 to fill the silo but once we had those frost it went a lot better [Music] yay headlights so it's time to stick a fork in it we're done this is the last load dad squeezed it all on and this is the fullest uh he's filled one i don't know if you can see but we got it fairly close to the roof you know there's okay there might be a foot there but for the angle we're not down low shooting up we're kind of almost trying to shoot level in and uh you know the they're not led lights so the lighting here is a little low it's nice and warm and yellow and not blinding and sterile like a hospital surgery room uh but we can see enough the camera doesn't show that off uh we'll check silo and i'll make a video on the first fork down to how full we get it and we have to climb up there eventually and uh push that down so the cows need the silage up on the roof uh but it's great we're done but it's november 8th and finally it's a silage season i mean we didn't start until october 23rd uh a small rain delay and mostly what we really need was the frost now that area where we chop somebody is gonna say and i already talked about the tile need but not i don't know less than five years ago maybe it was five years or so i ear picked exactly where we chopped in november uh so either if there is pile problems they've happened since then or we've just been that way which is very possible because you know we're five inches ahead for the year right now and we're in our second longest dry stretch um forecasted and actual play out we're on like day 10 or 11 right now we'll get close to two weeks when it rains friday or thursday which is as long as it's been without rain uh pretty much all year um so whatever that means the weather mouse are complaining that we're not getting our monthly average of four inches uh well four times twelve uh is 48 we're we only are supposed to average 40 or actually high 30s not even 40. um so really it's only somewhere in the threes and we're good for getting an inch a week we'll say not on the calendar every tuesday night or anything but say every four days or sooner well that was my rain hate rain yet again i could go on about political stuff make people mad but you know it's a farm community i'm pretty sure you guys have a pretty good lay of the land on how that's gonna roll so at least everybody can get behind uh hating the rain hopefully i know there's some of you guys in dry areas like the dakotas who don't get any i'll trade you i mean that's definitely out in the boonies out there but i wouldn't know what to do wanting rain that'd be different

Channel: Boehm Farm

Views: 10,859

Keywords: new holland, tractor, ford, forage

Id: chv8WWOUMeQ

Length: 12min 4sec (724 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 21 2021