Orrson Custom Farming Corn Silage Harvest in North West Ohio

foreign hand mic YouTube channel bringing you some of the biggest and best variety and definitely the most versatile farming content on social media today you can find me on YouTube Instagram Tech talk and Facebook at farmhand mic hey everyone welcome back for another exciting corn silage video in this exciting corn silage video I am out in the field in Northwest Ohio with Orson custom farming out of Apple Creek Ohio as they are custom harvesting for a dairy farm in the area like a lot of my corn silage videos this is going to be a long video and in this video you're going to see them doing the whole deal from chopping hauling the corn silage from the field back to the farm and pushing and packing a silage pile to start out in the field they are chopping the corn salads using their two Chrome big X 1180 self-propelled forage Harvesters both with their easy collect 1050-3 headers taking 14 rows of corn at a time and a little history on Orson custom farming they are based out of Apple Creek Ohio they started custom chopping in 1946 with a one-row New Holland Chopper just in the local area around Apple Creek they chopped for a lot of years just around the Wayne Ashland County Ohio area then in 1997 they started traveling out of state to do custom work This Crew will generally start the year out by going down to Georgia at the end of March 1st of April chopping ryegrass for several dairies down there then they will come up to Ohio where they will chop some hailage then they will move back to Georgia about mid-july when corn silage is ready they chop a lot of corn down in Georgia then they'll move up to Ohio when Ohio's done then they'll move up to Michigan to chop corn silage there usually wrapping up somewhere in October but depending on the weather as late as November all the equipment you see in this video belongs to Orson custom farming starting on the field with the two Chrome big X 1180 self-propelled 4-H Harvesters they're running a total of 10 semi trucks here and back at the farm at the silage pile we'll see later on in the video they're running two four-wheel drive articulated case international tractors with blades a model 500 a model 550 and they're gonna have three fence 927 tractors on that same silage pile with blades I've noted This Crew in this family for several years this is my first time actually being out in the field getting video of them doing their thing and if everything works out I do hope to meet up with this crew in the future for more videos starting down in Georgia in the spring doing rye grass catch them doing some halogen Ohio then I would like to get back to Georgia for corn silage I did get invited to another Farm down there it just hasn't worked out so hopefully that'll work out for 2023 and then if everything goes good catch these guys in the fall in Michigan the Orr family also farms around the Apple Creek Ohio area now let's talk a little bit about the KRON big X 1180 self-propelled forage Harvester you see in the video here this is the largest forage Harvester in Crohn's lineup these are powered with a liebier d9512 V12 Stage 5 diesel engine it is 24 liters in size and putting out 1156 horsepower one thing that I think is really cool about these Chrome self-propelled forage Harvesters if you look at the cab on these the cab is raised up in the air so once they get this machine folded out in the field the cab actually raises up quite a bit so the operator has great visibility over the corn and into the truck later on in the video I will have a video shot of them folding the head up and lowering the spout and the cab as I said earlier this is a long video I got lots of great drone shots some on the ground shots and I did get to ride in the cab with John Orr himself now I was out here in the evening that's what you're seeing right here and then I was back the very next morning so we got lots of shots in the field here and back at the farm on the silage pile that you'll see later on in the video I mean this crew was putting on such a good show I had over 70 minutes of total footage to edit through for this video so I want to try to get it down to a manageable time but anyways I'm going to quit talking now and we're going to turn this video over to the sound of the machines in action [Music] you know um I wrote a few rounds inside the cab at one of the 1180s here with John Orr he is on a radio headset with all the truck drivers so everybody in this field is communicating back and forth there's a lot of chatter on the radio so I did Silence this just so you didn't have to hear all that awkward talk about telling the truck to move forward back up slow down this that and the other but as you can see we had a beautiful day a beautiful evening here in northwest Ohio and they just keep going around and around 14 rows at a time and I know you probably already noticed but I might add this is a good looking Field of Corn all the way through foreign foreign foreign thing I'd like to talk about is custom harvesting when we talk about custom harvesting or custom Harvest Cruise a lot of times we think of the combine Crews that do the wheat Harvest out west that start in Texas down in May or June and then work their way up into the Dakotas Montana out into the Pacific Northwest even up into Canada doing wheat and then come back south for fall crops but there is a lot of custom Crews that do forage or chopping like you see right here and a lot of those Crews belong to the United States custom Harvesters now I've done a lot of silage videos with custom Harvesters but most of those just work in a pretty small area around home and don't travel like this crew does here now I've done a lot of wheat Harvest videos with the big Crews that make the full run in the wheat and so forth and I just put this all together here when I was riding in the chopper here with John Orr he is a member of the United States custom Harvesters and we got to talking about wheat Harvest and he's actually friends and knows a lot of the guys that I've done wheat Harvest videos with such as Pablo harvesting and other Crews so as I travel all over the country doing these videos turns out it's just a pretty small world after all now I got another story that's going to top all this off when I left here as they were finishing up this evening I stayed at a hotel in Bowling Green Ohio and I went to Bob Evans Restaurant for supper so it was dark when I walked into Bob Evans and I'm by myself so I get seated at a table and there's a group of people sitting over at a table and one of the guys calls me out turns out it is Wago mooth harvesting out of Elizabethtown Pennsylvania who I've done videos of down in Texas and out in Idaho cutting wheat they were actually coming back from out west finishing up their Harvest so this video here was shot like the second week of September and they're coming back from out west going to their home farm base in Pennsylvania and they were staying at the same Hotel I was they had two of their combines on trailers right there at the hotel parking lot so far so I ended up moving tables and setting with them turns out all these guys know each other too so the next morning I get up have breakfast come out here to video these guys talk to John Orr tell them who I run into he said yeah I know they already talked to each other on the phone I know it all sounds pretty crazy but it just seems like I randomly run into things like this when I'm out on the road traveling and sure enough after Bob Evans I get back to the Holiday Inn Express parking lot and here is to a Wagga moose combines they still have one machine that is out in western Nebraska harvesting Millet they were going to hit the road the very next day right at daylight and make it back to Pennsylvania where they will start doing fall crops there around their home Farm in Elizabethtown Pennsylvania now if you go back on my YouTube videos I did do a wheat Harvest video with walgamuth down in Texas I did do one with them in Idaho and I also got them doing soybeans last fall out in Pennsylvania but before I left the field where oars were chopping here's a couple shots from inside the cab of the chopper before they ended the day thank you copy I can do that on the way I don't care um see how good our processing is thank you guys I think it'll probably all fit on Jonathan I believe and here's the footage from the very next morning they got moved to another field then when they do finish up a field they're all chopping fairly close to the farm they're cutting for so they run everything back to the farm so they can Fuel and service everything in the morning they got out here got an early start they're getting this field opened up and I got a lot of good drone shots in this field of both machines as well and then later on here we'll head back to the farm and we'll watch them push and pack the silage pile they were just putting on such a good show for my camera that was hard to just stop getting footage [Music] foreign [Applause] foreign thank you thank you foreign [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you did anyone notice the truck switch off right there so the truck that's pulling up right now was actually the first truck when he was coming down splitting the field and it was starting to get almost to the point when he's blowing a silage over top it was going to blow silage out over the back so he switched trucks made it to the end of the field then these two trucks switched places so he can top this truck off so it doesn't have to go back to the farm without a full load I thought it was pretty slick and sometimes some of the trucks need a little help getting out of the field [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] everything [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign foreign foreign foreign foreign alrighty they got that field done now they're going to move to another field so here's the process of folding up the head swinging in the spout folding the spout over and lowering the cab you can see it's all working together at the same time the whole process takes just under a minute then they're ready to move on to the next field [Music] thank you thank you foreign foreign foreign [Music] thank you thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] that's going to do it for this video I hope everyone enjoyed it if you did like this video please go down there and hit that like button and feel free to comment below and if you're new to my YouTube channel I would really appreciate it if you would go down there and hit that subscribe button also check back often lots of new and exciting farming content come in my YouTube channel all the time and if you want to see more of what I'm doing you 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Views: 261,260

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Length: 51min 55sec (3115 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 03 2023