More silage pics

Butch(OH) · Sep 29, 2023

A few pics I took yesterday while doing
silage. Im in a 8360R pulling a Miller
wagon. I'm opening up the field behind the
chopper and then beside it afterwards.
Also working is a 8430 and a 8100 pulling
Miller wagons and we are chasing a Claus 8
row chopper and filling bags. And a hungry
barn full of feeders.

matthies · Sep 29, 2023

Cutting kind of high off of the ground ? Or avoiding weeds, to much stalk ?

Butch(OH) · Sep 29, 2023

Cutting higher increases in nutrient values, cuts down on nitrate levels and leaves some residue for soil cover. Its hill ground and typically it will see a trip over off shallow light tillage and seeding to either rye cover crop or wheat.

Bob N.Y. · Sep 29, 2023

I spent all day in a JD 4240 pulling a silage cart. Lost track of how many loads. We moved a lot of corn today.

rrlund · Sep 29, 2023

I finished this morning. My son is coming in the morning to help cover it up.

Northvale PA · Sep 29, 2023

I thought cutting lower eliminated more insects? Will that be a future issue. These days I hand chop our garden sweet corn stalks and toss them to the sheep. I want the least bugs possible to be around next year.

caterpillar guy · Sep 30, 2023

And we thought we had the world by the tail with a 3 row selfpropelled in the 80's. You must have to stop at noon to change bags unless they are a 10or bigger diameter bag and 200 feet long.

Buckhammer · Sep 30, 2023

The dairy farmers around me would never chop corn and leave the stalk that high. They practice a scorched earth policy. When they cut hay it looks like a putting green and when they chop corn there might be 4 inches of stalk left.

tomstractorsandtoys · Sep 30, 2023

Looks good. Those big machines can sure cut a lot of corn in a few hours. Tom

Bob N.Y. · Sep 30, 2023

I was running along side of a New Holland FR 850 Crop Cruiser. It is amazing to see it devour 10 rows of corn at 6 mph. If you figure 30 rows, that is a 25 foot swath. We were running 5 tractors and carts plus a tandem axle truck. He cuts the corn high to avoid hitting the rocks in the fields.

Bob N.Y. · Sep 30, 2023

I just lifted this off the net. I found info that says this machine has a 1227 cubic inch V8 diesel that puts out 824 hp.

showcrop · Oct 1, 2023

Does your chopper stop when changing over from one wagon to another? or just raise the spout a little to shoot into the next one and keep going? I know that many keep going but many stop each time.

Bob N.Y. · Oct 1, 2023

The chopper just pauses for a minute for the next cart or truck to move up.

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