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donjr

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Three and a half silos in three days. Didn't fill the last one because the corn is still too green. It will only take a day in a couple of weeks, and then we'll finish the trenches, which will take another couple of days.
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What are you chopping with , and will you go back and top up those tower silos? Corn here is at least 2-3 weeks away for a tower silo, even week or more for a pit, Nice to see the picks, I like corn silgae harvest. Bruce
 
WHAT??? That"s got to be the only upright silo I have seen filled in years!

I just drove from Georgia to MN via the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, IL, WI, to MN then back via Iowa, and I saw nothing but abandoned farmsteads and silos that were just waiting for the D9 Cat to push them over.

I think it is the demise of the tie stall dairy operation that has caused silos to go unfilled, plus so many have gotten rid of cattle entirely and gone to corn and soybeans.
 
I kinda like the CIH a bit better, but that old NH has had a lot of tonnage thru it and still keeps going. But the CIH can kind of force extra and is easier to pull up to....
 
Neighbor has a Claas 960 and does the chopping- this is over at Sam's place. We'll start filling my bunk sometime next week. I have an 892 NH. The Claas will chop more corn in an hour than I can do in almost a day. Our biggest problem with it is keeping corn away from it....
 
There's still a lot of uprights around here- especially up into PA. But most are going to concrete 't' wall bunks as the upright's rot out and the unloaders crap out. Sam's uncle had a 28X70 fall over about twenty years ago just before Christmas. He had two, and of course, it was the loaded one. Talk about a mess to clean up! We saved most of the silage by putting it in a bunk, but his hired man really got tired of picking concrete chunks out of the feed bunks all winter.....
 
It's been a while, but if I recall correctly, Jim sold most of his milk that year to a dairy that made 'Rocky Road' ice cream out of it.......
 
We had a 57 and a 60 inch Kools blowers. Quit using them when the 57 threw a paddle, it came out the band, bounced off the silo, flew over my uncle"s head, and put a hole in the tin on the end of the tool shed. Over 100 feet away. That 1066 was probably pushing near 300 horse and when a slug hit it would rock the tractor a good 6 inches.

Used a couple different ones that summer, ended up with an IH. It only ran 540 PTO but due to the larger diameter tip speed was actually higher than the 1000 PTO spinner-fed. The spinners also tended to plug up ahead of the main drum if silage was too dry, too.
 
(quoted from post at 15:21:30 09/01/13) Small wonder that it "blew up". Amazing how people abuse equipment.
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No kidding... About 10 years ago we were filling a sile with a really nice running 56" Kools on either our Oliover 1600 or Massey 285. It threw a paddle, it cut through the pipe right above the blower and slashed it for about 4' before it came out. I can't remember where Dad said he found it. We borrowed a neighbors IH 600 to finish filling, but that one was set up a little off so it needed our Oliver 1855 to run it. Probably would've dropped a quarter...

Now we run another 56" kools that's alomst identical, but it's about done in now too. Plugged up a few times with haylage and it tweaked the band and the paddles. No idea why the shear bolts didn't give, but they've sheared other times with lesser loads. And No, they weren't grade 8's.

We also tried a Gehl 1540 once, and we hated it. We were doing hay that's miserable no matter what, but that blower was absolutely no help.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
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