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Silage cutting 2016

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br>Finished cutting corn on Tuesday evening, started Saturday afternoon, rain delay Sunday afternoon. 155 loads, 37 year old equipment, except loader, and no breakdowns, it went well. First time since the late 80's I can remember cutting corn in August, last year we finished on September 24. Truck and pile picture is from last year, but its the same equipment we used this year. Some lower ground corn was nice, high ground sandy soil corn was burned up. G1000 MM picture is from 1991 I think.
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Looks good to me! Although I know nothing of cutting silage. A buddy of mine has some cows he cuts a little silage for, maybe 1,200 cows? They get a mix of silage and other stuff, old vegetables, etc. He started chopping a couple days ago. He pretty much just does all of the headlands of his corn fields, which works well. That way when it's time to combine corn, he can pull the truck and combine into the field and go after it, so it saves time by doing it that way I guess. Once the headlands are all done, if he still needs more to fill the bunker, he'll just do the straight rows until he has enough. He uses a New Holland self propelled chopper of some sort.
 
My grandson is out in Kansas running a Class chopper for a harvesting crew. The fun has started, last nights pictures were BIG tractors hauling the trucks thru the mud.
 
I think we are still about a week away from chopping . Started third cut hay yesterday.I also used some very experience equipment in harvesting . NH 782 chopper for corn, powered with a IH 966, and pull the wagons in with my J.I.Case 1030. Old fellas get the job done . I like your set up . Bruce
 
Bosses son has a crew up in Nebraska. I see he came home last night, so I assume they got rained out. Not sure of the model of JD cutter he has, but has an 8 row ratary head on it. Has 2 40 foot chain floor trailers, 4 26 foot tandem trucks, and pushes with a 9300 Deere.
 

Yes, we are small potatoes in the neighborhood here too. Maybe only 5 or 6 farms in the area still running pull type cutters, rest either hire it done with large self propel units, or if they have there own self propel units are custom chopping for others. We have more time than money so this works for us. Those large self propels really cover the acres, but then you need the crew, trucks to go with it.
 

We probably could have waited a week also, but there has been some heavy rain not too far from us, just so much easier to cut on dry ground. I have never heard anything bad about new holland cutters and that would probably be our choice for a cutter, but just don't see them around this area at all. The old 830 has been a good cutter, but i did put about 1500 worth of new gathering belts in it before we started. Hope you have a good harvest also.
 
Yes, self propel choppers are the way to go for opening fields, for the small amount we cut, pull types are just more cost effective.
 
We have a farmer around here who does about 400 acres of corn silage. He hires someone with a self propelled chopper to chop around the outside of all his fields and a few passes down thru the fields so he can get in with his pull type and finish the fields without knocking down much corn. The corn chopped with the SP chopper would be a big loss if he did it with the pull type.
 
Don't you just love it when those 830/881 style IH corn heads cuts one of those $300 gathering belts?

You gotta be careful and be sure to clean out the stalk buildup under the head with every load.
 
Just finished 2016 haylage and started silage about a week and a half ago here in Michigan. Got a new toy to use starting in the corn this year. We were able to finish haylage with the previous chopper before it went in on trade so no messing around switching heads back and forth.
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We run a 3800 JD chopper, have another 1 for backup behind a 4040 FWA, P.S. with a turbo. 2 row narrow head. We also have a 7' pickup for peppermint, red clover and grass silage. We plant everything to covercrop that gets spring planted, cut the silage and then plant spring crops. We can use the peppermint tubes if needed and then dump and push of the slab into the trucks. The push off slab was built to push the peppermint straw into the spreader truck after mint was distilled. We cut about 600 acres total mint, grass, clover, lotus, silage corn and sweet corn silage that the cannery won't take....James
 

Good to hear from you again James. The 3800 is a respectable cutter, we use to run a 38 for several years, easy pulling cutter, we just could not get it to blow well and we would have trouble with the header knives cutting in weedy corn on damp days. Hope all is well for you.
 

There is a machine like that working in our neighborhood right now, they are only hauling one mile and it takes three semis to keep up with it, impressive capability.
 

We try to keep the header knives,belts, and stripper plates adjusted up tight. I modified the stripper plates so there is little to no buildup, I usually only clean it out in the evening and there is very
little under the head. This 3 row head still had some original woven type belts on it, we replaced two last year, and I replaced the rest before starting this fall. I doubt the new soft belts will last as
long as the woven ones did. The deere cutters pull much easier than the IH ones, we just like the rotary cut knives on the IH heads, they seem to clean up a field nicer and cleaner than the deeres.
 
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There is a machine like that working in our neighborhood right now, they are only hauling one mile and it takes three semis to keep up with it, impressive capability.
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I ran a 450hp Deere 20 years ago in New Mexico chopping irrigated circles. 4 ton every 5 minutes, and that was run thru a 1/4" processor. I can about imagine what the latest and greatest put out!
 
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