Re: corn silage question

Posted by The tractor vet on November 14, 2011 at 07:31:18 from (75.19.123.91):

In Reply to: corn silage question posted by jacksonduper on November 13, 2011 at 20:11:31:

My buddy and i feed silage from a bunker . The neighbor gets a bag every year for the last fifteen years. We both told him way back that a bunker would be more cost affective and pay for it's self in a few years over the bag. We do around forty to forty five acres each year. When we first started doing this i got him a New Holland 717 chopper with both heads for 650 bucks and bought two Gehl silage wagons for 875 . As for power we had two 706 Gassers a S/MTA and a John Deere A Chopped with one 706 and packed and leveled with the other with a three point 8 foot blade . Did this for a couple years till he bought a 1066 off of me and we up graded to a New Holland 782 that he found that was just a hiccup and a sneeze from being junk, i totally rebuilt that chopper and we are still using it today. When we went two row we added a third wagon then a forth did away with the three point blade and found a nine and a half foot heavy duty Myers snow plow and mounted it on his brothers 1950 Oliver . This sure beat looking over your shoulder for the time we are filling the BUNKERS. As we are now filling three , two big ones at his brothers and the one at his place. Once again we have moved up on equipment as now his brother bought a old 5400 John Deere selfpropelled chopper and we have gone away from the side unload wagons to three BIG H/S rear unloads that will unload a load in less then two min. The down side of gong bigger is the fact that the tractors have to be bigger to handle the wagons . The key to good silage is packing and leveling . As for bunkers Eugene's is the only one with cement sides . His brother Vernon 's were built in a rush when his silo blew out the bottom . He rented a small dozer and i built a trench into a bank behind the barn about 150 feet long by 30 wide and 10 feet deep at the far end with a ramp leading down so we could drive thru . The first year there was no cement floor that came the next year before we filled it and we made it wider and we did another one a couple years later only bigger . This year we chopped real close to 150 acres total.Vernon is milking 90 head and Eugen and i have a total of 82 Angus . we feed with a Skid Steer We cover the piles with plastic and place old tires cut in half to hold the plastic down . IF your careful and fold the plastic back as you get into the pile you can get a couple years out of it. So between renting a dozer and pouring some cement that will pay for itself fast . And if you can fix equipment and have the help and for your operation get atleast two or three extra hands to do maybe thirty to forty acres and that will take you two to three good days with older equipment you will do fine . We also feed grain that we grind our selfs and the corn is still Picked and 4x4 round bales . we also plant barley for the grinding .

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