I'd probably agree with the cutting silage; it was my dad's operation and we used a 4020 and a 2-row A-C cutter (a 760 or a 780, I dis-remember). It was a cut-and-throw machine and the 'moan' it made could be heard all through the community. The silage went into a trench silo (the pit) and the trailers weren't that big, about 7 x 14 x 4 1/2 ft tall. If everything was working right, we cut as many as 8 loads per hour. Had a man to ride the back of the machine/front of the trailers. I'd motion, he'd pull the pin, I'd drive forward a few feet while adjusting the the chute to keep the silage in the trailer, I'd stop and the fellow hauling would whip the next trailer in behind the cutter. The guy doing the hitching/unhitching would pull the pin; tractor would pull out of the way and I'd back in for him to hitch up the empty trailer. Fellow hauling would do his own hitching up. Depending on how far the field was from the pit, there would be 1, 2, or 3 'haulers'. Trailers had false front endgates to pull the silage out at the pit; 2 or 3 guys at the pit, 1 tractor driver to pull the silage out and 'pack' and the other to hook onto the false endgate and put it back into the trailer after it was unloaded. The dust in the field roads would be as fine as flour and 6 inches deep. A load every 7 1/2 or 8 minutes; I loved it. We did a lot of custom cutting within the county and filled 10 or 12 pits or silos each year. New highway got our pit about 25 or 30 years ago and we went to an all-hay operation, instead of silage.
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