Posted by IAfarmguy on August 30, 2020 at 20:21:14 from (166.181.82.237):
In Reply to: silo filling stories? posted by swindave on August 30, 2020 at 16:12:28:
Dad was one of many that built a couple Harvestore units - ours in 74 and 75. At the time it seemed to make sense. Actually they are still in use today! We never were a dairy. Cattle feedlot and hogs. Now just cattle. The 25x39 unit for hi moisture corn was first filled in fall of 1974. We had an early frost and had plenty of wet corn. Today I prefer to have the corn around 20% moisture as it harvests, handles and feeds well. The second unit was a 25x65 in spring of 1975 for silage. We chopped oats, lots of alfalfa haylage, some ryelage and of course corn silage. The first couple years used a turbo 4020, NH 717 w one row corn head or hay pickup. For quite a while a JD 115 - 4 wheeler and JD 125-6 wheeler. In 1979 dad bought a new NH 892 with 880? Hay pickup and 822 2 row corn head. It was hooked to the 4430 and later the 4440. Wagons unloaded with 4020 because the cab kept most of the silage dust off us. The NH 27 blower was powered by the old 720 diesel. We usually lugged the p--- out of it. For years we spent much of the summer chopping hay, It never seemed to end. Sometimes we chopped so much hay the silo was full by early Sept. For the last 10'years or so we moved to corn silage. It only had to be done once and often made around 20 tons per acre rather than about 5 tons of alfalfa in 4 harvests all summer long. Today it is the 4440 with NH 900 and 824- 2 row head. NH 8 wagon, Meyer Wagon, JD 125 and a Roorda wagon. All on 6 wheel gears. And the 4430 on the same NH 27 blower. Use a 7600 to pull wagons.
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