Posted by sammydwm on February 20, 2022 at 08:21:39 from (104.243.226.125):
In Reply to: technology in dairy posted by Hoofer B on February 19, 2022 at 11:08:34:
As far as other farm equipment, the first farm we has had a poured concrete silo and an older one built of rock and concrete. Neither had an unloader so dad had to pitch all the silage out by hand. In the winter he also needed a pick to get chunk of the stuff off the walls. He would lean the chunks up against the barn wall in front of the cows so they could thaw before he fed them.
We filled them with old false endgate wagons and a long hopper blower that was operated by belt. We didn't have a powerful enough tractor to run it so we had to borrow a neighbors Farmall 15-30. Dad bought a couple bigger tractors and changed the blower to run on pto power the next year.
When the barn burned and we moved the new place had a 14x40 silo with a surface drive unloader in it. Dad built a 16x50 and put a Jamesway ring drive in that and it was much easier to unload.
When we moved to the place in 79 it had a 14x40 with a ring drive in it and dad built a 20x70 and put a ring drive in that. We had put some silage up in a neighbors old poured silo the year before we built the big silo and it was my job to take the Ford NAA and a trailer over there every day and fork out the silo and then fork it out of the trailer to the feed cart and feed the cows...I was really happy to see that big silo go up...But the second year we had it we put the corn silage up a bit wet and the unloader had a heck of a time unloading it so for 2 weeks every night when I came home from school I had to fork enough silage out of that big silo to feed 40 cows 3 times.
The big silo was the biggest that the dealer had ever sold and I remember he was really concerned about it falling over. He personally supervised the digging of the trench for the foundation, even shoveling a lot of it himself and made dad buy the automatic distributor for the Jamesway unloader rather than having just a silo chute that flipped.
We filled the silos with a brand new Badger blower and even with our biggest tractor which was a Case 800 it was sometimes iffy getting the forage up 70 feet. Seems I had to always be careful when unloading so as not to plug anything up.
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