Posted by Billy NY on May 12, 2008 at 10:57:01 from (64.12.117.74):
In Reply to: o/t what is silage posted by Nancy Howell on May 12, 2008 at 10:18:37:
Hay-lage - from hay ? I've seen my neighbor use a chopper and wagon sometimes in hay, but used to be mostly in alfalfa, usually corn, or used to be just takes the grain now, like the others said, not too knowlegeable on the processing part, but it gets cut chopped and hauled to a silo where a pto driven blower is used to load the silo through a pipe to the top if I am correct. We mostly had the cable wrapped masonryu types here, not sure how those blue steel ones work, different type of silo. Some use stockpiles with tarps and concrete barrier walls, there's an attachment similar to a dozer blade for large tractors to push it up. My father used to go over to the neighbors place and open the doors on the tops of the silo's, one thing our neighbor did not like was heights, kids were still too young, no one else close by to do it.
When his place burnt on fathers day '95, was arson, lost quite a few of his dairy livestock, and all his barns, thankfully the wind kept it from the house, those silos were steaming lots of vapor from the heat, I thought they were going to blow the tops off em, each one eventually flared up like a bic lighter and that was it, they tore em down a few years ago, right conditions with the wind that fire is hard to describe, started in the machine shed and shop where the fuel was, it got so hot it jumped over 100-150 feet to the dairy barn without even touching the barn, spontaneous combustion and it burst into flames, fire companies efforts were useless against it even wetting down the barn, I've never seen anything level a place so quickly, a lifetime of farming into a pile of ashes, he only lost one small utility tractor, think that was the old Case 311 round nose, good thing all the larger diesel JD's were outside and not near the buildings.
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