Posted by D Slater on September 02, 2009 at 10:15:18 from (71.164.43.209):
In Reply to: Silo filling posted by NY 986 on September 02, 2009 at 07:20:39:
Sure do remember those days. Didn't get out much with cows to milk back then so don't know if it was a local thing or not how it was done. We used 50 es model flat bed trucks to haul with, 16 to 20 foot beds and sideboards. Shute on chopper was turned so trucks run alongside when loading. Steel framed pull back board was in from of bed with 2 winch cables fastened to a 2 inch pipe at rear of bed with ends on it to hook the pull back gear motor. Silage was pulled to rear and into a JD belt driven auger blower. Winch had to be hooked and unhooked every load along with the pull back boards drug back to front. Used 2 JD choppers with engines. Continental and wisconsin, continental got used the most, because the wisconsin used twice the gas and if it died during use it took up a lot of time getting it going agian. Both were hand crank. Due to iregular fields in the valleys here a swath was usualy cut through the middle of fields by hand and put in piles to get started without wasting any corn, then fed into the chopper by hand. Lot of labor back then but didn't have time to think about it. For me I think 67 or 68 was the last silage year.
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