Posted by billonthefarm on August 31, 2010 at 18:09:22 from (97.64.142.172):
With our always growing herd of cows we are going to give a try to bagging silage. We spent part of the day saturday and untill noon sunday helping friend do theirs and then we moved here and they helped us and by dark sunday we had ours done also.
This is the chopper. It belongs to Randy Byers from west of Avon. He brings the chopper, bagger, 5 wagons, the chopper driver and he ran the bagger.
They tell me this is a small chopper but it looked pretty big. He cut 6 rows at a pretty good pace.
Once the fields were opened up we just drove along side and caught it all on the go.
This thing sure is mean looking and it looks expensive too!
This is the back end of the bag. Once get everything set up, just pull up and unload and it takes care of the rest.
This is a pretty good shot of the silage coming out of the wagon and going into the bagger. The only bad part is you have to keep pulling ahead and the bag fills and pushes the tractor forward.
This is the pic of the set up at our friends. The 4630 runs the bagger nicely. They did 3 200 foot bags this year.
This project takes alot of power and man power. We had 5 tractors in use, a man in everyone and a couple of helpers around not counting the guys with the chopper and bagger.
We were chopping in half mile rows right across the road from the barn lot. We only had to haul to the buildings in the background so we keep the chopper going all the time and really coverd some acres in a hurry.
It was a nice warm day so wrigley spent alot of time sitting in the tractor running the bagger while cliff ran the controls with occasional help from wrigley. Now that the silage is made and we have things sqaured away, if it doesnt rain we will start picking corn tomorrow. 80% chance of rain so maybe we wont but if we do I will get some pictures of course. bill
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This is the pic of the set up at our friends. The 4630 runs the bagger nicely. They did 3 200 foot bags this year.
