Speaking from experience, you will never bag hay that wet again... I hope you don't have the metabolic problems with your herd like we did the time we did that. 80% moisture causes buteric acid which is bad for fermentation.
I think you would definitely love some quick hitches for all the chopping you do and all those boxes. I think everyone would love them! Great videos Kip!!!
Thanks for another great video Kip. It was interesting and informative and enjoyable to watch. Thanks for the drone footages today. Gives you a real good perspective on what is going on in the field and you can judge better on the haying operation. Thanks. I know you are concerned about the hay moisture in the bags and I would be also. But you were kind of forced into it with the rains and hay on The ground. You had to give it a try anyway. Hopefully you can salvage most of it. Doing the best you can with it. Hang in there. Will be interesting to see how it is when you go to use it for feeding. Let us know how it goes. These super hot days be careful. Drink plenty of fluids. Easy on the solids. Glad the super trucker could help haul the wagons. With all that moisture I bet those wagons were heavy pulling. He had duals on too help. About it I guess. Sorry you had trouble with the hay moisture. Take care Kip and crew. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
We use the quick hitches for the wagons & tractors. That allows you to release a wagon and hook up the next wagon without getting off the tractor. It’s very easy for the chopper to hook up without anyone assisting. It’s just saves some much time and you back up and trailer latches and your off. A little expense at first But we’ll worth it.
When we used bags, we always used a bucket with grapple, but that's the only style of buckets we had at the time. The bags were on dirt, so with a wheeled skidsteer, it was not overly fun with muddy conditions. But at the time, it was common for a few skidsteer owners to have a set of steel tracks that went over the tires. Ive been told that the steel tracks do not work very well in snow/ice conditions.
For Kip, I know I left a comment a few videos ago about possibly doing a silage pad all in one pour. After thinking about, you missed be better to do two different pours. What i mean is that if you might need to do east half and west half or however being you need a fair amount of feed on hand and depending on when you're ready to pour. Unless a decision is made to put the wet feed in a different spot than where the bags are currently located.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Bags are like any other storage if you put it in to wet it's going to be junk. I put a small amount up that looked like that and ended up spreading it back on the field later.
I have bagged that wet for a few loads .It will be fine if need be just blend that spot in with heavy corn silage for youngstock just make sure you dont feed that bag in cold weather it will be a frozen ice block
Be sure to update us on the quality of this feed when it comes time to feed it out. I agree with the other commenters. It's quite a bit wetter than what is ideal. Might have to blend it with some nicer haylage at feed out time to avoid digestive problems. Good luck to you. I made balage out of some alfalfa plenty wet a couple weeks ago to beat a rain. You gotta do it sometimes.
I wouldn't be too worried about that moisture. You'll just have to mix it with equal proportion of dryer stuff in the ration this winter, do not feed only that and you'll be fine. Remember that sometimes we do corn silage wetter than that. I once saw a frickin' flood under the bagger in corn and it went ok. I prefer my silage a bit too wet than too dry
Looks like Mountain supply has replacement spools for Ag Baggers. You may be able to just replace the existing spool for a bigger spool for more cable. Be worth checking out if it’s not too expensive to replace them. Second cutting is looking like choice feed for the cows.
I gag bagged for my Cousin and her Hubby in mid 2000s. They had a GagBagger with a 300-6 Ford single barrel on it. 17 gallons of gas on average for a 200' bag.
I can't see why wet tubes can't have secure windows opened at the top to let them dry out if the weather permits. Or maybe take out as much as you need a day or two before it's eaten & put it in a pile to let it dry out. Lots of farmers watched their entire hay crops destroyed by rain & they are wiped out completely. Even if you piled the wet hay onto the gravel & let it dry out you wouldn't lose much. There's also vents you can get to let the gasses out of the tubes. It's all work but that's what life is meant for. Most folk sit in their box houses all day watching TV & never do any work their entire lives. It shouldn't be too much hassle to dry it all out if you have plenty of dry weather.
. Hi Kip. Had a set of over the tire rubber tracks on a skid steer for loading feed out of bags. Worked great for buoyancy but you had to keep them super tight or the tires would spin inside them, which was terrible on the wheel bearings. Know some people with track loaders but hear they are high maintenance.
Like others said you probably won’t do that again KIP 😢watch it when ya come to that nasty wet end of that bag,,mark it with a marker so you don’t forget it 🤫🤫. Hope it works out man !! Thanks for the video sir!!
Hi Kip Thank you very much for sharing your time with us all, I enjoy your videos very much. I'm from Scotland and many a time we made silage straight from cut with no wilting time because of the weather. A lot of juice in the bag when come time to use, smelly stuff. A couple more things Kip, you have big projects ahead and I thought you might have run a continental bull to generate more income for your big projects. Q why has a cow got a long face. A. So would you if you got your t1ts pulled twice a day and your nu..ky once a year. Many thanks Kip take care and God bless you all.
100% ?! Maybe ya'll need to recalibrate your meter. The moisture content of standing hay varies from 65-85% Only a jar full of pure water is 100% moisture.
Take spray paint and mark on your bags where you change fields or have large moisture changes. It will help to know when you need to recheck moisture and adjust the ration. Will help out when the mixer comes. Keep your eye out for a used Koster tester (forage moisture tester).
❤. Hey KIP, you guys KEEP HYDRATED OUT there with fluids and ELECTROLYTES in your systems, don't need to have the OL HEAT STROKE out there in that Extreme Heat 🥵🥵🥵🥵. CYA SOON NEXT TIME and Be SAFE 🚜🚜🌞👍✌️😎
@@KipSieglerFarming1 THANKS FOR THE VIDEOS. WE ARE AT 63.5 INCHES OF RAIN HERE IN WI THAT IS HOW WET THE SUMMER HAS BEEN KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. LOVE YOUR CHOPPING VIDEOS AND LOVE THE COWS. WE NEVER LIKE USING SILOS EITHER ESP FOR HAYLAGE THEY WOULD ALWAYS BE PROBLEMS BUT CORNSALEGE WORKED ALL THE TIME
I wonder if you will run out of room to turn around? Seems like maybe next time if you had a lane around both sides and the end you could better utilize the space for when you have even more bags later on. or maybe you can do that after the corn gets chopped. either way keep learning!
100% moisture is impossible. 100% moisture would be pure water with no solid material in it. You may have bagged it when it was 100% green with no drying time, but that is not the same as 100% moisture.
I love watching 👀 you guys get er done. Old school and still killing it. Keep up the great team work you'll never fail.
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Speaking from experience, you will never bag hay that wet again... I hope you don't have the metabolic problems with your herd like we did the time we did that. 80% moisture causes buteric acid which is bad for fermentation.
It's hateful trying to bag to wet. I have thrown dry bales of hay in to keep the bagger from puking. Wasn't ideal, but it worked.
When it's in a dry period of time, the alfalfa can be at 70% freshly cut
I think you would definitely love some quick hitches for all the chopping you do and all those boxes. I think everyone would love them! Great videos Kip!!!
Never to hot to eat. Even after my sandwich was riding around on an open station tractor for a few hours. Have a good one guys !
What beautiful drone shots!!!!TY!!!!❤️🙏🇺🇲 You can always count on super trucker God bless him!!❤️❤️❤️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
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Always a good working video.
Appreciate u sharing!
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Man that ole case tractor is one sweet ride
Great video Kip! Love the drone shots! God Bless.
I hope with all the moisture it doesn’t rot, but you know what you’re doing so good luck love your video and the drone shots
Echo what others said, I put a few loads up fresh to finish a bag, made good manure when i opened the bag.
Thanks for another great video Kip.
It was interesting and informative and enjoyable to watch.
Thanks for the drone footages today. Gives you a real good perspective on what is going on in the field and you can judge better on the haying operation. Thanks.
I know you are concerned about the hay moisture in the bags and I would be also. But you were kind of forced into it with the rains and hay on The ground. You had to give it a try anyway. Hopefully you can salvage most of it. Doing the best you can with it. Hang in there.
Will be interesting to see how it is when you go to use it for feeding. Let us know how it goes.
These super hot days be careful. Drink plenty of fluids. Easy on the solids.
Glad the super trucker could help haul the wagons. With all that moisture I bet those wagons were heavy pulling. He had duals on too help.
About it I guess. Sorry you had trouble with the hay moisture.
Take care Kip and crew.
The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
We use the quick hitches for the wagons & tractors. That allows you to release a wagon and hook up the next wagon without getting off the tractor. It’s very easy for the chopper to hook up without anyone assisting. It’s just saves some much time and you back up and trailer latches and your off. A little expense at first
But we’ll worth it.
Use a 3 tine bale spear and break the hay up in the bag before scooping it up
When we used bags, we always used a bucket with grapple, but that's the only style of buckets we had at the time. The bags were on dirt, so with a wheeled skidsteer, it was not overly fun with muddy conditions. But at the time, it was common for a few skidsteer owners to have a set of steel tracks that went over the tires. Ive been told that the steel tracks do not work very well in snow/ice conditions.
Love Super Trucker's International!! ❤
With all that "juice" You could make an alfalfa smoothie lol, The 2nd cut looks great and so does the hay, Great video!
Thought the same thing!
What a beautiful farm you have there. 2nd cutting looks awesome . 100% moisture . Hopefully everything will work out well with this cut .
Shout out to Super Trucker . That’s what I’m talking about .
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For Kip, I know I left a comment a few videos ago about possibly doing a silage pad all in one pour. After thinking about, you missed be better to do two different pours.
What i mean is that if you might need to do east half and west half or however being you need a fair amount of feed on hand and depending on when you're ready to pour. Unless a decision is made to put the wet feed in a different spot than where the bags are currently located.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Bags are like any other storage if you put it in to wet it's going to be junk. I put a small amount up that looked like that and ended up spreading it back on the field later.
Yeah I’ll be probably loading those in the spreader
I would recommend a Roto-press bagger, They take the feed as fast as you can get it off the wagon. Auger style no fingers like the Ag bagger.
What about the silo at the dry cow lot will you still use it?
I have bagged that wet for a few loads .It will be fine if need be just blend that spot in with heavy corn silage for youngstock just make sure you dont feed that bag in cold weather it will be a frozen ice block
Thanks 🙏
I love the look of the 706 with dauls
Love this vid, Kip
Another very interesting video 😊😊😊😊
Let's Go!!
Surprised you are not considering new concrete silos and robot feeding system saved labor probably pay for itself
The robot feeding would not work very well for how they are setup to feed.
Be sure to update us on the quality of this feed when it comes time to feed it out. I agree with the other commenters. It's quite a bit wetter than what is ideal. Might have to blend it with some nicer haylage at feed out time to avoid digestive problems. Good luck to you. I made balage out of some alfalfa plenty wet a couple weeks ago to beat a rain. You gotta do it sometimes.
You could try to loosen the haylage with the backhoe . We always used a skidsteer had to have teeth to loosen the feed.
Versa bagger....no outside cables. Once you use one, you'll never go back. Have had ours since 2001.
i hope you don’t lose that bag of hay
Better not
I wouldn't be too worried about that moisture. You'll just have to mix it with equal proportion of dryer stuff in the ration this winter, do not feed only that and you'll be fine. Remember that sometimes we do corn silage wetter than that. I once saw a frickin' flood under the bagger in corn and it went ok. I prefer my silage a bit too wet than too dry
Looks like Mountain supply has replacement spools for Ag Baggers. You may be able to just replace the existing spool for a bigger spool for more cable. Be worth checking out if it’s not too expensive to replace them. Second cutting is looking like choice feed for the cows.
Good tip 👍
Lay the windrows wider when cutting to get it to dry faster
Good job guys
Buy a versa brand bagger. No cables no backstop Awesome machine
I gag bagged for my Cousin and her Hubby in mid 2000s. They had a GagBagger with a 300-6 Ford single barrel on it. 17 gallons of gas on average for a 200' bag.
Can't beat new Holland equipment
Feeding out of bags on gravel is rough...but better than mud...maybe asphalt next year 🤞
Maybe bunkers?
I can't see why wet tubes can't have secure windows opened at the top to let them dry out if the weather permits. Or maybe take out as much as you need a day or two before it's eaten & put it in a pile to let it dry out. Lots of farmers watched their entire hay crops destroyed by rain & they are wiped out completely. Even if you piled the wet hay onto the gravel & let it dry out you wouldn't lose much. There's also vents you can get to let the gasses out of the tubes. It's all work but that's what life is meant for. Most folk sit in their box houses all day watching TV & never do any work their entire lives. It shouldn't be too much hassle to dry it all out if you have plenty of dry weather.
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Grapple bucket works the best that what I used on a bobcat skid steer
What about rubber tracks too?
. Hi Kip. Had a set of over the tire rubber tracks on a skid steer for loading feed out of bags. Worked great for buoyancy but you had to keep them super tight or the tires would spin inside them, which was terrible on the wheel bearings. Know some people with track loaders but hear they are high maintenance.
Ag bags great! Just avoid dragging that bottom sheet up kip, on going joke lol
My mind was wandering I had to go back and watch the rest of your video
Like others said you probably won’t do that again KIP 😢watch it when ya come to that nasty wet end of that bag,,mark it with a marker so you don’t forget it 🤫🤫. Hope it works out man !! Thanks for the video sir!!
Thank you 🙏
Hi Kip
Thank you very much for sharing your time with us all, I enjoy your videos very much. I'm from Scotland and many a time we made silage straight from cut with no wilting time because of the weather. A lot of juice in the bag when come time to use, smelly stuff. A couple more things Kip, you have big projects ahead and I thought you might have run a continental bull to generate more income for your big projects. Q why has a cow got a long face. A. So would you if you got your t1ts pulled twice a day and your nu..ky once a year. Many thanks Kip take care and God bless you all.
Nice video brother
Just curious why you folks do not have a hay head for your self propelled chopper ? You all stay safe !!
We’ll probably get one in the future
100% ?! Maybe ya'll need to recalibrate your meter. The moisture content of standing hay varies from 65-85% Only a jar full of pure water is 100% moisture.
Your one of them. Your always right. Enjoying life lol
bags look a little ruff, but anything to keep y'all out of silos...works
I’m figuring it out I think I can bump up the pressure
Wow ❤
would be neat to help you out just one dday of hay and one day of corn chopping never did any of chopping
Enjoyed the video. Please introduce us to Supertrucker. He sounds like an interesting guy
Juice in the bag juice in the tank.
Take spray paint and mark on your bags where you change fields or have large moisture changes. It will help to know when you need to recheck moisture and adjust the ration. Will help out when the mixer comes. Keep your eye out for a used Koster tester (forage moisture tester).
Borderline nothing anytime you make green milkshake roll it ,the feed dont come out as good as it should,too acidic
Hay in a day
It’s going to freeze this winter
❤. Hey KIP, you guys KEEP HYDRATED OUT there with fluids and ELECTROLYTES in your systems, don't need to have the OL HEAT STROKE out there in that Extreme Heat 🥵🥵🥵🥵. CYA SOON NEXT TIME and Be SAFE 🚜🚜🌞👍✌️😎
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@@KipSieglerFarming1 THANKS FOR THE VIDEOS. WE ARE AT 63.5 INCHES OF RAIN HERE IN WI THAT IS HOW WET THE SUMMER HAS BEEN KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. LOVE YOUR CHOPPING VIDEOS AND LOVE THE COWS. WE NEVER LIKE USING SILOS EITHER ESP FOR HAYLAGE THEY WOULD ALWAYS BE PROBLEMS BUT CORNSALEGE WORKED ALL THE TIME
Kip, Super Trucker and Crew gettin er done. It's a beautiful thing.
Bags are biggest waste of money wait till this winter when you feed out of this bag
wrong buddy
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I believe you guys are going to sorry for putting it up that wet.
I wonder if you will run out of room to turn around? Seems like maybe next time if you had a lane around both sides and the end you could better utilize the space for when you have even more bags later on. or maybe you can do that after the corn gets chopped. either way keep learning!
I think you’re spot on
You're probably going to have some butyric acid. Not too good for the cows. Better to wait out the rain.
Why don't you build bunkers instead of bagging
I'm pretty sure kip said that was the plan over the next couple years a few videos ago
100% moisture is impossible. 100% moisture would be pure water with no solid material in it. You may have bagged it when it was 100% green with no drying time, but that is not the same as 100% moisture.
No but it made for a great title
That just waste in be so rank bag isn't hole lot different then seal silo
Spread it out already get to65
kip, do not ever do that again
Trying to dry out here Kip. We got 7.05" last week from that storm. Trying to get back in the field. Stay Safe and great video and drone shots.
Yeah that’s a lot of rain
Don’t blow a bag
1200 is max pressure on a bag 1300 it will rip
You are going to wish you didn't do it you will be sorry 😢