I am constantly amazed at your videography skills! The angles and perspectives you use are so realistic. I especially liked your corn picking videos. I have operated a corn picker in the past and your videos made me feel like I was back on the tractor seat again. Thank you great work!
My comments was going to be on the same line of how awesome the videos are shot too. I know it took extra effort but I really appreciate the experience it give, as you mentioned make me feel like I'm on the machine.
I used to Blow LEAVES into a Silage box !!! I had a BILLY GOAT TRUCK LOADER ON THE 3PT HITCH OF MY 706 GERMAN DIESEL AND I WOULD PULL IT FROM YARD TO YARD IT WORKED GOOD!!! YOU COULD GO FOR TWO WEEKS BEFORE IT WAS FULL ❤❤❤😊😊😊
I chop corn stalks in the self unloading wagons but I unloaded it onto old hayfield in wind rows, let it lay few days to dry out, then baled it. It drys fast being chopped up and wind blowing through the wind rows
Just a thought fellas , I've seen people take and brushhog those stalks first then rake them and chop them with regular ole chopper works great . You gotta set your rake just right so you don't pull any dirt or rocks up into windrow
We had a 7200 Gehl green chopper and one of the things we used it for was chopping corn stalks for bedding we would chop as the weather allowed into a kicker wagon and fork it off outside the gate to our dry cows and heifers then push it in with the loader. Our chopper was temperamental about PTO RPM change. If you throttled down, the chopper would free wheel until it hit the resistance from the tractor and break the shear bolt. If you had to shut it off you had wait until the chopper stopped rotating before starting again. So i never changed the RPM of the tractor. Making reasonable turns with it was never a problem though.
My brother needed straw I said to cut corn stalks blow in the barn , he said it was the best beading he ever seen . The moisture goes into the pith , and two moisture levels will even out .
We have been cutting corn stalks into windrows for years very good for cattle and better tillage for the year no yield drag great video keep being successful !😊
Man I love the John Deere 7810's my number one favorite tractor in the world. Keep that 7810 in good condition because you can get some money for it if you need it
I forgot what you pick with but we used to pick a 1 row picker sheller and a 2 row later on we used to pick and chop at same time I know its a pain in the butt but it worked well for us we chopped with our regular chopper and used it for filler feed and bedding just like you all we also used mixer wagonto mix chopped stalks with sawdust about 60/40 it keep animals clean very well and because it was chopped fine it breaks down well in manure pile or on fields great to watch you all great work
Lots and lots of work, but worth it. I also love the MTA and the sound of it. Also liked the feather on the tractor. Good luck with the rest of the season. I think the rest of the stalks will be able to be baled because the weather is coming in streaks. Thanks for the video.
Great video! Once again I love your equipment. We had a NHflail chopper like that back in the day, looked just like yours. We would chop stocks and one time we chopped alfalfa while we chopped corn sileage and would put a load of green chop in the upright silo for every so man corn sileage. Pretty nice piece of equipment. Thanks for taking us along.
That makes great bedding it heats up smells like silage cattle eat some of it saves on your feed. And it goes right back on the field as fertilizer. To bad they don’t make a flail head for pull type choppers. God bless
The hay head would pick it up but they would have chop it and rake it plus it would be very tough on the chopper. If you have ever followed Onelonlyfarmer's channel, he was baling cornstalks for the mushroom barns. I don't remember the manufacturer, but he was using a big flail chopper that windrowed the stalks at one end of the machine.
Sawdust is not cheap and has been hard to come by ! Also it doesn't add as much fertilizer to the ground. It actually takes nitrogen out of the ground to decompose the wood.
Great care must be taken with corn stalks, putting in a pile outside is ok, baling and stacking outside yes, putting bales in a building all to often the building will burn. I have witnessed both ways, some disasters have happened.
Thank you for making and posting! It was very interesting hearing what Dad had to say about the bedding operation, changes in corn plant moisture over the years, and his personal history with piling. Much appreciated!.
Haven't seen a NH flail unit in use in many years. Good you have 1, GREAT you can use it! A local Dairy Op used the Hesston Stackmaster machine for a few years, but it really didn't work out for them. If you tarped it, it tried to ensile but would rot, if you didn't tarp it, it would just rot in a few months. Great video!
When my dad had cows we used a flail chopper to cut the stalks down then used a MC chopper to put it in the wagon and we used a blower to put it in the barn
great idea how short can you cut those stalks or you get just one length heston used to make stackhand flail cutter i always wanted one when i had hogs i used a lot of straw corn stalks bean stems would been ok love you,er videos great looking family operation i dont like those big custom farms you,re the real farmers happy trhanksgiving GOD bless
We over run a few hundred RPM on the tractor engine, choppers preform a lot better My dad did it as long as I can remember at least 45 years of my farming days and I don't think it ever hurt the chopper any But of course we run IH tractors so it's easy to do because how they are designed
I guess those wagons don't have rear unloading. We had John Deere Chuck Wagons back in the day and would rear unload, much faster. Still fun to watch, although the stock chopper is kind of the small link in the tractor, chopper, wagon, chain.
I personally have been running regular unleaded gas in my older tractors for years. My John Deere 60 has the oil pressure fuel shut off which I had to rebuild because of the ethanol. Just don't let them sit around. If you do have to let them sit for an extended period keep the tank full. I also put Seafoam in my gas tanks. If possible shut the fuel off to the carburetor and drain it.
The SuMTA is your family go-to tractor for odd jobs!!! Always amazes me how these old girls keep chugging along with a little TLC every now and then. Not hard to see that the no-frills management has kept the dairy thriving through good and bad ag markets.
yes normal all those older pto were that way up to late 560 earlly ones had planetary gears in them that is the whine be sure keep oil checked they have own oil supply they leak internally you burn up unit ask me how i know
I grew up on the farm we raised beef cattle we to didn't waste anything of course we baled straw every summer ran the cattle in the corn stalks in the fall electric fence and all but had all the straw for bedding in the winter filled the crib up and when we shelled corn later we used the cobs for bedding in the barn i still remember the guy that had the corn sheller rig that went to everybodys farm to shell long time ago good times growing up lots of hard work thou. I still miss it!
I have an old Minneapolis Moline Model D sheller I use to shell corn out for my sheep. I can fill my John Deere 400 feed grinder in 20 minutes. I'll run the cobs through the grinder too and use them for bedding steers.
Why don't you use sawdust it's easier to work with and you can order it when you need it. Or better yet why don't you leave a tree service company dump there you get free firewood and wood chips that's how we did it before we always had wood chips and firewood
Sawdust has gotten to expensive for me. A 25 yard load was $1000. I think the market for wood sawdust that's actually dry has been cut into by people making pellets for pellet stoves. The wetter sawdust in my opinion is a waste of time as bedding. Right now I am buying big round bales of straw for $25 and unroll a bale a week for my steers. What they are doing cheap too. Just a little fuel and time.
@danw6014 I'm in Pennsylvania sawdust is still cheap around you can get a 50 yard load for around 250 you still should check in to tree trimming company have a nice Thanksgiving
I like the turkey feather on the mta
Have a great weekend
God i just love when you guys break out the MTA !!! Love it
I wonder if you guys bounce around while you are sleeping! I so enjoy your hard work so I thank you.
love that Farmall M!!!!!!
Very Nice!
I am constantly amazed at your videography skills! The angles and perspectives you use are so realistic. I especially liked your corn picking videos. I have operated a corn picker in the past and your videos made me feel like I was back on the tractor seat again. Thank you great work!
My comments was going to be on the same line of how awesome the videos are shot too. I know it took extra effort but I really appreciate the experience it give, as you mentioned make me feel like I'm on the machine.
Brilliant video I used to work for a farmer here in Ireland I drove a 2680 massey Ferguson
I used to Blow LEAVES into a Silage box !!! I had a BILLY GOAT TRUCK LOADER ON THE 3PT HITCH OF MY 706 GERMAN DIESEL AND I WOULD PULL IT FROM YARD TO YARD IT WORKED GOOD!!! YOU COULD GO FOR TWO WEEKS BEFORE IT WAS FULL ❤❤❤😊😊😊
I chop corn stalks in the self unloading wagons but I unloaded it onto old hayfield in wind rows, let it lay few days to dry out, then baled it. It drys fast being chopped up and wind blowing through the wind rows
Nice info! I was wondering about chopping into the wagons, then baling it after. Putting it in windrows to dry was the missing piece of my puzzle :)
When I milked I baled corn stocks with my
New Holland 66 baler. It was hard on the baler because of all the dirt but it made super bedding.
Thank you. İt s very nice to see when you are working with love .
First time I’ve seen someone flail chop cornstalks for bedding. What a great idea and good use for them.
Just a thought fellas , I've seen people take and brushhog those stalks first then rake them and chop them with regular ole chopper works great . You gotta set your rake just right so you don't pull any dirt or rocks up into windrow
We did it the way in the video growing up. You can do all 3 passes in one that way.
Nothing goes to waste on your farm! Awesome!
Happy Thanksgiving from a farm in western Illinois. You are always welcome if you are ever in this area.
We cut them with a haybine and baled them. The mower broke the stalks up and bales made them easier to handle.
Love this channel! Trempealeau County is in the Wisconsin Indian head so that makes it almost Minnesota! You betcha!
I do enjoy watching older machinery still being productively utilised.
We had a 7200 Gehl green chopper and one of the things we used it for was chopping corn stalks for bedding we would chop as the weather allowed into a kicker wagon and fork it off outside the gate to our dry cows and heifers then push it in with the loader. Our chopper was temperamental about PTO RPM change. If you throttled down, the chopper would free wheel until it hit the resistance from the tractor and break the shear bolt. If you had to shut it off you had wait until the chopper stopped rotating before starting again. So i never changed the RPM of the tractor. Making reasonable turns with it was never a problem though.
Totally enjoyed watching the video guy's 😊
My brother needed straw I said to cut corn stalks blow in the barn , he said it was the best beading he ever seen . The moisture goes into the pith , and two moisture levels will even out .
We have been cutting corn stalks into windrows for years very good for cattle and better tillage for the year no yield drag great video keep being successful !😊
My husband and I love love love your family and channel! God bless u
I love the Farmall ....... great work horse!! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Man I love the John Deere 7810's my number one favorite tractor in the world. Keep that 7810 in good condition because you can get some money for it if you need it
1 of the best JD ever made! 👍
I forgot what you pick with but we used to pick a 1 row picker sheller and a 2 row later on we used to pick and chop at same time I know its a pain in the butt but it worked well for us we chopped with our regular chopper and used it for filler feed and bedding just like you all we also used mixer wagonto mix chopped stalks with sawdust about 60/40 it keep animals clean very well and because it was chopped fine it breaks down well in manure pile or on fields great to watch you all great work
I worked with a double chop 339 new holland
Lots and lots of work, but worth it. I also love the MTA and the sound of it. Also liked the feather on the tractor. Good luck with the rest of the season. I think the rest of the stalks will be able to be baled because the weather is coming in streaks. Thanks for the video.
Really enjoyed this episode thanks guys
I like the feather on the super M. I do the same thing.
Dad is a beast!! Go man
Great job.. best bedding hands down.. Spent 20yrs in Ford 800 and JD 60 seat.. started driving on road 66 pickup at 10.. hauling grain..
Wishing all the Geirok’s a Happy Thanksgiving. Eat lots of great food and if you’re traveling, be safe. Fondly from Hokendaqua, PA
Great video! Once again I love your equipment. We had a NHflail chopper like that back in the day, looked just like yours. We would chop stocks and one time we chopped alfalfa while we chopped corn sileage and would put a load of green chop in the upright silo for every so man corn sileage. Pretty nice piece of equipment. Thanks for taking us along.
That makes great bedding it heats up smells like silage cattle eat some of it saves on your feed. And it goes right back on the field as fertilizer. To bad they don’t make a flail head for pull type choppers. God bless
The hay head would pick it up but they would have chop it and rake it plus it would be very tough on the chopper. If you have ever followed Onelonlyfarmer's channel, he was baling cornstalks for the mushroom barns. I don't remember the manufacturer, but he was using a big flail chopper that windrowed the stalks at one end of the machine.
@@danw6014 I’ve seen a guy use a chopper like that. Someone said it was used for topping sugar beets but I’m not sure
@@ryanbachman9227 yes I think they use a flail chopper for beets as well.
a real character that MTA
Sawdust is not cheap and has been hard to come by ! Also it doesn't add as much fertilizer to the ground. It actually takes nitrogen out of the ground to decompose the wood.
When I was a young man we square bailed a lot of corn stalks
Great care must be taken with corn stalks, putting in a pile outside is ok, baling and stacking outside yes, putting bales in a building all to often the building will burn. I have witnessed both ways, some disasters have happened.
Thank you for making and posting! It was very interesting hearing what Dad had to say about the bedding operation, changes in corn plant moisture over the years, and his personal history with piling. Much appreciated!.
You guys do a great job.
❤❤ that should work GOOD FOR BEDDING !!!! SKIDSTEER WITH A GRAPPLE 😊😊😊
Haven't seen a NH flail unit in use in many years. Good you have 1, GREAT you can use it! A local Dairy Op used the Hesston Stackmaster machine for a few years, but it really didn't work out for them. If you tarped it, it tried to ensile but would rot, if you didn't tarp it, it would just rot in a few months. Great video!
Keep plugging away! No pun intended lol
Great video
Always enjoyed running the flail chopper. We round baled stocks for bedding which always worked great but hated hauling the manure
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone at Gierok farm , I enjoy your videos.
Can’t idle down on the end rows always glad when you guys use the Super Mta!
Cribbed corn😮. Don't see that around here anymore.
Never saw bedding made this way......always big bales where I live.
When my dad had cows we used a flail chopper to cut the stalks down then used a MC chopper to put it in the wagon and we used a blower to put it in the barn
great idea how short can you cut those stalks or you get just one length heston used to make stackhand flail cutter i always wanted one when i had hogs i used a lot of straw corn stalks bean stems would been ok love you,er videos great looking family operation i dont like those big custom farms you,re the real farmers happy trhanksgiving GOD bless
With the field beside the driveway being on a hill, do you have runoff, and erosion?
yeah do you?
We over run a few hundred RPM on the tractor engine, choppers preform a lot better
My dad did it as long as I can remember at least 45 years of my farming days and I don't think it ever hurt the chopper any
But of course we run IH tractors so it's easy to do because how they are designed
We used to make the pile with the little giant elevator for beding for the cows
That flair chopper is pretty small and is easily plugged - I remember it well.
used to run stalk cutter gehl 72 with a oliver 1755 gas. always have sharp knives.
Interesting with the chopped corn stalk pile. I’m surprised you don’t have a round baler and If you did would would you still do the piles?
I guess those wagons don't have rear unloading. We had John Deere Chuck Wagons back in the day and would rear unload, much faster. Still fun to watch, although the stock chopper is kind of the small link in the tractor, chopper, wagon, chain.
I'm curious as to what type of gasoline you run in your MTA and Oliver. Do they do OK on unleaded ? Do you run regular or plus ?
I personally have been running regular unleaded gas in my older tractors for years. My John Deere 60 has the oil pressure fuel shut off which I had to rebuild because of the ethanol. Just don't let them sit around. If you do have to let them sit for an extended period keep the tank full. I also put Seafoam in my gas tanks. If possible shut the fuel off to the carburetor and drain it.
The SuMTA is your family go-to tractor for odd jobs!!! Always amazes me how these old girls keep chugging along with a little TLC every now and then. Not hard to see that the no-frills management has kept the dairy thriving through good and bad ag markets.
I have turkey feathers on my equipment also lol
enjoyed the vidieo.the M sure sounda good
I see you pick up feathers and save them too ... lol
Happy Thanksgiving!
Oi ❤️👍
I wonder if yall ever thought about buying a portable hoop buildings for like bales or bedding to store so its out of the elements
That’s the only way to learn, keep trying and learning… trial and error, eventually you’ll succeed
Quick question, is it normal to have a little bit of Whining from the pto on the mta, because mine has Some whining and I noticed that yours does too.
yes normal all those older pto were that way up to late 560 earlly ones had planetary gears in them that is the whine be sure keep oil checked they have own oil supply they leak internally you burn up unit ask me how i know
First! Love the vids!
Welcome , I'm a long time sub this family is so wonderful
@@Travis_Rivers I totally agree, just how well the family works together is really wonderful
You have to admire the way they get the max out of their crops and the way they look after their animals.
You should get a old Heston stacker. Just a thought
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Is your dad pushing pule and hauling wagons
What state are you located in
Third times the charm
Is it me or was the chopper sliding a bit on the hill turning?
They have a light draft so the wagon can push or pull it around.
@@danw6014 👍🏾
When you cleaned the back window you needed to wait for the PTO to stop that is the digest cause of injuries and could even take lives
I grew up on the farm we raised beef cattle we to didn't waste anything of course we baled straw every summer ran the cattle in the corn stalks in the fall electric fence and all but had all the straw for bedding in the winter filled the crib up and when we shelled corn later we used the cobs for bedding in the barn i still remember the guy that had the corn sheller rig that went to everybodys farm to shell long time ago good times growing up lots of hard work thou. I still miss it!
I have an old Minneapolis Moline Model D sheller I use to shell corn out for my sheep. I can fill my John Deere 400 feed grinder in 20 minutes. I'll run the cobs through the grinder too and use them for bedding steers.
How old is senior Gierok?
Right around 60? He graduated high school in 1985.
@@rayjerome3832 I'm in his wheelhouse.
I would love to see some chainsaw carving this coming winter!
It sounded like you cleaned your window with the PTO running, Please don't do that. It is so dangerous.
go slow full throttle.
Why don't you use sawdust it's easier to work with and you can order it when you need it. Or better yet why don't you leave a tree service company dump there you get free firewood and wood chips that's how we did it before we always had wood chips and firewood
Sawdust has gotten to expensive for me. A 25 yard load was $1000. I think the market for wood sawdust that's actually dry has been cut into by people making pellets for pellet stoves. The wetter sawdust in my opinion is a waste of time as bedding. Right now I am buying big round bales of straw for $25 and unroll a bale a week for my steers. What they are doing cheap too. Just a little fuel and time.
@danw6014 I'm in Pennsylvania sawdust is still cheap around you can get a 50 yard load for around 250 you still should check in to tree trimming company have a nice Thanksgiving
@@RobertCowden-y3c and a nice Thanksgiving to you too.