ARCTIC BLAST! Are the Silos working?
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
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Thank goodness for your wife helping out , TLC she is a amazing young lady , also your brother 's helping out , total team work , thank you , stay safe !
Farmers are the backbone of America , ranchers also , truckers , it's all team work everyone, Thank you for being there daily , Paul Harvey was outstanding !
Not only of America, but for the whole world!
Thank the Lord for the gentle touch.
The secret of recovering when you are feeling "under the weather". Pedialyte. Keep bottles in the house and it really helps. Wish I knew about it when I was working on the farm. This video really brings back the memories of working on the farm, milking cows, etc.. when we had temps of 20 below zero in depths of January.
Nothing better than a hardy bowl of Chilli soup and peanut butter sandwich on a cold day. Yum yum
Kip, if you plan to go the way of using a tmr mixer, you'd be wise to have a heated area to keep the mixer w/tractor and whatever implement (ie. your backhoe) you intend to load commodities into the mixer with. Protect the equipment from hard cold starts in winter and time saver. My two cents.
She takes good care of all of you.
Yes dairy farming puts you and your equipment in these hard winter months
A good way to keep your hands warm is to put on a pair of your nitrile milking gloves then put your other gloves on. They hold the heat in your hands won’t get cold
In cold weather raise silo unloaders up after feeding, 15-20 turns and let run empty for a minute
I TOTALLY ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO KIP 😊
Are you still planning on using AI? Don't remember if I heard the final answer. Retired farmer here. Had 32 cows. Am 66 now, can relate to all this business . Thank you
“And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board.” So God made a farmer.
“I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies and tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon - and mean it.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt. And watch it die. Then dry his eyes and say, ‘Maybe next year.’ I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, then, pain’n from ‘tractor back,’ put in another seventy-two hours.” So God made a farmer.
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place. So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark. It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church.
“Somebody who’d bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life ‘doing what dad does.'” So God made a farmer.”
Amen
Its amazinghow many thing decide not to work in this cold weather. Im in NE Wisconsin and l bought 2 tractor batteries and 1 pickup truck battery yesterday. Was quite a shock to see how much those went up in price!
Yup, it got crunchy cold. Not frozen pipes brutal but plenty cold. Those silo unloader motors are way heavy.
Thanks for video. Glad your feeling better.
Milk is cheap for what a dairy farmer goes thru 7 DAYS A WEEK! Do those silo unloader motors pull more amps when they are cold? That corn silage amp meter looked like it took a lot of juice to get started!
Thank you Kip for a job. Well done I live in Saginaw and I know what the weather is like where you’re at God bless you for what you’re doing. Keep up the good work.
Great ending Kip 😍. Stay safe and warm in this cold. Yep more challenging in these temps for sure.
Dude, this weather sucks!!! We had 72 hours below 5 degrees here in Southern Illinois…. I really don’t mind the cold weather but I hate all the things that don’t cooperate when it’s cold!!! Hang in there bud
Yes Kip, we are all getting older!
Update silo unloaders and bunk feeders would be a good investment. Update what works. Maybe add a harvestore that would hold those 2 bags worth of feed. Make your farm run on less labor not more.
I’m with ya. Farming in NW Wi. Only 60 cows, but cold is cold. Supposed to warm up next week. Keep up the good work.
Another very interesting video Thank you 😊😊😊
hay in the real cold we use to leave the poop gate up on the spredder over night and plug in the block heatertill nent use.
Use the tire scraper on your yard when muddy and it will help smooth out the ruts before a freeze. I am a milk hauler and I have a couple of farms that do t h is and works very well
Block heater are wonderful. I leave my skid steer plugged in all the time when it's that cold.
Bunkers and tmr mixer is way easier than silos. But if you are not planning on a new barn you are still going to need the belt feeders
Bunkers can be a pain with snow and ice better off in a silo than moving tires
@@ryanpockat8846 not a chance, I’ve fed with silos also. Any issues that arise are on the ground and you can use the loader to deal with the snow and ice. He is going to have to chip that frozen silage off the wall in all 6 silos by hand
Both storage methods have their good and bad. I work on a farm with both silos and bunkers. I know this past week it sucked pulling tires and cutting plastic with a foot of snow on top
@@andylieffring3987 exactly 💯
Kip, I just subscribed to your channel. Enjoy your content. Your barn looks just like my parents did back in the 80s. You bring joy back for me and my childhood. Both parents are gone to heaven but your channel bring me tons of joy, so thank you.
Awesome,😍
Kip, you are lucky you have cabs on the tractor when I was on the we did not have cab tractors out there in all kinds of weather ,but we lived thru it stay safe
I hear your concerns about how TRM mixing wagons will handle freezing temperatures. I would suggest following the Canadian dairy farm fixes; add retrofitting/building new storage of heated storage for tractor/mix wagon to keep above freezing. They also grind the face of the pit face and add water or liquid whey to keep mix moist. You might consider contacting nutritionists up in Canada to talk threw options that work day in and out in the in sane cold bitter Artic North.
Don't you raise the unload er when you're done feeding ?? Just a couple turns would be adequate
I used to start a bunch of bottle calves and i always said when we have snaps i work twice as hard and accomplish half as much.
Kip stay healthy. We here in Maine just got cleaned up from a a snow storm.
Water is good for you
We always put them up at night made it much better for us
I live in Tennessee and we got 9 inches of snow and our temperature was -2 and were waiting for another snowstorm to come in over night. I always enjoy watching your channel. Thank you for sharing this with us.
My van dale has been going pretty good until today... when I have the flu 👎 when everything works silo are great
Good job guys and God bless
Take it easy tuff guy. It’s not what you can do today, it’s what you can do for 30-50 years of farming and still be well that matters.
We always leave our tractor's and skidloaders plugged in overnight. When there not in use there plugged in when it's extremely cold
Looks like you need a different pulley on that blower to help it throw or even different paddles!
Good video Kip its been 10° past couple nights & morning high mid 20s & i live in central MS lol yep. Yal stay safe
When we were still farming, when we shut the unloaders off we turned them up 10 turns to make it easier on the belts and the motors for starting later. When it was cold (and we had below -30 Celsius lots), we would turn them up about 15 turns off the silage. On the coldest mornings we also took a tarp, a micro furnace l, and a 120v extension cord up the silo, tarped the motors off, and ran the micro furnaces under the tarp for about an hour before we would start them. Made the difference between starting or not.
Having grown up on a hard scramble 160 acre farm without any automation with the exception of a milking machine. The smells returns to mind. While nostalgic for a way of life, would not want the hardship, hard work, dirt and smells again. Of course my experience goes back to before indoor plumbing, central heating and almost everything was manual labor. My grandparents, parents, and relatives were hardier people with the expectation of hard work , regardless of the temperament. I still can feel that negative 20 degrees with strong winds in Northern Iowa. Under appreciated are farmers and all the support people who keep us feed. Can not image my children in such a situation?
Kip, I've been subscribed to your channel for a few years now and I love watching every new video you post. Can I make a suggestion about where you mount your camera in the skid steer... unfortunately your body blocks 40% of the view out the front. Just a suggestion, maybe see if you can mount your camera in front of the cab, your video shots would be a heck of a lot better. We love your channel here in Ontario. 🍻
Thanks for another great video Kip.
Most interesting how the cold weather changes the way we do things.
I kind of worried about you. When working at max effort in cold weather the body doesn’t do well. Sounds like you did too much and got down sick. You are not as young as you used to be.
How about one of the younger members do the silos and feeding in cold weather. You just manage what is going on. You take care of yourself.
Yes, cold weather is hard on everything on the farm. No easy way to do it. The cold weather is twice as hard on us as we age. That is were one of the younger troops can help out and take some of the work load off you.
You are a good man. Just don’t overdo. Sounds like that is what you did. You take care of yourself. You are a good person Kip.
Thanks for everything Kip. Thinking about you. Take care. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
With my blessings.
Stay safe in this arctic blast we are having. God bless you all
Looks good
Almost everything is more difficult when it’s cold out
Thanks for sharing
I hope you're not gonna talk yourself out of not using the silos!!!!! I was surprised to hear you say that ..... God bless❤❤🙏🙏
When it's cold like this we have tractors plugged in 24/7 in case power goes out to run generators for hog buildings..and there is nothing better than a good farm wife doing what she does .I thank the Lord each day for mine.
… Kip… your little girl… she showed you to be the big softy that you are … blessed
Stay warm Kip. We're not as young as we used to be.
I’m up here in eastern Canada and if it’s cold I leave the diesels plugged in. Easier to keep the engine warm than try to warm it up from cold. - 20 with the wind chill this morning. Love your channel!
Take care guys, stay safe and warm. Chili is what I had for 4 days . Next week back to mud.
Can't win for loosing !!!!
Did you get all of the corn off?
Hi, skip when I was a kid in the 70s working with my dad on a dairy farm we used to after we spread the manure at the jump in the spreader with the whole broom and sweep the sides down then the next morning after worry about frozen manure
Another great video!!
Keep my mixer and loader tractor in my freestall barn drive thru ally. Never freezes in there
How many minutes to make a full rotation in the silo’s? Plugin the diesel engine in we would when we were finished using them because the engine was already hot but as far as saving electricity I wouldn’t know ✌🏻👍🇺🇸
Great video. You're probably out the door already as it's 3:50 A.M. here in Texas with a balmy 34 degrees and headed down. You said you didn't know what you were having for dinner. Don't you drink milk? 😊
Stay warm I need milk here
Kip, do you ever in the winter have problems with cows slipping on wet, frozen, icy concrete that's exposed? Always been my biggest concern about cows in the winter on open concrete even here in the UK, where we don't get those extreme lows, or v v rarely anyway. A down cow, slipped on concrete is never an easy fix to move elsewhere or for the cows well being.
Great videos great family great work ethic keep it up. Jim from Pa.
First thing get a stationary tmr
Starting a tractor in the cold might be difficult but all you have to do is keep track of 1 tractor and 1 mixer. You are trying run so many motors, belts, feeders, and whatever else. its so many more moving parts. and there is no way to measure the amount. I'm sure its all difficult but keeping these silo's going seems much more difficult. I'm honestly shocked there isnt more injuries and bad things that happen around silos. They scare me and I'm not even the one dealing with them
Hey Kip how come you dont use the beast no more for haulin manure ?
Are u all still use sand for bedding for free stall. How many cows and heifers at the other farm.
you're a tank...
Kip I've been a subscriber since the beginning I really enjoy your videos BUT you need to ask JESUS in your heart alot of people think ur a good person you will be even better than that please ask HIM its not hard be safe LET'S GO 💪💪👍👍
My main tractor i use to feed round bales to the cows( a massey ferguson 65) i kept plugged into the block heater 24/7 in the winter
We leave ours plugged in all the time they are not being used
i live in jackson,mi cold here?
And you are already starting tractors anyway what’s have one more tractor plugged in
Nothing better than a great wife. I would be screwed with out mine. Became disabled 10
years and she is my back bone
Support person and best friend all in one.
This cold is sure terrible, can't imagine what they are going through out west.
Kipp 🤦♂️🤦♂️carefully young man life is short take care. Let me get my jacket on I will be right there!!😂 Sorry Kipp I will take my TMR wagon and I know to each his own way👍. Thanks young man!! 🙏🙏
I thought that you were going to get rid of the bull due to its behavior. Weren't you going to do the breathing instead of the bull?
Get rid of the bull before you get hurt, I thought you all already did that.
Very good video!