If you watch 10th generation dairy farmer they just put up 3 new silos. They are changing to a auto feed system. About half done with it now. Your doing the right thing with the old silos.
Bags are good when managed properly. I would recommend using a skid steer to unload the bags. You end up tearing up the bag with too big a bucket. You can get a lower profile mixer like a Meyer to make it easier to load with a skid steer. The farm that I work on, just switched two years ago from bags for their corn silage to a pile. They still put Haylage in their upright silos which are poured concrete. The pile has its advantages for sure, but if you’re thinking, it’s gonna save you in labor that’s where might be wrong. You invest a ridiculous amount of time and money into pushing and packing laying down plastic and slinging tires. There’s a lot of resources invested in that. Of course day-to-day feeding is faster but when you do have to cut plastic and sling tires again it’s more labor. All the storage methods have their advantages and disadvantages. Me personally I like tower silos for Haylage and corn silage on the pile is fine. Again bags have to be managed well, but they can give you some of the advantages of a pile without all the time and labor and fuel involved.
Get a roller packer for the pad to make it as hard as you can. Best unit for unloading bags is a grapple bucket, corn silage and small grain scoop out easy but haylage needs to be grabbed.
I admire your decision and standing up for the safety of everyone on your farm! In time every person working on your farm will grow to appreciate your leadership.
@andrewvisser372 he explained in another video that he is taking on artificial insemination training because they don't trust the bulls around his family
Tough management. But kip seems too have a good mindset on it. Grandpa bought bulls up in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Great bulls! But they was the biggest meanest damn things you ever seen. Ole silver weighed in at 2119 lbs. Beast!. Hell of a bull. Got so mean they put horse blinders on him. Another of that because of my crazy cousin and his antics.. he was totally hatred trained could walk him around like a professional show cow. But after crazy Clifton teased him he was a total crazy bull. It's all about the way you deal with the animal. I remember we lassod the big sonofabitch. And tied him up too the barn pillar too fix the blinders and the beast was the calmest animal in the barn. Ended up selling him I'm Shipshewana or Topeka Indiana for bulling prizes old Amish dairy bought him. Litterly the best calves ever produced on that farm. My cousin had him when he was a yearling. Totaly Turmindous outcome. He was from Apollo bull. Gains white bull. But what a savior he was. The farm wold have fell threw . If he won't have bought him
Hi Kip! I've got neighbors that had a silo go over and they stopped using the other remaining one . They went to bags and a mixer too. They've been on this new program for about 5 years.
We have 2 upright silos. They have not been used in 10 years. We are a small dairy 40 to 50 cows and do balage with a couple of ag bags of haylage for topping off the mixer pounds wise. Those new holland discbines are light compared to a deere
You are doing the right thing. You have been trying to keep those silos going and they are just a money pit (new roofs) waiting to kill you. When you know better you do better. You are not just thinking of yourself but all those who are coming after you.
I remember in a video a while back when you said you wanted to get rid of your silos now I totally understand why I agree with you. 100% rather be safe than sorry.
I like the silos from the nostalgia standpoint but I think you have made the correct decision as far as safety. We stopped using our concrete silo many many years ago for the same reasons. Concrete was deteriorating and everyone was tired of climbing into it for working on the unloader. The bags have been a safer choice for us in the meantime.
We took down 2 big silo’s and are a cement bunkers with asphalt floors. I wore out 2 sets of 3 forge wagons. Nothing worse than wagons breaking with a load of feed on them. Filling bunks with trucks and loader goes fast. I am retired and my son and daughter in law run the farm now.
Great decision. Family in or around dairy farming for 50 years. Progress and safety is the best direction to take. Your son will thank you down the road.
i think if you are going to go towards bunk silos, you may want start evaluating your crop mix to maximize your TMR feed value...adding fall barley or rye to chop for increased yield of fermentation
I think going away from the silos is a good decision Kip. It’s safer. When we used to milk in tiestalls we would feed out of silos but when we moved away from silos and went to bunks and piling it worked great. Makes feeding TMR easier and sometimes more efficient. We run a 7830 just like your guys except ours has a blade on the front and works great. We would run all dump trucks with a dump box behind the chopper for headlands. Hope the ag bags work well for you guys this year.
On a silage pad, i would check with the younger generation that is coming up on the concrete crews. What i mean is when we poured my pad less than 2 years ago, the owner was under 30 years old and the only one that was brought up using a lazer screed. Our pad is 80 wide and 125 feet long and was done all in one pour. Then it is also sloped south 1% and sloped west 1%, just to the rain or juices will run off easier. We do not have any sidewalls or atleast not yet. Biggest reason is the blade on the dozer tractor is wider than the tires, so we would not be able to pack the sides until the product was above the walls. But an option is to either use the bucket on the loader or happen to purchase a blade attachment for the loader. The big dairies around here, I mean over 5,000 cows milking dont use walls on their bunkers. They will on their commodity sheds
Great decision and move forward. I know from our farm it is very difficult to make those hard decisions but once done it is major relief and calming. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos.
Im not sure how many cows you are feeding but my grandpa built a loading dock to load our mixer with a skid steer. We have a 2575 Jaylor mixer that is about 20 years old. It works great. But we also have bunker silos. Not sure if building a loading dock is something you thought about. Then maybe you could get by just fine with your skid steer. Just a thought. If want pictures for ideas just let me know.
When I turned 60, I gave up getting on ladders. Same with Silo work. It's tough getting old. Kip, your common sense makes sense! Make a lot of money too.
kip, we changed to ag bags 2 years ago. love it. We are 250 cow dairy in pa and it is just so easy to feed . Had six silos . Any questions i'd be glad to help answer them.
Feeding tmr is one of the best moves you can make. Our cows went up 8 pounds per cow when we made the switch. Biggest thing is get a good nutritionist and be willing to make changes to the ration and try things.
Well done to you and your family for setting up the scholarship in the memory of your mother, what a fabulous way to continue her legacy to you all and others. It's something to be proud of and an example to all too. Plus, sometimes the right decisions are the hardest and moving on from the silos is a positive step and has the potential to save money as well as keep everyone safe. Great video by the way too.
AMEN BROTHER 🙏🙏 TMR will raise your production also no guessing on what your feeding to each cow !!!! Nice way to remember your mother also. Thanks to everyone!!
As someone who just put up a new silo last year I think you guys are doing the right thing our plan is to never put more than 3 silos up and only let them get to 40 years before we tear them down
Kip your dad and I are the same age. When I was a boy I remember my parents talking about a man who fell off an up rite silo. I'm small time compared to you. I bought a little mower conditioner. It's low hours. An inexperienced operator broke it. The parts to fix it come with it. When I hsd beef cattle I did not feed silage. I decided if I did , it would be a bunker or bag.
Good decision Kip, I'll think it saves you a lot of money in the first place.. gives you a lot of work comfort. Your can offer your cows a better meal. And for sure its a lot safer.... wish you all the best
Great idea! Silo's are dangerous especially right after being filled. A farmer in our area (East Central WI) had to be rescued last Friday after becoming dehydrated while 70 ft up in a silo....fortunately he had his phone and called for help and in the end was OK...
Best thing to do about the old silos kip, switch the feeding system to a mixer wagon but try and keep the conveyors feeding, delivering food into the feed troughs. If you're getting hoof problems, especially digital dermatitis or hairy wart as you guys call it- foot bathing as the cows exist the parlour. Use copper sulphate, cus04, for dd, formalin for hardening feet, helping to avoid ulcers to an extent. It's a cost, but worth doing, believe me. I used to use copper x1 a wk and hardly had any dermatitis problems.
I think that it is so smart for you guys to go to bunkers eventually. You will be able to weigh the feed so you can better control what you are feeding. Thanks to the guys who built your current feeding system but that thing has been passed by and you are making the best decision for the future. Up and coming generations will thank you for this choice.
You guys are getting a great start to getting away from silo's, once you get a pad you'll be much happier, yeah you'll have some spoilage but it's way safer, check out a Sheep's-Footed roller a little packer once you get going, nice to see you guys improving the farm and getting safer for you and the next generation! Great work, love the videos, also Kuhn reel Augie is a very good low maintenance mixer wagon highly recommend!
Might I suggest a drive over pile for silage. Pour a pad, as I type you’re talking about that exact thing. We’ve had uprights, bags, balage, and bunks. Bunks are so nice. Fast filling, great feed, no ladders or unloaders and all that goes along with that.
My grandpa was a cattle farmer up until he retired in the early to mid-80's. He has a couple large ground based silos with 15' high concrete walls like you're planning and they were built into a hill. So, you could dump on the "ground level" or from up top once you had it packed that high. He purchased a larger front loader to pack and fill the sileage wagons to feed all the cattle. It was a small operation, but it was fun to be able to help a little when I was 11-12 years old. Great memories on the farm. You are doing it right
BTW--that 4240 was very similar to the tractor he had to run most of the full operation--2 row corn chopper, old wind rower for the alfalfa and the orange side dump wagon for the hay and the corn cutting. A single truck to dump sileage into and take to the silo. That brings back a ton of memories!!!
Dairy farmed for 22 years always used piling and trenches for the silage. Southern Kentucky location. My experience with upright was with neighbors, and their issues, made me glad we never built one.
Glad to hear you're doing away with the silos . Had a neighbor up on a silo and it collapsed was buried for several hrs before found. Was busted up bad but survived was buried up to his shoulders. He's still has problems today.
What a great ending to an excellent video. Looking at that one cow’s foot made my foot hurt! Great looking alfalfa!! Taking down most of the silos brings an end to an era of Sigler Farms. Like you said, can’t fight progress. Stay safe.
You're gonna need one of the big green horses and put a dozer blade on it to push the hay up into a pile and duals on all 4 corners to pack the hay. It's a smart move Kip. With the amount of land your working you're gonna need a couple more semi dump trucks and probably a couple of tandem dumpers.👍
I got gassed in a silo 30 years ago. Wasn't fun, obviously I survived. Silo unloaders are always in need of repairs, but you can always find, rent, or maybe borrow a loader tractor (or something) to feed with. I switched to bags when I noticed a bulge in a stave silo. If I had stayed in the Dairy biz, bunker silo would have been my next step.
I think it is a great call and from feeding at two different dairies with TMRS you be very well satisfied in time. You do a great job on your videos . If you got questions please reach out . Safe harvesting
Good move KIP, a neighbor had 1 fall seconds after kids got out, they were levelling and heard it creak and felt it move, ran down 50 ft, got out cell phones and recorded it falling i was told by my Dad. A very close call
If you planning on a slab for a base have you considered black top over cement. I have both black top looks like new after 14 years of corn silage.cement floors are badly pitted
This year for first cutting every couple loads we did that went into the silo someone climbed up and checked to see if it was all okay and if not we had a plan on pulling the stuff away and moving a couple things so nothing was damaged
I am not a Farmer but for your families and yourselfs GOOD MOVE SAFETY YOUR RIGHT USE YOUR HEAD. STAY ALIVE. YOUR FAMILIES LOVE YOU. WE don't care lol JOKING PEOPLE JOKING LOVE THE CHANNEL KIP
Surprised to see u leaving the silos all the sudden but if theres chunks falling of i get it. Not sure if youll have enough bunk to feed them once a day with a tmr but good u guys for trying something new. Take care
My brother was very lucky about 30 years ago we were filling a 24 by 80 with haulage climbed it just before lunch put 2 loads in after lunch and it went over on the end of the barn killing 3 cows
When you start to feed haylage out of the bag, take a bale spear and loosen up the haylage. Makes scooping it our easier. As long as the brake is set right on the bagger you'll make just as good of feed as the silo.
I think this is the better move for the farm and safety for everyone and what my grandparents always told me when the farm was dairy silos was a no go for them do to the issues that neighbors had and they didnt want that and they was 3 deaths a year in the county that had to do with silos
New larger silos with ring drive patz unloaders are the answer for dairy. That cuts the work load and the amount of climbing but still you get quality feed with little waste. Bags and bunker=cutting and cleaning up plastic and waste feed along with fighting mud. Quality dairy feed involves a lot of work no matter which way it is done.
Ofcourse we agree with you because your family needs you buddy mistakes all off us make but I'm sure you guys will figure out the best way to make it happen. All the best for you guys buddy
If you watch 10th generation dairy farmer they just put up 3 new silos. They are changing to a auto feed system. About half done with it now. Your doing the right thing with the old silos.
I like the build of the new silos. last a lifetime
Silos are the way to store silage!
I watch 10th Gen, but man those silos are huge. 26 x 135. Long climb when you get older. but I am for the uprights.
Didn't you just put new roofs on those silos ?
I more or less gave up on that channel with that silo insanity
Silos are fine when they are new and the farmer is young. Father Time gets us all. Retired dairy farmer at age 62.
Bags are good when managed properly. I would recommend using a skid steer to unload the bags. You end up tearing up the bag with too big a bucket. You can get a lower profile mixer like a Meyer to make it easier to load with a skid steer.
The farm that I work on, just switched two years ago from bags for their corn silage to a pile. They still put Haylage in their upright silos which are poured concrete. The pile has its advantages for sure, but if you’re thinking, it’s gonna save you in labor that’s where might be wrong. You invest a ridiculous amount of time and money into pushing and packing laying down plastic and slinging tires. There’s a lot of resources invested in that. Of course day-to-day feeding is faster but when you do have to cut plastic and sling tires again it’s more labor. All the storage methods have their advantages and disadvantages.
Me personally I like tower silos for Haylage and corn silage on the pile is fine. Again bags have to be managed well, but they can give you some of the advantages of a pile without all the time and labor and fuel involved.
SMART SMART SMART. always a better way . Stay safe
from a longevity perspective getting rid of the silos is smart. the amount of money to get new ones is ridiculous . you'll adapt don't worry .
Great you are keeping your mom's memory alive.
Good luck on your future feeding endivers. STAY SAFE
U could unload your mixer into the conveyor that you use to unload the bagged corn silage. That way you can use your bunk conveyors yet.
Get a roller packer for the pad to make it as hard as you can. Best unit for unloading bags is a grapple bucket, corn silage and small grain scoop out easy but haylage needs to be grabbed.
I think your right. Those stave cement silos are dangerous when they get old and start to deteriorate. And when it goes there will be no warning
Yes I think you’re going in the right direction
I admire your decision and standing up for the safety of everyone on your farm! In time every person working on your farm will grow to appreciate your leadership.
How safe are the bulls they have?
@andrewvisser372 he explained in another video that he is taking on artificial insemination training because they don't trust the bulls around his family
Tough management. But kip seems too have a good mindset on it.
Grandpa bought bulls up in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Great bulls! But they was the biggest meanest damn things you ever seen.
Ole silver weighed in at 2119 lbs. Beast!. Hell of a bull. Got so mean they put horse blinders on him. Another of that because of my crazy cousin and his antics.. he was totally hatred trained could walk him around like a professional show cow. But after crazy Clifton teased him he was a total crazy bull.
It's all about the way you deal with the animal. I remember we lassod the big sonofabitch. And tied him up too the barn pillar too fix the blinders and the beast was the calmest animal in the barn.
Ended up selling him I'm Shipshewana or Topeka Indiana for bulling prizes old Amish dairy bought him.
Litterly the best calves ever produced on that farm.
My cousin had him when he was a yearling. Totaly Turmindous outcome. He was from Apollo bull. Gains white bull. But what a savior he was. The farm wold have fell threw . If he won't have bought him
@@phillipclaxton8189I agree, it all comes down to how you work them, and how often your in that barn.
Good move. I liked loading our feed cart with a JCB tellahander. I believe our buck is 2 1/2 yards.
Kip a tear in my eye for your Mom, Bless you sir as I lost my Mom many years back at 82 I am now 83 and still hanging in there.
we switched from harvestores to bunks 20 yrs ago with a few mistakes they make great feed they are the future
Hi Kip! I've got neighbors that had a silo go over and they stopped using the other remaining one . They went to bags and a mixer too. They've been on this new program for about 5 years.
We have 2 upright silos. They have not been used in 10 years. We are a small dairy 40 to 50 cows and do balage with a couple of ag bags of haylage for topping off the mixer pounds wise. Those new holland discbines are light compared to a deere
You are doing the right thing. You have been trying to keep those silos going and they are just a money pit (new roofs) waiting to kill you. When you know better you do better. You are not just thinking of yourself but all those who are coming after you.
Great video. Great way to honor your mom. Thank you
I remember in a video a while back when you said you wanted to get rid of your silos now I totally understand why I agree with you. 100% rather be safe than sorry.
We tore down 2 silos a couple of years ago and switched over to a tmr mixer you won't regret it
I like the silos from the nostalgia standpoint but I think you have made the correct decision as far as safety. We stopped using our concrete silo many many years ago for the same reasons. Concrete was deteriorating and everyone was tired of climbing into it for working on the unloader. The bags have been a safer choice for us in the meantime.
We took down 2 big silo’s and are a cement bunkers with asphalt floors. I wore out 2 sets of 3 forge wagons. Nothing worse than wagons breaking with a load of feed on them. Filling bunks with trucks and loader goes fast. I am retired and my son and daughter in law run the farm now.
Very good discission on your part, staying on the ground as your age increases is also good forward thinking!
That's amazing installing that rubber to the hoof never seen that done before
Great decision. Family in or around dairy farming for 50 years. Progress and safety is the best direction to take. Your son will thank you down the road.
i think if you are going to go towards bunk silos, you may want start evaluating your crop mix to maximize your TMR feed value...adding fall barley or rye to chop for increased yield of fermentation
Good for you, Kip I don’t blame you at all. That’s a smart thing to do.
I think going away from the silos is a good decision Kip. It’s safer. When we used to milk in tiestalls we would feed out of silos but when we moved away from silos and went to bunks and piling it worked great. Makes feeding TMR easier and sometimes more efficient. We run a 7830 just like your guys except ours has a blade on the front and works great. We would run all dump trucks with a dump box behind the chopper for headlands. Hope the ag bags work well for you guys this year.
We fill out bunk with corn silage and put haylage and any extra corn in ag bags
Great speech
That’s a great way to remember your mother or someone special
On a silage pad, i would check with the younger generation that is coming up on the concrete crews. What i mean is when we poured my pad less than 2 years ago, the owner was under 30 years old and the only one that was brought up using a lazer screed. Our pad is 80 wide and 125 feet long and was done all in one pour. Then it is also sloped south 1% and sloped west 1%, just to the rain or juices will run off easier.
We do not have any sidewalls or atleast not yet. Biggest reason is the blade on the dozer tractor is wider than the tires, so we would not be able to pack the sides until the product was above the walls.
But an option is to either use the bucket on the loader or happen to purchase a blade attachment for the loader.
The big dairies around here, I mean over 5,000 cows milking dont use walls on their bunkers. They will on their commodity sheds
Great decision and move forward. I know from our farm it is very difficult to make those hard decisions but once done it is major relief and calming. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos.
Awesome that you are going tmr. Let us know how much more milk you produce. I run a cloverdale mixer on beef cattle. It was a game changer
Im not sure how many cows you are feeding but my grandpa built a loading dock to load our mixer with a skid steer. We have a 2575 Jaylor mixer that is about 20 years old. It works great. But we also have bunker silos. Not sure if building a loading dock is something you thought about. Then maybe you could get by just fine with your skid steer. Just a thought. If want pictures for ideas just let me know.
When I turned 60, I gave up getting on ladders. Same with Silo work. It's tough getting old. Kip, your common sense makes sense! Make a lot of money too.
Real life.
kip, we changed to ag bags 2 years ago. love it. We are 250 cow dairy in pa and it is just so easy to feed . Had six silos . Any questions i'd be glad to help answer them.
Feeding tmr is one of the best moves you can make. Our cows went up 8 pounds per cow when we made the switch. Biggest thing is get a good nutritionist and be willing to make changes to the ration and try things.
Well done to you and your family for setting up the scholarship in the memory of your mother, what a fabulous way to continue her legacy to you all and others. It's something to be proud of and an example to all too. Plus, sometimes the right decisions are the hardest and moving on from the silos is a positive step and has the potential to save money as well as keep everyone safe. Great video by the way too.
AMEN BROTHER 🙏🙏 TMR will raise your production also no guessing on what your feeding to each cow !!!! Nice way to remember your mother also. Thanks to everyone!!
As someone who just put up a new silo last year I think you guys are doing the right thing our plan is to never put more than 3 silos up and only let them get to 40 years before we tear them down
Kip your dad and I are the same age. When I was a boy I remember my parents talking about a man who fell off an up rite silo. I'm small time compared to you. I bought a little mower conditioner. It's low hours. An inexperienced operator broke it. The parts to fix it come with it. When I hsd beef cattle I did not feed silage. I decided if I did , it would be a bunker or bag.
This was one of your best videos kip it’s just an awesome video. Thank you so much.
Good decision Kip, I'll think it saves you a lot of money in the first place.. gives you a lot of work comfort. Your can offer your cows a better meal. And for sure its a lot safer.... wish you all the best
Great idea! Silo's are dangerous especially right after being filled. A farmer in our area (East Central WI) had to be rescued last Friday after becoming dehydrated while 70 ft up in a silo....fortunately he had his phone and called for help and in the end was OK...
It’s sad. But you have to do what is best and safest for all involved. The argument you presented swayed my opinion and agree with you. 👍🏻
Best thing to do about the old silos kip, switch the feeding system to a mixer wagon but try and keep the conveyors feeding, delivering food into the feed troughs.
If you're getting hoof problems, especially digital dermatitis or hairy wart as you guys call it- foot bathing as the cows exist the parlour. Use copper sulphate, cus04, for dd, formalin for hardening feet, helping to avoid ulcers to an extent. It's a cost, but worth doing, believe me. I used to use copper x1 a wk and hardly had any dermatitis problems.
That scholorship is special
Very glad you’re getting away from the silos. Safety is most important.
I think that it is so smart for you guys to go to bunkers eventually. You will be able to weigh the feed so you can better control what you are feeding. Thanks to the guys who built your current feeding system but that thing has been passed by and you are making the best decision for the future. Up and coming generations will thank you for this choice.
You guys are getting a great start to getting away from silo's, once you get a pad you'll be much happier, yeah you'll have some spoilage but it's way safer, check out a Sheep's-Footed roller a little packer once you get going, nice to see you guys improving the farm and getting safer for you and the next generation! Great work, love the videos, also Kuhn reel Augie is a very good low maintenance mixer wagon highly recommend!
Always love your videos Kip!😊
Might I suggest a drive over pile for silage. Pour a pad, as I type you’re talking about that exact thing. We’ve had uprights, bags, balage, and bunks. Bunks are so nice. Fast filling, great feed, no ladders or unloaders and all that goes along with that.
Thanks for the video. What a wonderful way to to honor the memory of your beloved mother
Excellent move. Make appointment with a nutritionist for help proper amount of mix. It took a lot to move forward
My grandpa was a cattle farmer up until he retired in the early to mid-80's. He has a couple large ground based silos with 15' high concrete walls like you're planning and they were built into a hill. So, you could dump on the "ground level" or from up top once you had it packed that high. He purchased a larger front loader to pack and fill the sileage wagons to feed all the cattle. It was a small operation, but it was fun to be able to help a little when I was 11-12 years old. Great memories on the farm. You are doing it right
BTW--that 4240 was very similar to the tractor he had to run most of the full operation--2 row corn chopper, old wind rower for the alfalfa and the orange side dump wagon for the hay and the corn cutting. A single truck to dump sileage into and take to the silo. That brings back a ton of memories!!!
Thanks for sharing
Great idea Kip
Happy day when the silos came down on the farm.
You can’t count on the weather to put up dry enough feed.
Your family needs you more then the cows , great call !
another great video! the right call!
Cows will do very well on tmr and much easier the supplement them with different things in the ration
Dairy farmed for 22 years always used piling and trenches for the silage. Southern Kentucky location. My experience with upright was with neighbors, and their issues, made me glad we never built one.
Like you said, can't beat the feed.
Silage in piles and doing TMR is the way to go! Your cows will thank you the move. 👍👍👍
Good job guys
My dad always wished we could grow alfalfa that nice
Good idea for getting a TMR. The ag bags will be expensive if you plan on feeding out of them for a long period of time.
Glad to hear you're doing away with the silos . Had a neighbor up on a silo and it collapsed was buried for several hrs before found. Was busted up bad but survived was buried up to his shoulders. He's still has problems today.
What a great ending to an excellent video. Looking at that one cow’s foot made my foot hurt! Great looking alfalfa!! Taking down most of the silos brings an end to an era of Sigler Farms. Like you said, can’t fight progress. Stay safe.
Don't forget the shrink on your feed system. Like when Using silage trucks a lot of feed blows off
Mixer wagon is definitely the way to go!
Going to make life so much easier
You're gonna need one of the big green horses and put a dozer blade on it to push the hay up into a pile and duals on all 4 corners to pack the hay. It's a smart move Kip. With the amount of land your working you're gonna need a couple more semi dump trucks and probably a couple of tandem dumpers.👍
You are on the right tract. It is to bad that the 10th generation farmer from southern PA didn't get the news. They just built 3 130' upright silos.
Their new silos will be fine. It’s when the silos start to show their age and start falling apart.
I got gassed in a silo 30 years ago. Wasn't fun, obviously I survived. Silo unloaders are always in need of repairs, but you can always find, rent, or maybe borrow a loader tractor (or something) to feed with. I switched to bags when I noticed a bulge in a stave silo. If I had stayed in the Dairy biz, bunker silo would have been my next step.
You won't miss the silos and you're going to love tmr
I think it is a great call and from feeding at two different dairies with TMRS you be very well satisfied in time. You do a great job on your videos . If you got questions please reach out . Safe harvesting
Awesome way to memorialize your mother and give back to the community. Way to go
Good move KIP, a neighbor had 1 fall seconds after kids got out, they were levelling and heard it creak and felt it move, ran down 50 ft, got out cell phones and recorded it falling i was told by my Dad. A very close call
If you planning on a slab for a base have you considered black top over cement. I have both black top looks like new after 14 years of corn silage.cement floors are badly pitted
You do what u gotta do thanks for sharing
This year for first cutting every couple loads we did that went into the silo someone climbed up and checked to see if it was all okay and if not we had a plan on pulling the stuff away and moving a couple things so nothing was damaged
I am not a Farmer but for your families and yourselfs GOOD MOVE SAFETY YOUR RIGHT USE YOUR HEAD. STAY ALIVE. YOUR FAMILIES LOVE YOU. WE don't care lol JOKING PEOPLE JOKING LOVE THE CHANNEL KIP
I think it's a good idea to build the pad and feed out of the age bags
*ag bags
Definitely doing the right thing gotta be safe
Very smart decision. God bless
You made the right decision.
Surprised to see u leaving the silos all the sudden but if theres chunks falling of i get it. Not sure if youll have enough bunk to feed them once a day with a tmr but good u guys for trying something new. Take care
I'm so glad you're getting away from the silos.....I prayed every time you went in one....😮..crops looking beautiful!!!🙏❤️🇺🇲
My brother was very lucky about 30 years ago we were filling a 24 by 80 with haulage climbed it just before lunch put 2 loads in after lunch and it went over on the end of the barn killing 3 cows
Another very interesting video Thank you
I think your headed in the right direction with a tmr mixer. Those hairy warts are hard to deal with. Gotta stay after them.
Very good video Awesome way to honor your mama
My experience with bags is corn silage makes a nice smooth bag. Haylage is a different animal. Makes a lumpy bag with air pockets. Watch out for mold!
When you start to feed haylage out of the bag, take a bale spear and loosen up the haylage. Makes scooping it our easier. As long as the brake is set right on the bagger you'll make just as good of feed as the silo.
I think this is the better move for the farm and safety for everyone and what my grandparents always told me when the farm was dairy silos was a no go for them do to the issues that neighbors had and they didnt want that and they was 3 deaths a year in the county that had to do with silos
Great decision on the silos, what a great way to carry on your mom's legacy. Awesome job on another great video.
New larger silos with ring drive patz unloaders are the answer for dairy. That cuts the work load and the amount of climbing but still you get quality feed with little waste. Bags and bunker=cutting and cleaning up plastic and waste feed along with fighting mud. Quality dairy feed involves a lot of work no matter which way it is done.
Ofcourse we agree with you because your family needs you buddy mistakes all off us make but I'm sure you guys will figure out the best way to make it happen. All the best for you guys buddy