Chopping Corn Silage near Greensburg Indiana

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  • Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
  • Chopping Corn Silage at a large dairy farm south of Greensburg Indiana. In this video I made two different visits to this farm to video them chopping corn silage and hauling it back to the farm and building a large silage pile for their dairy cow herd.

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  • @JamesStevens-x3l
    @JamesStevens-x3l 20 дней назад

    Thanks to ALL the farmers out there! Working hard to feed this country!!

  • @thomasmccardle725
    @thomasmccardle725 Год назад +2

    When the quality of the video is as good as yours the longer the better, stay safe and keep these awesome farm videos coming please!

  • @davidspringer4019
    @davidspringer4019 Год назад +2

    I like the long videos, thank you. Im older now, but back in the day I worked for Furman's Foods in central PA and these videos bring back memories, of course using different equipment. Take care and thanks again.

  • @masonsmith9222
    @masonsmith9222 3 года назад +15

    Was great to meet you mike. All of us drivers are always very proud of this huge, efficient operation

    • @farmhandmike
      @farmhandmike  3 года назад +1

      It's definitely quite the operation.

    • @raynere4154
      @raynere4154 3 года назад

      @@farmhandmike hi Darren

    • @MrKaba1985
      @MrKaba1985 3 года назад

      nice to see the Fliegel Trailers build only 10 km or about 5 mails away from my home town in Germany nice to see them in other Countrys also.

  • @dannaumann9758
    @dannaumann9758 3 года назад +16

    My grandad built the first self-propelled chopper in the country. His model “G” JD didn’t have the power to suit him, so he mounted a 550 c u tank engine on the hitch, put a model “B” tri-cycle front end under the tongue, and a seat on it! He would have been amazed to see how these machines gobble up the corn! Thx Mike!

  • @timothyosborn1697
    @timothyosborn1697 3 года назад +12

    I used to watch a huge farm plot get combined, when I was a young teenager. I remember the stalks being thrown away and the corn kept. It looks as it the whole corn plant is used for this silage. I never knew that. Cool. I have to say that it's kind of satisfying to see the combine going through the lush field and mowing it down so slick and clean. Sweet operation.

    • @DavidThomas-qu8mh
      @DavidThomas-qu8mh Год назад

      By the way, that's not a combine, that happens to be a forage harvester which chops the stalks into silage.

  • @herbhouston5378
    @herbhouston5378 2 года назад +3

    Great video. I live in Greensburg and several years ago I visited this farm, and since I had a history in farming, I walked around with the owner and we talked about the farm operation. It was a great time for me a I really enjoyed talking with the boss. Quite an operation! Very impressive!!

  • @danstraughn295
    @danstraughn295 3 года назад +5

    Thanks for taking the time to make these video. My daughter and I have learned so much about tractors now.

    • @tractorhunter
      @tractorhunter 2 года назад

      Now it's time for learn something about combine's:) ruclips.net/video/K95D7sBZCdU/видео.html

  • @TheFarmsteadDiariesTVDN-c9q
    @TheFarmsteadDiariesTVDN-c9q 27 дней назад

    Wow, this video is absolutely fantastic! The content is so engaging and well-produced. Great job!

  • @rebacorddesignstudio7470
    @rebacorddesignstudio7470 3 года назад +11

    The smell of silage reminds me of fall. Grew up around a feedlot and that smell always coincided with the start of school. I remember riding the school bus with the windows down and the silage trucks would sail past and that smell would fill the bus. Good memories.

    • @sarragount5141
      @sarragount5141 3 года назад

      🤔👍Très joli ccommentaires psychanalytique. ✋✋🍀🇫🇷🍀✋✋

  • @AgritechFutureUS
    @AgritechFutureUS Год назад +5

    *I'm a fan of your combine and silage videos! The diverse angles and footage are top-notch. Your content stands out with the best variety I've seen. It's truly enjoyable to watch and learn about the equipment and techniques. Keep up the fantastic work!* 🚜🎥🌾

  • @billwhitman1529
    @billwhitman1529 3 года назад +4

    Good video, I can almost smell it! They put up in 6 hours what we used to take 6 weeks to do. Amazing. Thanks for sharing.

  • @AgriTech-x6v
    @AgriTech-x6v 2 месяца назад

    I'm really impressed by how Agricultural Technology is being used to solve real-world problems. Excellent video!

  • @coryfritz295
    @coryfritz295 3 года назад +3

    I wish I could double like this video!! What an operation! Thanks Mike!

    • @CountyLineCowpokes
      @CountyLineCowpokes 2 года назад +1

      It really is an incredible operation! Farmhand mike does a great job with these videos, also! If you want to see a much smaller multi-generational family farm with a few antics sprinkled in check out the County Line Cowpokes channel!

  • @thomasallen4340
    @thomasallen4340 8 месяцев назад

    Love huge farms like this. The way that forage harvestor shoots the corn just wow

  • @winkletown8828
    @winkletown8828 3 года назад +4

    There's something about watching forage harvesters eating everything in sight so quickly that just mesmerizes!!!!! Love these videos!!!! Thanks Mike!! You rock for this.
    I needed this today.

  • @kladpapier
    @kladpapier 3 года назад +14

    My God that's a huge farm!!
    So many tractors and trailers o.O Fun to watch though, thanks for recording ;)

  • @aaronstractorstuff7521
    @aaronstractorstuff7521 3 года назад +18

    I really enjoy the combine videos but these silage videos are my favorite. You get awesome footage from every angle. You have the best footage and variety of anyone else I've seen on here. Really fun to watch! I can spend hours just watching all the big equipment and think it's really interesting how each one does things and why.

    • @TheMilwaukieDan
      @TheMilwaukieDan 3 года назад +1

      ???? How is silage corn different than table eating corn ???

    • @fbh31118
      @fbh31118 3 года назад +2

      @@TheMilwaukieDan There basically the same in most regards. The only difference is that sweet corn is a hybrid that is bred for a sweeter taste. The other big difference is that sweet corn is harvested in it's 'milk stage' or sometimes referred to as 'high moisture corn. Hope this helps.

    • @tractorhunter
      @tractorhunter 2 года назад

      check this outruclips.net/video/K95D7sBZCdU/видео.html

  • @tomkaraitiana6136
    @tomkaraitiana6136 3 года назад +5

    I've got to say that I'm a Mike Less fan, I watch all you videos or as many as I can find and if I may say, rock on. Big tractor power is another favourite of mine. Keep up the good work.

  • @АлексейМарков-г2м
    @АлексейМарков-г2м 3 года назад +6

    Great video Mike !! I would like to see this whole farm, feeding, keeping and caring for the animals .. 👍💪

  • @OpunktSchmidt1301
    @OpunktSchmidt1301 3 года назад +1

    Another first CLAAS silage video!!!😉
    Thanks a lot for showing! 😊👍🏻

  • @Titantech.1
    @Titantech.1 4 месяца назад

    Great video. a few years ago I visited this farm. It was a wonderful time for me. Very impressive!!

  • @briand5521
    @briand5521 3 года назад +3

    Great movie Mike really enjoyed it what an incredible amount of equipment.

  • @sunkings5972
    @sunkings5972 Год назад

    Something about the way the Forager turns a lush green field of mutant grass into a barren wasteland with a little hp left over is mesmerizing to watch. Amazing photography Mike.

  • @rogerofrhodri
    @rogerofrhodri Месяц назад

    Those Claas foragers are real beasts.

  • @tonyburelle6633
    @tonyburelle6633 3 года назад +2

    Always enjoy your chopping footage, even year old, still great

  • @davereynolds6145
    @davereynolds6145 2 года назад

    Nice big flat fields, no mud, what the heck! To do that much silage is a monumental job, I know I help the very large dairy near me. Around 85,000tons, running 3 choppers, 5 tractor trailers and 7 straight trucks! One thing that caught my ear was them having a drivers meeting, I wish we would do that! Good work Mike!

    • @get__some
      @get__some 2 года назад +1

      meetings mean bad things have happened

    • @davereynolds6145
      @davereynolds6145 2 года назад +1

      @@get__some yep bad things happen, one truck on its side, 3 others that radiators got backed into!

    • @get__some
      @get__some 2 года назад +1

      @@davereynolds6145 oh no.
      tell em "slow down, turbo"
      some of these youngins are full of beans

  • @AgricultureTechUS
    @AgricultureTechUS 2 месяца назад

    Totally amazed by this machine!

  • @jessberg4763
    @jessberg4763 3 года назад +4

    Great job Mike! That's some excellent footage! 👍

  • @rauloropeza7496
    @rauloropeza7496 3 года назад +1

    Hello from Mexico Mike Less you are the best

  • @Madswiss600
    @Madswiss600 3 года назад +5

    Just a few Fliegl wagon herd😍😍

  • @gr82bcrazy1
    @gr82bcrazy1 2 года назад

    That was such a good video I could smell the silage.

  • @stormlantern5199
    @stormlantern5199 3 года назад

    Couldn't help but to watch the entire video.

  • @ericskinner2039
    @ericskinner2039 5 дней назад

    I know this area for sure. Live in Westport, thanks for the scenic view

  • @Chisszaru
    @Chisszaru 3 года назад +1

    I love big farms and big farm equipment

  • @Fedharrison5634
    @Fedharrison5634 3 года назад

    One word says it all WOW... That's for sharing Mike.. God Bless from Georgia...

  • @Snowtruckdriver
    @Snowtruckdriver 2 года назад +1

    I used to work for my Dad doing custom chopping back in the 70's. I've seen 100's of thousands of tons done but I've never seen a pile built like this.

  • @SimonKL11
    @SimonKL11 3 года назад

    That's a serious operation😁👍 that silage pile is massive👍👍
    Nice video😉👍

  • @pavelkubes1
    @pavelkubes1 Год назад

    Great job, very very nice harvest.😃😃😃

  • @kiwidiesel
    @kiwidiesel 3 года назад +1

    ahhh i still remember that sound of a Claas Jaguar forager chopping maize. Done thousnds of hours driving them. My neck still hurts from looking out that left side all day and night long.

  • @danvanninhuys745
    @danvanninhuys745 3 года назад +1

    Wow, what a massive dairy farm

  • @TheMilwaukieDan
    @TheMilwaukieDan 3 года назад

    Here in Oregon Willamette Valley we grow a wide variety of crops. Some of it is corn silage. I never seen how it’s accomplished though. One day the corn is there. The Baxter day it gone. At some point later I gave dairy products snd meat available. Thank you for feeding America

  • @hubertwebb9869
    @hubertwebb9869 3 года назад

    Great mood music, i love the cowboy stuff.

    • @wadewalker6231
      @wadewalker6231 3 года назад +1

      I think the music is "the year of the cat"...?

  • @tonymckeage1028
    @tonymckeage1028 3 года назад

    Great Mike Less Video, thanks for sharing

  • @97Moments
    @97Moments 2 месяца назад

    The fields are so beautiful

  • @paulchill458
    @paulchill458 Год назад

    love the corn siliage vidoe,s mike keep them comming great as i did do that at 1 stage in my life but great mike

  • @gardnermiller6820
    @gardnermiller6820 3 года назад +2

    Those Claas Jaguar's are corn eating machines!

  • @charlesjenkins8078
    @charlesjenkins8078 3 года назад +1

    Mike,great video. I wish I was there.

  • @NaTech94
    @NaTech94 11 месяцев назад

    *Observing the corn swaying from up above, I couldn't help but notice that your Mavic Pro creates quite a powerful prop wash.*

  • @FascinatingDiscoveries02
    @FascinatingDiscoveries02 5 месяцев назад

    very good video, thank you for sharing❤

  • @rosemarymurphy5767
    @rosemarymurphy5767 2 месяца назад

    I live just about 1 mile from this dairy farm . I pass it almost every 2or3 weeks going to Burney , Indiana to my sister in laws . Been wanting a tour in side the dairy buildings . They haul a lot of liquid manure to a bunch of farm lands and plant corn . They buy their hay and straw being shipped on semi’s . They have one massive farm and land . If , I remember right they bought more cattle so that makes them between 8 & 9 hundred cattle they sale the bull calves and keep the heifers.

  • @craigsimon935
    @craigsimon935 2 года назад +2

    What an incredible operation! That is a lot of activity going on and the corn started pretty green but was getting pretty dry by the time they were wrapping up.
    I have to agree with you o the way they build that pile. Minimal moving of silage, the wagons just drive in and never stop and back up, they are not pushing the edge of the blade into the pile but getting a nice even spread across the blade with each push making it a nice even spread on the pile. Nobody was in anybody's way. There is not an unsafe activity, i.e. not backing up where they cannot see, not an edge of the pile with a steep slope that is unsafe, lots of space for each to work. It makes a lot of sense.

  • @Zeke-yv3nw
    @Zeke-yv3nw 3 года назад

    Awesome video Mike! Man thats one heck of a farm!!

  • @jeffschwering1300
    @jeffschwering1300 3 года назад

    Awesome! Where I was born..Our farm is 10 miles south of Greensburg, near Millhousen

  • @verdagarner5112
    @verdagarner5112 3 года назад

    Great video and fantastic music

  • @donmedford2563
    @donmedford2563 3 года назад +19

    I am a trivia nerd. I love details. Thanks for saying the pile had 80,000 tons but in future videos please tell how many total acres, how many acres per hour they harvest, how many tons her hour, etc. Great video.

  • @jeanneg6550
    @jeanneg6550 3 года назад

    wow wow ,, j'avais jamais vue ça ,, très bon travail d'équipe ,, Bravo

  • @johnmccarter5541
    @johnmccarter5541 3 года назад

    WOW! Great video, Mike!!!

  • @mw9953
    @mw9953 3 года назад

    Awesome video, Thanks Mike!!

  • @DrMGomezJr
    @DrMGomezJr 3 года назад

    Great drone shots...

  • @Theworldaroundus-n8w
    @Theworldaroundus-n8w 2 месяца назад

    So sad to see that this masterpiece of engineering has left this world due to conflict. Something i'd never expected to see in my life...

  • @ScottPykare
    @ScottPykare 3 года назад

    AWESOME Mike really AWESOME!!👍👍

  • @toddmorris2353
    @toddmorris2353 3 года назад

    They are great folks down there i live about 35 miles from them and use to deliver fuel and oil to them it is an amazing operation

  • @otismartin132
    @otismartin132 3 года назад

    Selling silage is a great business opportunity! The machine cleans the fields, and the only lost cost that I can think of is the manure and chemicals for growing. Other than that, EASY MONEY!!!

  • @Kiwimaihifishing
    @Kiwimaihifishing Год назад

    Hi Mike, iam Alan from Tokoroa New Zealand, awesome videos of your AGG Contracting over there, I will come over one day an meet you, cheers from the Kiwi land,

  • @farmshoffman8475
    @farmshoffman8475 3 года назад

    Great awesome video mike, biggest corn silage video ever

  • @randyoesch64
    @randyoesch64 3 года назад

    Loved it Mike great video.

  • @juice_box23
    @juice_box23 27 дней назад

    Corn Silage has to be my favorite type of harvesting, TY #MikeLess-FarmhandMike

  • @rnpasupalanfarm
    @rnpasupalanfarm 2 года назад

    wow lovely .. this work in very impressive . we dont know when can we be doing husbandry like the way you guys are doing ,,,, wow lovely and ,, even im engaged in farming life of animal husbandry. keep on supporting and sugesting us.

  • @robertogonowski9027
    @robertogonowski9027 2 года назад

    Nice video, specially in night time :)

  • @donaldlewis9734
    @donaldlewis9734 2 года назад

    Great video. Thanks 😊

  • @tomcleghorn4005
    @tomcleghorn4005 3 года назад

    My goodness that farm sure is big!

  • @29rosslyn
    @29rosslyn 3 года назад +6

    Looking at the corn blowing from overhead, I was thinking your Mavic Pro has a pretty strong prop wash.

  • @sasquatch5680
    @sasquatch5680 3 года назад

    Thats some nice team work

  • @slabrankle9588
    @slabrankle9588 3 года назад

    Now I know what those piles covered in tarps and tires are. Lots of 'em in Pennsylvania. It's satisfying to watch the process.

  • @paulpochan9631
    @paulpochan9631 3 года назад +2

    Nice Mike...... don't see many JCB tractors around....!!!

    • @masonsmith9222
      @masonsmith9222 3 года назад +1

      I was mostly running that jcb! It’s a Cadillac!

  • @jasonkmaylee
    @jasonkmaylee 3 года назад

    Love the long video!!!

  • @frantisekleiterman2082
    @frantisekleiterman2082 3 года назад

    Krásné záběry!

  • @сергейниколаев-я9щ
    @сергейниколаев-я9щ 2 года назад

    Это лучше любого сериала )!!

  • @martincowley815
    @martincowley815 3 года назад

    Nice to see the JCB fastrac making a appearance. Don’t see many of them over in the states.

  • @TheSmartFarm247
    @TheSmartFarm247 10 дней назад

    This breakdown of farm machinery is super helpful! Which machine do you think is the most essential for a small farm?

  • @christiangauthier1264
    @christiangauthier1264 3 года назад

    Magnifique vidéo 👍😉

  • @hubertwebb9869
    @hubertwebb9869 3 года назад

    Wow, those trailers look like they are pooping silage out their rear ends especially with their back gates in the up open position, it looks like a short tail. Lol.

  • @MrDabaja
    @MrDabaja 3 года назад

    Great video!!

  • @jeffhumpert7228
    @jeffhumpert7228 3 года назад

    That farm doesnt look that big in person but man seeing your footage that place is huge, my wife even said the same thing. I remember Honda chopping all the corn and donating it to them when they bought the land to build the plant so they would have a stockpile to start out with as a welcome to Greensburg from a fellow new comer to Greensburg. I have a bucket list item to be able to drive a couple different types of those massive 4 wheel drive tractors like they use to pack the silage with.

  • @bickabraham2397
    @bickabraham2397 3 года назад

    They ought use the same wheel configuration as what they use in garbage dumps for compacting the silage .

  • @udo5479
    @udo5479 3 года назад +1

    Nice Fliegl Push Trailers from Germany

  • @eddyandresfernandezmarin8990
    @eddyandresfernandezmarin8990 Год назад

    Saludos desde Costa Rica

  • @loyaltyndrespect24
    @loyaltyndrespect24 2 года назад

    Woo i wonder how many cows you milk up in here, beautiful farm, i work in the biggest dairy in connecticut. I love farming

  • @johnmilburn5715
    @johnmilburn5715 3 года назад

    Awesome set up, awesome video!!!!
    I bet those choppers are pretty ffffff...fpppp..phased out by the time the owners turn them in!!!.. They get caned to hell!👍

  • @giuseppebacoccola9209
    @giuseppebacoccola9209 2 года назад

    Straordinaria organizzazione complimenti 👍

  • @lllllRBlllll
    @lllllRBlllll Год назад

    This is the only chopper operator I've seen yet on youtube who puts the deflector up when someone's cab is coming under the spout. I don't know why more people don't do it. If not for the obvious safety reason then at least to keep equipment clean.

  • @michaels4841
    @michaels4841 3 года назад +1

    Claas Jaguar and Fliegl push-off trailers, it is surprising to see so much German vehicles in the USA. At 25:05 the cam crashes with a chain - bad luck.

  • @jimjardine4705
    @jimjardine4705 2 года назад

    From Australia. We might have cattle farms measured in square miles, but our grain farms, not so much!!

  • @kennethcarlton2860
    @kennethcarlton2860 3 года назад +2

    Does the farm leave any corn to combine it for grain ? Thanks Mike for your great videos . And Thanks for also showing the pile of silage .

    • @gerhard583
      @gerhard583 3 года назад

      No, they make silage off all the corn they grow

  • @Adshop
    @Adshop Год назад

    Loving the content. Please indicate size of farms. Wouldn't mind just a tard bit more commentary with some details on the farms. Great content all the same!

  • @carlfalt174
    @carlfalt174 3 года назад

    That's a milk factory! An operation like that would supply all the milk for a city of quarter million people each day

  • @marcusnord1267
    @marcusnord1267 3 года назад +1

    Hey!
    Interesting video.
    I'm wondering why are the packing the corn with the tractor? I'm not from USA, I'm from Sweden....so, at home we uses a packning machine for roads, it's like a big cylinder with a vibrator machine in the machine for packing the roads. So we can uses a smaller tractor that don't cost so much in fuel capacity? I might spell something wrong, hope you understand 😅 love to see how it works in the US!

  • @ovidiuciuparu6421
    @ovidiuciuparu6421 3 года назад +6

    Do you plan to get any footage with the farm operation? I will be curious to see how big is the mixer that they use to feed the cows and other equipment that they have for daily activities.

  • @boagrious101
    @boagrious101 3 года назад

    looks like the CIH and JCB tractors have the faster hydrualics with the JCB having a slight edge. The John Deere's appear to take a little longer. Not a dig at all just an observation I love these silage videos see you at the national farm machinery show 2022 Mike.

    • @coreysandness2529
      @coreysandness2529 3 года назад

      The John Deere are pulling larger wagons, they have three axles and are longer. That could be the difference in time

    • @boagrious101
      @boagrious101 3 года назад

      @@coreysandness2529 Figured since we were both interested I'd do some digging and these are specs a pulled from tractordatabase.com. JD 8120 has a 37 gallon capacity, and flows at 33.5 gpm and 2900 psi max pressure. A CIH magnum 275 has a capacity of 45.5 gallons and flows at 44 gpm but they have a 59 gpm option as well as a twin flow pump option that flows 75gpms, they didn't however have the max pressure listed. Finally and I kind of guessed at the model number but the specs on a JCB 8330 is 39.6 gallon capacity and flow rate of 36.2 gpm or 47 gpm depending on the option and a max pressure of 3045psi. Would really like to try one of those JCB's on my hay roller just to see how it rides. All that said they were several minutes at the beginning and end where the CIH and JD were pulling tri-axle wagons together.