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.
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!!
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!
*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!* 🚜🎥🌾
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
so why did they cut through the middle of the field? i saw a lot of wasted silage go out the back of the trailer, why not just stay on the outside like before?
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!
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
Was great to meet you mike. All of us drivers are always very proud of this huge, efficient operation
It's definitely quite the operation.
@@farmhandmike hi Darren
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.
@@raynere4154 Phần ở [6:55] rất thú vị, không ngờ lại có cách tiếp cận độc đáo như vậy. Video này rất chất lượng!
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.
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!!
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!
*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!* 🚜🎥🌾
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.
???? How is silage corn different than table eating corn ???
@@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.
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Love huge farms like this. The way that forage harvestor shoots the corn just wow
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.
By the way, that's not a combine, that happens to be a forage harvester which chops the stalks into silage.
Thanks to ALL the farmers out there! Working hard to feed this country!!
Thanks for taking the time to make these video. My daughter and I have learned so much about tractors now.
Now it's time for learn something about combine's:) ruclips.net/video/K95D7sBZCdU/видео.html
Wow, this video is absolutely fantastic! The content is so engaging and well-produced. Great job!
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.
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I'm really impressed by how Agricultural Technology is being used to solve real-world problems. Excellent video!
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.
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.
I wish I could double like this video!! What an operation! Thanks Mike!
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!
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.
Great video Mike !! I would like to see this whole farm, feeding, keeping and caring for the animals .. 👍💪
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.
My God that's a huge farm!!
So many tractors and trailers o.O Fun to watch though, thanks for recording ;)
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!
Great movie Mike really enjoyed it what an incredible amount of equipment.
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!
meetings mean bad things have happened
@@get__some yep bad things happen, one truck on its side, 3 others that radiators got backed into!
@@davereynolds6145 oh no.
tell em "slow down, turbo"
some of these youngins are full of beans
@@get__some Can you slow it down without them?
Great video. a few years ago I visited this farm. It was a wonderful time for me. Very impressive!!
Another first CLAAS silage video!!!😉
Thanks a lot for showing! 😊👍🏻
*Observing the corn swaying from up above, I couldn't help but notice that your Mavic Pro creates quite a powerful prop wash.*
That was such a good video I could smell the silage.
Great job Mike! That's some excellent footage! 👍
I know this area for sure. Live in Westport, thanks for the scenic view
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
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
That's a serious operation😁👍 that silage pile is massive👍👍
Nice video😉👍
Always enjoy your chopping footage, even year old, still great
Hello from Mexico Mike Less you are the best
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.
Couldn't help but to watch the entire video.
I love big farms and big farm equipment
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.
One word says it all WOW... That's for sharing Mike.. God Bless from Georgia...
The fields are so beautiful
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,
Great job, very very nice harvest.😃😃😃
Mike,great video. I wish I was there.
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.
Great Mike Less Video, thanks for sharing
Great mood music, i love the cowboy stuff.
I think the music is "the year of the cat"...?
Wow, what a massive dairy farm
Awesome video Mike! Man thats one heck of a farm!!
Those Claas foragers are real beasts.
Just a few Fliegl wagon herd😍😍
1a Fliegl
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.
Great video and fantastic music
Awesome! Where I was born..Our farm is 10 miles south of Greensburg, near Millhousen
WOW! Great video, Mike!!!
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.
very good video, thank you for sharing❤
Loved it Mike great video.
Now I know what those piles covered in tarps and tires are. Lots of 'em in Pennsylvania. It's satisfying to watch the process.
Great drone shots...
Looking at the corn blowing from overhead, I was thinking your Mavic Pro has a pretty strong prop wash.
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!!!
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.
Awesome video, Thanks Mike!!
AWESOME Mike really AWESOME!!👍👍
Love the long video!!!
Great awesome video mike, biggest corn silage video ever
Those Claas Jaguar's are corn eating machines!
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.
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
Nice Mike...... don't see many JCB tractors around....!!!
I was mostly running that jcb! It’s a Cadillac!
Great video. Thanks 😊
wow wow ,, j'avais jamais vue ça ,, très bon travail d'équipe ,, Bravo
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.
Woo i wonder how many cows you milk up in here, beautiful farm, i work in the biggest dairy in connecticut. I love farming
They ought use the same wheel configuration as what they use in garbage dumps for compacting the silage .
Nice to see the JCB fastrac making a appearance. Don’t see many of them over in the states.
so why did they cut through the middle of the field? i saw a lot of wasted silage go out the back of the trailer, why not just stay on the outside like before?
Thats some nice team work
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!
Oh yeah good cup of coffee and snacks and I'm good to go I was curious how fast are the choppers are running great video and keep up the great work
Roughly how much is each wagon weighing in at
Nice video, specially in night time :)
What’s the reasoning behind cutting straight through the middle? Is it to create a smaller field/working area within the field?
I’m curious, since they shredded everything into pieces, what do they use all that shredded corns for?
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.
The John Deere are pulling larger wagons, they have three axles and are longer. That could be the difference in time
@@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.
On packing ground silo didn’t I see a BIG BRUTE with 8 tires front and 8 in back and were they the biggest tires made if so they would pack a sili
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 .
No, they make silage off all the corn they grow
What fertilizers do you put on the soil for wheat, corn, barley? can you give me information? We are farmers, but we can't get that much yield.
Local AG university should have a program to help you out guessing you had detailed soil survey.
Great video!!
Magnifique vidéo 👍😉
How long does that 80,000 ton of silage last the dairy cows?
Just wondering because I don’t know, would a bulldozer work for packing it and spreading it?? Similar to stockpiling dirt??
I had a corn silage video a few years ago that was using a dozer on the pile
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!
How many years can a cornfield be cropped like this before soil is depleted?
How hard is it to drive that combine and steer that chute?
Is someone directing that shoot so it moves along the wagon
Great video as always!!! I'm curious about how they take silage out as the open face would be more than 50 feet high.
Ma la pausa pranzo o colazione non viene fatta?
Straordinaria organizzazione complimenti 👍
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.
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.