Ahhhhh brings back memories of frozen silage in dead of winter...all that's missing is an old Patz gutter cleaner to complete my memories...them damn things would freeze up too. (back in the 50's before global warming)..LOL The good old days! 🍺🥨🍺
You Are Awesome, Sir !! Worked right along My Dad at Your Sons Age too !! I’m 73 now and just semi-retired from Farming. Spending My time in South Central Florida, Cow, Groves and Sod Farming Territory !! Great Farming Videos, keep them coming !! H.
30 years ago, I worked with my brother installing feed equip, We started out selling Clay unloaders, then Patz...... But worked on Badger, Silo-matic and James Way..... Most of the farmers abandoned the uprights in the 80's..... in favor of pits or bunkers......Quite a few big diameters still standing.....Monuments to a bygone era
Makes me remember the time we filled a silo that had stood empty for a while. I dropped down into what I thought was old silage broke through into a monumental rats nest. Had a rat go up my pant leg did the quickest job of dropping my pants I’ve ever done. Great 👍 content
We never had any silo unloaders....oh yes we did....ME... and a 12 tined fork!! Great video Andy!! I would candle the eggs, wash them and put them in the fridge. Great on an english muffin!
I helped on a farm for over 30 years and helped set-up that exact unloading system. But, I have never seen this view of it operating. I was the guy on the ground running and lowering the auger. Thank you for sharing! That was awesome to see in operation!
I have learned so much about a silo operation. Thanks I have never seen a silo Eqipment so well maintained. And the corn is so protected for the storage time
I remember having to do that with my uncle when I was 11 or 12... worked on his farm for 3 years in the summertime...bought my first car with that money....
Thank you for taking us along Andy. Junior is learning that there is more to farming life than cruising around in his new toy. He's a willing trooper. Be safe, be well.
A friend had two 40 x 60's side by side that was pretty impressive. They took a Case 700 to throw the corn silage high enough to get it in the center of the silo the Ford 8000 couldn't get it to the center. The long stroke on a Case engine would get the job done. This is 1975 or so you had to use what you had to get the job done.
Lots of good memories there. I remember climbing the silo chute. We didn't have any "clean chute" either. Climbing with your eyes squinted closed so the crap doesn't get in your eyes. Then being afraid of the unloader as it comes around. Too little to jump it. Depending on Dad to throw me to the other side of the auger. And then yep, Dad goes down first to catch me. You know he got a load of crap in his face with me climbing down right on top of him! Then as a teenager--leveling off that silo with draw forks. Our silos were open topped. Man that haylage is hot when you start moving it around!
Silo unloader, brings back a lot of memories of our old Bager unloader. Then before that, when I was bub’s age the unloader was me, with a pitchfork and shovel ! Bub you got it pretty good !!! The clean shoot is new to me, looks really nice 👍!
Great lil farmer you have there.. This brings back memories. I would always be the one who set up... And yes ive climbed up the inside and went down the outside too..
Your son Andrew going be a an awesome farmer, because he has an excellent teacher. All your children steps in and help with farming operations. That's cool that you have all that support. Andy, I got give you credit you work your ass off to make a living. God bless!! Awesome vid, keep them coming. Be safe!!
Hearing that unloader running brings back memories. Sometimes around 7 or 8 pm I could go outside my grandparents house and know that one of my uncle's were feeding the cows because I could hear the unloader running. Both of their cement stave silos had Jamesway unloaders. I had several turns at going into the silo, leveling it off, covering it up, etc. Then when it was time to start feeding, pulling the cover off, letting unloader down. Then periodically climbing up in to it taking out doors and letting the chute down. I see you guys use the plastic bag going down the chute, good idea as it keeps the chute clean so you don't get a face full of hay when climbing up/down the chute.
Really appreciate the "inside" of your operation. Awesome! I loved to climb the silos as a kid knowing if I was caught there was a butt warming coming.
This silo chore reminds me of my summer time job on a dairy farm. Climbing silos was a little scary especially setting up all the equipment for filling. Then this farms didn't have an unloader i was all by hand. Memories.
Thanks for sharing! I've always been fascinated by silos and how they work. Very few of them left here in Kentucky and they were very small. I heard they filled them with a blower chopper combination. Very nice video as usual and thanks for explaining how it works.
Andy, this is a similar video when I first started watching your channel a couple years ago! Still as informative as it was a couple years ago. I believe you had a couple thousand subscribers! I remember commenting that this was a “dirty job “ and you replied, “it can be “!😎 Still as interesting! Thank you for the great videos!
Being from the uk we don’t use this type of thing these days Really interesting video and lots of insight. I do enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for making them
We weren't lucky enough to have an unloader when i was growing up. Every morning at 4 AM i had to climb the silo and toss down the silage. I think starting at the age of 10. Did this until i graduated from high school. Then fed from 20 to 25 calves on the bottle. This was all before having breakfast and then going to school.
We always had our concrete silos for silage. One unloaded down the door like yours the other down the center. Used to store high moisture milo in our Harvestore. Since switched it over to a false airreation floor and auger for storing soybeans. Ours is a 31/89 the other four our 25/75 with one a 20/60 for dry grain. Hammer Down
In high school, I and buddies would go out at night and catch live pigeons in barns.. they would sit (roost) on the barn timbers and with a flashlight, would climb the timbers, catch them and throw them down to buds who would put them in a gunny sack. Sold them for a dime each to the dog trainers. Once noticed a 90' silo that thought was filled, so I went up the outside and buddy went up the inside. Got to the top and there was one long 2x6 board across the top, with pigeons sitting on the tie bars. We both walked to the middle on the 2x6 and picked off several pigeons. Because the silo filler had been there two days before, figured the silo was full. But never shined the light down to see that it was really empty. Found out the following day that the corn wasn't ready so they pulled the silo blower off to another farm. Scared the hell out of us, thinking that it could have been a bad trip down to the bottom. Guess what you don't know is sometimes a good thing. But thanks for the info on the silo unloader.
Thank you! I was curious as when I've seen those type of silos since I was a kid,for how they were emptied. Another of lifes' curiosities solved. And the end , almost thought you had a unique clod shredder!
Same thing here in Tennessee,most of the county's near me have been closed down. To many rules and regulations ! Seems one side of the government,hint blue side. Are making it to where only the large corporation's. have the funds to pay. Wonder how many in both sides of Government get kickbacks to let this happen ?.
Wait till you see Andy after he moves doors as he empties the silo.and when they run the unloader back up to the top and reverse the process we just saw. LOL
Every time you show this unloader I get a little envious, ours get so rusty with the silage, the high moisture corn seems to be a lot easier on them. They are a great unloader though, center fill is the way to go.
We still have the old funnel chain distributor in our silo and a 2 man shovel unloader. No electric no belts no motor, it works good for our 30 head operation till it's in the 80s or 90s and you're 1 of the 2 running the shovels. We only do haylage in our silo and our corn in a bunk.
I remember doing that when we lived on the farm, corn silage though it was rough in the winter time it would freeze and the unloader wouldn't unload it had to dig it out but we tried to use a ground silo in the winter time,upright in the spring and summer.
@@TheGrumpyFarmer Impolite to demonstrate your immaturity on another person's channel. And yet with that paltry and pathetic volume of subscribers you boast, it is only fitting you are out trolling. You stand accused of blatant racism. Let's explore that fact for all to see.
I remember leveling out the top of the silo with pitchforks when I was about Junior's age...I got a little too close to the corn coming in and it hit me and dragged me under...luckily the owner was there and pulled me back to safety..dangerous job
I don't miss climbing silos in winter. Or summer. Good thing about the old Jamesways was a pair of 9/16 and a pair of ¾ wrenches, and s screwdriver or two, and you could tear them completely apart. The tripod lets go long before the cables will.
Dad always told us kids to stay out of the barn for a few days because of silo gas. A brown looking cloud of gas would hang around about 2 ft high off the barn floor and silo room. We had to open all the barn doors and let it air out.
Up until I was in my early 30’s, I had a rope inside the goose neck opening. I would pull my self up the silo wall to avoid the dirty hay chute. (Walking the wall, hand over hand.) Did that for a few years, but you guessed it, the old rotten rope broke, best I could do is turn my body around in mid air and land on my chest on the Jamesway power ring. I knocked the wind out of me, seemed like forever. It was maybe 5 doors. I would be dead if it was 9-10 doors like yours. Like you, that was the last time !
Jerad loves his own tractor he built himself... young Andrew was contemplating just what he got himself into an your doing a great job of instilling the confidence in him to farm. You looked like cream corn yourself and thats never good or bad, just that if it rains your like a pail of cream then too. Mother has seen it all and knows what your a doing... I'm pretty sure that her confidence in you overrides the heckling mama thing. Can't start at eighteen teaching as fear builds up like when the pigeon dusted ya on the top. Your a damn good father and if more men spent time with their kids we wouldn't have the highest arrest rate in the whole damn world, now thats embarrassing!! We only have one shot at this and uncle sam stepped on me as a kid and took me on a ride of my life.... I mismanaged everything for about a really good ten years even if I though I had it down, I really didn't. I went from the logging trade to mining and then to truck driving but wrenches was my true calling and thats what I did till to crippled to do it. So ran a little one horse operation in the back yard and never went hungry... actually my neighbors took advantage of my generosity and left me with their problems to sort out like I had a clue. Great video Andy... this is something I can wrap my head around... did Sarah get even with her brother yet/LOL
Mr Adair, awesome comment on passing the trade. As you say, he is a good dad. Amen! Need duplicates. I always say is to put a troubled teen on a farm or ranch and they will ever be to busy to be in any trouble. In fact to make them a pretty good citizen!
@@tomb.1972 Amen Tom B. , if we could start little farm/homestead or even ranches around different places so they don't so much leave their start in life but get a better understanding and see that other people care about more than just themselves
@@morgansword One thing about farm and/or ranch work is there are so many skills and disciplines to learn that covers many industries, as well as so many other of life lessons can and will be gained. Your idea is fantastic. It has been some time since being on the farm, but retained many of the skills from it. Should have listened and respected my Dad a lot more closely and better. Would prefer his patience compared to mine.
Hauled shot crete to silos for years never really seen what was inside a silo. Those old concrete silos go up and down all the time. One of the last jobs I went to they put up two brand new silos I believe they were 45' around not sure how tall but it was a good sized farm. You have to do some stuff that's really pretty dangerous on a farm. Good luck be safe all.
I wish we had used those clean shoot things. Would have made haylage more bearable. Also would save the shoot. Those aluminum shoots wear out after years of being hit with feed. We ran Van dale unloaders. We had one Patz till the cable broke pulling it up. That was the end of the Patz.
Another great video Andy. never seen the inside of one of those silo towers before. Jarrod thinks he is at a tractor pull everyday I think lol thx. oh and it looks like Jr grew this past year.. must be all that milk. lol
We had to shovel rotten corn silage out of the old wooden silo, what a stinky mess that was! Felt sad tearing down the old wooden silos that had stood for so many years...
You used to be able to tell who built a solo by looking at the colors of the top two rows of staves. Every builder had their own color pattern. Does the unloader damage the corn any when it hits the impeller? With silage, it didn't matter,because you can't really hurt silage. I don't remember who built our unloader, but I spent many hours making sure it ran properly, especially right after the silo was filled.
Is the floor of the silo cement or dirt? How many inches do you feed out each day? Thank you for today's video. I always appreciate the time you take to film and explain what your doing and how things work.
Really interesting to see how the unloaded works there Andy. Would the same unloader work if you were using the silo for grass silage? (I assume they’re probably different but just wondered)
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Ahhhhh brings back memories of frozen silage in dead of winter...all that's missing is an old Patz gutter cleaner to complete my memories...them damn things would freeze up too. (back in the 50's before global warming)..LOL
The good old days! 🍺🥨🍺
You Are Awesome, Sir !!
Worked right along My Dad at Your Sons Age too !!
I’m 73 now and just semi-retired from Farming. Spending My time in South Central Florida, Cow, Groves and Sod Farming Territory !! Great Farming Videos, keep them coming !! H.
Thanks for the comment
30 years ago, I worked with my brother installing feed equip, We started out selling Clay unloaders, then Patz...... But worked on Badger, Silo-matic and James Way..... Most of the farmers abandoned the uprights in the 80's..... in favor of pits or bunkers......Quite a few big diameters still standing.....Monuments to a bygone era
Were you in Minnesota. Had most of those brands around us.
@@peterhejny363 South Carolina......Got a cousin in Minnesota
watching you guys remind me of the days on our farm fixing the unloader on 30x 60 silo open top
Makes me remember the time we filled a silo that had stood empty for a while. I dropped down into what I thought was old silage broke through into a monumental rats nest. Had a rat go up my pant leg did the quickest job of dropping my pants I’ve ever done. Great 👍 content
Thanks for showing us around your farm. Dairy farming doesn't ever leave your blood even being off the farm.
We never had any silo unloaders....oh yes we did....ME... and a 12 tined fork!!
Great video Andy!! I would candle the eggs, wash them and put them in the fridge. Great on an english muffin!
It's amazing how much hard work it takes to produce our dary products.Thank you!!
This brings back memories. I spent many years growing up with a Jamesway silo unloader
Always enjoy your videos Andy, you do a great job of explaining what you are doing ! Thank You..
I helped on a farm for over 30 years and helped set-up that exact unloading system. But, I have never seen this view of it operating. I was the guy on the ground running and lowering the auger. Thank you for sharing! That was awesome to see in operation!
I worked at the parts warehouse filling orders driving forklift and loading trailers.
I have learned so much about a silo operation. Thanks I have never seen a silo Eqipment so well maintained. And the corn is so protected for the storage time
Nice video Andy. Glad to see junior climbing the silo at his age 👍always liked silos for our size operation.
I remember having to do that with my uncle when I was 11 or 12... worked on his farm for 3 years in the summertime...bought my first car with that money....
great video , Andrew is learning it all...so young , good for him
Thank you for taking us along Andy. Junior is learning that there is more to farming life than cruising around in his new toy. He's a willing trooper. Be safe, be well.
That was a great video! That’s some huge silo. 🙂👍
A friend had two 40 x 60's side by side that was pretty impressive. They took a Case 700 to throw the corn silage high enough to get it in the center of the silo the Ford 8000 couldn't get it to the center. The long stroke on a Case engine would get the job done. This is 1975 or so you had to use what you had to get the job done.
Awesome video Andy thank you for sharing! You have some great kids!
Lots of good memories there. I remember climbing the silo chute. We didn't have any "clean chute" either. Climbing with your eyes squinted closed so the crap doesn't get in your eyes. Then being afraid of the unloader as it comes around. Too little to jump it. Depending on Dad to throw me to the other side of the auger. And then yep, Dad goes down first to catch me. You know he got a load of crap in his face with me climbing down right on top of him! Then as a teenager--leveling off that silo with draw forks. Our silos were open topped. Man that haylage is hot when you start moving it around!
Silo unloader, brings back a lot of memories of our old Bager unloader. Then before that, when I was bub’s age the unloader was me, with a pitchfork and shovel ! Bub you got it pretty good !!! The clean shoot is new to me, looks really nice 👍!
Brings back memories. Hated when they broke and you had to hand shovel.
That was really cool...never seen the inside of a silo work! Thank you for that.
thanks for explaining how it works andy, great video from you all great to see the younger generation learning about it, enjoyed the video thanks.
Great lil farmer you have there.. This brings back memories. I would always be the one who set up... And yes ive climbed up the inside and went down the outside too..
Your son Andrew going be a an awesome farmer, because he has an excellent teacher. All your children steps in and help with farming operations. That's cool that you have all that support. Andy, I got give you credit you work your ass off to make a living. God bless!! Awesome vid, keep them coming. Be safe!!
Hearing that unloader running brings back memories. Sometimes around 7 or 8 pm I could go outside my grandparents house and know that one of my uncle's were feeding the cows because I could hear the unloader running. Both of their cement stave silos had Jamesway unloaders. I had several turns at going into the silo, leveling it off, covering it up, etc. Then when it was time to start feeding, pulling the cover off, letting unloader down. Then periodically climbing up in to it taking out doors and letting the chute down. I see you guys use the plastic bag going down the chute, good idea as it keeps the chute clean so you don't get a face full of hay when climbing up/down the chute.
That's a real machine you've got there! Thanks for showing us how it's done in the real world!
One more summer and Jr will your star hand. Great job Andy.
Great young man you've got their going to be a good farmer
Really appreciate the "inside" of your operation. Awesome! I loved to climb the silos as a kid knowing if I was caught there was a butt warming coming.
Boy wished we had one of them back in the day. The old pitch fork was our unloader 12' ×42' silo 🌽🌽🚜🚜👍
A real insight into corn storage in the USA , very enjoyable from the U/K.
Learning something new with every video. Thank you. 🙃🙃🙃
I've always wondered how a silo worked. Very interesting videos.
This silo chore reminds me of my summer time job on a dairy farm. Climbing silos was a little scary especially setting up all the equipment for filling. Then this farms didn't have an unloader i was all by hand. Memories.
I sure remember this Andy on a cold day it would always happen . This is why we went to bunkers we find it better when we were farming
Thanks for sharing! I've always been fascinated by silos and how they work. Very few of them left here in Kentucky and they were very small. I heard they filled them with a blower chopper combination. Very nice video as usual and thanks for explaining how it works.
My first gander at a silo. Too cold for too long here in north central Alberta. Every thing freezes solid. Thanks for the video boss.
Andy, this is a similar video when I first started watching your channel a couple years ago! Still as informative as it was a couple years ago. I believe you had a couple thousand subscribers! I remember commenting that this was a “dirty job “ and you replied, “it can be “!😎 Still as interesting! Thank you for the great videos!
Yes I remember your comment
Got a laugh out of yea, don't tell mom what we was doing! Lol! Man I've heard that line many of times! Lol!
andrew is a very valueable part of your operation.
That video was awesome Ben 35 + years since I've been at a top of a silo keep up the good work Andy or whatever your name is
It's Andy
Being from the uk we don’t use this type of thing these days Really interesting video and lots of insight. I do enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for making them
Jr likes the tractor work, Just like I did when I was his age.
We weren't lucky enough to have an unloader when i was growing up. Every morning at 4 AM i had to climb the silo and toss down the silage. I think starting at the age of 10. Did this until i graduated from high school. Then fed from 20 to 25 calves on the bottle. This was all before having breakfast and then going to school.
enjoyed the silo opening video . interesting on the way the power cord was run over the unloader.
We always had our concrete silos for silage. One unloaded down the door like yours the other down the center. Used to store high moisture milo in our Harvestore. Since switched it over to a false airreation floor and auger for storing soybeans. Ours is a 31/89 the other four our 25/75 with one a 20/60 for dry grain. Hammer Down
You have great videos me and my dad farm but no livestock like learning about it from your videos
Thanks
I used to hear stories about high moisture silo corn fermenting & cattle getting drunk eating it (lol)
My buddys folks had a feedlot when we were growing up. I vividly remember the smell of the run off from the silage pile
Thanks for the explanation on the unloader. Never see them in NZ .Cheers .
In high school, I and buddies would go out at night and catch live pigeons in barns.. they would sit (roost) on the barn timbers and with a flashlight, would climb the timbers, catch them and throw them down to buds who would put them in a gunny sack. Sold them for a dime each to the dog trainers.
Once noticed a 90' silo that thought was filled, so I went up the outside and buddy went up the inside. Got to the top and there was one long 2x6 board across the top, with pigeons sitting on the tie bars. We both walked to the middle on the 2x6 and picked off several pigeons. Because the silo filler had been there two days before, figured the silo was full.
But never shined the light down to see that it was really empty. Found out the following day that the corn wasn't ready so they pulled the silo blower off to another farm.
Scared the hell out of us, thinking that it could have been a bad trip down to the bottom. Guess what you don't know is sometimes a good thing.
But thanks for the info on the silo unloader.
Thank you! I was curious as when I've seen those type of silos since I was a kid,for how they were emptied. Another of lifes' curiosities solved. And the end , almost thought you had a unique clod shredder!
We got a orange Jamesway this one it’s new ours has some newer red parts. Good video.
Some of the best video content on RUclips Andy thank you very much
You are welcome, share where you can
Jr Is a lucky kid. No better teacher than doin!
My how things have changed since I fed cows... 40 years ago your setup I think would have kept me running cows here on the farm
Nothing runs like a Deere, beautiful bark.
Best idea a deere engineer ever had was an expired patent.
nice video there was a dozen or more silo's in the county where I live all been torn down now & all the small dairy's long gone
Same thing here in Tennessee,most of the county's near me have been closed down. To many rules and regulations ! Seems one side of the government,hint blue side. Are making it to where only the large corporation's. have the funds to pay. Wonder how many in both sides of Government get kickbacks to let this happen ?.
Interesting ride along today Andy, corn removal from the silo. Looks like a Mike Rowe “Dirty Jobs”. Never a dull moment on the farm 👍
Wait till you see Andy after he moves doors as he empties the silo.and when they run the unloader back up to the top and reverse the process we just saw. LOL
Great video Andy
Every time you show this unloader I get a little envious, ours get so rusty with the silage, the high moisture corn seems to be a lot easier on them. They are a great unloader though, center fill is the way to go.
Yes the haylage gets them pretty good
I did the same thing coming down till I got older and smarter looking back like you said not the smartest decision I ever made. lol
Nice job at explaining Andy!
That's what a nice silo unloader looks like. Some old ones are creepy as hell
I always wore a hooded sweatshirt up and down a silo chute. Made sure it had a good drawstring on the hood.
That’s a cool unloader didn’t know jamesway made a unloader like that other than the big Jim that fills that way
They started making the ring drive at least 45-50 years ago.
Scot Coon I think he means he didn’t realize they made a side discharge self leveling model. The big Jim is center discharge I believe
We still have the old funnel chain distributor in our silo and a 2 man shovel unloader. No electric no belts no motor, it works good for our 30 head operation till it's in the 80s or 90s and you're 1 of the 2 running the shovels. We only do haylage in our silo and our corn in a bunk.
I remember doing that when we lived on the farm, corn silage though it was rough in the winter time it would freeze and the unloader wouldn't unload it had to dig it out but we tried to use a ground silo in the winter time,upright in the spring and summer.
Great video Learnt a lot, very enjoyable
Great video. I now what it’s like to be in a silo With Haylage and silage both were bad.
Hated climbing into the silos as a kid
Hey it’s the mower guru how’s it going
@@TheGrumpyFarmer Impolite to demonstrate your immaturity on another person's channel. And yet with that paltry and pathetic volume of subscribers you boast, it is only fitting you are out trolling.
You stand accused of blatant racism. Let's explore that fact for all to see.
I remember leveling out the top of the silo with pitchforks when I was about Junior's age...I got a little too close to the corn coming in and it hit me and dragged me under...luckily the owner was there and pulled me back to safety..dangerous job
Never get in while your blowing it in
I don't miss climbing silos in winter. Or summer.
Good thing about the old Jamesways was a pair of 9/16 and a pair of ¾ wrenches, and s screwdriver or two, and you could tear them completely apart.
The tripod lets go long before the cables will.
We used to have silos 1 for haylage and 1 for corn silage hated using them especially the haylage silo. Best day was when we took them down
They defiantly are a thing of the past
I just plain hate silos! Great video
I grew up in Southeast Wisconsin surrounded by farms & silos. I had no idea what they were used for or how they worked. Thanks!
Dad always told us kids to stay out of the barn for a few days because of silo gas. A brown looking cloud of gas would hang around about 2 ft high off the barn floor and silo room. We had to open all the barn doors and let it air out.
Yes dangerous
When I was younger was in silo with dad chute plugged. Dad gave me a quarter if I would climb cable to slide down tripod to get out and unplug chute.
This really good video bud like videos were see how farm works
Very interesting.
Up until I was in my early 30’s, I had a rope inside the goose neck opening. I would pull my self up the silo wall to avoid the dirty hay chute. (Walking the wall, hand over hand.) Did that for a few years, but you guessed it, the old rotten rope broke, best I could do is turn my body around in mid air and land on my chest on the Jamesway power ring. I knocked the wind out of me, seemed like forever. It was maybe 5 doors. I would be dead if it was 9-10 doors like yours. Like you, that was the last time !
Jerad loves his own tractor he built himself... young Andrew was contemplating just what he got himself into an your doing a great job of instilling the confidence in him to farm. You looked like cream corn yourself and thats never good or bad, just that if it rains your like a pail of cream then too. Mother has seen it all and knows what your a doing... I'm pretty sure that her confidence in you overrides the heckling mama thing. Can't start at eighteen teaching as fear builds up like when the pigeon dusted ya on the top. Your a damn good father and if more men spent time with their kids we wouldn't have the highest arrest rate in the whole damn world, now thats embarrassing!! We only have one shot at this and uncle sam stepped on me as a kid and took me on a ride of my life.... I mismanaged everything for about a really good ten years even if I though I had it down, I really didn't. I went from the logging trade to mining and then to truck driving but wrenches was my true calling and thats what I did till to crippled to do it. So ran a little one horse operation in the back yard and never went hungry... actually my neighbors took advantage of my generosity and left me with their problems to sort out like I had a clue. Great video Andy... this is something I can wrap my head around... did Sarah get even with her brother yet/LOL
Not yet
Mr Adair, awesome comment on passing the trade. As you say, he is a good dad. Amen! Need duplicates. I always say is to put a troubled teen on a farm or ranch and they will ever be to busy to be in any trouble. In fact to make them a pretty good citizen!
@@tomb.1972 Amen Tom B. , if we could start little farm/homestead or even ranches around different places so they don't so much leave their start in life but get a better understanding and see that other people care about more than just themselves
@@morgansword One thing about farm and/or ranch work is there are so many skills and disciplines to learn that covers many industries, as well as so many other of life lessons can and will be gained. Your idea is fantastic. It has been some time since being on the farm, but retained many of the skills from it. Should have listened and respected my Dad a lot more closely and better. Would prefer his patience compared to mine.
Junior will be running the show in no time
Hopefully
+1 on the comment about climbing a silo chute after running haylage. Nothing like climbing up to drop a door when it is 95 degrees and humid.
Cool now I know how they work.
Great video!!!
Hauled shot crete to silos for years never really seen what was inside a silo. Those old concrete silos go up and down all the time. One of the last jobs I went to they put up two brand new silos I believe they were 45' around not sure how tall but it was a good sized farm. You have to do some stuff that's really pretty dangerous on a farm. Good luck be safe all.
This was really cool compared to wheat harvesting etc
Impressive machine.
How many bushels does that silo hold roughly? That looks big. a lot of work! I can relate! Thanks for the vid
It holds 1,000 tons
I remember doing that job that's one dirty job Andy
You should make a couple large wheeled dollies to move the auger sideways. Similar to what they use for cars in shops and museums.
I wish we had used those clean shoot things. Would have made haylage more bearable. Also would save the shoot. Those aluminum shoots wear out after years of being hit with feed. We ran Van dale unloaders. We had one Patz till the cable broke pulling it up. That was the end of the Patz.
You do not want them for haulage. They plug all the time
Another great video Andy. never seen the inside of one of those silo towers before. Jarrod thinks he is at a tractor pull everyday I think lol thx. oh and it looks like Jr grew this past year.. must be all that milk. lol
Great story’s
We had to shovel rotten corn silage out of the old wooden silo, what a stinky mess that was! Felt sad tearing down the old wooden silos that had stood for so many years...
You used to be able to tell who built a solo by looking at the colors of the top two rows of staves. Every builder had their own color pattern.
Does the unloader damage the corn any when it hits the impeller? With silage, it didn't matter,because you can't really hurt silage.
I don't remember who built our unloader, but I spent many hours making sure it ran properly, especially right after the silo was filled.
No it doesn't
Is the floor of the silo cement or dirt? How many inches do you feed out each day? Thank you for today's video. I always appreciate the time you take to film and explain what your doing and how things work.
Gravel floor feeding 6-7" a day
Looks simpler than the blue tubes I’m used too
You mean poverty bins?
Scot Coon blue tombstone s ,cause all the farmers whom died trying to pay for them
Really interesting to see how the unloaded works there Andy. Would the same unloader work if you were using the silo for grass silage? (I assume they’re probably different but just wondered)
Yes same unloader