Posted by sammydwm on August 31, 2020 at 01:33:17 from (104.243.226.125):
In Reply to: silo filling stories? posted by swindave on August 30, 2020 at 16:12:28:
We moved up to WI back in 69, I don't remember if it was the first year or second but we were using the old false endgate style wagons with a long hopper blower. Had to borrow the neighbors old Farmall 15-30 to run that with a belt. I still remember the thing crawling into the yard on its old steel wheels , the next year dad put a PTO on it and we used our brand new IH 444.....
We moved to our last place in 79. Had an old Ford chopper that was very worthless, but it did teach me a lot about sharpening knives and setting shear bars.... Dad bought 2 Case 300 choppers (one was a parts machine)and the difference was like night and day, could finally blow the silage all the way to back of the wagons. First year we only had a 14x40 silo and we filled that with corn silage and then we filled an old 12x30 that was out in a neighbors field where the old farmstead used to be. It was my job to run down there every day and throw down enough silage for a day, haul it home and feed the cows...
We put up a 20x70 the next year and I was so happy that I wouldn't have to fork silage....but it was a terribly wet year and the last of the silage went up so wet that the unloader wouldn't handle it, so I was forking for a few weeks till we got down to dryer stuff. Would pitch down enough that dad would get the 40 cows fed then he would stack it up in the silo room so that we could feed twice more.
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