Alfalfa 09 1st 0001

[smseifert5]

@Farmingguy100 Well, we are able to store more feed in bags than in silos. I will note that we have 2 silos on farm to store silage for my father in law's heifers. Bags allow us to chop our silgae in larger particles with stimulate more cud chewing in our cows. Also, silos are more expensive than bagging.

[smseifert5]

What do u use for a chopper?

[sahholsteins1]

We can get 150 acres in 2 days with 3 people

[smseifert5]

Well, we use a Allis Chalmbers 8030 to cut, use the AC 6080 to haul, AC D-17 to merge, and a AC 8070 to chop.

[UTkrzysiek]

what's the tractor??? pw

[smseifert5]

Thanks Alan! We do this 5 times a yr, so we are getting to be professionals at hay making...weather pending of course!

[balmesh]

Good one, not much grown round here. Used to when I was a lot younger . . . Alan

[chickdav]

Where can i get a go on this?

[OMC281]

Hey that's nice!! I've always loved making hay. Windrowing, chopping and baling. The FP240 is a hungry machine.

[smseifert5]

Yeah we are definitely not using it to its fullest capacity. We need a larger tractor to make her really work.

[sunsetreptiles]

it must take for ever using that

[smseifert5]

We were able to chop about 120 acres of alfalfa in 13 hours. It takes us about 10 hours to cut it all.  So, in reality it doesn't take too long, BUT there are always ways to do things better, faster, more efficient.

[arkportrunner06]

3-point and yeah we have duals on it.

[smseifert5]

cool! does it do a good job packing? or do you need something larger?

[smseifert5]

do you have a rear mounted blade or a 3-point mounted blade?

[arkportrunner06]

very nice we have a bunker system and run a 7045 with a blade on it its one of my fav tractors to run

[smseifert5]

must have duals on it then?

[arkportrunner06]

gotta ask whats the a-c on the bag 7010?

[smseifert5]

you would be correct, it's a 7010. We also run a 7020 on our TMR mixer

[smseifert5]

we're west of Mankato by 45 minutes. We started silage on Monday

[cattlehauler1]

Ya were are you from in South Eastern Minnesota I'm From Mabel we just chopped corn silage last night

[smseifert5]

major: I have no idea if haylage would work in your climate, but I know here in MN USA it works great! I wouldn't have a dairy cow ration without it.

Olivertractor: yeah we have older tractors but they still run so well, they chopper tractor is only 195 hp and handles that chopper for a 300 hp tractor with ease ;)

[olivertractor1650]

you got newer equipment and old tractors which is ok to whatever works for u

[majorT35T]

good operation .... best of luck with milk prices. I am thinking of feeding my dairy cows haylage, but dont know if its as good for my cattle in hot climate

[barendbarend]

I really love to watch these kind of movies.

[smseifert5]

thanks for the support!

[smseifert5]

Our equipment may be older, but it gets the job done :)

[19dcs93]

amen

[FirebirdFarmboy]

Looks like a pretty new harvester to me! I love to see the old stuff goin though. Stuff these days is always over engineered and underbuilt. We have a great running3155 JD with 10200 hrs and never rebuilt. Whats your Allis up to? And we have a 144 inverter too. Not so much a fan of that though.

[smseifert5]

silage is corn in the US, or grass. Hay is drier...less than 20% moisture, and baled. This is "haylage"...moisture greater than 50%.

[jmorgan264]

thats silage not hay. U should see how things are done in ireland

[BenRichards87]

fuck ireland

[smseifert5]

12 ft diskbine unfortunately, 15 doesn't work with the NH 166 for merging so well...maybe once these milk prices straighten out we can afford to upgrade to the 15ft

[sf05farm]

is that a 15ft discbine