some pictures of our machines

mills, 966G, 12yd bucket and corn pit

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• corn
• tractors
• harvest
• silage

[caseman1134]

Do you put down plastic or tarps on the pit floor or not

[SLlandscape]

the pit floor is dirt. but we fire a group of guys to put down plastic on top of the corn

[aledplas123]

Just out of interest if you just use the cob kernel's what do you do with the rest of the plant do just leave it on the ground of clamp it sepretly.

[SLlandscape]

the cob itself get rolled by the mill to, but it turns to dust. The combines filter out the rest. As a side note all our company does roll and pack hmc corn, and pack corn and wheat silage.

[aledplas123]

Seen it on G earth wow are those just feed lots or any big dairy unit's around there.

[SLlandscape]

That place is a feed yard, right now they have 70,000-80,000 cattle. It has 1 corn pit and 3 corn silage pits. We do have dairies here, but they only have around 1,800cattle.

[aledplas123]

That is a lot of hour's per week but you have to work when it start's and finish when it end's i know that myself when we harvest grass and corn over here. will check it out on googel earth. speak to you again look after yourself when you'r using those great big machines.

[SLlandscape]

No, we employ 20 people during harvest. were mainly a big group of friends. I personnally know the owner of the company and his son, so thats how I got involved. That and I make one big check for 7 days of work. Sometimes 130 hours per week. If you have google earth type Caprock Feeders, Dalhart Texas in the search box and you will see the feed yard where we roll corn. As far as I know it's the biggest feed yard In the texas panhandle.

[aledplas123]

Thank you so much for the reply very kind and very interesting this part of the world maize crimpling or cracking is small scale compared to that with you real eyeopener. need any help next year.

[SLlandscape]

It's used for cow feed. It's cheaper for the feed yard to pack hmc than it is to build grain bins and build a roller mill. On a good year, weather permitting we can fill the high moisture pit in 13 days, averaging 180,000-200,000 bushels a day. this year it took 21 days because of rain and some people planted late. I don't know about the acres but in bushels we pack 1.5-2.5 million. silage this year totalled 97,000ton for this yard. about 45,000 per pit, in 2and a half pits.