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Here are some small videos of the custom guys chopping/hauling our oats last week.


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great video BRG. our cutter guy wouldn't stop to switch truck's, the empty truck would just pull alongside the full one and then he would just flip the spout to the empty truck. then the full one would pull out and the empty one would move in closer.

sure beat's using hi-dump's or other types of trailing devices.
 
hayguy said:
great video BRG. our cutter guy wouldn't stop to switch truck's, the empty truck would just pull alongside the full one and then he would just flip the spout to the empty truck. then the full one would pull out and the empty one would move in closer.

sure beat's using hi-dump's or other types of trailing devices.
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It's really neat---but brings up about half a day's worth of questions from somebody who knows zip about it---like how many trucks to keep chopper running, how many feet width of crop in windrow, in milk/soft dough, what moisture you shoot for, what's a good yield (yours looked impressive!) what protein, bales on sides and put on dirt--it keep good that way? And anything else you'd care to share---thanks~~
 
littlejoe said:
hayguy said:
great video BRG. our cutter guy wouldn't stop to switch truck's, the empty truck would just pull alongside the full one and then he would just flip the spout to the empty truck. then the full one would pull out and the empty one would move in closer.

sure beat's using hi-dump's or other types of trailing devices.
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It's really neat---but brings up about half a day's worth of questions from somebody who knows zip about it---like how many trucks to keep chopper running, how many feet width of crop in windrow, in milk/soft dough, what moisture you shoot for, what's a good yield (yours looked impressive!) what protein, bales on sides and put on dirt--it keep good that way? And anything else you'd care to share---thanks~~
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For this crop it took 3 trucks. They hauled about 1 1/2 miles one way and the crop did 5 ton to the acre. That is a good crop for our area, but not a great yielding crop. But we are happy with it as it might be the best quality we have ever put up.(heavy grain in it) We cut it down right in front of the chopper and raked it together. We used 2 cutters and they are 18 feet wide, raked together 36 feet. We raked it for 2 reasons. First it seems to chop better if it has more to chop instead of a little, and the other is they charge by the hour, and if we rake it together, it cuts the chopping bill in half. The grain was in the heavy milk stage. I don't remember what the oatlage protein is. We put bales on the side and had about 50 ton left over from last years crop which we spread out on the bottom. So if it juiced at all it ran into that instead of the dirt. We will take the bales off the sides this week (now that has settled more) and then we will put a cover on it and on the sides, then we will put the bales back in place to keep the cover in place and keep it tight. Our goal is to not open it this winter. We would like to hold it over and use it the following winter. We will chop a good size pile of corn silage and hoping it is big enough that we can do this.
 
BRG said:
Our goal is to not open it this winter.
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We put up a small corn silage pile a few years ago when hay was a bit short, covered it with plastic and planned to open it in the winter to supplement the cows' hay.

Well we had a bunch of spring calves slip under the wire through a dip in the creek bank one fateful day a few weeks after the corn was cut and piled.

They thought that nice, white plastic made a great dance floor and punched the thing full of holes . . . :?

It was surprising how much it still saved the silage from spoiling, with some spoilage around the hoof holes but wherever the plastic made good contact with the silage, there was no rot.
 
I am in awe of the productivity of the land. I never envisioned South Dakota as the "garden of Eden" but first the pic of the insane growth of the sorgham/sudan grass and now this.......

Crazy
 
nortexsook said:
I am in awe of the productivity of the land. I never envisioned South Dakota as the "garden of Eden" but first the pic of the insane growth of the sorgham/sudan grass and now this.......

Crazy
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This year isn't typical. We can usually get a decent crop of feed here, but this year is crazy. Our typical moisture for the year is 16 inches and these fields have so far gotten somewhere around 14 inches already without counting the spring snow fall. This is typically great cow/pasture country with ok fields. This year it is great everything :)
 
BRG said:
nortexsook said:
I am in awe of the productivity of the land. I never envisioned South Dakota as the "garden of Eden" but first the pic of the insane growth of the sorgham/sudan grass and now this.......

Crazy
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This year isn't typical. We can usually get a decent crop of feed here, but this year is crazy. Our typical moisture for the year is 16 inches and these fields have so far gotten somewhere around 14 inches already without counting the spring snow fall. This is typically great cow/pasture country with ok fields. This year it is great everything :)
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BRG---thanks for the reply, glad you're having a good year---
 

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