FANTASTIC video! Really enjoyed your dad, just the simple genius behind the gravity feed and the "warning level" of the feed mix...awesome. Thanks for sharing!

Grew up grinding many loads of feed every week for pigs. Dad and I working together. Great memories revisited watching your videos.

Очень интересно! Спасибо за видео!🚜🌾👍🤠🐂🐂

A return to smaller farming is one way out of all the BS going on now. Great to see father and son working together too.

This was my job on the one farm I worked on. Had a New Holland, I believe. Ran it with the 4020! Man, I loved listening to that thing roar at pto speed. I can almost remember the recipe to this day- and I haven't worked there since the early 80s. 2 parts shell corn; 1 part oats, top it off with a bit of soybeans, then around front and dump in 2 50# sacks of mineral. The grain bin took 2 1/2 loads, so you had to keep a sharp eye on how full it was getting. You did NOT want to shut it down with the auger full. I'd always do another load after the bin was full- so we'd always have a load ready to go. We milked 80 cows out of a 40 stall barn, and I ground feed twice a week, I think. The girls got hay and grain inside, and silage mix out of the bunk in the barnyard when we turned them out after milking. We'd also keep a hay feeder with a large square of 2nd cut alfalfa in the side barnyard for them to gnaw on later. IIRC, the silage mix had 1st cut haylage; corn silage, cracked soybeans; 1 cart of High moisture corn silage, and minerals in it. It was the Boss's Dad's job to do that- I never made it, just watched him do it. He kept a 14' x 60' silo of third cutting haylage, and some big squares of it too in reserve, in case they needed more protein. Weird the stuff you remember from way back when, lol. I still remember the number of a first calf heifer that was super skittish, and used to kick the crap out of you... I had to pick the milker up out of the gutter and clean it FOUR times one morning because she was being extra bitchy, and kept kicking it off. I'd start the milking, until my boss wandered in, then go spread the crap. So I learned- steer her to the far end of the first row- so HE'D get her, and not me! She didn't last too long, after booting him one too many times. Dairy is a tough enough job, without dealing with a spooky cow, too. She wasn't one of our better producers, anyhow.

When I was a kid the farmer I worked for didn't have a grinder of any kind, so we would throw some ear corn on the pickup and go to the Co-op and have it ground and put in gunny sacks. He bought things to add to the meal, like middlin's and soybean meal and oats and dried beet pulp. When we got back to the farm we would dump everything on the concrete floor inside of the "horseshoe shaped" stanchion barn and shovel from pile to pile to mix it. Then it was put in the biggest metal drum I have ever seen. It worked well for what it was. No energy needs, except muscle, and a willingness to work. But ya know, for what it wasn't and all it was... they were good times. I learned a lot about equipment and animals. In addition to dairy cows, he had a few hogs for meat and some chickens for eggs and meat. We had fresh milk and churned butter. We ate good and life was so much easier than today. We were poor, but we didn't know it... because everybody was. That was in 40s and 50s. Good times.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Alot of people use to go to the coop like that! Thanks for watching Herb!

We had a mill EXACTLY like this one. I shoveled cob corn by hand a lot of the times. I ran it mostly with an Oliver 88 but used a Ford 5000 when I was in a hurry. Loved doing this job. If I was grinding at night that Oliver had a blue flame coming out of the exhaust. It was a neat thing to see.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

That's Awesome!

Boy oh boy did that video bring back when I loaded the trk with cob corn and took it to be ground up at our local elevator and then loaded it back on the trk in 50lb bags .our operation was a lot of hogs .that grinder I would have loved when I was still living on the farm 50 yrs ago

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

We are glad we could bring back good memories! Thank You for Watching!

Very well built mill! You’ve very good to your machinery…

Thank you for sharing your video with us...

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank You for watching!

The importance of fiber from the cob is accurate. On the Boise National Forest in the 1960's we tried to keep our saddle horses in Indian Creek on the Middle Fork of the SalmonRiver instead of trailing them out to the valley for the winter. It was decided in good faith to feed them just high quality pellets with out any roughage. It diddn't work and we quickly added hay which we flrw in from Cascade Idaho.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely can prevent a lot of stomach issues!

I used the same grinder when I was growing up. They are pretty reliable and ours never broke down. We had the same corn silos and they still use them today as you do. Great video.

I knew a guy who as a teenager would take their rotary cutter and everymorning beforeschool take their A model and a feed wagon and green chop a mixture of timothy and alfafa for their beef cows then in summer they would depending on growth cut and bale the timothyAlfalfa for their winter hay.

Cool, I renumber doing this exact job every 3 or 4 days when we had dairy.

Love your videos. I strongly remember doing all you work with years ago. Please keep the videos coming love it.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank You Gordon, Will Do!

The first farm I worked on had a 135 Gehl and a John Deere 400 mixer. I liked using the 135. The only real difference in set between yours and the one we had was the place we put mineral in was in the back. I bought the 400. It was bought new in 1967 along with a John Deere four bottom plow which I also have and a 4020 diesel which I wish I had. We used the 135 for cow feed grinding ear corn. The 400 was retired to just mixed whole shelled corn and oats for sheep. At one time our county had a lot of small dairies and more sheep than any county east of the Mississippi. I use the 400 now about every three weeks to grind for my steers and sheep. I think this is a machine that paid for itself. For a long time I was buying corn from my neighbor and it saved me a lot of money over having the mill do my feed. I suggest any small farms raising as few as a half dozen steers that had a Super M sized tractor should pencil out having one.

We were grain farmers for the most part. Corn, soybeans, winter wheat. My brother and I got away from farming eventually. Dad retired from it in 2000.

I guess the only thing I missed was when do you add the salt, vitamins, and minerals to the ground corn and how do you weigh the feed to insure your get the correct amount of ingredients? I grew up on a small family farm back in the 50's and early 60's, we loaded up the truck and took everything to the local feed store that had a mill grinder, everything was weighed prior to being ground to determine the correct amount of ingredients, molasses was also added, sure did make the chop smell good and the cows seemed to love it. This was an early Saturday morning job, I remember quite well bagging the corn and oats in gunny sacks the night before and loading the truck, we usually put a hydraulic jack under the frame to take the weight off of the springs and tires. Your videos spark my memory and remind of events that happen over sixty years ago, one of the things I enjoy about your channel. This farm is the next best thing to living on a small working farm which I haven't done in well over fifty years.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

We add it while grinding the oats, and we don't weigh every time! We use small pales for a measurement, and some are complete 50lb bags! I'm glad we could bring back good memories for you! the farm is defiantly a great place to be!

You guys should do a video on feeding all that ground up corn you mix in with your dairy feed

My grandfather used his IH 460 diesel tractor with his grinder

Good job guys. I grew up in upstate new York on a dairy doing exactly the same way with same equipment. Amazing you guys are able to keep doing that way today and keep it all running. Sometimes the old way is the best way.

@GierokFarms

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Eugene

Had a new Holland grinder on the farm back in the 90s. Thing always needed work but we always got it going lol. Miss those days so much. Family quit dairy and sold the farm, too much competition from Corporate ag.

That was awesome thanks you have a beautiful farm

Boy, I just found your channel and I love it. I grew up on a WI dairy farm in the 70's-80's too and sure miss that life. We had the "M", "IH", "Oliver" and eventually John Deere with the 7810 being our biggest. We had the Gehl grinder and cob corn. Most everything just as you're doing here. I can't wait to see and learn more about your farm. Thank you so much for sharing and you do a great job on the videos.

@GierokFarms

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching we greatly appriciate it!

Great vid. Would love to see a vid of the dairy barn and daily chores vid would be cool.

@GierokFarms

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark, I agree I think that would be cool for people to watch thanks for subscribing an watching the videos, it really means alot!

Good video. When I was a kid dad fed out beef cattle. All he had was a hammer mill and an old silage chopper (on steel wheels I believe) He cut the corn with a corn knife and threw it on a hay wagon and fed it into the chopper. Covered the pile up with black Visqueen. I think he fed out 20 cattle a year. My brother and I fed out hogs for a bit too. Thank you for the videos!

@GierokFarms

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching I really apprciate it!

Great video. Brings back good memories, the smell of that ground feed was good. Before a mixer mill we had to "mix" the ration in layers in the back of the truck and shovel it in to a hammer mill.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

love grinding feed we have a John Deere 700 grinder mixer

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Oh sweet!

There’s something reassuring about seeing corn cribs and hammer mill feed mixers still in use. Plus, there’s a small farm not far from us near Jordan, MN that sells earcorn and shelled corn for wildlife feed. We buy bags of earcorn for the squirrels.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

That's so cool didn't know they sold that in stores!

@ArmpitStudios

2 жыл бұрын

@@GierokFarms They actually sell it right from their farm. It’s a great value. $6 for a bag of ears about 35+ pounds. A bag probably a quarter that size costs about double that at our local Ace Hardware, a bit less at Fleet Farm.

Love this video I'm 35 now and grew up on my grandparents dairy farm. Well rewind to me being 27 and buying the farm back. let me tell you being a 1st generation farmer so to speak technically a 4th gen but farm. It's hard man bout I look for stuff like this to help me grow with the feed I have a corn crib I can store Cobb corn in

Hi @ Gierok Farms, this video is amazing! Looking how well everything is, organised, thought-out and well preserved... amazing. I am from Serbia and this kind of organisation would be way more efficient with little outdated farm equipment. Looking forward to see more. Thank you.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

We sure coulda used something like that years ago. We used to take hay and corn to the local co-op every few weeks in the 70s up till the 90s , then the politicians pretty much ended all farming around here, nothing left but hay and small cow farms. Tobacco, corn and grain fields are now all hay fields.

Along with the ear corn, i used to grind up some good leafy alfalfa as well, of course now they have hay grinders, but, it worked for me. Add some corn silage, and, a mineral suppliment and it made a good ration for growing out the steers.

@GierokFarms

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't know you could put that through those mixers, but thats cool to know!

Love that 7810!!! Great video!!

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank You Steven!

When I was a boy in the 50s we had a truck mounted grinder / mixer come to the farm northern Illinois. He was the grinder man 🙂 Mom and Dad moved to the Fort Atkinson area in 1973 and my nephew Ryan Butz still runs the dairy farm 😀

@stephenbutz2621

2 жыл бұрын

Ryan has a mixer just like yours 🙂

We ground cob corn to. Thats all we had though. We just used a hammer mill and we ran the oats right along with the corn though the mill and then into burlap bags. Thats how we kept track on when time to grind more. Added dairy consintract later as a top dress.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a nice setup! Thank you for watching!

My Grandfather had one, I think it was a 120 or a 135. I use to love hearing the ears hit the hammer mill lol. Grandpa would go to McKnights in Chase Mills, about an hour away, with a 1949 Brockway 24' Box Truck, and they would put the corn cobs from the crib in, and he just drove it in the bus garage (he use to drive school bus as well as farm, prior to my birth) nose first, wanted to grind, he just opened the door, backed the truck up a little. Grain bin was a big old repurposed tank on end, with the gravity door at the bottom. It was very reliable. But the Amish that bought the farm later from my Uncle, tore that out, took down the 16x40 Madison, and took the relatively recent ring drive Badger out of the 16x50 Harder silo and just left it out on a pallet rather then maybe market it. Hell, several Mennonites, including the neighboring farm that put up 2 more silos even offered to buy it. He just shrugged and walked away. I guess he didn't want $1500 cash. Now I don't think he even uses the silo. We don't take Grandma by the farm even tho she's down end of the road, she gets pissed off when she sees how he keeps the place.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad we could bring back memories for you!

TECHNOLOGY WOW SNOW

Great content

love this take me back in my younger years love your home place with the rollings hills

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dennis

I remember growing up in the 80's on my grandparents farm picking ear corn and using a mixer like that . He used a Farmall M with a mounted New Idea 2 row picker to harvest .I don't remember him ever selling corn it all went to feeding animals . Thanks for sharing !

@GierokFarms

3 жыл бұрын

Ya it makes amzing feed, thanks for watching!

@GierokFarms

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I kind of miss those days of mixing our own feed

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Not a lot of people do it anymore!

Our dairy farm in Central Pa we would call this ‘chop’ and would add this on top of corn silage…. Ice cream on top of dinner. One thing to add… molasses

Gosh, 2 guys shoveling corn and unloading! Always a 1 man job at our place.

Good morning you all in south west Minnesota are all on DHIA

You guys should possibly look into getting a pull behind combine for corn shelling so you guys don't have to keep paying someone to come custom harvest your corn just so you have shelled corn for mixing in and use the pull type combine for oats also just an idea

On our farm we grind corn for feed as well. Anyone who’s done it knows there’s no better feeling that finishing off one corn crib and moving to the next because you can just watch the corn fall out into the auger without having to touch a shovel!

Gehl quite making grinder mixers several years ago. Artsway is the only company still making a grinder mixer

@blakeb5153

2 жыл бұрын

Arts-way and H&S are still making grinder mixers. We have an H&S GM170.

I see you use the same way to tell the mixer is full as I do when the top starts flapping and some is pushing out it’s time to stop.

@GierokFarms

3 жыл бұрын

ya lol the ratio works out good! Thanks for checking out the video!

@oxfordmontello3281

3 жыл бұрын

WE did it the same way! LOL

Brand new to the channel, started watching you bale hay then moved on to this video. Really enjoyed watching the Oliver and the M work. Started watching farming channels a few months ago, Laura Farms, Chronicles of Kayla, This Farmers Wife, NYFG, Farmer Grace. Do you watch and subscribe to other farm vloggers? Love Wisconsin, spent a couple of winters there in 85 and 86 and Camp Douglas, Volk Field when we Marines came up for cold weather training.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the channel glad you like it! Yes I have seen some of their videos! Thank you for watching!

Cool operation. 👍

@GierokFarms

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! I love your channel art really cool pic of that 9500. I have been thinking about buying one.

@AgWildNebraska

3 жыл бұрын

@@GierokFarms thank you. Where about do you farm? We like ear corn for grinding too.

@GierokFarms

3 жыл бұрын

@@AgWildNebraska West Wisconsin How about you?

@AgWildNebraska

3 жыл бұрын

@@GierokFarms That's what I was going to guess. Eastern Nebraska here. Nice to meet you

@GierokFarms

3 жыл бұрын

@@AgWildNebraska nice to meet you too the weather has to be nice down there it is great up here

How to made circler corn storage

No molasses?? Does your grain scoop (while feeding cows) feel heavier at the beginning of the feed batch??

Know its a dumb question, but do you guys ever wear some sort of breathing protection or at least watch your health. I know my dad would sometimes cover his face with his ever present handkerchief and he lived til he was 94. Hoping you all live that long. He also had such a small farm that he ended up working in a dairy cleaning the pipes and vats at night. From one not so clean job to a very clean one. Take care. Am really enjoying your videos.

You sure can tell he's your dad.

Hello there. A friend has a 7810 JD he says it's a good tractor. He has 7 other JDs and they are all larger.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

We like the 7810

Don't you guys have a silo for silage?

Like new Holland grinder had geil didn't like auger on it nice grinder tho

@randymonninger9913

2 жыл бұрын

Makes best cow feed for dairy cows

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

I'd be interested in trying a New Holland out! But yeah the do make really nice feed! Thank you for watching and commenting Randy!

How farm away are you from the dealer that your 7810 is from? I live about 40 minutes from there.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

We are pretty farm away! Talk about a small world though! That is awesome!

How many rats and/or mice did you find while shoveling that ear corn?

How long does it take to make a full load in that grinder mixer if you don't mind me asking

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

maybe an hour including unloading!

@rebelgaming7718

2 жыл бұрын

@@GierokFarms that's not to terrible

@rebelgaming7718

2 жыл бұрын

@@GierokFarms you guys should look into possibly buying from grotech out of Indiana they got stuff for dairy cows poultry beef cattle and I think someone said cats and dogs

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

@@rebelgaming7718 Good to know we will have to look them up thanks you!

@rebelgaming7718

2 жыл бұрын

@@GierokFarms look up Knapp farms grinding cattle feed on utube he will explain and has a link on the discripition so you can go to there sight sorry I can't spell the best

Lost a neighbor using a similar grinder. They figured he got some loose clothing caught in the augur. Pretty ugly.

What? No mice in the crib trying to run up your coveralls? Not my favorite job when it was 20 below.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

LOL

Why don’t more farmers feed ear corn, no drying costs,

Not the best too be feeding the whole cob ! Pigs can handle the cobs toughness! Remember the lil chunks tht skip through Belly ache for w cow 🐄 😔!! Keep those ladies happy$$$!!! ..

@GierokFarms

3 жыл бұрын

definetly can't over feed them

@juliusschwartz9124

3 жыл бұрын

How many cows do u milk? Moms family farms in pa ,Myerstown. 200 head dairy ,her unlce also started john f msrtin and sons

ok ok ok

You have a very nice family farm operation, which is much more preferable to factory dairy operations. More Americans should be working on a farm and have the opportunity to own and operate their own farms for TRUE freedom is in the ownership of the land. More people on the land would lessen the need for concentrated populations and in turn lessen overall crime, poverty, lessen infrastructure requirements to accommodate higher density populations and lower government deficits and debt. It would definitely increase the quality of the work ethics in this country and keep younger citizens busy being productive. Tax structures where large entities are taxed according to income with limited deductions when income is much higher than the average American lend to this closer to ideal society scenario should be implemented to accommodate opportunity for a rural based society which is much more reliable and nearly bail out proof. Subsidizing huge factory operations, developers and contractors with MILLIONS in government handouts is NOT the solution. These subsidies need to be targeted to smaller, family based operations that build better citizenry, better morality and stronger families.

@juliusschwartz9124

3 жыл бұрын

Good point ! But farming! Not a lot of $$$$ !!!! This country needs to look at it's work ethic overall 😒 smh 🤦! Then maybe we can go forward with farming etc ! We lack motivation!

@GierokFarms

3 жыл бұрын

We need family farms!

@switzerblitzer2701

3 жыл бұрын

@@GierokFarms Absolutely Gierok Farms....This can be achieved through the proper tax structures and government subsidies that favor grassroots operations instead of huge operations that destroy opportunity and motivation. When a large operation gets upwards of $10M in subsidies that operation will purchase land and outbid land rents with that FREE taxpayer money which crowds out others from the industry. There needs to be a limit on how much an operation can receive in subsidies which should be meant to sustain profitability and survivability, not to accelerate corporate farm expansion. Government should NOT be a business partner!! Government should be there only to help when the need is real, not for a lobbyist made up "need" for many of these large operations can survive without subsidies, bailouts and grants. It's the smaller farms that have REAL need. Certainly these large operations sure don't use subsidy monies to feed their children....they use it to expand (using FREE taxpayer funds) and that pushes hard working farm families out of the business. Vote for grassroots public servants, not lobbied puppet legislators who have visions of huge operations who would love to hire you for $8-$10 an hour, hardly a living wage. In turn, former farmers are forced to move to already crowded cities and pay rising RE taxes for TIF (Tax Increment Financing which is NOT real financing but taxpayer funded subsidy) subsidized developers that are more than willing to cover up more precious farmland while raking in $$$Millions in subsidies and LARGE tax breaks....

Have you ever traced your surname ancestry.I did mine back to schleswig-holstien,now part of northern Germany ,on the north sea.

@GierokFarms

2 жыл бұрын

No, but I'm sure it would be interesting!

can't hear your voice in this video

Eewww john deere

@GierokFarms

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@henryofskalitz2228

3 жыл бұрын

@@GierokFarms I'm a farmall guy not a johnny