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Did you figure your oxation lose with agbags silos pay for themselves sorry
When I turned 60, I gave up getting on ladders. Same with Silo work. It's tough getting old. Kip, your common sense makes sense! Make a lot of money too.
Trench silos are more efficient than silage bags---have used silos and bags---to much area for spoilage on bags and to slow to bag.
Glad to hear you're going to stop using the older more rickety silos. Stay safe out there Kip.
good move
we switched from harvestores to bunks 20 yrs ago with a few mistakes they make great feed they are the future
We tore down 2 silos a couple of years ago and switched over to a tmr mixer you won't regret it
Do it
No amount of money if worth Life! Agreed! I bet it was a heated conversation. 😬 All of the significant others are like thank you.
Your good
We took down 2 big silo’s and are a cement bunkers with asphalt floors. I wore out 2 sets of 3 forge wagons. Nothing worse than wagons breaking with a load of feed on them. Filling bunks with trucks and loader goes fast. I am retired and my son and daughter in law run the farm now.
Why dont U use bunkersilo's ?
Very good discission on your part, staying on the ground as your age increases is also good forward thinking!
Get a roller packer for the pad to make it as hard as you can. Best unit for unloading bags is a grapple bucket, corn silage and small grain scoop out easy but haylage needs to be grabbed.
Best thing to do about the old silos kip, switch the feeding system to a mixer wagon but try and keep the conveyors feeding, delivering food into the feed troughs. If you're getting hoof problems, especially digital dermatitis or hairy wart as you guys call it- foot bathing as the cows exist the parlour. Use copper sulphate, cus04, for dd, formalin for hardening feet, helping to avoid ulcers to an extent. It's a cost, but worth doing, believe me. I used to use copper x1 a wk and hardly had any dermatitis problems.
U could unload your mixer into the conveyor that you use to unload the bagged corn silage. That way you can use your bunk conveyors yet.
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Any type of feed storage is management
Kip do you have the ag bag recycle program in your area?
As growing up, we were on the very same principals. And I loved it. I am almost 40 years old, and can no longer milk anymore.
Explained meticulously and truthfully.
Yessss TMR will boost your milk so much u will never look back
I think that it is so smart for you guys to go to bunkers eventually. You will be able to weigh the feed so you can better control what you are feeding. Thanks to the guys who built your current feeding system but that thing has been passed by and you are making the best decision for the future. Up and coming generations will thank you for this choice.
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Kip, The decision you made to stop using the silos was a good idea for the best. I know several people that have got killed in them silos. Best not to use them anymore than have to.
Your family needs you more then the cows , great call !
Wow. That's a step backwards. Bags suck. Continual fight with the mud, blowing plastic, not for me. I put up 2 bags of corn silage last fall because of an old rotten silo that will get relined before fall. I'm not doing bags ever again if I don't have to.
I like the silos from the nostalgia standpoint but I think you have made the correct decision as far as safety. We stopped using our concrete silo many many years ago for the same reasons. Concrete was deteriorating and everyone was tired of climbing into it for working on the unloader. The bags have been a safer choice for us in the meantime.
Bags are good when managed properly. I would recommend using a skid steer to unload the bags. You end up tearing up the bag with too big a bucket. You can get a lower profile mixer like a Meyer to make it easier to load with a skid steer. The farm that I work on, just switched two years ago from bags for their corn silage to a pile. They still put Haylage in their upright silos which are poured concrete. The pile has its advantages for sure, but if you’re thinking, it’s gonna save you in labor that’s where might be wrong. You invest a ridiculous amount of time and money into pushing and packing laying down plastic and slinging tires. There’s a lot of resources invested in that. Of course day-to-day feeding is faster but when you do have to cut plastic and sling tires again it’s more labor. All the storage methods have their advantages and disadvantages. Me personally I like tower silos for Haylage and corn silage on the pile is fine. Again bags have to be managed well, but they can give you some of the advantages of a pile without all the time and labor and fuel involved.
Smart move if that’s what feel always go with first instinct it’s better to be extra careful then having accidents
We have 2 upright silos. They have not been used in 10 years. We are a small dairy 40 to 50 cows and do balage with a couple of ag bags of haylage for topping off the mixer pounds wise. Those new holland discbines are light compared to a deere
Kip your dad and I are the same age. When I was a boy I remember my parents talking about a man who fell off an up rite silo. I'm small time compared to you. I bought a little mower conditioner. It's low hours. An inexperienced operator broke it. The parts to fix it come with it. When I hsd beef cattle I did not feed silage. I decided if I did , it would be a bunker or bag.
I am not a Farmer but for your families and yourselfs GOOD MOVE SAFETY YOUR RIGHT USE YOUR HEAD. STAY ALIVE. YOUR FAMILIES LOVE YOU. WE don't care lol JOKING PEOPLE JOKING LOVE THE CHANNEL KIP
i think if you are going to go towards bunk silos, you may want start evaluating your crop mix to maximize your TMR feed value...adding fall barley or rye to chop for increased yield of fermentation
My brother was very lucky about 30 years ago we were filling a 24 by 80 with haulage climbed it just before lunch put 2 loads in after lunch and it went over on the end of the barn killing 3 cows
I got gassed in a silo 30 years ago. Wasn't fun, obviously I survived. Silo unloaders are always in need of repairs, but you can always find, rent, or maybe borrow a loader tractor (or something) to feed with. I switched to bags when I noticed a bulge in a stave silo. If I had stayed in the Dairy biz, bunker silo would have been my next step.
If you planning on a slab for a base have you considered black top over cement. I have both black top looks like new after 14 years of corn silage.cement floors are badly pitted
Safety first
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Obviously you know your situation best, but I'm disappointed. I always thought the industry took a big step backwards going away from tower silos. It's a great example of quantity taking precedence over quality- screw the feed value, just make up for it in tonnage. With the move towards automated feeding, it is really starting to look like tower silos' time has returned, especially on small-mid size farms like yours. For you guys to stick with them this long and now get rid of them when others are starting to think maybe you had the right idea all along is surprising. As for the safety aspect, eh. You said it yourself, the only difference is you hear about stuff now that you never would have before. And everything gets blown out of proportion because apparently accidents and tragedies aren't supposed to happen all of a sudden. A worthwhile life is filled with risk, a farm life especially so. Can't let "what ifs" control your life.
You did not do your research silos pay themselves
Let's get to chopping haylage
My grandpa was a cattle farmer up until he retired in the early to mid-80's. He has a couple large ground based silos with 15' high concrete walls like you're planning and they were built into a hill. So, you could dump on the "ground level" or from up top once you had it packed that high. He purchased a larger front loader to pack and fill the sileage wagons to feed all the cattle. It was a small operation, but it was fun to be able to help a little when I was 11-12 years old. Great memories on the farm. You are doing it right
BTW--that 4240 was very similar to the tractor he had to run most of the full operation--2 row corn chopper, old wind rower for the alfalfa and the orange side dump wagon for the hay and the corn cutting. A single truck to dump sileage into and take to the silo. That brings back a ton of memories!!!
Are your new bag silos most price competitive or not ? As it Requires a lot of labour in winter .. is the silage the same quality ?
🇫🇷 why moving to bag silos and not ground floor traditional large silos /bunker silos ? Don’t catch the advantage of your bag tube silos … cost ? Great videos …
Why not put bunker silos in? I used them on my dairy and TMR feeding
I think you guys should just bite the bullet and go with a bunk. I love your channel. Keep farming
My dad always wished we could grow alfalfa that nice