Mud Season On The Farm/Silo Empty/Opening New Bag

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2 ай бұрын

Playing in the mud moving panels around. The silo by the barn is almost empty, so we are switching the cows to a new bag of silage.
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@toddjohnson7972 2 ай бұрын

Words of advice I was given when driving skid loader in mud was to go in reverse so you could use your bucket to continue going backwards and not get stuck

@stephenkeller6894 2 ай бұрын

The neighbor ran tracks on his 4640 Gehl in the spring with no issues until he bought the big brother 5640. Only had the tracks on until the mud dried up.

@ryanbachman9227 2 ай бұрын

Spring mud is a pain for sure. Instead of tracks. Get a couple tire chains to put on the front tires of your skid loader. Cheaper than tracks. They work really good. God bless

@CMDSR 2 ай бұрын

Old saying is if you pray for rain get ready to deal with the mud . I’m sure there’s plenty of farmers out there that would prefer to deal with mud any day than have to deal with dust.

@johnhenderson299 2 ай бұрын

Nice video

@LynnKorte-ve4qf 2 ай бұрын

You need to start on a small shop,but big enough just to service you equipment,perhaps with a large open bay. Just crush and run floor gravel start with,, You know im going to help with a continuation if comments ,as my father grew up on a dairy farm,and being the oldest ,you know what kind of work he went thru..step by step ,you ll get there

@stuartsplace100 2 ай бұрын

i always liked the smell of silage(grass/corn/oats)when u opened up a silage bad,a bunk or a silo for the first time when i worked on a farm,Ed from Vermont,i never owned a farm,but i wored as a hired hand on many area farms ,i can only imagen how hard it is to compete with bigger daries on a small farm,all we have around here in Franklin County in Vermont is large daries,the small farms have all gone out because they could not compete

@markflick1641 2 ай бұрын

Cows running and kicking up their heels are happy cows . Great video Al ,God Bless

@33pearlqueen 2 ай бұрын

Smell-O-Vision..like Emeril! 😂 Well done, Alan. You sir, are a great Dairyman.

@remeseb49 2 ай бұрын

I work in a dairy cooler at a Fry's grocery store which is a division of Kroger in Phoenix. I think about you and all the other hard working farmers that produce all the dairy products that I put on the shelves every day! Thank you!!

@nailbender7223 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for your work!!!

@ES-zt8sj 2 ай бұрын

❤

@mennoreuten1563 2 ай бұрын

Spring has arrived, also weeks of rain so we have enough gras outside for the cows but its much to wet so we have to wait, greetings from a Dutch dairyfarmer

@greatnorthernn-3154 2 ай бұрын

Try a set of tire chains on the rear axle of the skidloader. I made mine out of semi truck tire chains and improved the ride quality on hard ground by doubling the number of cross links. I use mine all the time in the winter. I have an older New Holland Lx665...probably a little smaller than your Gehl rig.

@DonWelter 2 ай бұрын

Looked like nice quality corn silage in the newly-opened bag. The cattle seemed to enjoy the sunshine and fresh air. Mud is an early Spring ritual wherever you live. We've had a few "teaser spells" where it's dried up nicely for a couple of days...then back to rainy/muddy conditions. Ahh the joys of farming...wishing the Lord's blessings on the Trinity Dairy family as you head into the Spring season!!!

@johnhenderson299 2 ай бұрын

Cows are loving the corn silage

@davidbarnes706 2 ай бұрын

Great video

@KiwiJim13 2 ай бұрын

👀🙄🐾👍Great video Alan the cattle are looking well even the land rats

@marionberry6909 2 ай бұрын

Springtime,,, mud and cows, never ending work to keep them happy and fed😅👍😎

@danhorky3032 2 ай бұрын

The smell of corn silage is the best!

@frankdeegan8974 2 ай бұрын

The silage from the new bag, looks like some of the best, as far as the size of all the stalk and leaves, good job chopping that last year.

@daleberghorn6504 2 ай бұрын

Muddy cow area always a problem with heavy rain and snow melting but spring is coming it will out corn silage is nice looking love to smell it great job😊

@naturegirlmia 2 ай бұрын

When my husband worked for a John Deere store, he told me the trac skid loaders preformed much better in the mud than the wheel machines,

@craigmoulton5849 2 ай бұрын

Tracks are hard on the final drives. The chain tensioners are not very heavy in those Gehl machines.

@ronmetz9172 2 ай бұрын

Howdy Alan from Texas. I'm still here watching, just haven't commented in a while.

@jaycool7805 2 ай бұрын

Great video guys!

@dustinwildfong5037 2 ай бұрын

Great video Alan love seeing all the cows at the feeder!

@hartungdairyfarm0713 2 ай бұрын

We run tire chains when it's just a little muddy, but when it gets really sloppy, tracks are an amazing thing. I don't run my tracks real tight over the tires, i figure the wheels will spin inside the tracks before it stresses anything too much. Like anything else I'm sure it's all in how a person operates things, i wouldn't want to rip tree stumps out with over the tire tracks, but to get through mud , i wouldn't be too concerned

@terryhawkins4295 2 ай бұрын

I think they make rubber over the tire tracks. I would think those would be easier on a lighter axle.

@danielhurrle7008 2 ай бұрын

Getting to spring field work is a long wait sometimes this year we all got a little taste before the winter said not so fast.

@canvids1 2 ай бұрын

Sorry but KZfaq wants to close before I can comment. I so enjoy your videos what ever you post and being a small farmer you just can't do what the big ones do and that is OK. It is a family owned and operated and I enjoy it thanks so much and all the best for spring operations.

@paulmartin8784 2 ай бұрын

That is why I like my 65 hp MFD tractor As long as the belly doesn't drag to much there is no stoping it I don't even push the snow to feed the outside cattle or to get to the silage bags, just drive through the snow all winter, even 22-23 winter

@ronniewayne5748 2 ай бұрын

Great video .Need smellow vision for corn silage and all the feed lol

@charlietanner6211 2 ай бұрын

NOTHING LIKE MUD IN PRING TIME BEEN THERE DONE THAT USED TO RUN 700PLUShogs on dirt oh boy that silage looks great love feeding silage i always thought it better thn chseing a hay baler all ummer

@jimwalker2894 2 ай бұрын

I love to see cows and kids eat. Good seal on the bag. Thanks

@ralphriddle8864 2 ай бұрын

Very nice job and God bless y'all

@michaelzellers7696 2 ай бұрын

Your right about axel stress in manure with tracks on wheels and load in bucket

@terryfrazier2751 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for your videos Alan, it takes me back to my childhood. I don’t know if you have heard Paul Harvey’s God made a farmer, it’s on KZfaq one of my favorites 👍🐄

@trinitydairy 2 ай бұрын

Yes I have. Paul Harvey is my favorite

@ronaldfeuerstein435 2 ай бұрын

Tks for sharing. Cows looked happy to be out in the sun. Surely a healthy looking heard of cows.

@marshallsayre58 2 ай бұрын

Hi Allen thnks 4 the video, its good to get "EVRYBDY" out of the house. Hope soil stays little wet to grow grass,silage. Stay safe

@sharonbronson6639 2 ай бұрын

Love your videos. Thank you. Enjoy seeing your family.

@anthonyhengst2908 2 ай бұрын

I was looking at your skid steer in the mud and thinking it would be good to have tracks. One of our neighbors has a Bobcat on tracks but he was having trouble with a lot of mud pushing the tracks off. It would be nice if there could be a winch mounted somewhere on the unit if practical.

@Scotthobart1086 2 ай бұрын

another great video

@karencary3312 2 ай бұрын

Maybe the cold stuff will be all gone real soon. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@timstevens2866 2 ай бұрын

They make some tracks that go right over the tires

@tomconway8061 2 ай бұрын

How now new brown cow chow

@user-de8hi5kx9m 2 ай бұрын

My friends have a 753 bobcat and they put old truck chains on all 7 tires and it will go pretty good you might try that would not cost you very much and you might just have a set for it they have bottom ground and a Creek that goes through there property keep them videos coming 👍👍🇺🇲

@ethanlee9441 2 ай бұрын

There we go now i got sound.

@trinitydairy 2 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it!

@jamesbristow5740 2 ай бұрын

We had a 4840 on foam filled R4 tires on the chicken farm. Mostly bucket for manure handling and mortality disposal and forks for pallets of eggs. Throttle up and walking backwards with the hydraulics if we got in trouble, but we just would come in with the bucket and scrape everything down to the hard pack and bring in a truck or two of 57s or sometimes tailings from the Nucor plant nearby. Thank God you got the production you did outta that corn huh? Hoping for a bit wetter year for you guys.

@alfredomarotta6604 2 ай бұрын

Your videos never too long, I can sit here and listen to your thoughts, all day. The silage smelled and tasted great, all the way to NE rural Ohio 😂. Are you going to have enough feed till the first? Or they going to be on pasture.

@trinitydairy 2 ай бұрын

I think I may have enough silage until fall, assuming we have good pasture.

@alfredomarotta6604 2 ай бұрын

@@trinitydairy oh, okay great.

@ethanlee9441 2 ай бұрын

Catapillar has 2 or 3 different size tracked loaders but if i remember right that model gehl never made tracks for that one they made tracks for the silver and red gehl loaders i cant remember the model number on that one.

@richardpoorbaugh9077 2 ай бұрын

Great video as always! When is the earliest you can start planting?

@trinitydairy 2 ай бұрын

We should be planting oats by mid April

@Stephenklausmeyer-hr9rb 2 ай бұрын

I have forgotten but when do you turn the cows and heifers out to pasture? Good video

@trinitydairy 2 ай бұрын

They are on pasture whenever the weather is cooperative.

@WoolyBully62 2 ай бұрын

Most of the farm channels I watch don’t use tracks and don’t seem to like them. I don’t even own one so take it for what it’s worth

@paulmartin8784 2 ай бұрын

I hear there is an advantage both ways

@ileenmcminn2062 2 ай бұрын

nice explanation of the silo, why is the other silo in the middle of the pasture with no buildings around it?

@trinitydairy 2 ай бұрын

It has a concrete bunk,for the cattle to eat from.

@garybridger6707 2 ай бұрын

Did you read about the avian flu outbreak affecting mid lactation cows in the Texas Panhandle region?

@trinitydairy 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, we've heard about that

@nailbender7223 2 ай бұрын

Do you have wolff,coyote problems with cattle out at night. There getting thick up there, wolves atleast toward Duluth way

@trinitydairy 2 ай бұрын

We definitely have them around here, but we haven't had any trouble with them yet.

@ethanlee9441 2 ай бұрын

I must have clicked on the video to soon. It does that sometimes

@user-ni3ll8bt9j 2 ай бұрын

I want to work on your farm

@dr.michaelr.foreman2170 2 ай бұрын

Did you have a calf or cow die? I thought for sure I saw a dead stock removal truck come into your yard?

@trinitydairy 2 ай бұрын

Nope, just the garbage truck. Our 2 little boys were running down the hill because our garbage man let's them run the levers.

@dr.michaelr.foreman2170 2 ай бұрын

@@trinitydairy LOL That is not how are garbage trucks are designed here. BUT, that is how are dead-stock removal trucks are designed here. Ahhh, the differences between two countries.

@colorado1088 2 ай бұрын

Why do you think they originally put the silo 10 feet below barn floor level?

@trinitydairy 2 ай бұрын

Only about 4 1/2 feet is below the barn floor, but it's built into the hill, so its about 10 feet from the top of the hill to the barn floor, and then 4 1/2 feet below that. To answer your question, I'm not sure why they went below the barn floor at all.

@markenge9348 2 ай бұрын

I saw an old, old pamphlet publication for farmers back in world War 1 days that had different plans for farmers wanting to build silos. One option was a round pit completely below ground but only deep enough where they could still pitch the silage out of it by hand. We had a big barn built in 1916 (still standing) that was built over an even bigger barn built in 1900 that was destroyed by a tornado. Completely inside and under the roof there was a wood stave silo that started 8' below the floor underground. You had to have a ladder to get out of it when it was empty. Then it went another 10' through the first floor where the cows were kept. Then it went another 20' up in the hay loft where there were 2 big windows at the top, maybe 3'x3' where the blower spout went into the barn to fill the silos (there was a 2nd smaller 20' silo next to the one I've been desribing that was only above in the loft space, we later took it down and reassembled it outside the barn.) I think one of the reasons many of the early silos had a portion of them underground is they didn't have the tractor power to blow the silage up 50 to 100 feet in the air like they do today and the pit portion of the silo gave them more storage without having to build the silos so tall.

@chrissikinger1400 2 ай бұрын

How many acres do you farm?

@trinitydairy 2 ай бұрын

We run about 250 acres tillable.

@davidoman7338 2 ай бұрын

Tire chains

@pocketchange1951 2 ай бұрын

👌👍❤️🇨🇦

@paulmartin8784 2 ай бұрын

You sure have a mixed breed of cows Do you have some Guernsey in the herd?

@trinitydairy 2 ай бұрын

Yes, we have one Guernsey milking, she was in the video, and 3 Guernsey heifers.

@ethanlee9441 2 ай бұрын

Hey, alan theres no sound!!!

@trinitydairy 2 ай бұрын

Weird. We have sound on my phone and laptop.

@ethanlee9441 2 ай бұрын

@trinitydairy hmm, all my volumes are up on mine. Unless your practicing to be a mime i have no sound.😂

@anthonyhengst2908 2 ай бұрын

@@trinitydairy sometimes when videos are posted and I jumping to quick the audio isn't quite loaded yet. I just get out and try it again. Kinda like a reboot.

@tommoyer3302 2 ай бұрын

It's mud season for most people that have cattle now , mud n slop we call it haha😢

@Jimboner08 2 ай бұрын

I run loegering tracks. Love them. Turns a beached whale into an M1 Abrams. In all seriousness check marketplace and but some used loegerings. They’re fantastic.