Look at the pace everyone is working at and the fellowship. . You can't beat neighbors working together. . We've lost that in this day and age unfortunately

Good horses, standing with no one at the lines and with all that noise around. Good video, thanks for sharing.

These guys know what work is. !

Th man on top of the silo is making sure the silage is distributed evenly. I did this as a young lad.

great video. fantastic sound

That belt gives me chills.

I really admire the hard work and dedication of the Amish.

Wow now you are taking me away back to the 1940's as a young lad. My job was in the silo tramping the corn down walking round and round while a man with me was steering the fill pipe to fill it in. It was great when you got to the top and could look all around, then the long final climb down.

years ago., I spent many days beside a Papac chopper blower shoving the corn in it to fill our silos just like they are doing, we had a stationary hit and miss engine tp run it that I had to keep full of water also.

A little hard work more people should experience they are good people

Thank you for putting up this video. I have a 40 horse Case steam engine. I would like to know where you get the drive belt and how long this one is. I have a pay pack silage chopper.

Notice the whistle toots ,,.. They all mean something ,..4 moderate Blast Toots Meant The Belt is starting to Roll ALL Hands Away ,. Bischoff Bros .were My grandmothers brothers , They had 2 Threshers running in the 1920s thru W W 2

Lot of power on that silo filler. Way to do it. My grandfather had a wc allis on the filler that I restored and way under powered.

My grandpa walter filled a lot of silos this way.

Wow... really interesting! What is the chopper? Does it have a special pulley so that it is running at proper rpms? I am supposing the rpms of the steam engine are fixed. And, the size of the flywheel is fixed. It certainly provides consistent power to run the chopper. Long ago, I helped fill silos this way, sans the horses and steam power -- tractors pulling wagons, tractor driving the chopper. We had a Case chopper, flatbed, such as this one. Seeing the packer rollers rise and fall brings back vivid pictures of watching it work. Ours had large springs that held downward force on the rollers, ... large one in the front (four paddles, if I recall), then smaller one as the second roller, holding the material tight against the cutter bar. We also drove the chopper with a twisted belt, a long one, such as used here. That chopper is really eating through the material! What about the water? Is it being added into the chopper at the cut station, so that the forage blown to the top is dampened? One close shot shows water leaking from the chopper -- supposing that is because of the added water, not from the corn forage itself. One comment below about tromping in the silo - yes we did that. That was a horrible job. We had a large funnel at the top, with drop sections of pipe (12" diameter?), about four feet long. They hung from the funnel, that was attached to the goose neck at the top. When starting, these sections reached near the bottom. The end section had a rope, so that the person inside could swing the pipe, thus directing the placement of the silage near the edges to keep the filling level even across the silo. As the silo filled, sections were taken off, lowered through the chute. Our silo was 12X36, big for our time and location. Seeing the four corn binders I assume the corn was abound, then shocked, and then picked up by these wagons. Were the people on the wagons the only ones loading, or was there people in the field helping to load the wagons. There seem to be four or five wagons, cycling pretty quickly. Loading from shocks must have gone quick. Thanks for posting.

I wonder if they did like R. B. did when I worked for him and put screen linen covered jars in the bottom for arthritis medication

Is that an Allis Chalmers chopper box?

The silage would produce a poisonous gas for about a week after filling the silo. Always had to keep the silo filling blower running anytime we had to go into the silo for the first few days. We lost a few farmers due to the gas. Killed a lot of cats, and mice in the silo room. For me, I got a couple of real good headaches from the gas.

this could easly be 100 years ago. a question if i amy, is this amish country ?

them thar steaming things are the work of the devil

If you look up to the top of the silo to the opening where the pipe goes in you will see a man up there but doing what I have no idea.

Notice the rubber wheeled tractor sitting behind steam engine?

save alot on fuel costs!

Awesome video but thats a lot of work for a milk check.

Damn, a 7” pipe shoved in the standard 9” blower pipe you got to lose some lift going into the silo. There’s a tractor in the background, just seems like you’re picking an choosing what technology you’ll use...

Amish are kind of the original hipsters.

em q pais q fica isso ?

I had to wait until the 29th minute to see the "business end" of the operation. Still I didn't see how the corn was separated from the plant, nor how it was elevated into the silo.

Amische Mennoniten oder Quäcker.

why make more work just buy a tractor and corn chopper already.