yippie we're done for now

[Jerome B]

Yippie the silo if full and we are done cutting silage for now. I can go back to work in the shop again. At least just as soon as I can recover some energy.

jerome

[RayH]

Good on ya, Jerome.
Is a picture of the silo appropriate?
What's the first project?

[NCPete]

silage!!!! when I was a kid, we would throw 300 bales in the loft every winter for the horses. I might still be sore.... owwwww

[JackLeg]

Cutting silage used to be my favorite job on the dairy farm. Mostly corn, but some grass also. We had a trench and a 40' upright. The smell of ferminting silage still brings back memories.

[Gotcha6]

Nothin' funnier on the farm than watchin' a buncha chickens that got into the drainage ditch from the silo & got drunk off the silage juice.

[dick541]

I can remember when my cousin and I painted a 14 by 30' silo with creosote BEFORE it was put up, a lot of 2X 6 t&g to cover twice. I have also put up 1200 bales of hay in one day (many years ago). Pulled them off the baler and stacked them on wagons then stacked them in the barn. Fon memerys.
dick

[NCPete]

we couldn't fit more than 300 bales, and didn't need more to winter the horses... but one year, when money was tight, we hand mowed 5-6 acres with scythes!!!!! okay, my dad mowed 5-6 acres with the scythe, my brothers and I did probably 5-10 square feet.

[Jerome B]

Originally Posted by JackLeg

Cutting silage used to be my favorite job on the dairy farm. Mostly corn, but some grass also. We had a trench and a 40' upright. The smell of ferminting silage still brings back memories.

It is funny I can deal with the smell of manure. Heck I can't even smell it anymore. But wow the smell of silage turns my stomach. It could be that I live closer to the silage trench than the lagoon. We filled a silo trench with about 330 loads of silage.

Somehow I lucked out and they switched from using the upright silo to the trench the year before I started working on the farm. Climbing up those things in the middle of winter doesn't look like much fun.

I"ll get a pic of the trench tomorrow.

If you want to join in on the fun we get to fill the other one in a couple of weeks. Come on over.

This year we had a crop of wheat silage and two crops of corn silage. WE still have the second crop of corn to go.

I have to confess I am more of a calf man myself. I am not in to the shake and bake silage trucks.



Jerome

[sapwood]

No silage. But I've certainly tossed my share of hay bales into the loft . . . hard work, especially when you're 11-14 years old. But it was a good summer job ($.35 an hour ) and the farmer always took us to ye old swimming hole for a dip after we finished

And I learned Rule No. 1: No matter how hot it is, wear long pants and long sleeve shirt

Roger

[NCPete]

Originally Posted by sapwood

And I learned Rule No. 1: No matter how hot it is, wear long pants and long sleeve shirt

Roger

YUPP!!! quick way to get more scratched up than ever, is to throw hay with shorts and short sleeves!

[Gofor]

Originally Posted by sapwood

No silage. But I've certainly tossed my share of hay bales into the loft . . . hard work, especially when you're 11-14 years old. But it was a good summer job ($.35 an hour ) and the farmer always took us to ye old swimming hole for a dip after we finished

And I learned Rule No. 1: No matter how hot it is, wear long pants and long sleeve shirt

Roger

Back when I bucked hay bales ($.50/hr but the check bounced more than not so $.25 was a solid rate) we wore gloves and grabbed 'em by the baling twine/wire. Didn't love 'em so didn't hug 'em so didn't need long sleeves. Wore out the pants legs above the knee on a few pair of jeans, tho. Started out in 6th grade riding the baler tying the twine on the ones that the bailer didn't get right and "graduated" to tossin' 'em onto the wagon/truck. Seems to me that us young'ins back then workin' on the farms for a few bucks got the idea there was more to life than that, so we buckled down a bit more on the education. Me thinks that if the young-ins today had to make a few bucks that way, their attitude would be a bit different when it comes to money and what it takes to earn it, so their attitude towards schoolin' might be a bit more positive. Sad that farmers can't use 'em due to all the laws now.

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