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Post by 774630 on Feb 24, 2009 23:36:41 GMT -5
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Post by sean on Feb 25, 2009 18:53:32 GMT -5
Good ol' working Volvo there at the bottom.....thanks for the pictures.
Sean
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Post by 70ds on Feb 25, 2009 21:42:04 GMT -5
Sweet pics. I wish I would have had my camera with me the day I fueled them up.
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Post by 774630 on Feb 25, 2009 23:01:18 GMT -5
thanks guys, yeah that volvo is our general farm work truck, when its not haulin sillage. The best thing about those trucks is when you tip the trailer over, you unhook, drag the truck out of the way, flip the trailer back over, straighten the trailer out. Take the insurance money and go buy another cheap volvo. and you're up and runnin again. lol. That trailer has been upset twice and all we've ever had to do is straighten the racks and endgate. we're on our third truck though. We also have a frieghtliner century that goes otr. and hauls cows once in awhile.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2009 1:15:57 GMT -5
Sorghum is some great stuff. We have been drilling sorghum sudan grass for the last two years. Yield wise it is great. We can usually get 3 cuttings at about 6 foot the average height of the grass. If the ground stays wet, we have had to cut some sudan grass that was about 12 foot tall. It was a little hairy. Labor wise it is super intensive (takes a lot of tedding to dry down to bale) and I would have to agree that haylage is the way to go.
Do your cow's eat the haylage pretty good? Ours devour the hay bales.
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Post by rysiracusa on Feb 26, 2009 15:13:19 GMT -5
Very nice. That cane must be hard on that chopper
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Post by 774630 on Feb 26, 2009 22:24:04 GMT -5
thanks guys, the sorghum that we chop is actually alittle diff than the stuff we bale. the silage is a NK300. It gets about 5-6ft tall, the stalks get bigger and the heads have alot more grain in them. Usually yeilds in the 20 ton range. The stuff we bale is Canex BMR, has alot thinner stalk and gets about 8-12ft tall, has trouble going down in high wind, and thats a nightmare for a swather. and like buck said its not fun to try to get dried down. we only cut it once. I swathed for 2 days with our NH sp 16fter and never got over .3 miles an hour. only did about 20acres, plugging up about every 15mins. I broke down and hired a guy with a new hesston disc machine. to do the other 200 acres. The cows love it if you get it baled right, I actually unrolled a couple of high quality, nice lookin praire hay bales for a bunch the other day and they wouldnt touch it, the next day I unrolled some decent cane bales and they ate every stalk, cows, go figure. They really like the sillage, we run feed test every year and for the couple of years we raised corn sillage the tests on the cane came back pretty much the same as the corn, and the corn only yielded alittle over half what the cane did, so we figured why give up the tons if the values were close to the same. That stuff will work the heck out of a swather but that Claas doesnt even sweat, they were runnin about 8 in those pics, they probably could have run faster if it was a little smoother field. Thanks again fellas.
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