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western iowa,by Denison | earlage
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Manitoba | garvo, what was the motivating factor for switching from the original system. I`m assuming speed of unload but curious, I`ve never operated anything other the original type unloader. |
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Buffalo IL | Garvo, Is that Hanson's kit. I'm curious what it costs as I have a couple of neighbors with harvestores and they may want to do that instead of redoing their unloaders. Do you still use the air bags or are they left open? I'm sure they are open when feeding, but are they sealed after filling for a little less spoilage. |
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ND | Nice looking feed. Ever run a feed analysis on it? |
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sw minnesota | exact same unloader I have in my 20x70, but my silo is a stave. Kinda nice not leveling it off just start it running and let the unloader do the work. |
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western iowa,by Denison | expensive but? heres a picture of the roof-the that put it in said it would last another15 years-air bags out,Hansen conversion
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western iowa,by Denison | Oakwood-the reason for doing it-The name on the silo cost me a Million dollar"s-1st picture |
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Manitoba | but I don't get the name thing? Holes in roof pic makes sense to me though. |
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west central Iowa | garvo - 3/11/2012 13:22
expensive but? heres a picture of the roof-the that put it in said it would last another15 years-air bags out,Hansen conversion
I got lucky my old blue roof Harvestore has the glass lined roof panels so no holes in it yet. |
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frederick, MD | I was told none of them where glass lined on the inside. I put a used roof on mine several years ago, I forget what it cost, 15k probally. Guy tried to sell me a stainles roof, but that was realy expensive |
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thorp wi. | nice pics garvo ! sure like your operation pics, saw other posts pic an decided your spread must reach perty far ! how do you harvest the earlage ? im feeding high moisture earcorn i made useing my combine with a modifided sieve to save cobs then ran thru hammer mill , very nice feed but slow to put up . plan was to make al earlage but snapper head probloms an corn drying down way to fast changed plans . did get some done and i like it but need better plan next year . |
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Columbia City, Indiana | glad you're back... I'm curious, why feed only earlage instead of corn silage? |
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Columbia City, Indiana | Oakwood - 3/11/2012 13:29
but I don't get the name thing? Holes in roof pic makes sense to me though.
I think it's because Harvestors are not well thought of. My Grandpa has told me several times that "they're a monument to a farmer's stupidity." I know several guys who use them every day, though. |
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North Cental Mo. | "Blue Tombstone" is what I always heard them refereed to.
Roy |
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Faunsdale, AL | If you can't get your equipment worked out, look for a custom harvester in the area. Earlage should be a desirable job for them since it goes fast $. The slowest part of the process may be the bagger or blower putting it up if you're not using bunkers.
I worked for several years to get a snapper head working on our old choppers, but when we got a larger chopper and then an 8 row corn head for the combine, I realized we only needed an adapter between the two to have a really nice system. Now we just need a good growing season so we'll have some excess corn to make into earlage again.
Edited by ccjersey 3/11/2012 18:14
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Buffalo IL | Earlage is similar to feeding ground ear corn which is by far the best finishing cattle feed. The cob is great for limiting consumption, roughage for regergitaiting, and higher mgcal for gain than corn silage. You also are removing less crop per acre and not having to add more fertilizer per acre as is required for corn silage. Garvo great pictures and did it really cost you a million. The thing is these harvestores have been around since the seventies and so that is 40 years. Alot of headaches but how long do you think you will get out of this modification? |
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western iowa,by Denison | well the sign on the top that say's vetter farms inc-sure is expensive-about 72% tax to close the corporation-My Dad and Neil Harl were friends?Neil was a ISU professor that liked c-farm corporations |
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West central IL | Blue tops last forever seems like, but they had issues with the white tops in some of the years they were made. Ours is starting the same think forget what year it was made, but three of our corn structures that had corn only in them we don't have any problems with, only the one we had hay and silage in. My dad tells the story of the first year they built one, they used to feed 40 cows on a certain acerage, that they used to bale, with the harvestore they could feed 60 cows and there calves ! thats how much feed they were waisting.
They are getting cashy to work on though, but sure do like it when you don't have to start anything in the middle of winter when its 0 and I hate moving the silo unloader down all the time |
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Thompsontown, Pennsylvania | the general consensus i've found with harvestores is if you like to do your own maintenence and do it well, don't mind pricey parts once in a while and can put a positive dollar figure on the convenience of it all....you love them.....personally, i rent the farm i'm on, and if/when i may decide to go to upright storage for haylage, i would rather build two or three harvestores converted to top unloaders (to make it easier to put in multiple cuttings and not feed uncured feed), than build one bottom unloading harvestore, and i will still have the ease of re-selling, extra storage space due to the better "pack" from the lower friction created by the glass lined steel..... |
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