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<blockquote data-quote="VanC" data-source="post: 427239" data-attributes="member: 3355"><p>I tend to agree. Spent way to many hours in them things in my youth. When you're putting it up, you're leveling the silage off and tamping it down when it's 90 out. When you're feeding, you're up there forking down enough for X amount of cows when it's 20 below. (This was in Wisconsin). </p><p></p><p>Later had a top end unloader, but it wasn't very reliable and was up there with the fork half the time anyway. Then once you get the silage down, there's the labor in getting it to the cows, unless you've got big bucks to invest in an automatic feeding system, which will also break down from time to time.</p><p></p><p>Not to mention you have to buy a chopper and blower, plus have a tractor with enough power to blow the stuff up there. Of course the plus side is if you put up hay silage, that's a lot of bales of hay you don't have to mess with. To each his own, but personally, I wouldn't mess with it unless there was no other way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VanC, post: 427239, member: 3355"] I tend to agree. Spent way to many hours in them things in my youth. When you're putting it up, you're leveling the silage off and tamping it down when it's 90 out. When you're feeding, you're up there forking down enough for X amount of cows when it's 20 below. (This was in Wisconsin). Later had a top end unloader, but it wasn't very reliable and was up there with the fork half the time anyway. Then once you get the silage down, there's the labor in getting it to the cows, unless you've got big bucks to invest in an automatic feeding system, which will also break down from time to time. Not to mention you have to buy a chopper and blower, plus have a tractor with enough power to blow the stuff up there. Of course the plus side is if you put up hay silage, that's a lot of bales of hay you don't have to mess with. To each his own, but personally, I wouldn't mess with it unless there was no other way. [/QUOTE]
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