Corn harvesting season was one of my favorite times of year. I was 19 when dad built the big poured concrete silo and had bought a new International McCormick forage harvester. Before that, we had relied on a neighbor with a big Fox harvester to fill the old wooden silo and 12x25 concrete stave silo.
We had a Gehl silo blower with a long hopper that would fold down behind the end gate of the wagon. Then me or my brother would run the apron on the wagon and help pull the corn silage down into the conveyer in the hopper. It was slower than the big Fox and self unloading combination silage trailer/manure spreader rigs that the neighbor used, but Dad liked the flexibility and cost savings that came with doing it ourselves.
To this day, the scent of freshly chopped corn silage is still one of my favorite smells.
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