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@silagechopper

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A cattle feeder. A retired custom silage cutter. And a retired truck driver. Destroying the Ol Murley place one hoof print at a time. Amateur tractor collector.

Among cattails in SD
Joined February 2015
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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4 years
We have a young man that helps on our place that turns 18 this weekend. He has his own place to live.Has a GED.Has a nice pickup.Has10 calves. And he showed up to work this morning at 5:30 cause he knows it’s a big day. He don’t HAVE to be here til 8. That’s how you get somewhere
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3 years
22 years ago at this time of the afternoon my house was burning. My 4450 was burning. A payloader was on fire. Pickups were burning. The loading chute was on fire. 2 of us were waiting for ambulances.1 of us lived. Anniversaries of shit sucks. I think I’ll have a beer or two.
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20 days
First day of school. By the time I do 11 more of these I’m gonna be an old man.
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3 months
Not that I really expect anyone to care. And I get made fun of plenty which I’m perfectly ok with. But yesterday marked 66 days alcohol free as well as a loss of 42 pounds. No apps. No scams. No help. Just stubbornness. It’s almost as addicting as the 12 pack of Budlight was.
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2 years
Hired a new guy 3 weeks ago. Shows up on time. Have to tell him to go home at night. Slow and careful. Doesn’t destroy shit. Excellent around cattle. I couldn’t be happier.
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1 year
So I’ve made a difficult decision but for the sake of my daughter and our cattle feeding operation I’m going to call last season the end of custom chopping. It’s been 22 falls of custom work. It’s time to pass on the torch. I’m keeping my 7980 to chop our own. End of an era.
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3 years
You think you’re a hell of a man? I just finished a silage pile for an 88 year old man who got out of a 4240 John Deere, walked over to me with his cowboy hat pulled down , shook my hand and said “Send me the bill,I’ll see ya next year”……
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4 years
Headed home to see my daughter before she goes to bed. This shit will always be here. She will grow up.
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4 years
It might not mean much to you. But it does to me.
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9 months
Waiting on the school bus. I’ve done a lot of mess ups in my life. But got 1 thing right.
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2 years
She ate a little $4 corn and some $5 corn and some $6 corn and some $7 corn and some $8 corn……
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1 year
Planting in 2019 and planting in 2023.
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1 month
Not trying to be a girl. Or a bathroom creep. 31 waist jeans. A pile of 38s I spose I should keep if I fail. 115 days without alcohol. Not sharing for the attention. Yes I’m proud of myself. But when you decide to do something it’s not that hard. If I can do it anyone can.
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4 years
Farming with ERTL equipment was so much more fun. Mom and Dad paid the land payment or the rent. The fuel man was never on your ass. Maintenance was a breeze. And if you broke something you waited around till Christmas for a new one!!
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3 years
I quit at 5:30 today so I could load a horse that was born in 1999 in a trailer that was built in 1995 pulled behind a pickup made in 1997 and go to town so a girl that was born in 2017 could do the barrels and poles...... Yes I know how this works......Please send prayers.....
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2 years
Just popped the top on the first beer. To the “Omg he’s drinking a beer in equipment people” you can fuck off. Your welcome to come follow me around for a day. If you were here you wouldn’t wait this long. To the rest of you. Happy Sunday.
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4 years
Didn’t need my left arm anyway I guess....
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6 years
For everyone that put DEF in this morning, thanks for saving the environment for me.
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4 years
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3 years
Yesterday about 2 in the afternoon I figured I should turn on the hydrant and fill my horse tank. I see this morning it’s full………
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9 months
She turned 6 this week.Been with me for 13 hours, moving cows home,stuffing equipment in sheds, getting rained on and now 500 miles before daylight. Only complaint she’s had was not being able to stand up to pee like me.
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5 years
I paid off my feedlot this morning.......This is what it used to look like..... Unfortunately after 2019 it no longer does..... I feel like I just paid off my dream house or shop or whatever your dream is the day after a F5 tornado takes it.... #Heavysigh
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4 years
Old man syndrome at its highest. Just walked over to get in my pickup to go check cows. It’s still running..... Since this morning when I checked cows.......🤦‍♂️
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8 months
Horses and Dogs should never be allowed to get old. I knew he wouldn’t see green grass. RIP. Eldon. Be a nice feedlot where you are now.
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3 years
County pulls shoulders up on road. FedEx driver leaving here goes in ditch. Wrecker guy drives into my truck driver on his way to work.Fucks up his vehicle. Hired man in jail cause he don’t know how to properly day drink. Joe Diffee comes to mind.And most people just want a rain.
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9 months
Under the watchful eye of the management today
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2 years
I’ve driven a lot of shit. Never an R model Mack. So I have no idea how they shift. And the people that say you never have to double clutch maybe have never been off a road with a truck. Looks like she’s doing good to me and she can drive it however she feels like it.
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2 years
I just realized I never posted trucking videos to twitter. Enjoy
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6 years
Why do we drive $75000 pickups pulling $40000 trailers with a $12 receiver hitch?
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3 years
I’m not sure what Heaven looks like. But if I was to guess, …
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4 years
Local grocery store called. Trying to line up grocery customers with people that have beef or pork to sell. Said yes they will lose sales. But they aren’t willing to be salesman for the packers at these prices.
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8 months
Not a heated shop. Ain’t paid for. Seems like it never will be. Been a day or 2 I barely made the payment. Whatever it cost. Days like today were worth every penny. Wish it was bigger.
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4 years
I don’t know how to pay the highest cash rents and run the latest equipment to produce the best crops. I do know how to take some labor,opportunity and some old equipment and keep a light calf alive. I’m gonna try to produce value with what is offered to me and what I know.
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6 years
I just want to do a shout out to the guys busting their asses trying to save baby calves.Between snow, cold and mud,been a hell of a spring for those guys. Keep up the fight! Warmer days and green grass are another day closer.
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4 years
Not looking for sympathy,so I wasn’t gonna say anything. But. 22 years ago today I lost my dad.He loved numbers and office work.I’ve always been a worker. Always think what we could have done together if we could have combined our forces.Just things I think of on May 1 every year
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3 years
I’ve been alcohol free for 11 or 12 days now. I said I was going to drink more water and less beer. I don’t feel any better. I don’t have any more energy. I’ve maybe lost like 2 pounds. I’m starting to think the people that don’t drink and say they feel great are liars....
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4 years
Around here I guess we learn to drive 359 Petes when we are 2.5 yrs old.
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2 years
Did earlage for a guy last week. Came to get my cutter today. He washed it and cleaned out my cab.
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5 years
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6 years
Grain farmers first day to the field for the year........And Livestock producers first day to the field for the year...
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4 years
You can keep your 8RX and your $80000 pickups. This guy probably is a porn star when he isn’t farming. All the panties. All!!
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6 years
I'm no stranger to life happening fast. Today was another reminder. Good ol friend stopped during chores this morning.We had morning beers together and a great visit and laugh. 2 hours later he left this earth from a heart attack. 61 yrs old. Forever miss you my friend 🍻🍻
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10 months
They are kinda like owning a boat. Kinda fun they day ya get em. It’s kinda fun the day you get rid of them. Nobody sees the shit in between.
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3 years
Young fella that works here had a friend and a brother fly over today. It’s not perfect. But considering it was a pasture 12 years ago and nothing seems to come easy here, I’m kinda proud of it.
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2 months
To hell with today. Maybe go do something fun.
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2 years
If you are one of those that drag the chain through the mud, you in fact are a monster!
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4 years
One of the boys climbed the bin yesterday. It ain’t fancy. And it ain’t perfect. But considering it was a pasture when I got it. It ain’t so bad.
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1 year
Just pulled into 400 acres of a forage mix. Might not mean much to a lot of you, but first fall in my life I pulled into someone else’s field with a fleet of paid for silage equipment.
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4 years
When I was about his age I was always excited to ride with the old truckers that hauled my dads pairs to pasture. Giving a customers son a ride today. Guess it’s the cycle of life. Thankfully I’m not old!!
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5 months
Daddy/daughter dance the other day. She will be the reason I die in prison.
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1 year
When people stop at the field to say hi you drink what they bring ya
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3 years
Happy Thanksgiving!! From our hell hole to yours!!!
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1 month
2 semi loads of oats on the road.
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6 years
-23 windchill. Plugged in for 2 hours. No DEF. No codes. No bullshit.
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2 years
Incase someone comes along and wants to know where the oil plug is, I put it in the bottom of this bucket.
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11 days
Made it home with yesterday’s purchase. Guy that owned it turns 86 tomorrow. Hopefully i can stay in business and it does me half as much good as it did him. 1968 Powershift.
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1 year
For those of us that have appreciation for the sound of a 31 yr old Big Cam Cummins vs the sound of a plastic pile of shit that won’t do a proper regen.
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4 years
Oh little girl.....
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5 years
5.5 hours without power. It’s now up to me to man up and save the ice cream.
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4 years
You fuckers don’t be pissing this rally away on new pickups, vacation homes and shops this time. Save a little for when the white pickups and the landlords take it.......
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3 years
Nothing says you saved 30 seconds of time shutting a gate behind you like spending 30 minutes on a 4 wheeler chasing the cattle back in……
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2 months
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1 year
Sunday afternoon pen riding.
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7 years
Celebrity life of a cattle feeder: Driving a $1000 pickup to the bank with a million dollars worth of checks and wondering how you can stop the overdraft and buy a tank of gas.......
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2 years
Ol gal let me know she doesn’t need a tag in her calfs ear to know it’s hers. No tag it is.
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2 years
Back to feeding in the dark. Cause what’s that saying? Only a white man would cut a foot off the bottom of the blanket and sew it to the top of the blanket and think he had a longer blanket.
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4 years
I’ll tell you when this country went to shit........ Nobody was offended by every little piece of history when we had foot operated dimmer switches.....
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1 year
Kinda a sad day today, we had to put down a cow that started my wife’s cow herd. She raised 11 calves. Found her in the mud one summer day at the bottom of a feedlot pen out of a fat heifer. She was the lead cow and always one of the first to calf. You will be missed Elsie.
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2 years
Next silage cutting season there will be an extra $100 charge for every field that I only open up for the combine. And a $500 charge if you ride with me to show me how to do it.
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4 years
Losing a silage cutting customer due to “the times”. Not a big one. But to me they are all important. We usually use their yard to headquarter out of when in the area. I asked if we could still park there. He said. “Jon I would feel very outed if you didn’t”. Heavy sigh.....
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5 years
Sometimes even I impress myself...
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2 months
Cows got a gate down. Got in my neighbors bean field. I called my neighbor. Told him. “Jon that shit happens. I’m headed to river and I don’t much give a shit about beans today”….
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3 years
For those of you that someday want to run a small business or be self employed. Here is a few tips. Answer your phone. Work more than 8 hours a day. Return messages.
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2 years
Shitty day Brunch.
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6 years
Come on you autonomous bitch!!! We got cattle to feed!!!!
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2 years
Had a friend stop by and rode with me. Left me with this. Not bad. Not bad at all.
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3 years
Just me and an old feed truck gathering up 600 hd of hfrs off a field before the storm. We’ve practiced this...
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4 months
When you take a tractor to the truck mechanic and not a consolidated John Deere dealership.
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3 months
Feeding cattle with a miniature sled dog……
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4 years
Umm. If I resist arrest. And try to harm a cop. I fully expect for the outcome to work out poorly for me.....
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1 year
Put duals on yesterday. RIP bunks, gate posts, shed door ways and small animals.
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2 years
10 below. A fed truck started. A tractor started. 2 payloaders started. A semi started and is on the road. A kid got delivered to school on time. And No cattle are fed because we are waiting for I pads to update. I may burn this place to the ground today for fun.
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4 years
A letter from my nutritionist. He’s independent. Doesn’t work for any feed company.
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3 years
Some days I guess I probably deserve to be broke. New to me tractor. 1959 730 Diesel with factory electric start and dual hydraulics. I wanted one since I was in the 6th grade. Some of you won’t understand. But if you know you know.
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2 years
Happy Thanksgiving!!!! You can eat turkey today, but eat beef every other day!!
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5 years
If you have ever thought about sending “Thank you” cards out to people that rented land away from you, I’d say now is an appropriate time.
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4 years
I’m not much into politics. I’m probably not really that patriotic. But tonight I’m pretty proud to live in South Dakota.
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6 years
I’m just gonna come clean about something. I give 0 fucks about what the rest of you think, so don’t @ me. But to be right down and truthful. I listen to Nickelback.
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3 years
Math is hard….
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1 year
5:20 am text of school delays. Just ain’t the same as sitting at a kitchen table around a battery powered AM radio listening to WNAX while they named off a hundred schools hoping they said your school.
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2 years
Yes. I really am stuck.
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2 years
Drank enough beer this weekend to kill a college kid, still did 13 hours of work a day in January, and these kids are waiting around for someone to give them some land to farm. Moral of the story is get after it. Don’t be a pussy. Don’t @ me if you’re offended by this tweet.
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1 month
I was having a pretty good day today until i opened up my Twitter or X or whatever we call this place. Now im convinced im going broke too. You people are depressing.
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10 months
If I was a calf and I didn’t know who my dad was. And I missed my mom and I’m on some assholes place with a bunch of new asshole friends I’ve never seen before and I was feeling kinda down on my luck, I think I’d eat it.
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3 years
Third world country shit.
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7 years
Break out the dirt scrapers and the D9 and call the bunk pouring crew!!! If Kooper Skip Deal is like her mama we gonna need more pens to feed cattle!!!!
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4 years
Wife and I kicking out quite a few on a Sunday afternoon.
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2 years
“ I tell myself I should quit but I don’t listen to drunks”.
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1 year
2.40 and counting
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2 years
Just lost gps signal.
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1 year
Quitting. A thread. Anything else in the world you quit a job and nobody cares. Life changes. People change. I’ve been somewhat scrutinized for quitting my silage cutting business. “There’s more to the story”. So…
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