AC Power-Feed box.

Have a chance to buy this chopper box $200 not an AC running gear but have a lead on one would you do it, it will need to be painted and new signs made I am not and AC man but color is always cool in anybodys collection, oh and were these popular.
 
Popular ?? In all honesty, the leaders in that day were Fox, Gehl and probably Deere. Very few built. What you have is a rare find. Worth a lot ?? maybe to the right person.
 
If you are talking about the AC self unloading forage wagons, My father bought two of them in 1963 and they were in working order until the early 1990's and we USED them. The local AC dealer sold a gazillion of the things. The AC design was one of the first generation of self unloading wagons and one of the better ones. The biggest weak point was that the whole mechanism was driven by a pair of worm gears behind the cross conveyor. These gears had to be shimmed properly for full gear engagement or you would strip the gears. As long as the sheet metal on the cross conveyor was solid, this was no problem. Once the cross conveyor sheet metal started rusting out and flexing, the gears would start to separate and then they would strip. I believe AC made some improvements to the design as the years went on, but the newer designs from the companies mentioned below eclipsed the AC design in later years. Still as first generation wagons go, the AC was a good working unit.
 
I find your statements about the popularity interesting. In our area, in the late 50's-to mid 60's, AC owned the self unloading wagon market. Deere was a distant 2nd and the rest divided up what was left. By the late 60's the AC design was showing it's age and dropped by the wayside, though. Kaston made a big showing for a few years, but eventually Deere, Gehl and Badger took over the market. Don't think I have ever seen a Fox wagon. Of course our local Fox dealer was the AC dealer and he was pushing AC wagons. About the only traditional self unloading wagons still in existence around here these days are HS.
 
Thanks to everybody who responded to my question I would like to save it but I keep thinking how big it is for storage so time will tell the owner has it in his shed yet so a least its high and dry for now it somebody is interested let me know I will hook you up with him.
 
Like a lot of machinery things....depends on the dealer. Where I grew up, we had 5 or 6 AC dealers within 30 or 40 miles and none of them sold ANY forage equipment. It all went to Fox, Gehl or Deere.
 
Allis also sold a rear unloading box, with a double chain in the floor,that would unload in about 4-5 seconds, or how long it took the floor chains to travel from the front to the back. It was well built!
 
I hear you. This particular dealer really pushed everything AC made. He sold enough AC balers and forage harvesters to notice them around at least. Nothing like NH and JD, but enough to make their presence felt.
 

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