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There is a sale coming up soon and they have a Brady chopper 14 foot on the bill. Did Brady make this fail chopper for Case? Jerry from Ohio
 
I don't recall any affiliation between Brady and Case. The machines did look very similar though, with the big pulley on the drive shaft, except Brady shielded the belt. When Case teamed with Helix, the Helix name was also part of the decaling, and I don't see the Brady name mentioned anywhere in the Case lit.
Loren
 
Loren,Thank you for the reply. The reason I ask is the rims are desert sunset color. The machine is rusty and I can not tell the body color. But as you said pulleys are covered. Jerry
 
Brady equipment used a redish orange color also for their main paint color with a off yellow trim , including wheel rims. As I recall there was a Brady decal on the top of each shield on the ends.
Loren
 
I have a Case badged field cultivator that was made by Brady. Has the track logo decals. At least That's what I was told. The latest buyer's guide I have is 72 and that shows the Case-Glencoe field cultivator.
 
The Case stalk chopper I have here is a model H, I think. It is old enough so it had the green spoke wheels on it. When ever we needed parts we bought Brady parts. Everything fits. I cannot imagine they were not made by Brady.
 
Biggest flail chopper Case had was the V-12 in the late 60s, early 70s. 12 footer of course, not 14. I always understood it was Brady made. Don't know about Case's earlier choppers if they made their own or not.

Case made almost 100% of their own stuff at one time but subbed out to many others towards the end.
Besides Danhauser and Helix, here's a few more I can think of off the top of my head......

Swathers - Hesston
Wagons - Electric Wheel
Elevators - Little Giant
Plows - Oliver
Field Cultivators - Glencoe
Row Crop Cultivators - Glencoe
Disks - Amco ???
Rippers - ?
Cotton Pickers - ?
Cotton Strippers - ?
Grain Dryers - ?
Forage Harvester - Int. Harvester
Forage Blower - IH ???
Hillside Combines - Harris
Soil Controller Disk/Chisel - Glencoe
Combine straw choppers - Alloway, Hesston, Innes, others ?
Tobacco Harvester - ?
Drills - Melroe ???
Loaders - Great Bend
Others ??????

Looks like I'll need some help to fill in the blanks.
I may need to stand corrected on some others.
Please add to the list if you can think of some more.
 
Drills like the EW you have and the ED's I have were not made by Kirshman /Melroe ect,, they were Case designed and built by a company in Canada ask John his drill has the name on a tag, combine choppers , the only Case approved one was a Innes, they tested a Hesston but it was shelling fails so they would not approve it, starting in 74 White built their plow ,sat least the bigger ones, I can't place who made the small ones right now but its a very well know mfg, their is also another mfg that built grain swathers for them also in Canada I have it wrote on a parts book, Allen mfg made combine cabs and the 930/1030 factory cab, Crenlo made the 1200/1470 cabs, and a small note some may not know is Case made their own hyd cylinders as well
cnt
 
The SC series Soil savers were made by Landoll, as were the deep V rippers and standard pull and 3pt mtd. chisel plows.
The out sourcing of equipment by Case worked out great for us as dealers. We could stock, floor plan and finance Case labeled equipment and if we didn't have something in stock we could easily get it from one of our several local short line suppliers. Also if we were dealing with a red or green under ware customers they didn't have to loose face with a piece of Case equipment on their farm.
We were also full line Hesston tractor and equipment dealers. Some of the Hesston tillage equipment was also built by the same companies that Case sourced from.
Loren
 
Landoll built a lot of the soil conservation and deep tillage equipment. Hutchmaster also built big disc harrows, Kools Bros. built blowers, Kasten built manure spreaders, and Pittsburg Mfg. built smaller plows and discs.
Definitely an interesting topic for a winter day.
The Gov. has shut down the state, and even the USPS has declared a day off.
Loren
 
Loren, thanks for the Landoll correction on the SC Series Soil Savers.
I knew they weren't Case built and I made the wrong assumption.
I didn't know the regular chisel plows were outsourced also.
Here's a pic of a Case chisel with the new logo. I haven't dug through my stuff yet to figure out what model it is, but I used it last fall on my Father-in-laws ground. He has a rock here and there and this chisel has no springs. Every time I find a rock it would break a shank. Funny thing is I have maybe 5 or 6 different Case chisels on the place and none of them have the same shank as this one. So is this a Landoll built chisel? I regret breaking those shanks now that I realize I don't have spares.
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I have the twin to your chisel plow,Brad. It is a model 5600 Case chisel plow. Last one built by Case. Lots of similarities to the HP model which was the starting point for the Case Chisel Planter. My Brady built Case badged field cultivator is a model 1200. I had a Brady before this one that used a hyd. motor and cables to lift the wings. My latest model was a 45' machine, but I cut it down to 30'. It uses hyd cylinders to lift the wings.
 
Also, Dad had two corn cultivators one was Glencoe green and one was Case power red. Other than color they were exact. He also had a mounted Case-Glencoe chisel plow. We have several Case-Glencoe field cultivators. Neighbor had a Case badged soil controller that was the same as the Glencoe version.
 

Brad,

Our G-144 offset disk is identical to Amco. In fact we get repair parts from the local NH/Amco dealer. They are much cheaper than Case/IH. Don
 
Tom, I stand corrected on the drills. Interestingly my Dads Case 1010 came with the Innes chopper which was nothing more than a spinning drum with sickle sections bolted to it. The other 1010 I have with the consecutive serial number came with a Hesston chopper which has the flail knives.

Story time....
When I was a kid, one of the jobs we had was to replace the knives on that Innes chopper. Dad would back the pickup under the combine and drop the chopper onto the tailgate and bring it home to the yard. Then it was moved to a pair of saw horses and us kids got to spend the next few days trying to get those blasted bolts out with a can of WD-40, a right angled screw driver and a pair of vise-grips. When left in too long, the nuts would completely wear off on one side so you couldn't put a wrench on them and there was no room to work in between each section with a regular screw driver. Most of the heads were wore so it wouldn't hold a screw driver anyway. What a pain. Dad didn't have a torch in those days so we did everything the hard way. When all else failed it was hammer and chisel time. Talk about cut up hands and busted knuckles!

As adults now we siblings look back at those "projects" Dad gave us and wonder if the work we did was really necessary for 6 - 12 year olds or was this just Dads way to get us out of the house and out from under foot of Mother who had 4 unruly boys to contend with? I know for a fact that Dad often stopped by the neighbors repair shop for torch and welder work any other time. Hmmm....
 
The chisel that you pictured is not a Landoll They used an all welded square tube frame. The pull types had a bolt on rockshaft and the tongue pined to the 3pt brackets. Your chisel is likely a model 5600 built by Glenco, prior to the Landoll units. The Case labeled Landoll chisel plows were models 1800 - 1805 two bar - and 1900. V rippers were model 513. As I said before Landoll also built the SC soil controller.
Loren
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Steve, what would the model number of the Case badged Glenco soil saver have been. We were selling the Landoll model 1200 soilmasters before Case started marketing them. We sold the smaller ones 5-9 shank. Too many hills and tough soils and few tractors were bigger than 150hp. As you can see in the last pic -- a 1370 on a 5 shank soilmaster.
All the Landoll units were welded tubular steel frames. Glenco still used a lot of angle iron in their frames. Our short line supplier also provided us with Glenco equipment, but we preferred the Landoll line. Same short line co had the Amco discs, so we did a lot of business with them.
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Those pictures are the same as the red and black Case-IH disc chisels, but different from the Glencoe one. Have to find my lit on the Case-Glencoe....almost bought a Glencoe disc chisel last fall but bought a Brent CPC disc ripper instead.
 
Not to dispute, but the 5600 here has the same size rockshaft and same bearing holders as the chisel-planter which derived from the Case HP chisel. Same angle iron frame reinforcements and same trip assy. on the chisel-planter as the 5600 chisel. When Dad bought the 1070 new he got a 5600 from Hurkes imp. in 74. They said it was a holdover and built by Case as the next ones they would get would be from a outside vendor. Course to sell a chisel I suppose a dealer could tell any story.
 

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