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john deere #74 ensilage harvester

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atwater

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going to look at a john deere 74 harvester tomorrow & wondering if any one knows much about them? possibly even how wide?
Sam
 
it fit! too bad its to late for corn this year.[/img]
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There was a clip on you tube about a year ago, where a guy goes out with a two row J D cutter, and a 450 IHC tractor and cuts a little silage, he goes thru the mechanical part of the cutter also.
 
I got home to late to drop it off at my shop so it come with me to work. which was handy because my compressor is dying and i needed to change a tire & blow some more crud off the machine. About 5 years ago we added onto the old barn & tinned it.
 
My dad bought a used JD No. 64 one row chopper sometime in the 1950's. The old 64 here looks near identical to what is in your picture. I was a child in the 50's but remember dad and a neighbor swapping work in harvesting corn silage. When I was a teen in the mid and late 60's we were still using it. I chopped sometimes pulling the thing with a new Int. 504. Chopper was obsolete and slow and worn out. Dad replaced it with a used JD No. 6, also a one row , but still with the flywheel type chopper/blower. Pulled that with the 504 also. We bought an IH 756 tractor in 1974 and used it to pull the old JD harvesting corn and small grain for silage using a sickle bar header on the chopper. Both machines are still here. The 64 is junk in the fence row just waiting to scrap. The row head on the 6 crapped out on us in the mid seventies so we replaced the machine with a modern New Holland. The 6 is still usable with the sickle bar, but have not used it in 30 years or so as we chop small grain with a pick-up head on the New Holland. Old flywheel machines would probably be impossible to find new knives for now.
 
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