Silage cutting pictures over the years

Moline_guy · Jan 7, 2021

Maternal Grandpa silage cutting corn and picking corn.

Cuttin in the 80's and 90's

Cutting 2000's, same wagon for 40 years.

Couple years ago.

casecollectorsc · Jan 7, 2021

Thanks for posting the great pictures!

Absent Minded Farmer · Jan 7, 2021

Is that a Hesston chopper behind the MM in the first colored photo?

Mike

Moline_guy · Jan 7, 2021

650 International chopper with blower and hay head, we also ran a 2 row corn head and had a direct throw 650, but the one with the blower worked much better.
38 two row john deere chopper
720 two row international chopper
830 3 row international choppper

Absent Minded Farmer · Jan 7, 2021

Ah! I suppose between the dirt & the age on the film the 650 has that Hesston brown look to it. Wonder if that was shot on Kodacolor II? Is that the 830 in the second to last pic? It looks to be in nice shape yet.

Mike

Moline_guy · Jan 7, 2021

Unfortunately there is a gap from the late 60's through the 70s when my Dad and Uncle cut with a 900 and 930 case and pulled two trucks backwards behind the cutter. I have no pictures of this set up. They had a hitch on the back of the trucks that was detachable and hooked to cables that would steer the truck around corners. When a truck was full it was switched out like a silage trailer of the time. They did some custom chopping in the neighborhood during this time. My parents didn't take pictures of machinery so there is a gap from when my Grandma took pictures until I started taking pictures in the eighties. I will have to do some more looking, I may have a picture of the trucks set up but none of the 900 and Ih cutter of the time.

G706 · Jan 7, 2021

Nice, we had almost the same set up, G1000 Vista, New Holland 890, Richardton dump box, Ford LN750. In fact I could put it all back together, but the 585 in the Vista locked up when the oil pump failed.

Moline_guy · Jan 7, 2021

Those 585 were notorious for eating oil pump gears. We had good luck with the G1000's and their 504's, but the 585's in the A4ts were nothing but trouble for us.

Moline_guy · Jan 7, 2021

I couldnt find any pictures of the trucks set up for silage with cattle racks on and a hooped tarp over the top for the silage to blow in but here is a picture of them set up for grain. One is my Uncles converted school bus that my Grandpa made and the other is 55 chevy.

55 50 Ron · Jan 7, 2021

Wow those pictures are truly gems. Thanks for posting.

tomstractorsandtoys · Jan 8, 2021

Looks great. Thanks for taking time to post. I sort of collect choppers. Have an IH 550,Allis 780, 2 Deere 12's,34,35 and a 3940. Here is a pic of my 550 in sorghum last fall. Tom

Charlie M · Jan 8, 2021

As a kid growing up on a small dairy farm I used to love filling silos. We shared equipment with out neighbor so we did one place and moved the equipment to the other. I remember dad's first wagon to chop into was a hay wagon that got racks added for silage. A cable hooked to a shaft on the back would pull the front section of the rack back and the end gate would open to get the silage out. Someone would stand there with a fork and control how fast it went into the blower. Eventually he got a self unloading wagon. I remember some nice falls for chopping corn and I remember some real mud holes.

Moline_guy · Jan 8, 2021

Yes, silage cutting has mostly good memories for me also. My Granda usually took take of the pile and Dad or Uncle on the chopper and truck. When I got home from school I would usually drive truck so my Uncle could go home and do his chores. Growing up my Dad also used wagons like you described. If you look in the picture where they are unloading the ear corn, I think they used something similar to unload instead of shoveling it all out.

Moline_guy · Jan 8, 2021

Great picture, I think the 650 is very similiar to the 550. We still have the 650, but hasnt been used in close to 30 years. It was an easy pulling, well built cutter and gave very litte trouble over all the years it was used.

casecollectorsc · Jan 8, 2021

Neighbors here pulled trucks backward like you mentioned. Dad and a friend started a silo filling ring with Dad's DC Case and a Case C-2 cutter like the one in your pictures. Missed a lot of school helping cut silage...good times for a kid....E SD.

J Hamilton · Jan 8, 2021

Very nice pictures! Too bad you went downhill on the tractor make in the later pics. Lol

swindave · Jan 9, 2021

thanks for posting those pictures!

cumminspuller · Jan 11, 2021

Thanks for taking the time to post these. Chopping silage is one of my favorite things to do. Its been 2 years since we chopped any. Can't get any help to show up anymore.

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