Ensilage Cutter

Ry8N · Sep 27, 2013

Hi all,
I just purchased an old "Blizzard" Ensilage cutter. Apparently mfd. by the J. Dick Company of Canton, Ohio around 1916 or thereabouts. Anyone know anything about this type of machine?

It runs off a fly wheel, and this particular unit is in excellent condition. I am told I am only the third owner as it was in the same family for 86 years. I'm hoping to restore it and either use to make feed for my chickens, or sell it to a collector.

coonie minnie · Sep 27, 2013

Well, you won't make feed for the chickens, as it is not a grinder. It's purpose was to cut whole corn stalks, tied in bundles, chop them in little pieces, and blow them into a silo.

It is made to work with forage, and not grain.

55deere70 · Sep 27, 2013

Next time please post a bigger picture

Greg K · Sep 27, 2013

Too bad we're so far apart, I'd really like to buy that from you. A burr mill or a hammer mill is what you need though.

JMS/.MN · Sep 28, 2013

Like another said, it was made to cut the bundles of the entire corn plant, and blow it into a silo, for cattle feed. Not chickens. Common in early half of the last century. Dad didn"t want to pay custom charges in the 50s, so bought one and we used it for a few years. I bought one on auction in the 90s, for $5, with a few feet of pipe and the gooseneck that goes into the silo. Nice tractor show piece.

Lotsa labor involved using one....cutting bundles in the field with a corn binder, loading onto wagons, feeding into the cutter.

Super-H-Mike · Sep 28, 2013

Looks just like the one that sat in the cowyard at my Grandpas farm for as long as I could remember. It wasnt used anymore for silage, just as a feed bunk more or less. It was a great home for wasps however ! Nice rig you have there, they were once evrywhere, now I hardly see them. Chickens would have a ball scratching around in the silage !

Anonymous-0 · Oct 10, 2013

We owned two of them over the years. Gave Papec a real run for the money in this area. We never used them for corn during my lifetime, but we would use them to chop Black River flats hay for bedding up into the 1970's. Blew it into an old square silo in the upper corner of the barn. Both of the Blizzards we had gave up the ghost when their shear bars broke and destroyed the cutterheads. If you are going to use the thing, pay particular attention the the condition and adjustment of the shear bar! You really do need a hammer mill if you want to make chicken feed.

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