antique McCormick silo filler

We called them a cutting box. They cut the corn stalks like a forage harvester did and then blew them up the pipe like a blower did.
Later Bob
 
Uncle had one of those. Dad used it to chop corn bundles and blow the silage into a temporary silo, made by putting up a ring of snow fence and lining it with paper. When the first ring got full, we added another ring on top of that. Think we stopped with 3 rings high though; don't remember ever going any higher.
 
It's a no. 5 made from 1940 -1955 you can tell the no. 5 by the single wheel in the front. I got mine for $150 but had to drive to Mich from Ill. I would have paid $500 for one in Illinois but couldn't find one close. It was real fun hauling it on a trailer with wife's Astro van through Chicago to Peoria, 80-90-94 through Indiana white knuckle driving hauling farm equipt.
 
I know an amish parts dealer in ohio that'd probably have parts for you.

Only problem is you'd have to write to him - no phone.
 
We had a Unadilla wood silo, a square silo in the corner of the barn and when they were full, up went the snow fence silo. The Unadilla was 32 ft. and we'd go about half that height with the snowfence. PITA to put up and fill, and substantail spoilage if it wasn't fed out quickly. But one makes do with what you have.
 

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