old silage chopper with power unit on it?

michaelr

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My grandpas place has a super old Silage Chopper sitting in tree line. It is PTO driven for some piece of it, but there is also an engine on it. This thing looks to be from the 40's or 50's? What manufacturer would have made it?
 
I can"t think of any unit like that, but a pic would explain a lot. AC had a power unit option for its silage chopper, blower, combine, Roto Baler. Same unit would interchange among them. Gehl, maybe Skyline, and possibly others made engine powered choppers when tractors were smaller.
 
Think Deere also did. Probably about all of the companys that made forage harvesters. A lot of brands not sold in my area. And that would have been from the period before live PTO was readily avaible.
 
Dad s second Case chopper had a V 4 cyl. Wisconsin eng. on it. It was not as power full as a good D C tractor was that we used with his first Case chopper.
FOX had Cont. Red Seal engines as well as Le Roi engines if you did not want a P T O . The Red Seal engines were painted grey, The LeRoi s were all yellow. clint
 
Love the pictures. I've got a Papec ensilage cutter in my barn. When I was growing up on a small dairy farm in the 60's we had a 1 row JD corn chopper similar to one of the pictures we co-owned with the neighbor. Neighbor did the chopping with a JD 70. One of the pictures may have been of the silo blower we used - it was JD and belt driven and had a fairly long table on it. We supplied the tractor for the belt - originally a W9 and later with a Cockshutt 50.
 

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