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My latest project, I know its not JD but way back when some JD dealers were selling these. Its model 81 ser. no. 81-05-145, anyone know the year?
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Thanks for posting. Papec was a very popular brand in my region. Lots of them around but not sure which equipment manufacturer sold them. Solid machines along with a lot of Ghel's also. Nice restoration.
 
Did it come with that spout?
It does have knives on the blower right?
A guy had one that set at the silo and chopped and blew at the same time. A stationary chopper.
You hauled bundles to it from a binder.
When did they bundle and shock corn? 30s & 40s
 
Papec was made in this area. A wide variety of dealers carried them here and I think grandfather bought his one row chopper off one who also carried Oliver.
 
We used one of these into the sixties, I'm thinking this is a newer one, it has only 2 wheels, and has metal sides on the apron, most of them I've seen had 4 wheels and I believe wooden sides. Papec was in Shortsville NY and Shelbyville Tn from memory, they were in business into the 70s at least, they made forage equipment, blowers, chopper, forage wagons.
Choppers were primarily flywheel type-like this models 32, 35, 3500, they did make a cylinder cut chopper model 180.
 
I think they lasted till 1978 or 1979. As I recall their reputation was mediocre to good but by the mid-1970's their quality fell off a cliff. Towards the end I think the only thing really selling were the forage boxes. There used to be a few yellow and black forage harvesters sitting in the weeds in Ontario County. I've have not looked since scrap metal prices skyrocketed a few years ago. It would be nice if a little of the local history was still around.
 
I almost said I thought we demo'd a Papec chopper about 98 or 99, but then remembered it was a Dion, it went back to the factory to be re-painted when they got bought out. Was twice the chopper as the 1275 Gehl we ended up with.
 
This is what you are talking about- a silo filler.

The spout would normally have 40 feet of pipe or so between the spout and blower housing.

I'm not sure when the first silo fillers were built... probably 1910's or so. Silos first came on the scene in my neighborhood in the 1880s, but were first filled with elevators, or by being built into a hill.

Deere and I believe IH both had early field choppers in the 1930s, with much improved models by the 40s.
 
Yes I have one length of blower pipe I got with it, just hard to put the top part on and get a picture. I worked for Papec in '65 and they went out in the 70's (bought by Garden Way I think). They moved to Shortsville in 1909 so I know this was made sometime after that, just wanted to narrow it down. Thanks to all that commented.
 
I hauled bundles and threw them into one of them in 1954. Years before that I got stuck in the silo as dad wanted the silage even , not all the corn in one spot and leaves in another. When we got the silo filled, no place for me to go and nobody down below would look up so I let her plug the pipe. That stopped them.
 
very nice i live in shortsville ny..the old papec building burned down yrs ago...couple of the other building still stand thou..there use to be choppers and wagons all over around here..my father said back in the 60s papec demoed their choppers around here they use to pull the chopper with a jd 620 i think he said..i had a 2 row chopper i used to chop sweet corn to feed my beefers..it worked good for a old machine
 
We used a IHC silo filler till about 1951 along with a pto corn binder with a bundle loader to fill flat wagon(hay rack) Took a lot of people to load wagons and unload into filler . They all used 6" blower pipe . Corn binder was used into the 50's to have shocked cornr for shredding (Rosenthal) fodder and ear corn.
 

Dad had one that looked like that one only not much paint on it. He had a old Blizzard with a wooden apron and wood slits on it that was about 1953. Hed bought the used Papc the next year and that thing ran a hole lot easier than the Blizzard.He used it after I left the farm in 1960.
 
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