Old forage equipment- Gehl

coonie minnie · Sep 17, 2017

Went to the Richfield, WI Thresheree today.

When Gehl left West Bend, WI a few years ago, they donated their collection of old Gehl equipment to the Richfield Historical SOciety. Much of it was on display this weekend. I thought many of you would enjoy. There was much more than what I photgraphed, but it will give you an idea. The models were exhibited by a couple from Mt Horeb, WI.

Philip d · Sep 17, 2017

That's some really neat equipment thank you for sharing!

coonie minnie · Sep 17, 2017

Wish I had taken more. There was an old pull type chopper, a couple of very early forage boxes, silo fillers, a horse drawn spreader... more for next year, I guess.

NY 986 · Sep 17, 2017

Good looking rigs. I wish I was several hundred miles closer so I could have gone. Anyways, several years ago there was a 1 row Gehl with a Red Lion(?) engine at auction over by Bellona, NY. It had been stored away with little use on it. The paint scheme told me it was a generation newer than the ones you pictured. It went for 600 dollars and the collector in me wishes that it could have come home with me. There was also an Oliver 1550 that sold for around 3,300 dollars and the family kept an Oliver 1555 diesel. Also, a set of front mount Oliver 4 row cultivators for a 4 digit that brought a lot of money. I nearly wept after that sale because I was not a player.

rrlund · Sep 17, 2017

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Philip d · Sep 17, 2017

Very nice. I just watched a Machinery Pete video from a show a month ago. Bob Shimitz (spelling?) has his fathers and uncles home designed 1952 3 row self propelled harvester. They cut a John Deere GP tractor in half with a hack say mounted a 6 knife chopper 3 row Gehl head,2 v8 Ford engines to run everything. Very neat. He also has their home made tractor with a cab,narrow front and tandem drive made from 3 Farmall's they used to custome plow with.

larry@stinescorner · Sep 17, 2017

Nice pictures!!

Bob Bancroft · Sep 17, 2017

Maybe "Red Seal"? Continental Red Seal, "powerful as the nation)? If I remember correctly.

NY 986 · Sep 17, 2017

You're probably right.

coonie minnie · Sep 17, 2017

There was a pull type there today with, I believe, the Continental Red Seal engine. THe self propelled might have been a continental as well.

Bob Bancroft · Sep 17, 2017

I've never seen a self propelled chopper like the one pictured. That's a Continental sitting there right beside the operators position. Good thing they were a quiet engine! That poor engine had to be overwhelmed with two rows. Looks like the same engine we had on the Bidwell bean thresher.

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