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Forage Harvesting Equipment

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semper_deere

03-20-2007 05:06:19




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Greetings all,

I am currently deployed in Iraq and I was wondering if anyone has pictures of vintage forage equipment in action chopping corn, hay, millet or the like and would be willing to email them to me. Thanks.




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Cliff Neubauer

03-20-2007 10:57:19




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to semper_deere, 03-20-2007 05:06:19  
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I don't know if these would be considered "vintage" but it's far from being state of the art equipment. This is our 1066 and a neighbors Deere chopper we borrowed after our NH 718 sent the shear bar through the housing. I forget what model the Deere chopper was but I think it was a 3950 or 3960.

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El Toro

03-20-2007 13:01:49




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to Cliff Neubauer, 03-20-2007 10:57:19  
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I was sure glad when we started using a chopper for our ensilage. Someone was doing this in 1949
and he did custom silo filling. I think he had a Case chopper and pulled it with a Farmall M.

It went from 3 weeks filling our big silos to about 3 or 4 days. Sure saved on that bull work.
This still reminds me of it. Hal

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Cliff Neubauer

03-20-2007 10:58:09




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to Cliff Neubauer, 03-20-2007 10:57:19  
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This picture is of the same rig taken a couple years later.



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Cliff Neubauer

03-20-2007 11:01:05




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to Cliff Neubauer, 03-20-2007 10:58:09  
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This is our current setup, an IH 830 chopper behind our 5488. Overall I like the IH chopper and head better than the Deere or NH, the Deere chopper itself was a nice rig but I wasn't impressed with the Deere corn head.



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Cliff Neubauer

03-20-2007 11:02:06




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to Cliff Neubauer, 03-20-2007 11:01:05  
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Same rig waiting for an empty wagon at the end of the field.



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E.B. Haymakin'

03-20-2007 12:00:53




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment-whats that bar in reply to Cliff Neubauer, 03-20-2007 11:02:06  
Why are you running that pipe on the front of that 5488? I don't recall seeing that on it if its the same 5488 you've posted. Trying to learn something here, no stones in my hands. Ed



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Cliff Neubauer

03-20-2007 16:39:19




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment-whats that bar in reply to E.B. Haymakin', 03-20-2007 12:00:53  
The pipe is there to lean corn away from the tractor when opening up a field so it won't rub on the tractors paint.



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E.B. Haymakin'

03-20-2007 16:59:59




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 Thanks for reply in reply to Cliff Neubauer, 03-20-2007 16:39:19  
I never thought of that, but I sure bet that corn could wreck a paint job.



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Cliff Neubauer

03-20-2007 17:44:21




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 Re: Thanks for reply in reply to E.B. Haymakin', 03-20-2007 16:59:59  
The year I built that bar we started chopping about a week after we finished painting the tractor and with over $800 worth of paint on it I wasn't going to risk messing it up.



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Cliff Neubauer

03-20-2007 11:03:07




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to Cliff Neubauer, 03-20-2007 11:02:06  
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At the silo with the 826 running the NH #28 blower and the 706 on the NH #8 wagon.



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ravgardner

03-20-2007 10:45:55




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to semper_deere, 03-20-2007 05:06:19  
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If I can get these pictures to link here are a few from our farm dating back to days of horse drawn equipment.

Fall 1912. Thomas Gardner moving a wagon load of cabbage.



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ravgardner

03-20-2007 10:37:09




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to semper_deere, 03-20-2007 05:06:19  
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If I can get these picture to link hear are a few from our farm dating back to horse drawn days.

Fall 1912. Thomas Gardner moving a wagon load of cabbage.



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rav

03-20-2007 10:41:39




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to ravgardner, 03-20-2007 10:37:09  
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Combining 1953 with all the cousins on for a ride.



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Ravgardner

03-20-2007 10:43:06




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to rav, 03-20-2007 10:41:39  
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Combining for real 1953. Allis chalmers bagger combine. 1944 John Deere A pulling it.



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El Toro

03-20-2007 09:06:53




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to semper_deere, 03-20-2007 05:06:19  
Here's the Amish baling hay. Hal


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georgeky

03-20-2007 11:26:18




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to El Toro, 03-20-2007 09:06:53  
With all that rigging I don't understand why the Amish won't get a tractor. I would shock the hay if I wanted to remain in the past and forget about power units and new equipment.



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El Toro

03-20-2007 18:56:01




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to georgeky, 03-20-2007 11:26:18  
We have a lot of Amish families living in SE PA about a 45 minute drive from me. They're had to make changes in order to ship milk. They will use generators for their milk coolers and milkers, but don't use that power in their homes.

They don't own cars, but will ride in one. I saw
a big rotary mower being used to mow corn stalks
and it had a Wisconsin engine to power the blades. It was pulled with 3 big horses.

They're excellent craftsmen in building too. Hal

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georgeky

03-20-2007 20:32:25




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to El Toro, 03-20-2007 18:56:01  
We also have some Amish folks here in KY too. There are two seperate groups some drive cars and some have tractors, but are considered outcast by the others. The state closed their school in Casey county because they had an out house instead of running water, which I think is ridiculous. I grew up with a out house and nobody closed it.



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BarryfromIA

03-20-2007 18:41:16




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to georgeky, 03-20-2007 11:26:18  
The Amish folks that farm around Kalona Iowa use tractors but have steel wheels on them. The highways have wide shoulders that they drive the horse and buggy on.



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barnrat

03-20-2007 07:03:43




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to semper_deere, 03-20-2007 05:06:19  
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Here's a few the first is our "new" Fox 3000 that is waiting to get it's first taste of silage on our farm this spring. The middle picture is a New Holland 707 3 pt mounted chopper and the 1100 we used last fall when it was so wet. The bottom Photo is of the old 718 New Holland taken back in '04, it's last season before we replaced it with a New Holland 782. the wagons in the pictures are old Papec wagons.

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ErnieDD

03-20-2007 15:07:27




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to barnrat, 03-20-2007 07:03:43  
Would the 1100 go slow enough for the 707? Tried that rig on grass and was outta capacity. Plugged tight, and no reverse!



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barnrat

03-20-2007 16:45:38




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to ErnieDD, 03-20-2007 15:07:27  
The 707s wern't known for their grass handling capacity. Anyway 1st low, high or low multipower worked fine for chopping corn when you figure in all the wheel slippage.



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Formerly PaMike

03-20-2007 09:35:27




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to barnrat, 03-20-2007 07:03:43  
Thats great to see. In my area almost everyone hires in the big Claas choppers. Kinda neat to see someone still doing it themselves



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El Toro

03-20-2007 06:29:40




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to semper_deere, 03-20-2007 05:06:19  
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Here's a picture of chopping hay in Wisconsin. They milk 1200 cows 3 times a day. Hal from MD



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Glenn F.

03-20-2007 09:28:41




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to El Toro, 03-20-2007 06:29:40  
Hal: What part of Wisconsin? I'm from the Green Bay area.

Glenn



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El Toro

03-20-2007 10:39:26




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 Re: Forage Harvesting Equipment in reply to Glenn F., 03-20-2007 09:28:41  
I'm not sure which part of the state. The herdsman has posted on the Farmall forum and when he found out that I live in MD he sent me an email. He said his brother is the tech rep for Oshkosh Trucks and is at Aberdeen Proving Ground MD. They were coming down to visit in 2005 and they all stopped by here. His brother met a lady that works at APG and were getting married
and all the family flew down for the wedding this past Sat. He was going going to stop by again but it was icy here over the weekend and were sceduled to fly back on Sunday. Hal

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