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Ken Loewenhagen
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Badger was built in Kaukauna Wi. They had choppers, self unloading forage racks, running gears, blowers, silo unloaders and a few other things that I can't think of right now. The guys that had them seemed to like them. There are a few forage racks still around. Badger was not owned by anyone for many years. Badger has been gone for many years.
rockyridgefarm
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It was considered a lighter duty, cheaper line of equipment. We had three BN950 16 foot boxes. They were ok when new. They only had a two speed gearbox, so slow to unload. With plywood sides and thin steel, they age poorly. Any around now are pretty junky, especially if stored outside. Neighbor still has a badger blower. It does ok with high moisture corn, but not great. He also had a Badger spreader. It basically fell apart after about ten years of use. They also rebadged Vermeer balers and made silo unloaders conveyors and feed bunks
Badger sold out to Miller St Nazianz in the late 90s.
tomstractorsandtoys
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Massey was connected to Badger in the 60's and 70's. I have two Badger silo unloaders and am not impressed. I think they just copied other companies and cheapened them up. The early Badger chopper looks like a copy of the Deere 6 and 12's and the forage boxes look like cheap copies of the Deere Chuckwagons. There are two kinds of Badger forage boxes. Those that have been welded up and those that need welded up. The very last 1050's were a decent wagon and they were also sold as New Hollands. We have a huge Badger dealer near us and he sold more unloaders,barn cleaners,conveyors,blowers and wagons that all his competition. Tom
I had Badger forage wagons and I was very happy with them. I stored them inside which helps any
equipment last. You could buy a different sprocket to make them unload faster. Later I hired chopping.
They had kasten boxes. After that I hired a guy that had Meyers boxes. The last 2 had variable speeds
which I usually had wide open to unload except into a bagger. The variable speeds slipped if it was
drizzling. Corn silage I would unload in "high" or as fast as the variable speed would go so thay all
were essentially one speed boxes. In haylage I was use "low" which was too slow, but "high" was too fast
50% of the time. If looking for used I would buy Badger boxes, they were very dpendable for me.
equipment last. You could buy a different sprocket to make them unload faster. Later I hired chopping.
They had kasten boxes. After that I hired a guy that had Meyers boxes. The last 2 had variable speeds
which I usually had wide open to unload except into a bagger. The variable speeds slipped if it was
drizzling. Corn silage I would unload in "high" or as fast as the variable speed would go so thay all
were essentially one speed boxes. In haylage I was use "low" which was too slow, but "high" was too fast
50% of the time. If looking for used I would buy Badger boxes, they were very dpendable for me.
Sold a wide array of livestock equipment from the 1950's until the early 1990's when sold to Miller. Badger mostly sold forage wagons and gutter cleaners around here with a sprinkling of their other products as well. I thought the stuff was decent but then again I was not around it using the equipment every day. There was a dairy on the next road over that had quite a few Badger products such as spreaders, mower-conditioners, and bunk feeders as well as forage wagons and gutter cleaners. That farm was not easy on any of their equipment but the stuff seemed to hold up fairly well. The company was doomed by the late 1980's as demand for small dairy farm equipment tapered off. Around the same time JD stopped building forage wagons and other manufacturers trimmed back on similar offerings for small dairy farms. A bygone era at this point in time. I had some Badger brochures and still might have a few. There were a couple of very active dealers around here and after the one got out of business it took a while to sell off his inventory as he had so much in the way of gutter cleaner chain among other parts. Had a BN1055 box new that hung around there for a few years.
Bruce from Can.
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The badger equipment that I had to work with as a kid working out for neighbors, was as good as any of the competitors of the era in the 1960’s. There are still lots of old Badger pieces still in use, but items like stable cleaners and manure spreaders tend to get eaten up by the manure. Forage blowers and forage wagons still live on, as do many old silo unloaders, but their time and usefulness is running out. Not the equipments fault.
fastfarmall
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I seen a 160 or 180 bushel spreader in the blacksmith shop years ago, when they were sold by Massey, the beaters shaft were only 3/4 or maybe a inch in diameter they kept breaking,on this one dairy farmer's spreader,not a pleasant job for the blacksmith,and how do you beef it up,without getting bigger bearing holders//bigger shafts, it didn't look good to me or the repairman!!
I always thought that Badger would have been a good pairing with a company such as Allis Chalmers if they were not a subsidiary of Massey Ferguson. AC failed quite a number of their dealers in the East by not having a line of livestock equipment to bring customers in to keep dealers open. The dealers that had New Holland took up Ford during the 1980's and most of the others that did not have New Holland closed.
caterpillar guy
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We have 2 self unloading wagons setting around from when the cows were here. Probably should put them on duty as wood wagons or round bale wagons. At least till the running gears are shot. We di weld a truck axle under the rear of one running gear to replace the broken spindle. Never had a problem after that.
buickanddeere
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uncle had Badger silo unloaders and gutter cleaners but nothing else badger. Wife's Grandfather had either a Patz or Jamesway ?? gutter cleaner but unloaded the silo by hand.
their later model forage wagons were the same as New Hollands. not sure who built which. if the NH were Badgers or if the Badgers were built by NewHolland.
their later model forage wagons were the same as New Hollands. not sure who built which. if the NH were Badgers or if the Badgers were built by NewHolland.
BarnyardEngineering
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Massey, Badger, and New Holland all had the same forage wagons for a number of years.
There were literally dozens of variations, but they all have those signature stamped steel beaters.
We have two Massey and one New Holland, still used to run around 40 loads of feed into the silo every year. The Massey wagons are 1975 and 1978 vintage, and the New Holland is early 1990's if I were to guess.
The New Holland is geared slightly faster than the Massey wagons in HI. As for being slow, they will put as much material into the blower as the tractor has power to put up the pipe, and I can generally keep ahead of Dad chopping if we don't have to travel too far, so they are plenty fast enough.
With all three wagons and both me and my brother hauling, our record was 27 loads between morning and evening chores.
There were literally dozens of variations, but they all have those signature stamped steel beaters.
We have two Massey and one New Holland, still used to run around 40 loads of feed into the silo every year. The Massey wagons are 1975 and 1978 vintage, and the New Holland is early 1990's if I were to guess.
The New Holland is geared slightly faster than the Massey wagons in HI. As for being slow, they will put as much material into the blower as the tractor has power to put up the pipe, and I can generally keep ahead of Dad chopping if we don't have to travel too far, so they are plenty fast enough.
With all three wagons and both me and my brother hauling, our record was 27 loads between morning and evening chores.
Sparktrician
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We have 2 badger silage wagons. The first silage wagon we got was a badger and a well used one. It broke the front center unload sprocket weldment loose, and for the cost of another wagon and the time it would have taken to fix that one....it was relegated to parts.
In comparison to the artsway, meyer and gehl wagons I also have aquired....Im not sure about the badgers....they seem to be ok, but are nothing to get overly excited about....Ive spent more time working on the badgers than any of the others.....but they were ALL well used wagons when we got them....so thats not really a fair comparison....just something I have observed.
In comparison to the artsway, meyer and gehl wagons I also have aquired....Im not sure about the badgers....they seem to be ok, but are nothing to get overly excited about....Ive spent more time working on the badgers than any of the others.....but they were ALL well used wagons when we got them....so thats not really a fair comparison....just something I have observed.
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