Posted another classic Gehl video....

This one is from '67. There's quite the selection of forage & feeding equipment in this one, as well as a cameo from an IH crawler. You'll have to look to find it. :vD You also get to see the pull type & SP Chop Kings in both paint jobs. The original yellow paint job ('65 - '66) & the new Maize Yellow & Blaze Red paint scheme for '67. There's also silo blowers, bunk feeders, a hay conditioner & a decent variety of tractor flavors from that era.

Enjoy!!

Mike

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Pretty cool and fun to watch ! I always think they are going really fast in the field scenes of these old videos.

They are cruising along at a good clip in a few of the Chop King scenes. Looked like they were going to plug the one row head. The SP Chop King with the three row head was chopping some pretty short corn. I don't think that was much of a fight for those 130 horses. :v)

Mike

I enjoyed the video, I was little when that stuff was new. On a side note I got a kick out of all the OSHA violations when they showed the manufacturing of the units .

(quoted from post at 10:52:15 04/18/23) Pretty cool and fun to watch ! I always think they are going really fast in the field scenes of these old videos.

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I think they're speeding up the film to make it look like they're going faster than they really are.

Didn't realize Gehl got so much capacity out of the Flywheel choppers.

Thanks for posting as I really like vintage forage equipment.Neat to see all the different tractors. Did you ever get a chance to do anything with the IH ones of mine? They should be nice as well. Tom

Thanks Tom!!

This is the rundown on the Fairchild tapes. The biggest hangup is the player. By the time I found a parts & service manual for it, the website business had already shut down a year before & the lady hadn't taken it down yet as she was in poor health. So, there went the info needed to find or hopefully replicate the reel drive wheel & the search still continues for another manual. The owner's manual I have & when it comes to anything useful, it's as helpful as a stick in the eye.

One option, as was mentioned, is to make one. I have a few rubber rollers that were pulled from a bunch of discarded 8 tracks. They're newer, so they're not decayed & the width & ID were the same as what was there, compared to another roller in the player that looks nearly identical. They also press on to the drive shaft nicely when frozen in the deep freezer. If only there was a way to figure out what the OD is supposed to be. They turn down very nicely. They just need to be cold. Found it worked best to do it in the shop in negative temps. Any warmer & the face of the roller warms up too much & leaves a rough surface.

Another option for viewing the films is pulling them from the cassettes & spooling them. Which by itself is fine. That doesn't account for wrecking the IH labels on the seam to pull them apart & possibly breaking the case. Without the key, you about have to be an octopus to get all the tabs bent at once to pull the halves open. Learned that from the one that is now pulled apart. The film stuck to itself & tried to do bad things in the cassette. Fortunately, the player was opened up at the time & it was caught before it got out of hand. Not before it could double over on itself & pull the film tight on the reel. I got that mess straightened out & now need to re-spool it or wait for it to grow about a 1/2 mm so to get that last little bit of loose film around the spool. Need to figure out some kind of do-hicky first, to make that process go a lot easier.

The last two options are, have one custom made.... which, after reading about some of the prices people payed, is going to be expensive or....

Find one made before the oil embargo when the rubber quality was still good or find one of the last few hundred made in the wee early '80s with the updated drive roller. Then it would be a matter of finding one close. Shipping on the few that I found will make your wallet pucker!!

So, that's where that is at for right now.

Mike

I've been surprised, too. After my Chop King arrived on the property, I wanted to test it out. There wasn't any corn & it just has the 3RN head.
Took that off & fed it a few bales. Told my cousin to throw the first one on the feeder, I'll cut & pull the strings. He did that & got it just a
bit too close to the feed rollers & there was no getting the twine off safely. The chopper sopped it up like a wet noodle & didn't bog the engine.
Barely heard a change in the stack talk. My cousin quipped, that if they'd fit, you could stack those bales two high on the feeder!

Even though they do have a good capacity for a flywheel cut machine, they do have their limits. There are a few spots in the video where you can see
the corn is getting close to plugging the feed rolls. Later in the video, the Chop King is cruising right along with the big three row head. The
corn looks to be close to 5' tall. Not much of a challenge there.

Last fall a couple pull type Chop-Alls followed me home from an auction. Wanted to see how the appetite compared to the big chopper & fed out a
couple bales to the one with six knives. Took the first bale, set it on the feeder, cut the twine, cranked up the 560 & pulled the lever for the
feeder drive. It did eat it, albeit slower than the Chop King. The 560D poured out some smoke on that one & did not seem to be the happiest. Think
the 806 will go on there next time.

:v)

Mike

I'm still not so certain. A few of those choppers are being pushed to the limits in the corn. The three row was ready to plug the feeder on the pull-
type.

Mike

Glad you enjoyed! Yep, them were the good ol' days. Lol!

Mike