What non JD Forage Harvester have been used with two cyl JD?

Anonymous-0 · Apr 14, 2009

What pto driven forage harvester have you used or seen being used behind a John Deere two cylinder tractor? I would like to find a Fox River forage harvester with one row head to use behind a 730 gas or diesel, that would make a nice site to see. Forage harvesters areon of my favorite implements see in action along with threshing machines.

fixerupper · Apr 14, 2009

We had an old Gehl fan type one row behind a 630. She'd pull it in 2nd gear in 130 bushel corn. An A would pull it probably in low gear in today's corn.

I'd put the hay head on (not fun) and pitch round bales into it to grind hay for the stock cows back when I had more muscle and stamina than money. I usually had the 51 A on it then and it would take it about as fast as I cared to work pitching. Sometimes I'd get a little too ambitious pitching, so I'd stand there saying a little prayer listening to the tractor go down to the next to the last pop before it'd recover. Jim

ChrisLSD · Apr 14, 2009

Uncle always used the 2 row Gehl fan type behind his 730 because he had the biggest tractor in the neighborhood

Mel in SW Iowa · Apr 14, 2009

Dad had a Case single row ensilage cutter he pulled with a 530 in 90 bu corn. I think he
pulled it in 2nd gear.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 14, 2009

We were a Fox dealer in good deere country. We also had a man with a 570 Cockshutt that pulled a 2 row Foz IF546 machine.

onefarmer · Apr 14, 2009

As a kid we used a gehl fan type chopper for corn. Don't know the model, was driven by a big v-belt in the back. Also had a NH616 with a direct cut hay head for green chop hay. Later we used a NH-S717. This was behind a JD720

Anonymous-0 · Apr 14, 2009

Did you ever see a two cylinder JD run the Fox and how did the Fox hold up with the two cylinder running it?

Bill(Wis) · Apr 14, 2009

The first corn chopper I ever saw up close was a McCormick one row that two neighbors bought new in a partnership deal in 1949. One neighbor had a MH 44 and the other a John Deere fuel oil A from WWII. That chopper was so poorly designed. The blower on it was way too small. Otherwise it looked pretty much like a silo filler. There was no way the John Deere could power it. It gave the Massey all it wanted but it could handle it. The JD guy was not to be shown up and went right into town and traded that oil burner for a brand new gasoline A. The A could just barely manage to power that McD chopper. The next year, the JD guy backed out of the partnership and bought a new John Deere pto one row choppert. The A handled that JD chopper with no problem. Such was the difference in the design of those choppers.

Kruse · Apr 14, 2009

As a kid growing up on a dairy farm, we had a "G" with some really high compression pistons. This was our plow and silage cutter tractor. This tractor would eat starters fairly consistantly.
We ran a NH717S with a two row head and it easily had enough power for it, at least by those standards.

Leroy · Apr 15, 2009

It is a myth that 2 cylinder will tear things up on pto. We had JD tractors and 2 AC 60 pulltype combines, The AC dealer new we had the pto machine we used with the Deere and when we had the shoe setup break he complained that it was the 2 cylinder shaking it to pieces BUT the machine that broke was powered by its own AC mounted engine. When we got it thru his head it was the AC powered machine that broke he never said anouther word about the 2 cylinders doing that.

formerly ny bill · Apr 15, 2009

i have a 1961 fox spf (self propelled forage??) harvester. i have been told the cutting parts from a IF546 pull behind are the same, so likely the same vintage production. i see another reply below with that model named too.
the only model older than the 546 listed in my equipment guide from 1983 is a model FA "super6". the subsequent models to the 546 are a custom 90, no years listed, and a 425 listed as made from '72-'74, so it would be somewhat newer than your 730.

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