Posted by Jeff in ND on September 28, 2016 at 12:16:25 from (192.43.65.245):
In Reply to: Chopping corn (pic) posted by oldtanker on September 27, 2016 at 10:22:06:
That sounds like what my Dad and a few neighbors did from probably the 1950s into early 80s.
I remember the manure cleaning in late August and a row of spreaders from the neighbors waiting for dad to fill them with 1936 WC Allis with trip bucket loader. The hydraulic pump would get so hot it would not lift and he'd hang bags of ice on it. That would have been in the early 1970s. When I was old enough, I got to run one of the spreaders. Remember sitting in the cattle yard with AC WD45 and a ground drive Minnesota spreader. Mom would use the bigger newer spreader. The last couple of years, it was just Dad and Mom. I spent a couple weekends doing the last cleanup the fall (1997) before Dad retired as he was in the hospital. That old WC was (and still is) a brute to handle with that loader.
Neighbors were older than dad and when they retired in the 80s he eventually ended up with the last Chopper (New Holland 717, 1 row), the blower & pipes (Allis Chalmers), and 2 of the wagons. Wagons were rear swing open barn door types and a apron chain in the floor. They were not self-unloading and you had to use corn hook/forks at the back to unload onto the conveyer belt for the blower. Much smaller than the photo here. Pipes got moved from farm to farm and someone would have to climb the silo w/rope tied on their waist to run it through a pulley up there. Rope tied to the pipes on the ground and other end to tractor to hoist them up. In later years it was me up there. Not a safe deal at all when the gooseneck came up and the man on the ladder had to grab it and steer it into the roof hatch on the silo. The last time I did that was 1996 and no way I would do that now! One slip and you'd be very thin on the ground.
In the later years, Dad used a White 2-105 with that chopper and the picture starting this thread looked just like back in the 1980s. Wish there were pictures of the Moline M-670 from the 1970s on the chopper but there are none.
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