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.
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