Fox were good choppers in the day, 2 row. Choppers behind a 4020 or 806 IHC CUT QUITE A BIT Of corn in a day, work the daylights out of those old 40- early 50s trucks with 6’s in them on a 6 mile haul
Here in Barren County Ky A man by the name of George Baker had a Fox 2 row with Badger wagons he done custom chopping in the 70's to middle 80's, that old Detroit would howl all day. They was chopping one day and run into 2 rows of Mary Jane about 100 feet long, every state trooper and sheriff form the whole state was there, TV it was crazy
My Dad worked with FOX in Germany to develop this chopper for the US market so I got to drive them a fair bit which was of course the highlight of my since I was in 4th Grade at that time. I was never in one with a cab so I always got the full volume of that little Detroit. My Dad passed away a couple years ago and I found a bunch of the old brochures for these choppers in one of his brief cases! Lots of very good memeories!
@@RJ1999x I got your reply to this post and went through my Dads two brief cases looking for any lit he might have had and could not find any and I know he had some at least on the self propelled choppers. I called my Mom to ask her if she knew where they had gone to, he also has a set of service manuals again for the self propelled units and Mom told me after Dad passed a friend of dads contacted my mom and she gave him all of it she could find. With that said sorry I apparently do not have any brochures on anything anymore!
@@karlk6860 That's ok, thanks for looking, the reason I asked is my Uncle bought a brand new Allis Chalmers 190 XT series 3 in 1971 and Fox chopper used it pulling a pull type Fox in their sales brochure, just thought it would be neat to find, seeing I have the tractor
@@RJ1999x I sure wish I had it to give to you! I wish I had the technical manuals to I would love to finally learn about how it all worked. Did you know that the self propelled units very early in their development came out with a German built diesel prior to them using Detroits. I remember Dad found one somewhere and brought it home Ithink the engine was stuck and we worked on it and got it lose and he had it running shortly after that, I dont remember if it was a Doitz or a MAN built engine I do remember it was a lot more quieter than the Detroits were!
Fox just seemed to drop off the map. They seemed like pretty good units. Never heard anything bad about them. But you how some people are. if they're not green and yellow they are considered inferior.
Robert Long Actually back in the day, if you were anybody you had a fox chopper, but than new Holland and gehl came with feed rolls and fox refused to quit using a feed chain, so they really self destructed
Thanks for the upload. We had an old Fox chopper that was just 2 wheel drive and was from the 1960's. And don't worry what people say about the music. I always thought it was a good song.
I'd love to know where I can find the newer style corn head like you have here in this video. It'd make things a lot easier as it wouldn't plug quite so often.
I've got a Fox Max II that I use here on our farm.........good tough machines, hard to kill. I bought the machine about 6 years ago and spent about 3500 on new bearings and etc. since then it's only been new knives and shear bars and the occasional oil change. Still got the old style corn head though..that kind of stinks.
For bearing an others it needs to use a adhésive grease mix whith a grafit coloïdal powder... then the bearing will work a long time very esaely... for the chains an adhésive oil (like motor saw) mix the same powder... sorry my poor writing.....
Great video but it would be even better if you reposted with the actual field sound for all to appreciate. Please post more Fox choppers working in the field!
