I loved the 1st, the John Deere 4020 with the 35 harvester. Farming old school, open cab, so you can take in your surroundings, you can hear when something is wrong with the tractor or the chopper before it breaks. You can see and feel the weather changing, you become a part of the environment and the things going on around you. You aren't sealed in some isolation chamber with AC while blasting the radio isolating yourself from what's going on around you. I watch your videos with the new school tractors going Mach 4 up and down the fields with 12 row harvester staring at computer screens with ear phones piping in the latest noise. Seeing the planting or harvesting as some sort of nuisance that has to be accomplished ASAP. It hurts My heart to see Faming becoming so impersonal and industrialized. I watch how cows are handled today, roughly and cruelly. We had 100 head of Holstein, if My Uncle, Grandfather, or Father treating a cow like that, they wouldn't wait to take Me out behind the barn. they would beat Me where I stood. Its heartbreaking to see what Farming has become. The Equipment Manufactures kept preaching "time saving equipment and techniques" pushing us to all go faster, to get more done. We have lost ourselves in the process.
They did that with everything, farming was an industry that held out for quite a while. But, like the man said, give me control of a nation's currency, and I care not who makes its laws.
But, at the same time, we can today get so much more out of an acre than we used to. So many acres have been taken out of production since the 70s or even 80s, we need to be able to make the most out of every acre
I remember the belt drive long hopper blower and staking them down. We had wagons with false endgate and a wench to pull the load back . we had a long handle rake and were real careful not to hit the board holding the gate up. When we went to a 717 new holland and self unloading wagons we thought how easy we had it. I am so glad you put this video up brings back memories of better times. One fond memory we did custom chopping and we put the silo pipes up and down on each farm I'll never forget the day my uncle was going up the silo with the pulley hanging off his back pocket problem was he was skinny which almost created a rather embarrassing moment
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Many fond memories of working for my neighbor in high school in the early 1980s pulling and unloading wagons of chopped hay in the summer and chopped corn and high moisture shelled corn into harvestore and concrete stave silos. I have always loved the smell of ensileage and slightly sour smell of that shelled corn coming from those silos when it was feeding time. I still catch a whiff of it from some of the neighbors and takes me back to my younger days.
Well jason, since you've asked, here in our place in the Western PA we only green chalk and that's just usually our third cutting of hay to feed our 70 head production beef cattle herd. We'll start about Labor Day you see when the pastures get a little short and run through till about Thanksgiving usually if the weather holds and we don't get snowed on. And we use the John Deere 16a flail chopper. We have two a good one and a spare that's just as good as not quite so pretty and we'll pull it with either a superh Farmall we have two of those here or my preference is my 75c Case IH. And we got them unload everyday that the weather permits we used to cut with an old New Holland 717 it was a cut and throw machine with a direct cut grass head on it it worked all right but the deer with the regular fan does it so much nicer job and it'll run practically in the rain we can run where it's damper than we could with the New Holland and we've had good luck with that outfit. Just thought I'd let you know since you asked.
we had a New Holland 890 in the late 70's and early 80's that was a huge improvement over what we had before, took the power of 150+ hp tractors. Replaced that with a Deere 3975 that was probably the best ever.
i chopped a lot of hay with an 1880 New Holland back in the 80's, with no cab on it, and those were some of the best days I remember working the fields, ever !!
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My brother and I had a New Idea model 802 Uni tractor, 426 Allis powered, 170 hp with hydro and rear wheel assist. Had the forage harvester with 3 row wide/narrow corn head and hay head. The combine had a windrow pickup for harvesting oats and a 4 row corn head. Bought new in 1984 from Koby Implement in Plainview, MN for our 300 acre dairy farm and some custom harvesting. It was New Idea orange. We didn't operate it a lot, since we swore our Dad could hear us start making the first round from 2-1/2 miles away in town. Gave him a lot of enjoyment and us a lot of help. Miss him.😎
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My Pop loved the early fall - He had a single row Gehl corn chopper and did custom work for the neighbors. Initially powered by a WD45 diesel, "upgraded" to a D17 diesel for more gears. He loved to occasionally cover the other farmers with corn silage if they weren't paying attention to harvesting-on-the-go. I am 70 and THOROUGHLY enjoy your videos, especially the older equipment still in use. Thanks!
The only thing I loved as a kid with a 4430 and 3800 with 2 row head (narrow 30 inch rows for us, 36 inch row heads for the neighbors we did custom chopping for) and the 216 wagons without the extensions was that silo filling took a lot longer than with the 4440, 3950, 3 row head and 716As. I loved the noise of the JD 66 blower with 2640 sending it up the pipe. Harvesting season for ourselves and the custom work was a month plus. With today's equipment and bags its over in a day or 2. These videos are the 1st non rear tandem 716As I've ever seen.
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Amazing video great machine Very impressed with John Deere chopping corn Beautiful countryside Have a nice day bigtractorpower Thank you for sharing this amazing video
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My favorite was an International Harvester 720 from the late 1970's. Very handy, except was prone to shear pins when you pushed it to capacity. Sometimes had to put in a harder shear pin to get anything done. We also had a Papec chopper from the late 1950's that was pretty indestructible. And before that an Allis Chalmers forage chopper from the mid 1940's that worked well, too.
Without a doubt the New Idea Uni-system at the end was something else. Loved it when the guy brought the empty silage wagon to the chopper, then had to get out to unhook it from his tractor, pull his tractor out of the way so the chopper could hook up to the empty wagon, with the guy getting out again to hook it up to the chopper, and then hook up his tractor to the filled wagon. Done this so many times, ha ha ha...so so inefficient!! This Uni-system had to be one of the last ones before it was sold to White Corp and boy this unit is really prestine!!! The system was should have been more popular as you could use the base unit for a silage chopper, or convert to a combine, or convert to a large snowblower. This had to be ideal for dairy farmers living on country roads to get their milk out during bad snowstorms. But it seems not many used them.
They weren't handy. I worked for a guy that had 2, 803 power units. Picked ear corn, chopped, and a snow blower. They were time consuming to switch. The big, implement drive belts were expensive, and would slip if wet. Also the silage wagons pushed them around. The cabs were uncomfortable and the steps up to the cabs were the worst. Neat idea poorly executed
@@allenhollenbach4692 Haters gonna hate! Need a level spot to switch implements. Later cab was nice. Rear wheel assist prevents wagons from pushing you around. Chopper was a Fox design, I believe. Ran ours on 80 ft. wide contour strips. Steep sidehill slopes. Never felt unsafe.
I have to say those real clean Whites with that New Idea were my favorite in the video. My friends family has chopped their silage for many, many years with a 2wd 5288 International and a 2 row new holland chopper but I forget which model
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Spent lot time around a pull type 3940 John Deere!! Pulled it with a John Deere 4640!! But these new self propelled choppers are the best!! Especially with 10 and 12 row heads!!
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Great job as always! We use a Case IH 7220 MFD tractor a Gehl 1250 chopper with a 2 row head and Meyer 500 TSS chopper boxes for corn silage for our beef cattle on our farm in Wisconsin. (northwest of Green Bay, Wi.) Oh, By the way I'm surprised I didn't see any Fox forage harvesters in this video. Thanks and keep up the GREAT work.
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Reminds me of times in NH & Gehl dealers in late half of 80s , eastern new YUCK state , cobleskill , sharon springs canajoharie areas , much chopper work , 9 months of the year .where I learned the term "J pan" and " leave a dime , pickup a neckel"
Or contractor had 2 new holland 2300 choppers 20 years ago, one white a cat engine and one white a daf engine we heard them 2 km away I still miss that time, all the fields are city now
Had a Fox self propelled with a Detroit diesel on my grandfathers farm, and two Fox 3000 pull type choppers with two row heads as well. Had a 1971 4320 on one and a 1964 4020 power shift on the other. Sometimes it was all they could handle in second gear here in northern Illinois chopping corn. The self propelled was a powerhouse, loud and dirty, it got the job done. Would like to see one again working, the self propelled went away in 1991 and I have not seen one working anywhere since that time.
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Right?! We are a multi-generational family farm and ranch. We have a family-friendly RU-vid channel and we just released a video of chopping our silage using our “classic” equipment! We would love for you to check it out! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lE3Yi-_cB4A.html
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I seen that Allis 780 chopper and thinking "how did they get that head to feed?" but then I seen it was a one row head not a two row. I have a 782 with a two row head and can not get it to feed.
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Wow that was awesome watching thanks, Loved the 4020 fueling up and rolling a little coal in the first lineup. I did feel sorry for that Heston when I saw the blocked intake screen, must have been running warm😂 I started out driving a Claas 690 self propelled and then piloted a Claas 860 finishing up on an 890 with 600hp. As a kid on my parents dairy farm I spent many hours in the backseat of a Renault 155.54 Tractor pulling a Claas trailbehind Jaguar 75 foragers owned by the local contractor. Once that stuffs in your blood... That poor driver in the white tractor in the last clip had some running around to do with the manual trailer hitching😂 Great work with the audio too, There is no mistaking the high shrill of a Kemper head in action even before I saw that orange/red paint job, the sound from those heads always made me cringe from its effects😂 Will forever worship the Claas RU head in maize and corn tho.
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we had a john deere 2940 4x4 with a new holland 3 point hitch chopper in the 70's...we were going places that alot of the bigger couldnt go when it was wet. what was nice about the chopper is that you could leave it hooked up and unload the wagon direct from the chopper into the silo if you had to... 3 badger unloading wagons and a jd 4020 to haul the wagons could just keep up!! love your videos, keep them coming!!
One of my favorite videos yet (and I've been watching for years) I hate seeing older equipment at shows, demonstrations, plow days, or the mother of all sins restored (painted) and put on display in collections never to work again. But to see them in their natural habitat is a wonderful thing and brings back memories of all the farming I've been involved in since I first fell in love with farming when I was teenager. 90% of all forage harvesting in my area still looks just like this today expect the fields are smaller and the ground a heck of a lot steeper. Great video and this one will go under my favorites/watch later section of youtube. I'd like to see a lot more of this sort of thing in the future please and thank you
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Can't even remember what was used on all the family's different farms. I do remember the sight's, smells and sounds from the '60s as if it was today. I think I am the only one left to remember from the family. I don't care what anyone says, those were the best of times.
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I started with 34 John Derek Our farm over decades went from Gehl with 4 cylinder Wisconsin To Allis Chalmers To 34 John Deere To Fox To the one I liked the best was a Heston The older choppers didn't have the throw capacity Today our chopping is hired out to a farmer that has Claas with kernel processor. Bunk us chopped and covered in 2 days.
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We used to run a NH sp240 on a 4840, then we downgraded to a 4850 which kept blowing up its PTO, then we made the huge upgrade to a NH 8970. About 5 years ago we got tired of the pull type and bought a Claas Jaguar 850
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No Fox self propelled? I remember helping my uncle in the summer and fall and he had a 69 or 70 year Fox with a 4 cylinder Detroit engine. I lived 4 miles away and slept with my windows open and when he fired that thing up I could hear it and it was like an alarm clock telling me it was time to get to work.
My grandfather had the same chopper, with the Detroit engine, loud and lots of power. Had two Fox 3000 two row pull types as well. That self propelled Fox was quite a runner for sure.
@@jackanapes6676 I remember once the intake tube to the blower collapsed. That thing was belching so much black smoke it was unreal. We got some clothes dryer tube because it was all we had handy, it collapsed too. We had to get some stainless steel exhaust pipe. That thing had a lot of suction
❤😊 in the late 70s My friend David and me would take the 190 Allis Chalmers and a 1 Row John Deere pull type Chopper and Wagon and chop a load of Silage for his Grandpa's Milk Cow that was NAMED NIG AND THE BULL AND THE CALF FROM LE SUEUR MN❤😊
Love those old tractors and the choppers humming. When I was a boy growing up I spent hours and hours running our neighbors 4020 hauling silage. It had a ad on turbo. Brought back a lot of memories.
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This brings back memories from the 90s working at the feedyard. We had 3-5488s and 2-7240s pulling 2 row choppers. We used Field Queen box choppers to open the fields. We had trucks along side of the choppers to haul the silage.
That thing has gotten to be the Smallest & Cutest little Self Propelled Forage harvester I've ever seen, That along with the AC & Uni 801 I think are my Top 3 favorite.
Loved this video!!! Took me back to my early/mid teens chopping with a 2 row Fox 3310 pulled by a White 2-105. My dad bought both brand new & wow we had it made !!!
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We used a papec for a few years. Sold it on an auction a couple years ago and the new owner was tickled pink when we told him there was a hay head for it. I think he's still using it
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Neatest chopper on the first farm I worked on was a Gehl Brothers two row self propelled chopper powered by a straight six Continental power unit. Nicest chopper was a 3970 John Deere three row on a 4450 running about 180hp.
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Testing the next generation of chopping equipment, i can say its going to be a BIG change. I do believe they should cap the forage harvesters at 1000hp.
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When I was a kid, a very long time ago, I looked forward to filling a tile silo on the farm in Iowa. My dad hired 2 brothers that had the equipment. They had a Case 830 diesel that they pulled the chopper with and I can still see the black smoke rolling. Good times.
Very cool. Corn chopping is one of my favorite things to film. It’s all the better with classics like these. Do you recall the chopper they ran in the 830?
@@bigtractorpower Sorry, that was close to 60 years ago, I only recall the Case because it was a beast compared to the little Ferguson TO30 and Massey Ferguson 65 we had at the time. The chopper was probably only one row. They would fill the silo in one day and it would settle maybe 30% overnight and they would come back the next day and bring it back to full.We had over 100 head of cattle on hand most of the time and fed silage, small square bales of hay, and since we put up ear corn back then, we would have a guy bring a mill mounted on a truck and grind cob meal. Something you may enjoy, the mill was on an old COE GMC and powered by a Chrysler hemi with no mufflers. He folded the drag out to the door of the corn crib and we scooped the corn into the drag and the cob mean was run into a wagon As I recall the hemi ran on propane.
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Really liked the 4020/#35 chopper and JD forage box combination. My Dad sold a bunch of these in the day as a rep for Carlyle and Anderson JD out of Hamilton VA Loudoun County.
I had a NH 1881 crop cruiser. It worked great in corn. When I used it for hay I had to make sure the knives were set close to the band (it is cut-and-throw) or else I could not get the hay into the wagon!
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.I really enjoyed the Uni system and White's but my favorite even though outdated is the old 782 Allis ! You could hear them for miles ! Keep up the good work .
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