Cool Corn Chopping 1980's Style: John Deere 5830 Forage Harvester 

I'm 71 years old now. Farm was sold when I was 12. I ended up in the Marines after high school and then a Phoenix Police officer gor 28 years. I still have the good memories of my childhood on the farm.

Brings back memories I used to help pack the pile on a 50 Ferguson...10 years old.!!!

Can't believe how quiet the inside of the cab was for that year.

I went back to the farm July 2019. The farmhouse is gone along with the barn and other farm buildings. New homes have taken over the 80 acres my parents owned a long time ago. It was a little sad. Time marches on. I was blessed with 5 children and 9 grandkids. Expensive at Christmas time

Cool vintage equipment doing a fine job! That field looks rough as a cob, pun intended.

Awesome video. I enjoy watching forage harvesting. It is amazing how big and powerful the harvesters are

it's great when you are up in the cab of these tractors / harvesters. I'm surprised at how silent it is in the cab. You were easily able to speak to the driver without shouting. Top stuff as usual BTP. 👍👍👍

Cool video as always...love seeing those older machines in the field 👍

Great Video.This was the first Chopper I worked with for a Contractor in Germany.

I used to farm cotton, alfalfa, grains in Cali. Had to sell out because of the water shortage and high price of water from the aqueduct system. I love watching your videos. Reminds me of the happiest time of my life.

Nice sharing! I never see it before. Thank you.

Thanks BTP . Get tired of see so much mega equipment running, when out in the country whole lot more smaller operations.I use a John Deere 34 , cut and throw type, one row lol. I'm in southeast ky. My wagons are John Deere 125 s chuck wagons. Only chop about 12 acres for small beef herd. Take pride in keeping my old stuff moving. Our first day chopping with it was on 9-11- 01. A day we never forget. Almost 20yrs ago.

I love this video!

Very cool! Thank you for the great content!

It's an oldie but a goodie.

Fentastic

Great old machines a lot less headaches 🚜👍

The corn cutter is awesome, man

As always keep up the good work buddy thanks for everything

Love to watch smaller spfh. Love the variety of equipment you’ve been doing of lately

JD brought one of those out to my dads farm back in the 80’s to demo but we never bought it. We went with a 1895 New Holland instead...

We still run that same chopper for hay and corn getting ready for a 180acre harvest soon hope she stays together for another year!

That's a really cool harvester. Amazing the power to be able to cut such thick heavy crop at that speed.

Its probably paid for best part ,nice video

We still use a 5830 with a 4/30 head and 7 ft pickup. We mounted a Rotary screen from a 1460 IH combine on the radiator to keep things cool. Pulling a Gehl side dump wagon to open fields would plug the factory screen in less than one load, Wasn't as bad when side filling trucks but would still need to stop every hour just to clean the rad and cool the engine down. Replaced a 802 Uni with the767 supper chopper on it and a 1200 Gehl pull type both with 3/30 heads and the Deere can do more in a day than both of them together could.

You have to go to Boehm Farms and get footage of their New Holland 1890 Forage Harvester

We could not pick corn that fast in the mid 60s on our farm just nor4h of Fort Wayne, Indiana. We had an Oliver 70 pulling a corn picker with a wagon pulled by a 1942 Ford tractor. Those were the good old days. Farm was sold in 1959.

Nice video and special to see.

Look at that little chopper go

Here in Eastern Pennsylvania, my cousin still uses a 5830 with a regular 4 row head. A lot of breakdowns and overheating issues every year. But it is paid for.

Awesome Video!!

You remembere the good ol days?

That's awesome to see these older harvesters still running.

MY YOUTH! We had a 5730 with the Champion 3000, 4wd, and a rotary screen. I'm really shocked that a machine like this is still being run without one.

I always wanted to run a silage cutter.

Looks like a new silage pad, are they going to mafia block the 3 sides ? Thumbs up.

I just today learned to operate a forage harvester with this model. My cousins have an almost brand new Dion head on it and a Badger wagon, and I forget what brand the other wagon was but it was (unsurprisingly for us) broken down

That was excellent you know for his age that that chopper is doing an excellent job know if they’ve owned it since new talk about getting good value for their money

What size front tires are you running in the 5830?

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We have a 5730 and a 7700 chopper.

I really enjoy your videos. Thank you .

We used to run a 5460 Deere RWA good chopper for its day.

Great video!! If your interested in a video of older equipment in action we have a 1990 1680 CIH combine that we use to harvest soybeans and corn with and run a 1982 5488 IH on the grain cart. Our farm is in the southern corner of South Dakota. If interested in doing a video here let me know.

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We ran a 5830 for years. I wasn’t a fan of it. The radiator would get plugged up and get hot. The auger bed was a pain to change. Too many roller chains. We did have a 784 corn head. That was a nice head. Running a Claas now. No comparison. Love this machine.

Can you start asking the owners how many times those old machines have paid for themselves? It would be interesting to see and hear their reactions. My Ford 5000 and 7600 have paid for themselves every 2-3 years!

Need some cover crops on that

What is the purpose of chopping corn like this as sileage as opposed to picking it in the fall with the corn picker header on a combine?

Mortel le vintage!!!!!

The brochure says standard rotary screen... Why does this version have a 5460 type non self cleaning screen?

Interesting chopper and head. Not a lot different than the still-current two-row sugar cane chopper that JD makes.

It seems slow compared to today's choppers. How much silage can that truck haul including the roof, windshield, & hood bunks?

Back in 1972 the John Deere dealer near home sold a new 212hp 5400 spfh to a guy named Roy Everetts

whats the fuel consumption like on this beast? 2gal an hour?

Old still works , new more headaches and payments

I liked the homemade silage wagon. Looked like an old grain truck that broke down and they just chopped off the cab and welded a tongue on. 😁

That outside round looks like a pretty miserable job for the truck driver !! Keep the windows up or eat a lot of silage for sure !! Thanks for the throw back video every now and then,you find these guys by accident or know of their operation before hand ?

I think this 5830 is imported from Europe, because it have euro-style white front lights/amber turnsignals In same housing (american have round amber turnsignals/transport warning lights) and that 25km/h speed limit badge on rear. I think it can't go 25mph 😄

Bad allergic to this stuff gets me like poison ivy

I wonder why the field is so rough

We have 5820

I'm interested in a machine like that as I communicate with you

The only good thing coming out of ottumwa IA

Poor ole kenworth had silage for supper

I need one of them if anybody want to donate one

Me j look for a john deere 5800 her in belgium

how manyh acres a day ?

Mid 50s

15:00 hope he has his windows closed

Do you make 💰?

nice video , look at my channel, there are still videos from our 5830

Not playing the game💔

There was one of them not far from here. It was a realy bad Machine, always suffering of Major Problems. In the begining it hasn't a Metal Detector, a broken Teeth of the Tedder was a Nightmaire. In Grass it was realy realy bad, the Augher couldnt handle it. In Corn it was a little better. The Engine was often heating up, wat a John Deere never apriciated. The Augher had lots of waer and tear.