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
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!
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
