JOHN DEERE 5820 Forage Harvester Chopping Corn 

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Very interesting on the 3940. They are cool choppers. John Deere stopped making pull types in 2019 and they listed for $95,000 at the time. That is very cool to hear Kodak used 716s. I wonder what happened to those wagons?

@@bigtractorpower​​⁠ yes, me too! I’ve asked one of Halpins I’m friends with and he has no idea. $95k….WOW!

They do have a great sounds. One of my favorite sounds in farming.

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@@bigtractorpower of course I'm a small farm, so thanks for posting older equipment videos I do like to see what modern equipment is all about to I do follow Ivers farms in Illinois , so I'm into trying to understand how that kind of farming works

This one is a true 1980’s classic. 👍👍

Big time chopping in 1982.

This was fun day in the field.

It seems that tipping wagons were the most common way to haul silage in Europe in the 1980’s. The chain unloading forage wagons seem to be unique to North America. The 716A was listed o for Europe sales. It would be interesting to know if any made it there.

The 5000 series are a neat part of John Deere chopper history. I have a video featuring all 50 years of John Deere self propelled forage harvesters from the 5400 to the 9900 posted at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-imFEn1oeQ34.htmlsi=Q7Tc_GuBKkVGI6RW The 50 years of choppers video took five years of filming to complete. Unfortunately by 2022 I had not located a 5820. They are difficult to find these days. It was exciting to find this 5820 with matching time period forage wagons. I have not heard from farmers that forage wagons hard on the transmission of an sp forage wagons.

however we in Alsace in France no problem after Germany I don't know and I have a farmer friend he only has old equipment we import from the US totally approved by me and no change and we have an original 8r290 290 hp now booster to 390hp and fully approved at home in Alsace in France

@@noehueber6602there are some very interisting Videos out of France with for example SPFH JD5440/ 5460 or th Caterpillar 880M.

@@frankr.1594 yes I noticed that while being in German at one of our German customers only European tractors we were that day the only ones with American tractors authorized in France and I had been arrested and as we have customers in Germany we are at peace on this point we have the right to travel depending on where you are located if one day you see an 8r290 it's probably me this German customer is a 3 hour drive from the farm by tractor

@@noehueber6602 sorry sir but i am fare away from France. This year i visit the corn hatvest show in Dalen Nederlands, the best show i' ve met bevore. So many differend SPFH corn chopper and some pull type as well. There are some Videos on RU-vid if you're interested.

Thank you for watching. This was an exciting harvester to video. I had been searching for a 5820 for 6 years to feature. This one was a perfect match to the 1982 John Deere sales brochure with the 716A wagons.

Thank you for watching. I spent 6 years looking for a 5820. This one with the 716A forage wagon looks like it is right out of the 1982 sales brochure. I am doubtful any 716 or 714 forage wagons were sold in Europe but it would be interesting to find out if they were.

The 5820 was a big modern chopper in its day. It is interesting to see how different countries haul silage. John Deere, International Harvester and New Holland offered manure spreader box extensions in the 50’s and early 60’s before the chain unload forage wagons gained popularity.

It’s worth checking RU-vid and put in silage UK and you will see hundreds of silage videos as well as my own hopeless little channel with videos of round baling haylage and wrapping bales if you’re interested keep up the good work I really enjoy your channel seeing different ways of working @@bigtractorpower

😁👍👍. The 716 and 714 were built to last. Thanks for the specs for this video Tom.

Thank you for watching.

This was a classic combo right out of the sales brochure.

It sure is. Right out of the 1982 sakes brochure. I spent 6 years looking for a 5820 to film and this one was perfect.

@bigtractorpower yea one thing that be nice would be see a new 5820 with some of the new technology that john deere has put into forage harvesters

The 716A was built to last. Not many 40 year old forage boxes still in use yet you see these still going strong.

Thank you Frank.

The Deere wagons do stand out and many have lasted 40 years. Dion builds good wagons and one of the few still offering wagons. I miss Badger they had a good line of products. I grew up not far from Shortsville, Ny where Papec had its factory. The last Papec forage wagons were built in 1979 but they were all over NY for many years.

Thank you Paulo.

I agree the 716A was well built. 40 plus years in the field and you still see many going strong. Filming this chopping team was like being in the 1982 sales brochure. A 4020, 3970 and a 716A is a very cool chopping team.

Sperry New Holland was the best 😁👍

One of the great classics from the 80’s.

Good question. You chop when the corn is at 65% moisture. You do not not want to chop all green. You will basically get slime. You can tell when it’s ready to chop because the tassels go from straight up to a slight upside down j curl. The header can chop sorghum and could be used to chop rye or wheat if you really wanted to.

Thank you. I appreciate the information. Thank you for watching BTP in England.

Thank you for the information. The weather conditions and road love would be a limiting factor for a wagon.

Kip has an awesome farm. I am a subscriber. I talked with him a little about this video for details on the 716A before I published it.

This was a super find to highlight the way chopping was in the early 1980’s.

Yes it was. In 1998 they returned to the forage box market with a line of Victor Forage Wagons built by Miller Pro. The Victor wagons were offered through 2001. I have a video on a 7810 tractor chopping alfalfa with a Victor Wagon posted at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X-cL_qP26Fs.htmlsi=rVFauFDw4kq0Brr5

At $90,000 it was a big investment in 1982. Today the top end John Deere 9900 self propelled forage harvester is rated at 956 hp and lists for $821,000.