There are a handful of 16mm films that have already been converted, so I'm going to post a few of them while I wait for projector parts. Hope you like these, as they are my favorites in the collection. Enjoy!!
I accompanied my Grandfather and Uncle as they made and put up corn silage for their dairy operation back from the early 60s until the sold the herd in 1975. They used all Gehl equipment including 2 self unloading wagons. In 1967 they built a big new silo and traded in the old 1 row cutter for a new 2 row cutter and partnered with a neighbor with 2 more wagons. This brought back so many fond memories. Thanks for posting.
Friends I am 75 now and I participated in this type of harvesting it was light work for a teenager and most enjoyable. Saving a load or two for after dark so we could set the carbonators on the belt tractor so there was a small flame coming from the tractors stack made the mix just on the rich side so the tractor started good in winter weather.
I have only seen one of these machines under a tree on an old farmstead. I thought it would be cool to see it run. This is an awesome video,! Thank you for posting this
Hey Ikon,,,have you ever seen one of the choppers featured here in action? Very cool. Osha approved, lol. We had a belt driven, long auger Gehl blower for years until we bought the New Holland. Ran it with an rebuilt F20. We used to dig a small pocket for the tires and staked it down with long steel rods.
Bravo Ikon LOL my first job at 12 years old was driving a silage truck. I had too look thru the steering wheel & dashboard LOL. Boy did I have to haul ass get too the pit to unload & back to the field before the dump wagon got full . thanks for the memories
Really enjoyed the video. When they unloaded the wagon I thought that the amount of spill was minimal. Very impressive. We unloaded wagons into a blower back in the day and often did a lot of cleaning up
Dad bought a new model 1200 chopper and side dump wagon I think in the late 70's ,along with two #99 blowers to fill 4 Blue Harvestore Silos. Had 3 Gehl forage boxes mounted on 1959 ford trucks and used a Gehl center pull windrower, don't remember the model. Ran that combination untill we bought a used selfpropeled JD in the early 2000's. Kinda miss the simplicity and ease of repairing the Gehl. It is still in the shed and field ready for when the JD breaks down. I really enjoyed your video of the early chopper and equiptment. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyd! The center pull windrower might have been a 2245 or similar. Those were good machines. I have a video of those that will be coming up in the next week or so. Stay tuned!!
The flat belt driven silage blower is a hoot, I noticed they didn't take the Transport wheels off when they set it up, But looks as if they only dug them in Maybe a few inches.
It's hard to tell, but it looks like there's a wood stake in the ground in front of the wheel facing the camera. It has me wondering though, how much will that blower pull into the belt on dry hay & a short pipe to the mow? Then again, the original family farmstead had a concrete pad poured next to the silo & there are four semi circular grooves about 2" into the concrete where the wheels of the silo filler sat. Granted, concrete isn't going to give like dirt, it wouldn't take much to chip away at the grooves with a constant heavy pull on the belt. Just my thought on it.
These Gehl video's are great.............Everyone puts up the full line companys, but these short line makers like Gehl I find interesting. Is there any grinder/mixer video's in the future?
You go further back and you'll find people opposed to mechanization in general because you lose your independence. The first thing they'd ask about modern machines is, "How am I supposed to fix that when it breaks?" It gets to the point to where, essentially, you're just working for the machinery company as one of their employees as you end up just working to make them money.
They can be if you ain't careful. The safety shutoff bar was about a decade into the future, from the blower in the video. That only shuts off the feeder chain. There is no E-stop for the fan.
