TOP 10 Forage Harvesters of 2019 

My grandpa has been gone for 45 years. He farmed 120 acres with a John Deere A. If only he could see how far farming has evolved.

Growing up, there were many Gehl & NH pull-type forage harvesters in the neighborhood. We were the "odd" ones. We first had an old Fox 3000 chopper, then a Hesston 7020 and then a Hesston 7150. Now we have Claas Jaguar 950 self-propelled. Man, times have changed!

Could just about smell that fresh Alfalfa in the air. Merry Christmas everyone. Thanks Big Tractor Power. 🤶🎅🎄🎁⛄☮

That 9410 looked so narrow... I half expected to see it tip over lol The American flag on the Jaguar at the end was a nice touch.

A custom operator who lives near Monticello WI has 2 self propelled Claas choppers. The one has tracks and is supposed to be the first Claas chopper on tracks sold in the US so far.

Thank you to all the farmers for your work Merry Christmas farmers.

That New Holland at 2:30 was really flying.

Yes there something about chopping silage the smell the power thanks Merry Christmas to all of you.🤟

My favorite scene in this video is the Claas 980 Jaguar. A beautiful sunshine day. Thanks for showing.

😎👊..I consider this to be the second best video..corn chopping during the winter snow..awesome.👊😎

I enjoy watching all your videos! Greetings from Portugal.

Perfect selection. Always love haying season. Thank you for the video update eh. Have a Good and Safe Holliday Season. 🇨🇦

We would like to thank everyone for all your work taken to accomplish your goals... to us it's very educational and we thank you for sharing your video with us...

Love the case 7200 setup with the NH trailed forage hatvester

I love your videos and how they can take you back to your child hood as well as the present day.

Great video. Forage harvesters are some of the coolest Peace's of Fame equipment out there

I got a kick out of watching them chop corn in a Wisconsin snowstorm. Never seen that before. Must have been like late August....

I enjoyed watching both types, self propelled and pulled equipment. Odd seeing it snow while chopping corn. Enjoyed top 10 episode. 🚜🎅🎄🇺🇸👍

Nice! i run one it takes alota team work to have things synchronized with each other but when it is its awesome to run and watch i particularly like doing the light bulb style turning in corn silage where you go right back into the row you come out of similar to 5 min in with class in sudan grass where ya flip the spout side to side it’s quick efficient in headlanes looks awesome when all timed right but need skilled drivers to avoid collisions and being quick so the harvester doesn’t have to stop moving

I've never seen a chopper on tracks before. That's a new one.

That cabover is sweet!! And man that forage cruiser is slow as a snail isnt it lol

I love watching the old single chop harvesters back in Ireland, There's a kid with a YT channel that runs one in the US, Fink i think is his name.

The 9410R looks like it could rollover without the duals on it!

I like the international 1066 my dad had one with the hydrostatic transmission

I love the sound of hay and corn going through the chopper. We have an FP230 on our farm and looking to upgrade to the FP240

Absolutely Outstanding!

What is the purpose of the liquid tanks that was shown on a couple of the pull type choppers? We don't see them down south.

I remember Empire Farm Days many years ago at the Cornell Research Farm someone had mounted a chopper on a Steiger tractor. That was quite a sight.

You should visit SE New Mexico this April to see 3 and 4 big sp choppers going at the same time in one field chopping wheat/triticale for silage

Nice ! Gotta get a good in dept video on a dion.

I like the pull type forages as that is what most farmers use with the price of those big pieces of equipment cost.

Great stuff! But your #1 is what you see here in Europe everywhere. I love to see harvesters behind a tractor, but: keep up the great work!

Its neat to see how chopping equipment has changed over the years . Hope to see more videos classic equipment too .

Is that a McCormick in the very last scene pulling the blue Penta trailer? Do they sell in any great numbers where you are?

good memories, thanks

Thanks for the video. Merry Christmas

Love #2 then #1 Thank you Sir

They are getting it done , I 've chilled a many of stalk of silage , whooo

Nice variety of machines.

I thought that the point of the forage chopper was to create feed for cattle? If you are doing the chopping so late in the year doesn't that take a lot of the nutrients out of the feed or do the stalk and leaves not really add that much extra?

Awesome Video Wish You a Merry Christmas Time Buddy Best Greetings from Germany Sebi!!

Very nice video a lot of really cool machines at work! Keep up the great videos!

The 9410R and the new holland were my favorite

The 9410 does'nt look right with just 4 tires. I'm sure it does the job just fine. Wonder how it would look with 4 wide metric tires? Thanks for another great video BTP.

They were chopping corn silage in the snow in Wisconsin. It looks pretty dry. What kind of silo were they putting in? It looks too dry for a bunker or even a stage silo. It looked about right for a Harveststore. We did that a few times in our blue tube.

Super video

#4 is a nice fabricator taking those old grain trucks and turning them into trailers.

That was a very nice compilation. Thank you :-)

Nice video! Have you filmed some double crop sorghum this year?

Was just wondering if they shred all the corn cobs and all

I like all of them . I really like the the ones from Kentucky the land scape of rolling hills. That where I from Kentucky and it can be daring and dangerous at times. The hills in Kentucky can be a challenge for the determined farmer. I do custom Bushhogging and baling hay and I been on my part of the slops of hills. Most of level ground is use for corn and soybeans where I am from.

Nice video as usual BTP Happy Christmas.... 👍👍

Loved the video!!!

Anyone know what the plastic tank on the dump cart at the beginning of the video is for?

That could be cool to see a John Deere 4720 forage harverster. That work for 300hp and 4 row corn head.....rare model!!!

🇱🇷🚜🌽🌾 Hi btp nice video thank you, take care!!!

At 12:15, that's the way to do it with the smaller choppers. A dump wagon behind the chopper is ideal for this. To me, it's a waste of time to be riding next to a pull-type or a smaller SP chopper. It takes to long to fill the trucks/ trailers.

Great video as always! Too bad you couldn't find a Fox chopper to film. Good Luck and Happy New Year.

#6 sharpest. Thanks b t p . You have been on the job.

bigtractorpower, I believe you have the most diverse collection of silage chopping videos out there. Do you shoot all your own footage? If so, you're a busy fella! I hope you're getting good ad revenue to cover your time and travel. Some thoughts: From the intro: a 9R Deere on a pull-type in corn?! Dion Scorpion Stinger?! And what's the reason for lifting the Krone cab in haylage apart from publicly showing the machine's abilities? (10) I've chopped sorghum once in my life -- with exactly half the row capacity of that 8600 Deere. Nice setup. (9) That FR550 and boxcar Case Magnum are hauling!! Looks like 9-10 mph to me. The windrow might be small but that's a spout full of alfalfa! (8) It's cool to see some vintage iron like that 1066 and Gehl. Night and day difference in alfalfa throughput from the FR550 before it... (7) It's cool to (barely!) see a disc head in action. Is that 970 Jag cutting through windrows on the end of the field? (6) Another boxcar Mag at speed in alfalfa? Recurring theme! That NH 29P pickup head will just about eat any windrow you can feed it. (5) That 5830 Deere sure had a bumpy go of it. Reminds me of some of our hilly no-till ground. Lot of those things still out there running Kempers. (4) That New Holland 1880 Forage Cruiser is "old as the hills." I'm impressed that it's still going strong. It has less capacity than a good FP240 pull-type nowadays but it was a serious machine in its day. Also a bit of an ugly ducking if I'm honest... (3) A Deere 9410R hooked to an FP240 and a dump wagon is the most gloriously absurd chopping setup I think I've ever seen. That is dangerously overpowered with 410 engine hp and would require incredible restraint on the part of the operator to avoid cooking the main chopper gearbox. If that's truly their "smallest" tractor besides utilities, then they would accomplish far more by trading for the Dion 350 Scorpion Stinger (like the one in the intro) with 4 row head and direct load those trucks. The tractor would be a perfect match to the Dion power-wise and would save a huge amount of time lost dumping (twice?) in those big trucks. It's cool to see, but not really a good matchup of machines. But I like that UFT 4205 wagon -- it's identical to ours, down to the color! (2) Chopping past-due corn in snow just looks depressing. Nice equipment though -- that T9 looks awesome next to the chopper. What type of head is on that FR850? I couldn't quite tell, but it doesn't look familiar. (1) A Claas 980 Jaguar on tracks running a Krone EasyCollect head is a rare bird!! I'm glad you spotted it! (And a Fendt to round out the German lineup, haha.) Keep up the good work. I have a New Holland T8.390 Genesis, NH FP240 with processor and 29P pick-up head, Dion F61 4r30" rotary head, and United Farm Tool 4205 wagon that we do our chopping with in the Virginia hills, just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. If you're ever our way, come get some more chopping footage!

Nice hope ya catch a fox chopper to film

we need some new idea uni systems in this video!!!

that 9410 seemed a bit overkill

Think you needed more hp at the beginning to run that n.h. chooper

What is the yellow tank on the chopper for

09 reminded me of why used equipment is a bad idea. Small window or not they need to slow down.

Very Beautiful Video

Where the FRICK is Krone my friend? I’ve been carting silage for 20 years and when I’m cruising with a Krone BIGX I know exactly what’s happening that day, carting for a BIGX means business.

Hi as always a good video nice to see tractors and trailers and not trucks merry Christmas Graham uk

Wish they would add pull type forage harvesters to fs but the but self propelled shit is awsome to

What is in the liquid tank in the pulled choppers?

Que pasada..., como ganadero de ovino selecto en intensivo y agricultor me parece muy útil e interesante,el problema es el precio tan elevado que tiene este tipo de maquinaria y las horas que necesitan de trabajo para así poder amortizarlas, pero me parecen muy útiles.

Fun fun fun. A little dry

Really good video. Very powerful machines. Is it the right way or is it helping to destroy the environment?? Only time will tell. Greetings from Ireland.

Why is it funny that John Deere 9RX is pulling that tiny little harvester?

That old 5830 looked wore slap out on the rear end lol time for some tierods

00:02 Acho que é muito pequeno trator pra puxar essa máquina né...

what is forage use for ?

Number 8 is either a 1065 or 1265 Gehl. It's not a 1285.

Alittle too much tractor surprised chopper isn’t laying on pluto

Man they do it a little different down in Kentucky

5 looked like the Peterson farm Brothers

😎👍..#2 & #1.👍😎

#7 defiantly a wrangler. why be in such a hurry with no cart waiting?

the 9410R is over kill

Mucho arroz pa tampoco pollo

We had a one ih chopper then a three point hitch new holland chopper 707 then my brother purposely let the shear bar loose then chopped with a 718 nah chopper

bigger farms need bigger equipment, expensive equipment needs needs bigger farms............ cave in?

12:00 was ist denn das? :) Hier bei uns würden die Landwirte durchdrehen wenn das so langsam gehen würde:)

Yes I did it..... dang it I didn’t

He best not get on a slop with that 4wd narrow as it is

nice one love the video good oh farm work

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