You used a Papec silage cutter that would cut and blow the silage into the silos. We used a 10-20 McCormick Deering for the belt work. Some farmers used a corn binder to cut the corn, but we cut it by hand. You had to be careful you didn't overfeed the cutter and end up with a pipe plugged. Some areas call that ensilage and it doesn't make any difference what you call it, the cows love it. Their tongues wore grooves in the food mangers.
In 1949 or 1950 that changed when a farmer near us bought a chopper pulled a Farmall M and did custom silo filling using 2 dump trucks. They filled both silos in 3 days compared to 3 weeks the old way. We had 3 people in the silo tramping. We still used the 10-20 on the blower. Hal
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