my new years day

Don-Wi · Jan 1, 2015

The marsh was froze and my parents are running extremely low on bedding, so we got the chopper and haybine around and dad cut while I chopped behind him. Can't tell if we're extremely early or really late with it, but we got a couple well packed loads out of it.

We'll set up the blower and pipe on Saturday and put it in the barn.

Donovan from Wisconsin

LAA · Jan 1, 2015

Is there a particular reason you cut and chop as opposed to using a green chopper to direct cut? Does direct cutting pick up too much dirt? I think I need a green chopper but there may be good reason not to use one.

M Nut · Jan 1, 2015

We use one for chopping our second crop hay fields and feed it to the cows in the fall. Works great for us as no drying time needed and the cows produce good milk on it and the calves nursing the cows put on good weight just before selling to the feed lots.

Don-Wi · Jan 1, 2015

Main reason is length of cut. We like it chopped short, seems to absorb better than longer straw.

Our green chopper also wraps long grass like that around the auger so I would have been unplugging it more than I would have been chopping. In alfalfa it's not a problem but long grass is. We don't use it much either. Waste less feed when we feed them silage out of the bag.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Leroy · Jan 2, 2015

Back when we were milking 30++ years ago we uses the green chopper to feed the cows. Wasted less grass than pasture even with rotation. The big thing tho was we could go to fields down the road and get feed that was not avaible for pasture. No dirt problems. Never had it wrap up but never that real tall stuff. If any body would like a couple of good, one never used, knives for a Deere No. 10 chopper let me know, only pay shipping.

Don-Wi · Jan 2, 2015

our green chopper is an older Gehl that's now parts from 3 to make 1 that works. First one ate itself back when I was probably 5 or 6 and dad got another from the bone yard and combined the 2. A couple years ago my neighbor had another that needed a spout and the orc needed some work that we picked up for scrap price.

The one we had at the time was twisted do one side would scalp the ground while the other was a couple inches off the ground. I again swapped parts to make this one work again. Shortly after I needed to also swap out the blower band and auger pan because they were rotted out pretty bad.

The auger is worn which is part of the problem, but the one out of the parts machine really isn't much better. For the few times a year we use it, it's just fine. If we green chopped every day it'd be a different story. The must I use it myself is for trimming the edges of the field where I'd break sickle sections trying to trim small saplings. Open the back cover and let that stuff come right out the back. Works great as a cheap offset brush mower.

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