Posted by Dave Sherburne, NY on August 22, 2018 at 07:03:30 from (192.182.203.71):
In Reply to: What is it? posted by Grandpa love on August 22, 2018 at 05:50:05:
That does look like a Papec ensilage cutter made in Shortsville NY. Thats what we used on the farm way back when I was a teenager, I'm 75 now. It actually belonged to my uncle. His silos got filled first with my father and I helping, then another uncle would truck it to our place where we set it up to an old octagon silo and hooked a borrowed John Deere A to it to run it. The corn was cut and bundled using a Ford 8N. We never used the elevator that was supposed to load the bundles on a wagon hooked to the harvester. It was to much for the Ford 8N to pull all that up and down the hills of out farm. Always had to open the field by cutting 2 rows by hand so as not to knock them down with the Ford and the harvester. After everything was set up my father would go out and cut about 5 acres. My uncle had a Doodlebug he had made from a Plymouth car and the rear end of a truck with duals on the rear and 2 transmissions. This time of year we always had to put chains on the duals because of the mud. The Doodlebug would haul the corn to the silo where the John Deere was running and waiting to go to work. Couldn't shut it off between loads, cause it was hand start with the flywheel. Sometimes I got to unload the bundles from the wagon and sometimes I was in the silo spreading the ensilage around and trying to pack it down by walking around and round. If the Papec was loaded to heavy, the drum that pulled the corn through would spin and do nothing. So then the person unloading would have to jump to the ground and pull the reversing lever that is prominent in the first photo and work it back in forth til the stalks went through When we started feeding it out we would throw it out with a silage fork by taking out a four inch layer at a time so it wouldn't spoil. I guess it was my favorite time of the year.
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