Chopping corn

SVcummins · Feb 24, 2018

With the big boys

ohiojim · Feb 24, 2018

that looks like a lot of tractor for that chopper

Bruce from Can. · Feb 24, 2018

Must have been some muddy field conditions to put a tractor like that on, or perhaps it was the only tractor available.

Charlie M · Feb 24, 2018

Maybe with today's equipment it was the smallest tractor he had. LOL

Philip d · Feb 24, 2018

I was thinking mud too but the tires look pretty clean

8850dave · Feb 24, 2018

I chopped with a JD 7520 pulling a JD 38 chopper one row on a muddy fall in the late 70's

larry@stinescorner · Feb 24, 2018

B.T.O????? lol

coonie minnie · Feb 24, 2018

That's a 4720 chopper... it was a pull type made with the cutterhead, etc from a self propelled. Deere made around 100 of those before dropping them. That could very well be a 4 row head on the thing. The tractor appears to be a 8450 or 8650. That chopper would work either for all it's got.

JD Seller · Feb 24, 2018

JD messed up in bring that 4720 chopper out ten year too soon (84-87) and then dropping it. Heck how are you going to sell much of anything in the middle of a major farm rescission? By the mid 1990s we started to get demand for larger pull type choppers and we where stuck with the JD 3970 then the 3975. A lot of our chopper customers went to NH and Gehl pull type choppers. It is all a moot point now as the self propelled choppers have taken the market.

rrlund · Feb 24, 2018

Ah,so that's why you wanted the toy ones in the background.

NY 986 · Feb 24, 2018

I think that the NH 1600 was another short lived high capacity chopper from around the same time. I remember one at the Empire Farm Days show around 1981 or so. If I remember correctly it was hooked to a 4490 Case. The mega Case dealer in the area handled NH until the Ford New Holland merger took it away.

IanC · Feb 24, 2018

There was a custom cutter out of Stockbridge MI that chopped for a lot of the big dairies around here. He used a New Holland 1200 chopper with a four row head and a big Versatile (855 if I remember).

JMS/.MN · Feb 24, 2018

1985 was an extremely wet year here- got the Case 2470 to chop with...duals on the left, run down 4 rows to split the fields but couldn"t be helped. One field was so wet we couldn"t pull half loads out with a 4430...had to switch on the road. Some distant neighbors got nothing chopped that Fall. Had to go to grade 8 shear bolt on main shaft...start pto at idle and it would snap a 2 or 5. Later years I"d open fields with 2WD, then switch to the Case. Chopper was a Gehl CB600.

SVcummins · Feb 24, 2018

Yes that thing would look good on my shelf .

SVcummins · Feb 24, 2018

I read an article somewhere about the big pull type choppers that said they came out to close to when the self propelled choppers were introduced and that?s why they didn?t take off . And like you say if this one came out during the farm crisis your right who would have had the money to buy the thing

SVcummins · Feb 24, 2018

It?s an 88 because you the valve cover on the big v8 sticking out past the hood 8 inches

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