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Anyone ever owned a M-C flail chopper. I went by an old farm on a gravel back road and they had a bunch of old school equipment setting out forsale. A man in his 90s passed away last fall and his family cleaned the barns out. They had 500 on the forsale tag, I knocked on the door and said I had 200 cash in my truck, and well just say cash talks. I probably wouldnt have bought it had it not been so clean but I figured it would be fun to play around with.
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At first glance, it reminds me of an oversized lawn sweeper, just needs a gigantic bag on the back. Like the colors scheme.
 
very well preserved! How much wear does it even show? Great find! There was a ?Lundell? similar machine here when we moved here in 1980. Nowhere near that nice.
 
I have a Lawn Genie like that works good use it to cut mulch for the gardens,beats raking by hand.MC also made a small Lawn Genie with its own motor to pull behind garden tractors,had one but sold it when I bought he 3pt one.
 
A neighbor bought one new because it was cheap. It didn't do much of a job of chopping, just blow mostly long stemmed hay in the wagon. He had to chop back and forth so it would pick up the hay that was run down in the tire track. He didn't use it for very long. I don't know if it broke or just didn't work very well.
 
The flails need to be kept sharp on them to do a somewhat OK job in green chop and that's the problem. The style of flails they used for the 'cut-and throw' design don't hold an edge nearly as long as the style that Gehl or New Holland used on their side-pull machines with the separate blowers.
 
I can't speak as to the chopper but around 15 years ago I drove by a place that the family was cleaning out the barn after the passing of a farmer. Near new IH 650 chopper, near new IH 400 8 row planter, near new IH 710 6 bottom plow, and near new IH 45 field cultivator. The family stated those implements were the tail end of what was in the building. That is where the conversation stopped but I wish I knew what else was in there.
 
Well, more funny, you may say. I'm beginning a repair (if I can figure it all out) of an LG-48A Lawn Genie for a friend. The gear box looks small and maybe inadequate for the job.

When I first saw the OP, I thought Hey, that looks like a Lawn Genie.
 
that's what they call a green chopper it is not a forage harvester it is used to bunk feed cattle when direct cutting crop
 
Pa bought one of those when I was a kid. The dealer convinced him that it would do three jobs, green chop, chop corn stalks and, crimp hay. It did a great job as a green chopper and stalk chopper. We used it many years. If you were using a low tractor like a 430 Case while chopping corn stalks, it would throw cobs and large chucks of stalks out the front and they would hit the back of your legs. If it was a cold day , that would about put tears in your eyes. With a higher tractor they would zing by under the axle. Now for the hay crimper. You opened the rear door and flipped a lever, same with corn stalks, and it would throw the hay out the rear. Dealer said move right along at low rpm and it would do a great job. We used and Oliver 880 4th gear and 4th notch on the throttle. We had the best alfalfa stems you ever saw. It knocked about every leaf off. The next year pa bought a crimper. You couldn't plug it up. On a rainy day the neighbor's JD would plug. With that open front you would think it wouldn't throw but it would pitch the grass to the back of the bunk feeder with no problem. Sold it to a neighbor years ago and it' still working.
 
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