bobajob
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- Sw Scotland
Yeah might aswell include thatthe newer ones just look like there designed to fall over on my hills
You must have hills like us!
Trailed forage harvesters
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You must have hills like us!
Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
What a pain it must have been getting in and out tractor all day doing hydraulic pipes.
I carted off to a chopper pulling trailers once. I was driving a 7740. Was a nice tractor.
I carted off to a chopper pulling trailers once. I was driving a 7740. Was a nice tractor.
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
Taarup 106B? Always fancied one of those as a toy to lift a few acres with. Power requirement from 45hp depending on gearing according to the sales leafletEnough of this SP talk- this is how we rolled in 1991
I was in a pushchair but i'm told the 390 on the forager had a TB turbo fitted at some point. We've another video of it somewhere chopping at night with the manifold glowing.
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- Ulster
We have one, wouldn't be hard to talk to I'd your interested. It's been sat out for a few years but it was inaccurate prior to that and still not bad.
I’d a smaller version of that about 20 years ago. I just worked away my self carting & buckraking and did about 10 acre a day. Cheap silage. I’d have thought that & a man buckraking to do about 30 acre a day
fermerboy
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- Banffshire
We pulled trailers for years till I couldn't get lads to cart if jumping off and on was the job.
80hp, Jag 40 with analogue control levers, and a couple of 4-5ton Frasers then latterly 8ton Frasers.
Then 100hp on a Deutz Fahr FH900 pulling 8 and 10ton trailers.
We had it down to a fine art, if you had a good man on the trailer who dropped it in the right spot we could easily change over in under a minute, lad who had the most time jumped out, sometimes the chopper man, sometimes the trailer man.
Over a 10hour day you maybe lost 10mins an hour, so 100mins chopping time. If it was level going towing didn't really slow you down much, in some ways it was preferable to having some muppet moving about till its like a clay pidgeon shoot wondering were to aim next.
When toys became bigger, and conditions wetter or steeper, it was much tougher going though. Downhill with the gravity battery pushing you was grand but uphill with a full trailer on was slow going, then I ended up in a snarl up a couple of times running off on a steep or slippy bit, PTO usually got the works.
To those who haven't done, it a trailer hooked on to a trailed forager when pushing downhill puts weight behind the chopper axle which lifts the drawbar on the driving tractor, then it all gets very sketchy very quickly!!!
ollie989898
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Mind I shouldn't think the earliest self propelled choppers were much cop, old hands told me about how half of them would get stuck in damp gateways and need to be shoved from behind to get going again?
Should be able to do 25 to 30 in a good crop.
2wheels
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- aberdeenshire
aye, memories of a kidd double chopper jack knifing.We pulled trailers for years till I couldn't get lads to cart if jumping off and on was the job.
80hp, Jag 40 with analogue control levers, and a couple of 4-5ton Frasers then latterly 8ton Frasers.
Then 100hp on a Deutz Fahr FH900 pulling 8 and 10ton trailers.
We had it down to a fine art, if you had a good man on the trailer who dropped it in the right spot we could easily change over in under a minute, lad who had the most time jumped out, sometimes the chopper man, sometimes the trailer man.
Over a 10hour day you maybe lost 10mins an hour, so 100mins chopping time. If it was level going towing didn't really slow you down much, in some ways it was preferable to having some muppet moving about till its like a clay pidgeon shoot wondering were to aim next.
When toys became bigger, and conditions wetter or steeper, it was much tougher going though. Downhill with the gravity battery pushing you was grand but uphill with a full trailer on was slow going, then I ended up in a snarl up a couple of times running off on a steep or slippy bit, PTO usually got the works.
To those who haven't done, it a trailer hooked on to a trailed forager when pushing downhill puts weight behind the chopper axle which lifts the drawbar on the driving tractor, then it all gets very sketchy very quickly!!!
glasshouse
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- lothians
Trail loading was highly efficient.
You didnt get out to put pipes in till you got out to open the door.
Far harder on the chopper driver
We had a good one with the FH900 back in the day. We used to use the self locking John Deere drawbar pins so that they didn’t protrude out the bottom out the clevis and catch the grass…… until one year we had a hired 6600 or 6800 on the chopper with a slightly worn drawbar and the pin jumped out going down a slope.
Chopper drawbar went down the inside of the wheel between the tyre and the cab, PTO stopped it going any further, it was literally bent 90 degrees.
happened mid morning and had it all straightened out and a new PTO on it by late afternoon, longer draw pin and lynch pin installed as a lesson learnt.
Had a bogie on ours to help,used to tow the engine driven forager with the worst tractor in the fleet,a mf 590 4wd with multi power,when it got warm it would lose 4wd and go into low multi,that was fun.We pulled trailers for years till I couldn't get lads to cart if jumping off and on was the job.
80hp, Jag 40 with analogue control levers, and a couple of 4-5ton Frasers then latterly 8ton Frasers.
Then 100hp on a Deutz Fahr FH900 pulling 8 and 10ton trailers.
We had it down to a fine art, if you had a good man on the trailer who dropped it in the right spot we could easily change over in under a minute, lad who had the most time jumped out, sometimes the chopper man, sometimes the trailer man.
Over a 10hour day you maybe lost 10mins an hour, so 100mins chopping time. If it was level going towing didn't really slow you down much, in some ways it was preferable to having some muppet moving about till its like a clay pidgeon shoot wondering were to aim next.
When toys became bigger, and conditions wetter or steeper, it was much tougher going though. Downhill with the gravity battery pushing you was grand but uphill with a full trailer on was slow going, then I ended up in a snarl up a couple of times running off on a steep or slippy bit, PTO usually got the works.
To those who haven't done, it a trailer hooked on to a trailed forager when pushing downhill puts weight behind the chopper axle which lifts the drawbar on the driving tractor, then it all gets very sketchy very quickly!!!
chae
37 double chop
kidd hitch 4 ton trailers with screw jack block of wood , exactor couplings no quick release . be hardship now but old tractor with no pick up hitch and mandraulix trail board be modern then early 70.s
or inline rotaflail and 4 wheel trailer behind major cart lot to heap top and back