Classic silage!

[alan6430]

fancy a new holland 525 forager pulled behind a ford 7840. awesome!!!!

 

[blackbob]

1977.. Summer holidays in Leicestershire..

 

[RobFZS]

did see a double chop go for £99 at a farm sale a few month back, but was very rotten.

 

[renewablejohn]

Have experimented this year with picking hay up with my Russell flail direct into IBC containers then storing in the barn and then used direct as sheep feeders. Has worked very well and will do again.

 

[RobFZS]

haha this was the first thread i posted on here, must have been the first few days this forum started up , might bring the kidd out again this year sometime

 

[Sheep]

Have experimented this year with picking hay up with my Russell flail direct into IBC containers then storing in the barn and then used direct as sheep feeders. Has worked very well and will do again.

You're a serious fan of the IBC containers

 

[Oat]

was thinking of maybe getting a silage trailer, putting it straight in there and then dumping it in forage bunker like normal silage, but my dad usually zero grazes while the cows are still out for abit extra for them to eat

My dad used a silage trailer behind a rotafalil when zero grazing. He would then tip in the yard and use the silage grab to put in ring feeders. I think he also tried a trailer like in the second picture which had a funnelled hopper above lower feeder part.

The only problem with having 2 towed implements was that the turning circle was quite big, so the field had to be cut in 'lands' and doing a 180 degree reverse turn into the farm yard took some practice, but after a couple of days he had it down.

 

[renewablejohn]

You're a serious fan of the IBC containers

Just find them so useful when I can store them 4 high making full use of my barn height.

 

[DrWazzock]

I used to spend part of my summer holidays pulling an old Gehl forage harvester behind an MF590 chopping windrows of straw behind the combine. It was like sawing a leg off and didn't like tough wet straw. I remember it had a sharpener that you pulled across the rotor while it was running.

Then we progressed to a Kidd straw chopper behind the tractor which was also like sawing a leg off and used to vibrate like hell.

Finally we bought a decent combine (Clayson 1545 or something like that) with its own chopper and at the flick of a switch all that pointless tedious work was gone.

 

[jakeboy]

Got an old new holland double chop that needs restoring if your interested , I' m pretty sure my boss would sell it

Hello hicksey, would that be a 37 double chop !!??

 

[jakeboy]

We had a new rotaflail Kidd in the early seventies, and 2 weeks trailers!! I can recall it was a good machine in its day, we shared the forager and trailers with our neighbour, so it got well used, I remember the rear trailer hitch was on a skid and you pulled a piece of rope to lift the pin on hitch and reverse onto trailer hitch!! You needed a good eye for sure!! And you had to be careful not to put any tension on rope while cutting or the trailer could overtake you going down the hill?? And yes it happened to me!! Missing an overhead power line pole by inches!! What would health and safety make of it today??

 

[RobFZS]

We had a new rotaflail Kidd in the early seventies, and 2 weeks trailers!! I can recall it was a good machine in its day, we shared the forager and trailers with our neighbour, so it got well used, I remember the rear trailer hitch was on a skid and you pulled a piece of rope to lift the pin on hitch and reverse onto trailer hitch!! You needed a good eye for sure!! And you had to be careful not to put any tension on rope while cutting or the trailer could overtake you going down the hill?? And yes it happened to me!! Missing an overhead power line pole by inches!! What would health and safety make of it today??

got a simular setup on the one in the original post, but as we just leave the trailer on, the hook is tied down, although when my dad took it on the road it came undone once and veered across the oncoming traffic in to the verge, lol

 

[john63]

We were using a DB Cyclone for topping our potatoes until about 10 years ago