Hello and machine identification pls

[oddone]

Evening and hello,
Just a quick first question.
Can anyone identify this particular machine?
I'm looking at a project flail and this has come up as a howard but honestly..i dont think it is.
The knives are a straight cut but i can find not a single plate or marking on the frame or parts.
I would say its more like a chopper..maybe for straw rather than a flail mower but im at a total loss..any help or thoughts would be welcome.
Its been repainted in the past but the undercoat is still orange if it helpThanks G

 

[dickspanner]

Wilder straw chopper?

 

[Fendt516profi]

@Dave W

 

[agrimax]

Thus so.....

Wilder Straw Chopper Linkage Mounted C/C: 84328000 Agricultural Machinery to be held at The Machinery Saleground, Sutton, Ely, Cambs, CB6 2QT | Machinery and Vintage Auct

Wilder Straw Chopper Linkage Mounted C/C: 84328000

machinerysales.cheffins.co.uk

 

[yellowbelly]

Like @dickspanner says, Wilder straw chopper....

....designed many moons ago in Lincolnshire by Jimmy Rainthorpe and sold at one time as Wilder-Rainthorpe.

With a combination of long and short blades to suit the rows it could also be used to flail potato tops off.

 

[oddone]

thankyou so much..thats the one..

 

[Dave W]

thankyou so much..thats the one..

It’s not really a flail mower if that’s what you’re wanting

 

[oddone]

It was an unusual machine so i had to buy it..you know the way...but i do have a job in mind that this might do the trick at a push...i have around 4 acres of brush to bring down..not to finish but just to fell mainly brambles and a few self set seedlings of around 1\4"..now reading what little is out there..a model of these was used for heather clearing...have you ever heard of these being used this way?

 

[oddone]

lol..just seen you are in chesterfield...im in calow

 

[Dave W]

lol..just seen you are in chesterfield...im in calow

Wow.
I’m apperknowle

 

[oddone]

such a small world. Have you used these machines before?..just wondering on the pto speed and such..I want to get this back into a fairly decent condition..replace the bearings and belts with alittle tin work thrown in

 

[Dave W]

such a small world. Have you used these machines before?..just wondering on the pto speed and such..I want to get this back into a fairly decent condition..replace the bearings and belts with alittle tin work thrown in

Should be a standard 540. Don’t think 1000 has been invented when that was made
Geoff Mathews engineers at holmewood should be able to get most bits you need

 

[Wolds Beef]

@yellowbelly Mine of information!! I did not know that John Rainthorpe's Dad invented that. I met him (John) only once in the NFU tent at the County Show and had a very enjoyable lunch together!!
WB

 

[yellowbelly]

@yellowbelly Mine of information!! I did not know that John Rainthorpe's Dad invented that. I met him (John) only once in the NFU tent at the County Show and had a very enjoyable lunch together!!
WB

You can't have been listening/were asleep during some of those Riseholme machinery lectures all those years ago

 

[Wolds Beef]

My father and John were on Witham third Board together.
WB

 

[ganderman]

Just have a look at the canvas thing in the drive line les carter was struggling to get them . We still have two of them just for topping daffodils as that job gives normal potato toppers some stick.