Found my Gehl chopper pics....

[560Dennis]

I like the set ups photos

 

[Hoofer B]

Second picture, that self-propelled had to be a dusty esso bee to drive!

I would probably want to wear my sombrero. Bill

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Oops old thread, I just rewrote what I said 4 years ago…

When did Gehl make the white feed mills? Gehl was popular around here, never saw a white one or no window in the tank?

That would have been late '60s, early '70s option on the MX55. The fiberglass tank was supposed to make it easier to mix in your molasses without too much sticking to the side. There's a translucent strip of fiberglass down the side of the tank on either side of the cone, so you can check the level. Fairly certain that was the first model with a scale, too.

Mike

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

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I 3D printed one for my diorama. Based, if I recall correctly, on information and pictures provided by Absent Minded Farmer.

I'm hoping to finish mine this winter yet. Been busy in the basement, cleaning & pitching stuff before taking the layout down. Then parts of it will be moving upstairs away from the mice. There's also been some dealings with the estate here & I hate to say, I haven't been much in the creative mood. The dumb legal hoops you have to jump through to get anywhere is a bit frustrating, to put it nicely.

Mike

 

[paul]

That would have been late '60s, early '70s option on the MX55. The fiberglass tank was supposed to make it easier to mix in your molasses without too much sticking to the side. There's a translucent strip of fiberglass down the side of the tank on either side of the cone, so you can check the level. Fairly certain that was the first model with a scale, too.

Mike

Thanks!

Dad had a MX50, I have a MX55, well one is a carcass here and the other could use some attention….

Paul

 

[jwal10]

Dad had the 1 row corn head, direct cut head and the pickup head. He pulled it with a Farmall M with 2 different rear discharge silage wagons. It had the LeRoi engine. He had an old chain drag silage blower. Later, in 1963, he bought a new Gehl silage blower and a Gehl front discharge silage wagon. It was on a New Holland running gear. He bought a Bearcat flail chopper at that time. The old Gehl chopper sat in the tree row. Dad would start the engine a couple times a year. It started when he had his farm sale in 1980. but was never used after 1963....James

 

[used red MN]

My grandpa bought a 2 row Gehl chopper in the late 50s. He had a Farmall 300 at the time. Within a year or two he bought a 350. They claimed they cut a lot of silage with that combo. Something about how they had the PTO gearing figured out that made those little Farmalls make a lot of PTO power. He would take the chopper around the neighborhood and the neighbors would put their bigger tractors on it. I believe in one case the neighbor had a 720 John Deere, they claimed under a hard pull the main back drive belt would slap up under its shield. The one we had utilized a large single V belt on the back between the PTO and the chopper pulleys, if I remember correctly the pulleys were nearly 20” in diameter. If you look at the chopper in the last picture you can see the pulley is a multiple V-belt type which obviously would transfer more power. That chopper may be a 1000rpm PTO model where the one we had was 540. I also remember it being said that they used our chopper in the field with a newer drum style chopper. They said that even though the Gehl was set to a courser chop length that if the knives were kept sharp that the silage from it would pack better than that from a drum cut unit set at 3/8” because it would tend to make the cut ends more “fuzzy”. Also the cut and blow system turned slower, the sound of it was more like a small plane then the buzz sound you hear from the drum type. During the time I helped on the farm the mid 60 to the early 80s silage chopping was no longer done yearly, hay was used to feed the cattle. Only twice did we get the Gehl out and that was to chop the crop that had to much drought stress.

 

[mhb@ufe]

I was looking for these the last time I posted about the Gehl forage harvesters. Don't recall if I posted them before.

Enjoy!!

Mike

I hope you don't mind that I made a puzzle from your firs picture.

Second picture, that self-propelled had to be a dusty esso bee to drive!

 

[used red MN]

What does that matter? Whether they know it or not they gave up rights to those pictures when they posted them on YT/ the internet. Just a fact.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

I hope you don't mind that I made a puzzle from your firs picture.

Glad you enjoyed it enough to make it a puzzle.

Mike

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

What does that matter? Whether they know it or not they gave up rights to those pictures when they posted them on YT/ the internet. Just a fact.

Yep, anything posted to the public domain is public.... for the most part.

I share my stuff for people to enjoy, so no worries here.

Mike

 

[Timmycornpicker]

That would have been late '60s, early '70s option on the MX55. The fiberglass tank was supposed to make it easier to mix in your molasses without too much sticking to the side. There's a translucent strip of fiberglass down the side of the tank on either side of the cone, so you can check the level. Fairly certain that was the first model with a scale, too.

Mike

There is one for sale at Everitt Equipment in Ringoes NJ. Only one I've ever seen. The owner's father was a partner in the predecessor company at the same location, D&R Equipment, and was a longtime Gehl dealer. I'm sure they sold it new

 

[SkipperII]

Second picture, that self-propelled had to be a dusty esso bee to drive!

Not to mention, a bit loud.

 

[INCase]

Gehl had a unit mounted to the front of a 1086 that sat across from the "new" building for a number of years. It was a production unit. There weren't too many made. Been on the lookout for one of those as well as the front mounted merger. I'll post back this evening with more info.

Mike

did you work for Gehl? I did in the mid 1990's for a bit over in the engineering test group.

 

[Kenneth Russell]

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I 3D printed one for my diorama. Based, if I recall correctly, on information and pictures provided by Absent Minded Farmer.

I built a pull type out of really thin steel and some tin. All glued together and has a 1 head, a 2 row, a 3 row, a cutter bar, pick up and the rare hale shredder that could attach, all were made after the time of the photo. Has yet to hit the second layer of paint and the polish

 

[Kenneth Russell]

Oops old thread, I just rewrote what I said 4 years ago…

When did Gehl make the white feed mills? Gehl was popular around here, never saw a white one or no window in the tank?

They made the fiber glass hammer mills in the mid 60s.

 

[730 virgil]

Gehl had a unit mounted to the front of a 1086 that sat across from the "new" building for a number of years. It was a production unit. There weren't too many made. Been on the lookout for one of those as well as the front mounted merger. I'll post back this evening with more info.

Mike

i worked for implement dealer in mid 70s a customer bought one of those front mount on a 1066 it didn't work out very good

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

did you work for Gehl? I did in the mid 1990's for a bit over in the engineering test group.

Nope, but I've worked with Terry Lefever at the Gehl tent for the Richfield Thresheree for a while now & have learned quite a bit from him. Seen quite a few retired employees, a couple current ones & Bill Gehl. It's been quite the experience.

Mike

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

i worked for implement dealer in mid 70s a customer bought one of those front mount on a 1066 it didn't work out very good

They had a couple different front mount forage harvesters & neither worked out too well. A few guys liked them, but they had pretty long, flat fields.

Mike

 

[buickanddeere]

OMC Owatonna bought by Gehl . Who was later bought by Manitou .