Papec

[Riverslim]

I searched Papec and got zero results. Anyone else familiar with them: silage equipment? They were on their way out in the 70's I think.

 

[chuck41]

Hi, Papec had the models: 32,32A,32P,32F,35P,35F,
60,62,92 Forage harvesters. Also had 60 flail type, 66"all feed chopper, a 92 forage harvester,
Most of these in various years from '54 to '65.
Then the 35A from 64-72, model 72 '67-'72. Then
the 350, Then the 180-3500 to 1983. Also made
blowers etc. Chuck

 

[farmall400]

Pa had a Papec flail chopper we cut green feed everyday and cornstalks for bedding in the fall. He really liked it better than some others we had. Pretty sure it was a WI company.

 

[Jared Chaddock]

The Papec factory was about an hour from me in Shortsville, NY... Im not sure when they closed, but I remember when you could still see the brick chimney with "Papec" written on it. The farm my Dad works at still has a couple Papec self unloading wagons. Getting pretty beat but still doing the job hauling chopped hay and corn...

 

[danofarming]

Papec Machine Co. Shortsville, NY. They made excellent equipment, My grandfather sold their machines, self unloading wagons, forage harvesters, rotary mowers, feed mill mixers, forage blowers. When NY state decided to tax everyone to keep the city afloat they closed their doors.

 

[Crem]

I shoveled a lot of oats, and both ear and shelled corn into a Papec Hammermill while growing up on a farm in MN. It was belt driven with a CC Case. I remember in the winter dad would start the tractor first and then pour the water in the radiator. We didn't use antifreeze in that tractor back then.

 

[Riverslim]

Dad had an old Papec belt driven hammermill, too, driven with a 1938 Oliver 70. Grandpa, Dad & I both worked for a dealer in southern Illinois that sold Papec.

 

[Riverslim]

Gehl was (is I guess) a WI company. The dealership sold both Gehl and Papec. As a partsman I must say Gehl had super partsbooks, Papec had crude hard to use partsbooks.

 

[Crem]

Riverslim, back then when I was a kid, I actually enjoyed shoveling the corn etc into the mill. Sure it was dusty as our mill was inside the shed and we had a small door to open to the feed the belt through. (It seemed like the pulley on the mill had some nice grooves in it for grip.) We had different sized screens for the different grains. It sure made a racket when doing ear corn. You had to watch out that you didn't feed it too fast. The machine had a place to attach two sacks and a flipper so that one sack would be filling while you emptied the other one. Dad usually took care of the sacks. Sometimes we would just run the ground feed on the floor to be shoveled up as needed. We even ground up hay bales and added some kind of supplement like molasses or something to it. Of course that was fifty some years ago.

 

[Charlie M]

I've got a Papec ensilage cutter I get out every once in a while to chop up some sweetcorn stalks or if I have some old hay I want to spread on a field. Works great - wish I had a small silo to fill.

 

[John Harmon]

I had a CC Case I bought at a sale for $20 back in 1960 and started farming with the old gal. Never ever used anti-freeze in it. Hot water helped get it started when I needed to grind feed on a 10 degree below zero day. It had a front axle made from a chev truck front axle. Primative but it worked. I farmed several years with it before I sold it for $45 and bought an SC Case to replace it.Mean while I had bought a DC and a VAC Case Tractors to farm with.After about 5 years of Case Tractors I got rid of them all and replaced them all with Allis Chalmers tractors.Two WD45's and a new D17 and later adding a new 190 Gas.

 

[El Toro]

They had one on the farm when I was growing up. We also used it for shredding fodder for bedding.
That changed around 1949 when a man that had a chopper pulled by a Farmall M and had 2 trucks with dump beds was hired to fill the silos.

It usually took about 3 weeks of long days to fill the silos and we had to hire extra help and my brother and I were still in high school and could only help on weekends unless we were playing football. They filled both silos in 3 days and we had 3 men in the silos tramping the silage. We had a 10-20 McCormick Deering on the blower. They shut it down for lunch to refill the gas tank and check the oil. Hal

 

[Anonymous-0]

I've got a Papec 880 grinder mixer. Great machine.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Could anyone tell me if stationary Papec silage
choppers were available in 1924.? One we had in Africa in the 1940's had a slatted steel chain feeding belt running in a trough. It was used to blow maize silage into a pit. It was flat belt driven by a Farmall M, but in the 1920's might have been driven by an old steel-wheeled Fordson.