What is it?

[grandpa Love]

At an old Bushhog dealer yesterday while waiting for him to finish with a repair I wandered around. What is this thing?

 

[Adirondack case guy]

A silage chopper/silo filler.
Loren

 

[Farmall plowboy]

Silo filler....not sure which brand.

 

[grandpa Love]

Worth anything? Or yard art?

 

[jon f mn]

That is a silo filler, used when they shocked corn. You haul the shocks to the silo and form them into that which chops them and blows them into the silo. The chopping part is relative tho, and shredded might be more accurate. I sure wouldn't want to dig that out of a silo in the winter that's for sure.

 

[Angle Iron]

Stationary cutter-silo filler. Hand feed fodder, corn or cane bundles, it chops and blows it in the silo. I think some let the corn hang on the stock in shocks like small grain. The then picked them up pulled the corn and chopped the stocks for bedding/roughage. This all back in the time of hand picking corn, thrashing machines and so on.

 

[jon f mn]

That would depend on brand. That one looks like it has a wagon Jack on it, that should be worth something to a colector.

 

[larry@stinescorner]

SweetFeet said put that on the dumptruck too?

 

[leroy in ne]

One term is stationary ensilage cutter, also used for corn fodder which was when they harvested corn with a binder, shocked it then ground dry stalk ear and all as livestock feed. come on guys and help my description out. Leroy

 

[2underage]

It looks like an old ensilage cutter that was used to cut corn stalks and blow them into a silo where they would ferment and later be fed to cows. Not used much now as the cutting is done in the field with tractor pulled or self propelled choppers. Much of the chopped corn is now stored in bunk silos which are really just piles of ensilage on the ground surrounded by containing walls.

 

[Charlie M]

That is a papec ensilage cutter. I have one in the barn. They were a good machine for filling silos in the days of corn binders. On the fan there is a set of cutting knifes for chopping the corn before blowing it into the silo. I still set mine up once in a while if I have some old hay I want to chop up and spread on a field. They are belt driven so you have to have a tractor with a belt pulley to run it.

 

[rminon]

That was called a cutting box in my area. I helped my bil fill silo many times. Usually a man stood beside to watch it didn't overload and throw the belt and plug the pipes. That lever is used to stop the feeder chain or reverse the feed. He always used a D Case or the neighbors old L Case. The old L would throw the belt if you fed the corn too heavy. With good sharp knives a cutting box did a good job.

 

[SweetFeet]

Park in yard, plant flowers around the base of it... stick a planter container in the "spout" and grow a vining plant in it, so it will drape down. Will look great.

 

[Dave Sherburne, NY]

That does look like a Papec ensilage cutter made in Shortsville NY. Thats what we used on the farm way back when I was a teenager, I'm 75 now. It actually belonged to my uncle. His silos got filled first with my father and I helping, then another uncle would truck it to our place where we set it up to an old octagon silo and hooked a borrowed John Deere A to it to run it. The corn was cut and bundled using a Ford 8N. We never used the elevator that was supposed to load the bundles on a wagon hooked to the harvester. It was to much for the Ford 8N to pull all that up and down the hills of out farm. Always had to open the field by cutting 2 rows by hand so as not to knock them down with the Ford and the harvester. After everything was set up my father would go out and cut about 5 acres. My uncle had a Doodlebug he had made from a Plymouth car and the rear end of a truck with duals on the rear and 2 transmissions. This time of year we always had to put chains on the duals because of the mud. The Doodlebug would haul the corn to the silo where the John Deere was running and waiting to go to work. Couldn't shut it off between loads, cause it was hand start with the flywheel. Sometimes I got to unload the bundles from the wagon and sometimes I was in the silo spreading the ensilage around and trying to pack it down by walking around and round. If the Papec was loaded to heavy, the drum that pulled the corn through would spin and do nothing. So then the person unloading would have to jump to the ground and pull the reversing lever that is prominent in the first photo and work it back in forth til the stalks went through When we started feeding it out we would throw it out with a silage fork by taking out a four inch layer at a time so it wouldn't spoil. I guess it was my favorite time of the year.

 

[larry@stinescorner]

Its a a semi trailer flatbed,,headed your way,,along with lots of old rusty wheels and a compilation of rusty stuff.You gonna break the news to Mr SweetFeet ahead of time,,or surprise him?

 

[oleclint]

Dave is correct about it being a Papec silo filler . I rember Dad s very well, being old enough to help around it.A very well built machine. They were made in two or three sizes . Some models had four knives, some had six on the bigger machines.Dad always sharpened the knives, never took them to 'town'.clint

 

[Mutt and Jeff]

That's the rumble seat of your metal creation that shoots flames smokes and barks

 

[Bob N.Y.]

I agree. It is a Papec ensilage cutter. We had 2. Used the last until 1963.

 

[Leroy]

Those insulage mils were made by many a company. And if you find a good one they are pricy and sell fast. Friends still use them every year to fill silo.