Love the old 1880 New Holland’s. When I was a kid there were 3 different farmers in our area that had them and in the fall you could hear them all running for miles and miles up and down the valley. We really thought they were big time machines
Wow, this brings me back, the dairy I worked at had an 806 I did all the plowing and discing with, and they bought an1880 brand new, it was state of the art chopper, three row, Cat engine, thanks for the memories
Holy smokes I haven’t seen one of these in years. We ran two brand new 1880’s in ‘75 and ‘76, both open station, I was 18-19 years old. They did a great job considering they didn’t have blowers. We primarily chopped alfalfa and cut about 18,000 to 20,000 tons each year and I was glad to be finished after that. We wore eye protection always as they were loud. Was so happy to be in a comfortable, quiet cab of a JD 6600 after that long summer of chopping but that as a fun time on the farm. Great crew of young guys.
Growing up in NW Iowa in the late 60's we cut silage with an 880 Oliver & 1 row Gehl cutter. Last time we cut with a 3 row Uni Harvestor with a V6 GMC gas motor. Somewhere in there Dad got a 3 row picker head for it then put a screen in behind the knifes to grind ear corn to fill the silo. Really made nice feed.
I bought an old SP 818 in the early 80's. that was owned by a big dairman 2 row rowcrop head and a 10ft direct cut ......... I was told that it had a 348 Chevy Engine... But it most definately would walk and talk ....... Your video brought back a lot of memories
This is what I absolutely enjoy. Older machinery getting the work done just like they were intended to do. Who needs a million dollars worth of equipment just to chop? Not them.
Now that's about as old school as it gets right down to the trench silo that's really the model of it's namesake!!! Your comment about the size and amount of those machines 50 years ago is spot on for sure!!! That's the most serious leveling and packing machine I've seen in any bodies silage making videos! That surely appeared to be a fully ventilated cab on that chopper it probably felt pretty good on a cold day! I think the Boehm farm guys are using a chopper that's very similar! Thanks for the trip back video!
I guess not everyone has gone big and hi-tech! I looked at that chopper and thought "where's the rest of it?" Great video. I really enjoy the old machinery and the repurposed stuff too.
This is some cute machinery. So tiny compared to today's equipment. Going back and fourth slowly in the fields would get monotonous for me, maybe not. But is a very honest way of earning a living. The world would starve without farming & ranching. Wonderful Episode BTP 🚜👍
this kind of stuff is still pretty common in the Champlain and Hudson valley areas of NY. They've got a nice set-up in this video. reliable easy to keep running that gets the job done and if you have a bad year or something happens it's not like you have a ton of equipment payments (or any). Less debt is well worth the sun burn and occasional welding repair
Good and interesting video. I pretty much only see such old harvesters on special oldtimer events, where they chop corn with old harvesters (either behind a tractor, or the old self propelled ones). Good thing is, oldtimer events grow in popularity here, and so are people buying these old machines and maintaining or restoring them. It isn't always easy keeping these machines running, many manufacterers don't make parts for them anymore, so the owners sometimes need to be creative to keep the machines going (I think New Holland still has parts, even for these old ones, but brands like Fox, Hesston or Mengele, things get more complicated to get parts). Some are maintained but this look their age (like the one in this video), some are restored to factory new state (full new paint job etc).
Yes a big congratulations to that Farber for preserving that type of equipment and keep it running as good as it as it is I was just awesome seeing that and then re-purposed seeing an old dump truck box I am miss those days thing those things on farms and that cat bulldozer mad I was it that was a thing of beauty to
This was an awesome filming opportunity. So I often I wish I could go back to the 70’s and 80’s and film farming the way it was at that time. This farm made that possible. . .
Thanks for another great video ! When I was fairly young I drove grandaddy's 1890 . I thought it was a big chopper with 4 cylinder gm Detroit. My ears did ring !
Amazing when you look at the cost of inflation on a machine like that to what today's machines cost. That machine today would cost $147,731 but I can see an '18 Claas Jaguar 980 running 365k and an '17 JD 8600 at $496k. Huge advancement in technology but my word, no wonder pull type harvesters are still relevant by comparison lol.
Exactly. It kinda irritates me when people ask "why would you spend almost $90K on a pull-type when you could get a used self-propelled for the same money?!" Why? Because for the money I got a *brand spankin' new* chopper with a *brand spankin' new* corn head and a *brand spankin' new* pickup head, all under warranty. For the same money, you aren't getting any late-model SPFH with heads unless the whole rig has a bazillion hours on it. No comparison whatsoever. And yeah, new SPFHs and their heads are outrageous. Half a mill for a top-of-the line machine? $100k for a big direct-cut disc head?! $125k+ for a big Kemper?!
Man!!! talk about a hot box, especially in behind tall-ish corn (no breeze). It really was parts from a pull type chopper made self propelled. Our custom silage guy (back in Scotland) ran a Massey 4800 pulling a PTO Claas but it was a huge day when Claas came out with the pull type chopper that had it's own engine on the its hitch frame, ya had to engage a big lever at ground level before heading off. Boy did that thing like to push ya down a hill, lol.
Miss my old 966. Those tractors are in remarkable condition especially the 806. Think I would put some higher extensions on those trailers. That cab has to be HOT.
A neighbor had an original with the Chevy V 8. It burned 100 gallons of gas a day. I think gas was 28 cents a gallon then. I was too young to care. Much later a custom operator ran one with the Detroit for a few years. Had to wear ear muffs to run it. It was LOUD!
One year just as started filling silo chopper broke, pa & I hopped in the truck for parts run, while at the counter our neighbor walked in, talks with pa, had just had his 1880 delivered, picked up one of his wagons on way home, and to our surprise 2 more were already in driveway, next morning just as getting done milking pulls in with 1880 & another wagon, totalling 7 wagons, pa hauled with our 2 biggest tractors, I unloaded, filled one silo, the next day we filled the other,
That was a cut and throw Chopper. The cutter head knives threw it to the wagon it did not have blower. That's what makes that growling noise when they're chopping. How I remember hearing that throughout the neighborhood back in the day.
a heavy rubber tired tractor does a lot better because cats dont have as much per square inch on ground you can tell difference if digging by hand the tighter the better it keeps
Well done BTP. There is one of those choppers in our area in a shed now but yes that was top of the line back then. Other than the cat in in bunker, very low capital investment on that farm and still getting the job done....
When I was little kid I toad with my dad chopping either 1880 or 1890 had Detroit 4 cylinder three row head when we upgraddd to a 1900 big turbo Cat we were top dog
Nothing like doing things old school i think is the best way today in so many different ways got the job done without all the computer technology and a lot less headache some things went wrong
That was us for years and years. Except we had whipped New Holland number 8s behind it. 1890 with the Cat that would plug the air filter up in half a day and blow the mufflers out in a year. Have an FX series now. Every time you fight with something electrical, you think how that old 1890 would be chopping away, while you are sitting there scratching your head, pissed off at who in the hell designed this wire harness.....
They just put a new set on the other day. The chopper had a flat just before I got there. They improvised to get the harvest done. I can’t wait to see it next year with new shoes.
Not a full spec video but I did put out an IH tractor video of red tractors plowing in Friday that features a 560 with front wheel assist at ruclips.net/video/0KsEOgeS-VM/видео.html
If you're at silage for a week by the time yer done the stuff at the bottom will cook a potato as it will have started, but from the time you seal the pit i'd give it at least a month.
Very nice find Jason! Of you have the time, find NAGD2010 here on RUclips. They have a few videos on of an oldtimer chopping day, here in our neighbourhood.
I drove these in the 70s my favorite one didnt have a cab most were 2 row crop heads this style crop head sucked, the good old days I was 14 years old the cabs actualy sucked it was hotter then hell inside they where available with a cooler but it never worked very long
Hot stuff!! There can't possibly be very many of these things still operating. They would've been serious machines in their day. Also a little bit ugly... My how times have changed.
shure brings back memories neighbor had one row papec chopper talk about slow this old rigg does,nt cost much to own if they bought it new less than one thousand a year payback new ones wont last like this
Ah Papec. I grew up about 45 minutes from Shortsville, NY where Papec was based. Even though the last Papec Equipment was built in 1979 there still piles of forage wagons, mixer mills and sprayers in WNY into the 2000’s. The choppers faded out by the 80’s but as you said they did not match up to the speed of an NH, IH, Hesston or Deere of the time.
I could watch this all day, don't care about new high priced stuff course I'm old so this takes me back. I'm from a whole other century.
This 1880 was a great find in such nice condition. I like finding the classics to share.
Love the old 1880 New Holland’s. When I was a kid there were 3 different farmers in our area that had them and in the fall you could hear them all running for miles and miles up and down the valley. We really thought they were big time machines
Very cool history. They were huge in their day. Thank you for watching.
Wow, this brings me back, the dairy I worked at had an 806 I did all the plowing and discing with, and they bought an1880 brand new, it was state of the art chopper, three row, Cat engine, thanks for the memories
Holy smokes I haven’t seen one of these in years. We ran two brand new 1880’s in ‘75 and ‘76, both open station, I was 18-19 years old. They did a great job considering they didn’t have blowers. We primarily chopped alfalfa and cut about 18,000 to 20,000 tons each year and I was glad to be finished after that. We wore eye protection always as they were loud. Was so happy to be in a comfortable, quiet cab of a JD 6600 after that long summer of chopping but that as a fun time on the farm. Great crew of young guys.
I too, love to see the older equipment. Takes me back to my childhood. Thank you.
Me too. I felt right at home watching these machines at work. It was a fun day in the field filming this operation.
Growing up in NW Iowa in the late 60's we cut silage with an 880 Oliver & 1 row Gehl cutter. Last time we cut with a 3 row Uni Harvestor with a V6 GMC gas motor. Somewhere in there Dad got a 3 row picker head for it then put a screen in behind the knifes to grind ear corn to fill the silo. Really made nice feed.
This is nice to see we used one of these to open up the fields until 1999. I loved the sound of it ours had the 391.
Very cool. A farm I visit has a 391 with not cab parked inside. They might get it out for me to film next year.
them old boys are having the time of their lives wish i could help
Man, that brings back memories of my youth. I just loved harvest time.
Love seeing this older stuff still being used..awesome video 👍
Oh, that sound, it is magnificent.
I bought an old SP 818 in the early 80's. that was owned by a big dairman 2 row rowcrop head and a 10ft direct cut ......... I was told that it had a 348 Chevy Engine... But it most definately would walk and talk ....... Your video brought back a lot of memories
This a Alsome video . I love the older equipment . It was more simple back then without computers & such.
This is what I absolutely enjoy. Older machinery getting the work done just like they were intended to do. Who needs a million dollars worth of equipment just to chop? Not them.
Now that's about as old school as it gets right down to the trench silo that's really the model of it's namesake!!! Your comment about the size and amount of those machines 50 years ago is spot on for sure!!! That's the most serious leveling and packing machine I've seen in any bodies silage making videos! That surely appeared to be a fully ventilated cab on that chopper it probably felt pretty good on a cold day! I think the Boehm farm guys are using a chopper that's very similar! Thanks for the trip back video!
I guess not everyone has gone big and hi-tech! I looked at that chopper and thought "where's the rest of it?" Great video. I really enjoy the old machinery and the repurposed stuff too.
That was awesome love these old time videos brings back slot of good memories as always well done thanks
Thank you for watching. Filming this operation brought back allot of good memories for me as well.
Love the old equipment getting the job done. Thanks BTP
Me too. This was a cool farm to get to visit.
I love the sound of an old forage Harvester
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Really enjoyed this video, that’s how my uncle used to put up silage. Good memories!
It was a great time in farming. Thank you for sharing.
I'd like to ask. When making a ration for feed lot. Would such a silage be used coz it has grain already. Or roughage and grain?.
This is some cute machinery. So tiny compared to today's equipment. Going back and fourth slowly in the fields would get monotonous for me, maybe not. But is a very honest way of earning a living. The world would starve without farming & ranching. Wonderful Episode BTP 🚜👍
Thank you for watching. It was cool to go back and see a simpler time.
this kind of stuff is still pretty common in the Champlain and Hudson valley areas of NY. They've got a nice set-up in this video. reliable easy to keep running that gets the job done and if you have a bad year or something happens it's not like you have a ton of equipment payments (or any). Less debt is well worth the sun burn and occasional welding repair
That was good New Hollands, lovely old machines
This was a fun video to film.
Memories here,Jason, excellent video .
Wow ! There’s some oldies but goodies 👍👍
Thank you for the video
Good and interesting video. I pretty much only see such old harvesters on special oldtimer events, where they chop corn with old harvesters (either behind a tractor, or the old self propelled ones). Good thing is, oldtimer events grow in popularity here, and so are people buying these old machines and maintaining or restoring them. It isn't always easy keeping these machines running, many manufacterers don't make parts for them anymore, so the owners sometimes need to be creative to keep the machines going (I think New Holland still has parts, even for these old ones, but brands like Fox, Hesston or Mengele, things get more complicated to get parts). Some are maintained but this look their age (like the one in this video), some are restored to factory new state (full new paint job etc).
Yes a big congratulations to that Farber for preserving that type of equipment and keep it running as good as it as it is I was just awesome seeing that and then re-purposed seeing an old dump truck box I am miss those days thing those things on farms and that cat bulldozer mad I was it that was a thing of beauty to
This was an awesome filming opportunity. So I often I wish I could go back to the 70’s and 80’s and film farming the way it was at that time. This farm made that possible. . .
I enjoyed watching the video. Now I know Sherman felt when he and Mr. Peabody felt like going back in the Wayback Machine 😆
Never seen one. Thanks for showing this to us very interesting. Good spec overview too!!
Thanks for another great video ! When I was fairly young I drove grandaddy's 1890 . I thought it was a big chopper with 4 cylinder gm Detroit. My ears did ring !
The 1890 was a nice step up from the 1880. That engine box right by the cab on an 1890 would be loud.
Then: "795$ gets you this fully enclosed cab."
Now: "795$ gets you this half a cup holder."
Or half a gallon of hydraulic fluid
Amazing when you look at the cost of inflation on a machine like that to what today's machines cost. That machine today would cost $147,731 but I can see an '18 Claas Jaguar 980 running 365k and an '17 JD 8600 at $496k. Huge advancement in technology but my word, no wonder pull type harvesters are still relevant by comparison lol.
Exactly. It kinda irritates me when people ask "why would you spend almost $90K on a pull-type when you could get a used self-propelled for the same money?!" Why? Because for the money I got a *brand spankin' new* chopper with a *brand spankin' new* corn head and a *brand spankin' new* pickup head, all under warranty. For the same money, you aren't getting any late-model SPFH with heads unless the whole rig has a bazillion hours on it. No comparison whatsoever. And yeah, new SPFHs and their heads are outrageous. Half a mill for a top-of-the line machine? $100k for a big direct-cut disc head?! $125k+ for a big Kemper?!
My main tractor is a 2355 John Deere. She has been more loyal than the best dog. My 806 has changed the game.
Now you got to go to Boehm Farms and get footage of their New Holland forage harvester.
This brings brings back memories. Thanks for video
Thanks for getting that on video for us to see a neat machine like that
That sure would beat the one row pull behind like we talked about before.A piece of history.
Brilliant pieces of kit. Great stuff.
These are well cared for machines.
Bet it's payed for,and it still gets the job done.and that what counts every time.
Man!!! talk about a hot box, especially in behind tall-ish corn (no breeze). It really was parts from a pull type chopper made self propelled. Our custom silage guy (back in Scotland) ran a Massey 4800 pulling a PTO Claas but it was a huge day when Claas came out with the pull type chopper that had it's own engine on the its hitch frame, ya had to engage a big lever at ground level before heading off. Boy did that thing like to push ya down a hill, lol.
That is a well used machine. Kudos for keeping it runing
There’s nothing sounds better than a New Holland silage chopper. We ran a 717 super for years.
Very cool. I got film a 717 on an Allis-Chalmers 6080 about 8 years ago. What tractor did you run your Super 717 on?
Used a 560 on it for a lot of years. Then used a 966 or 3088 till we quit doing silage.
Awesome footage. Thanks for sharing
This was an extra fun farm to film at. Thank you for watching.
Miss my old 966. Those tractors are in remarkable condition especially the 806. Think I would put some higher extensions on those trailers. That cab has to be HOT.
I had one of those old things in the scrap.pile now hydrostatic drive got to weak to move . Chopped a lot with it brings back memories
It was fun to see this operation. Not too many farms running like this these days.
She’s a beaut Clark!!
Love those green walls😂
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Thanks Eddie
Bet you could use a cool one 😂
This is way cool!
This was an exciting filming opportunity. Thank you for watching.
A neighbor had an original with the Chevy V 8. It burned 100 gallons of gas a day. I think gas was 28 cents a gallon then. I was too young to care. Much later a custom operator ran one with the Detroit for a few years. Had to wear ear muffs to run it. It was LOUD!
Great video! That’s cool how they hooked the pto pump up to the tractor pto on the dump wagons!
It’s a neat farm to watch working.
In this video big tractor it brings back memories on a farm I work on 👍🏻❤️✨
This operation brought back allot memories for me as well. It was a great time in farming.
One year just as started filling silo chopper broke, pa & I hopped in the truck for parts run, while at the counter our neighbor walked in, talks with pa, had just had his 1880 delivered, picked up one of his wagons on way home, and to our surprise 2 more were already in driveway, next morning just as getting done milking pulls in with 1880 & another wagon, totalling 7 wagons, pa hauled with our 2 biggest tractors, I unloaded, filled one silo, the next day we filled the other,
That’s slick.
Great job love that IH 966
This is cool
Thank you for watching.
The chopper is so cute😍
Growing up 40 years ago Borden Dairy Farm & apple orchard had a 1895 spfh that I got to run
Very cool. I would like to film an 1895. Big machine until the 2100 replaced it.
Nice video as usual BTP. 👍👍
That was awesome
It was a fun day of filming spending time out in the field with these classics.
That was a cut and throw Chopper. The cutter head knives threw it to the wagon it did not have blower. That's what makes that growling noise when they're chopping. How I remember hearing that throughout the neighborhood back in the day.
A question for you bunker guys, is using the big CAT a good idea? It’s got the weight but, is it too spread out to do a good job?
We used dozers for years on the silage pile, TD9, and also an Allis HD16, always worked out great.
a heavy rubber tired tractor does a lot better because cats dont have as much per square inch on ground you can tell difference if digging by hand the tighter the better it keeps
Well done BTP. There is one of those choppers in our area in a shed now but yes that was top of the line back then. Other than the cat in in bunker, very low capital investment on that farm and still getting the job done....
It’s a neat line up. The CAT in the bunker did a pile of dirt work over the years and paid for the farm so it’s the top machine on the farm.
Those two trailers remind me when we cut down two old Ford trucks and made four wheeled trailers out on them.. They worked great..
That looks like a machine out of one of my childhood nightmares lolol
When I was little kid I toad with my dad chopping either 1880 or 1890 had Detroit 4 cylinder three row head when we upgraddd to a 1900 big turbo Cat we were top dog
Nothing like doing things old school i think is the best way today in so many different ways got the job done without all the computer technology and a lot less headache some things went wrong
Those IHC look great!! Neat video....
Awesome video 🌽🌽👍👍
Thank you for watching. It was a fun day in the field.
Cant believe it runs cool with the rad plugged like that
at 2:55 you see a Claude V. Rowe mud flap on the dump trailer, a Indiana staple in dump body's and truck equipment
That’s a very interesting video big tractor❤️🇺🇸💫
Thank you for watching. 🐝
Muy buena maquina usamos una y anda muy bien
Not much wasted crop like the newer, bigger and more complicated machines. He was getting almost all of it in the trailers.
In chopping their is always chips in the air but the 1880 stayed on target.
Still use one,works great.
Very cool.
That IH is nice!
They are well cared for.
Like this
Thank you for watching.
I want that old international tractor
I think my grandpa drove one of these
I know that only the old guys now how to run these type of special machines
That was us for years and years. Except we had whipped New Holland number 8s behind it. 1890 with the Cat that would plug the air filter up in half a day and blow the mufflers out in a year. Have an FX series now. Every time you fight with something electrical, you think how that old 1890 would be chopping away, while you are sitting there scratching your head, pissed off at who in the hell designed this wire harness.....
The crop cruiser i drove briefly had 3row head and pretty sure had 4 wheel drive
The ol cat could stand some new tires😂
They just put a new set on the other day. The chopper had a flat just before I got there. They improvised to get the harvest done. I can’t wait to see it next year with new shoes.
Still cool. I've never seen one.
way back in the day we had old dump trucks with silage boxes on them
Big tractor powers got bring his 4wd out now to pack it would fit right in with it all
That would be fun. Unfortunately we are bout 100 miles apart.
How much horse power does this harvester have?
207 hp
Do you have any videos of a Farmall 560
Not a full spec video but I did put out an IH tractor video of red tractors plowing in Friday that features a 560 with front wheel assist at ruclips.net/video/0KsEOgeS-VM/видео.html
Funny how you do not see them use a balzer accumalater anymore. It was built in mt. Lake Minn.
How long does it have to ferment?
If you're at silage for a week by the time yer done the stuff at the bottom will cook a potato as it will have started, but from the time you seal the pit i'd give it at least a month.
It could be fed in 30 days but 60-90 days is better. I suspect this feed will sit until winter when the pasture ground is frozen.
Anybody knows where I can get a chopper like that close to tenn
Top farragem
Very nice find Jason! Of you have the time, find NAGD2010 here on RUclips. They have a few videos on of an oldtimer chopping day, here in our neighbourhood.
This was a neat farm to visit. I will check out that channel.
I don’t know if I’ll get to see the video or not. It’s still streaming
Love the lack of hearing protection. Keep on keeping on!
Just rolling through the acres. Hearing protection is always important though. .
Man we need rain bad. That's gotta suck eating all that dust.
It is extra dry. It rained here today which helps a bit.
I see “turbo” on the side of the 966. I didn’t know the 966 came with turbo. Ours didnt.
Larry they didn’t come with one from the factory
I bet that takes a while
It took a few days. They had fun putting up the crop.
I drove these in the 70s my favorite one didnt have a cab most were 2 row crop heads this style crop head sucked, the good old days I was 14 years old the cabs actualy sucked it was hotter then hell inside they where available with a cooler but it never worked very long
Hot stuff!! There can't possibly be very many of these things still operating. They would've been serious machines in their day. Also a little bit ugly... My how times have changed.
#INTERNATIONALPOWER good vid #bestguyonyt
shure brings back memories neighbor had one row papec chopper talk about slow this old rigg does,nt cost much to own if they bought it new less than one thousand a year payback new ones wont last like this
Ah Papec. I grew up about 45 minutes from Shortsville, NY where Papec was based. Even though the last Papec Equipment was built in 1979 there still piles of forage wagons, mixer mills and sprayers in WNY into the 2000’s. The choppers faded out by the 80’s but as you said they did not match up to the speed of an NH, IH, Hesston or Deere of the time.