@ThatOliverGuyChris Those were good times. More farms, more families. Every small town had a grocery store or two, a couple full service gas stations, a lumber yard, a hardware store or farm supply store of some sort, a couple bars, a grain elevator, maybe an implement dealer or two, several different denominations of churches, and a school. When the family farms started disappearing, the small towns started drying up. Once they lose their school, they are just a rural residential area. Lucky to have a tiny convenience store with a gallon of milk in the cooler. Sure do miss those days.
Great Video of a Rarely seen Oliver Implement! Corn looks Too Dry! Seems to be the trend for 2024! Some Corn in Central Iowa is already mid 16! Unreal for September! Drone coverage is Awesome! 👍👌
I had been hoping to take it to a neighbor earlier in the month and that didn't work out. Then I thought about my friend Brian and he's going to out it to good use. The great part is it will end up in my freezer when it's all said and done.
When I was 17, back in the 60's, my uncle had a souped up fox 2 row on an 806 Farmall. My buddy and I caught on the go with 2 old dump trucks. We filled pert near all the bunkers in the township that year. I smelled od of sileage for a long time. Good memories.
When I was young, we had a dairy farm catty corner across from us. When they cut silage the corn was still pretty green. Now days, everyone seems to cut it when it's about ready to pick or combine. Another interesting video, thank you. Have a good day.
I'm guessing that the silo's relied a lot on fermentation of the green silage to prevent spoilage and the bags and bunkers rely more on dryness and lack of oxygen?
Ya, I grew up on a dairy, When the corn was that brown , It was cob corn, To go to the feed mill, The forager green corn went into the silo. Was fun watching the deer stand 30 feet away as they were accustomed to the machine stuff being harmless to them.
We had a lot of choppers back in the day worked on a lot of them. Well a lot of them up fixed them put it in an upright silo. That was a job pack it out the winter time we start a pile on top of the ground making a pit that was easier to get out with and loaders lotta hard work back down by Old timer
Great video !! Reminds me of when we did this in 60’s and 70’s. Laugh if you want but dad cut with 2 row Gehl and pull wagons. Many neighbors want to try it they would bring there IH and Allis Chalmers and give it a try. None of them could chop and pull but the 1962 770 gas would go all day most of the fall.
Nice video Chris, great drone footage too. Those old choppers are a real old time relics, just mechanical works going on and not all the electronics to deal with. I hope you have a great day!
When I was young we had a neighbor that was in the chopping business. Haha a Oliver self propelled with a Detroit , open station and a Oliver pull type with a 1750 set back front axle. He chopped haulage, straw, and corn all over our neighborhood. Back then everyone had livestock. He was an icon.
Thats awesome. I saw the pictures you posted this week and I was thinking we're gonna have a good video Sunday morning lol. Man would I love to have an Oliver chopper and a 2050. Honestly I would settle for just the 2050 I don't have to be greedy.. when I was a kid growing up all of the silage got chopped with the 1755 and a NH with the three row head and sometimes a fox pull type with a three row head. We had a dump cart so the chopper could keep moving and then just stopped to dump loads into a wagon pulled up alongside. If you were just looking at that set up parked there you would think to yourself, that must be a pretty slow set up. But honestly that thing could chop a lot of feed in a hurry.. you could hang right there with the four row self-propelled guy
Cool! I remember riding along with dad as a kid while he chopped with our Gehl chopper and the 2-135. We got out of the cattle business when I was 10, so I didn't get much hands on experience. The original owner of this Oliver pulled it with a 2050, so I felt it was only appropriate to do the same.
Wagon is trying to pull the chopper sideways, that's why i liked the tandem axles on our Gehl 760 and 865. Last year i chopped corn silage for dad was with the 760 using a Deere 4240, in tall corn low gear was all she could handle with a two row head.........
Boy that is a good video I never got to run the chopper but I hauled a lot of wagons In my time I miss it to this day because everything else stopped other than chores until the chopping was down.thanks again Chris
What a great video, cool shots! We had a 2 row fox chopper when we farmed. Would chop directly into the feeder wagon, plus we would make piles sometimes. It was too much for the WD-45, as that was geared too high for one thing. My Dad got an Oliver 1850 diesel at some point in there, and that was a great match for the chopper, although it played with it.
Brian is a John Deere guy - ooh well we all have our flaws, some worse then others. All kidding aside, what a lovely kit from back then, funny thing is that corn back then was only half as tall, but it made pretty good work of modern corn as well.
Always enjoy when you break out the 830 forage harvester. We sold both Fox and Oliver equipment. My memory is of different blower belt shielding then your unit. We’re there changes made in production? Of course that was close to 50 years ago and memories can’t always be trusted! Thanks for sharing.
The majority of the 830s were built in Shelbyville, but when they closed that factory and moved production to South Bend, they redesigned some of the sheet metal. So your eye is keen! This is one of those late units.
Interesting. The reason I remember that was because when changing knives or adding a screen you would pivot the blower open for access. On the Oliver 830 that blower belt shield had to be removed prior to opening the blower.
Awesome video! I’ll need to keep my eye out for an 830 at auction. I’ve noticed some Oliver implements coming out of the woodwork lately in NE Iowa. Always plenty of fellas bidding on anything Oliver in Iowa. The only upside is the JD boys aren’t in on the action 🤣🤣
Fox made chopper for oliver I have seen pull type and self-propelled chopper at dealer in greenfield indiana many years ago. They were not as nice as yours Fun new toy
I won't lie, think goodness for self propelled choppers. I miss the sounds but I do NOT miss the job. Thing about some of these old choppers and pickers, always seemed like you had to run them for a bit so the "heads" would "shine" up and then, would work flawlessly unless you tried to jam too much in... ie., drove too fast. Great video as always, cheers :)
Very cool. Today must be the day for pull type chopper videos. You don't see very many pull types being used for corn anymore. You might need to be like ross and plant wide row corn and get some beef cattle just so you can play with your toys more 😂😂😂
We usually drop chops are pretty green September below to dry out too much to lose your food value you I seen the time it helped the neighbor and he had took a garden hoses and water down. They put preservative on and we never put preservative on him and we never had water down either.
I grew up on a dairy farm l chopped the corn for silage dad had a ford605 one row chopper it was built by Oliver for Ford it was a well built unit the guy in this video needs to slow down the corn is bunching up in the header And not feeding steady in to the knifes the corn looks mighty dry it's a good video
@@TheFoxGuyBarry Our first fox was a super six. The next one was a 546, it was quite an up grade. Great choppers in there day. Interesting that there is still a dealership available. We had two strong dealerships in our area back then. Wondering what state you are in?
That would have been the rig to have back in the 1980s when we'd have a wet fall and have to drag the chopper around with 2-3 tractors... That 2050 or old Herman, for sure.
I wonder if this is a rebadged fox unit, I remember back in the seventies machinery companies would buy from other manufacturers to save on costs of production.
Yes back when those were designed they didn't grow crop of corn like that but don't take the clutch out of the tractor we used to go through that with the cockshutt 's and the White's
Chris, really cool seeing the old equipment back working again. I remember when I was a kid I know some of the farmers started doing silage at that time. Is this piece of equipment that your dad had used on the farm? Thanks Michael
Good morning Chris. Love the video. I have an 1855 that has fender tanks and a canopy. Do you know if there is enough room to put dual hubs on with this set up?
There should be, you may have to turn the cast center around to get the tire out farther. Swapping the rears side to side would probably be the easiest way. I'm going to try it when I put my 1855 back together. My 2050 in this video is set up with the centers turned around and dual hubs. The fender tanks are mounted in the outer holes, so there should be room a roll bar on it.
back when being a full line company meant something. PS greener corn would have fed better, need the weight to force it down onto the feed table conveyor. Main reason everyone went to direct to the feed roll feeding.
Was that a drone shot between the wagon and a row of corn? If so that was impressive. I was waiting for you to fly the drone in through the front of the wagon and out through the hole in the top.
Anyone else have one of those Choppers you know of? They were probably pretty hard to find when new, now probably impossible? That isn't a Fox though, Fox Clone correct?
Yep, a Fox clone. I know of one in Minnesota, another in Kansas, and 1 in Indiana that is pretty rough. Welters farm supply has a yellow MM version! They made them as a red Cockshutt as well, but I've never seen a pull type. I do know of one red self propelled though. I'm sure there must be others out there.
Nice video! I have got my hands on a 840, Hercules powered chopper. I have not picked it up yet but do you know if fox made a 30" corn head? This one only comes with a fox hay head
I don't think I've ever seen an Oliver chopper in person or a video of one in action for that matter. In our area in southern Wisconsin most pull type choppers were gehl or new Holland maybe a couple of deere and fox. Now most are large self propelled monsters. Looks like they did a good job copying a fox chopper.
Great stuff Chris. Don’t do corn on our dairy farm in Ireland 🇮🇪 but we do ryegrass. It’s heavy, very heavy and tough on machinery. So when we get the chance to pull out our vintage harvesters on these heavy swards there is always a feeling of ’is she going to blow up’ !! I was watching your video and the crop not flowing into the machine, that’s when I had that same feeling ! Well done, that 50 something year old chopper was humming. Credit to you.
@chris. Who made these for Oliver? It looks like a Fox. In SE Wisconsin, I never saw an Oliver, everybody had a fox since it was made just an hour away.
Oliver copied the Fox so blatantly that the Fox heads will interchange. Oliver built it in their own factory in Shelbyville Illinois until they closed that location. They moved production to South Bend Indiana which is where this one was built
It's Oliver built. In the 1960s, Oliver was trying to become a full line company and told their engineers to come up with a forage harvester. They hadn't made much progress and the big wigs told them, if you can't come up with something, then copy it. They copied the Fox so closely that the heads will interchange as will some of the parts. I don't know if there was ever an official agreement between the two companies, but Oliver definitely built them in their Shelbyville factory until it closed. The last few were made in South Bend, including this one.
That is just a sexy old tractor man! Kenny Chesney. She thinks my tractors sexy! What's that old car in the background around at about 12:30? Looks like an old Barracuda???? That corn looks awfully dry for silaging. Can't be much feed value left in it.
That chopper pulls the corn in so effortlessly. The older equipment is so underrated. People don't realize how things used to be. And it worked.
A guy could raise a family in a couple hundred acres, and a lot more of them did. Seems like a good idea to me
@ThatOliverGuyChris Those were good times. More farms, more families. Every small town had a grocery store or two, a couple full service gas stations, a lumber yard, a hardware store or farm supply store of some sort, a couple bars, a grain elevator, maybe an implement dealer or two, several different denominations of churches, and a school. When the family farms started disappearing, the small towns started drying up. Once they lose their school, they are just a rural residential area. Lucky to have a tiny convenience store with a gallon of milk in the cooler. Sure do miss those days.
Great Video of a Rarely seen Oliver Implement! Corn looks Too Dry! Seems to be the trend for 2024! Some Corn in Central Iowa is already mid 16! Unreal for September! Drone coverage is Awesome! 👍👌
I had been hoping to take it to a neighbor earlier in the month and that didn't work out. Then I thought about my friend Brian and he's going to out it to good use. The great part is it will end up in my freezer when it's all said and done.
It’s dry because he’s not aiming for it to be feed he’s gunna combine it for grain.
When I was 17, back in the 60's, my uncle had a souped up fox 2 row on an 806 Farmall. My buddy and I caught on the go with 2 old dump trucks. We filled pert near all the bunkers in the township that year. I smelled od of sileage for a long time. Good memories.
When I was young, we had a dairy farm catty corner across from us. When they cut silage the corn was still pretty green. Now days, everyone seems to cut it when it's about ready to pick or combine.
Another interesting video, thank you. Have a good day.
No longer silage
The best moisture is between 60 and 70 percent.
I'm guessing that the silo's relied a lot on fermentation of the green silage to prevent spoilage and the bags and bunkers rely more on dryness and lack of oxygen?
Ya, I grew up on a dairy,
When the corn was that brown ,
It was cob corn,
To go to the feed mill,
The forager green corn went into the silo.
Was fun watching the deer stand 30 feet away as they were accustomed to the machine stuff being harmless to them.
I’ll watch anything Oliver!!!! I grew up with them on our farm in Kansas 😊
Awesome!
Thanks for sharing this with us. We need to save the old machines
Yes we do, glad you enjoyed it!
The first Oliver chopper I ever remember seeing.
They were late to the game, so there aren't many out there
I haven't seen badger wagons in 40 years. You fellows are really getting everything out of hibernation😊😊
My friend borrowed the wagon. I thought about using my even older Gehl box, but the tires probably aren't up to the road trip to his place.
Really had a good feed for breed cows in the winter time. Really a good feed.
What a great bunch of friends to play with you great filming
Thanks!
Now that’s a rare site. Seems to be doing a pretty good job considering it has probably sat for decades without being used.
I've played with it a couple times, but this is the most corn it has chopped in 50 years.
The tractor looks great doing the job!
Thanks 👍
We had a lot of choppers back in the day worked on a lot of them. Well a lot of them up fixed them put it in an upright silo. That was a job pack it out the winter time we start a pile on top of the ground making a pit that was easier to get out with and loaders lotta hard work back down by Old timer
Great video !! Reminds me of when we did this in 60’s and 70’s. Laugh if you want but dad cut with 2 row Gehl and pull wagons. Many neighbors want to try it they would bring there IH and Allis Chalmers and give it a try. None of them could chop and pull but the 1962 770 gas would go all day most of the fall.
Thanks John!
Fond memories of filling silo, chopping corn and feeding cattle.
Good morning Chris sweet machine we used to chop a lot of corn we did it green for silage for dairy cows that brings back a lot of memories thanks
We got out of beef cattle when I was 10, so I have fond memories of watching chopping and filling silo, but I didn't get to do much at that point.
Great video Chris. I dosed off listening to the gentle humming. Now I got my coffee ready and rewatched about half of it! Such a sweet lullaby!
Watch it as many times as it takes! Thanks
That brings back some memories!
We had a IH 1586, with an IH chopper, and 3 row head..
The self unloaded wagons, and blower seem ancient today..
We still run our 1850 to chop for our silage... cant beat it!
Great tractor for sure!
Nice video Chris, great drone footage too. Those old choppers are a real old time relics, just mechanical works going on and not all the electronics to deal with. I hope you have a great day!
Thanks Dan! I wanted to get more drone footage, but the wind was really picking up!
Nice video the 2050 did a nice job on the chopper. Worked well. Thanks Chris.
Thanks 👍
Grandpa did most of the chopping with a 2-85 and later 2-105 hooked to a Gehl chopper. I was on wagon duty. Oh the memories.
We hauled wagons with a Fleetline 88 and a Super 88. Still have those tractors
When I was young we had a neighbor that was in the chopping business. Haha a Oliver self propelled with a Detroit , open station and a Oliver pull type with a 1750 set back front axle. He chopped haulage, straw, and corn all over our neighborhood. Back then everyone had livestock. He was an icon.
That would have been cool to see!
Are the choppers sitting in the trees somewhere still?
Very nice getting to see you playing with a totally different peace of Oliver equipment, awesome old chopper.
Thanks
love chopping corn.
That was great you got this stuff out to show us . Fantastic.!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great to see. There's probably very few Oliver corn choppers left.
This was fun to watch. Looks like it did a good job. Thanks for the video. See you later.
Thanks!
Exceptionally nice! Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Heck yeah! That works great!😊
I had a great time running it
Thats awesome. I saw the pictures you posted this week and I was thinking we're gonna have a good video Sunday morning lol. Man would I love to have an Oliver chopper and a 2050. Honestly I would settle for just the 2050 I don't have to be greedy.. when I was a kid growing up all of the silage got chopped with the 1755 and a NH with the three row head and sometimes a fox pull type with a three row head. We had a dump cart so the chopper could keep moving and then just stopped to dump loads into a wagon pulled up alongside. If you were just looking at that set up parked there you would think to yourself, that must be a pretty slow set up. But honestly that thing could chop a lot of feed in a hurry.. you could hang right there with the four row self-propelled guy
Cool! I remember riding along with dad as a kid while he chopped with our Gehl chopper and the 2-135. We got out of the cattle business when I was 10, so I didn't get much hands on experience.
The original owner of this Oliver pulled it with a 2050, so I felt it was only appropriate to do the same.
Grinding up 3.00 corn for our enjoyment. Pretty cool stuff. Takes me back to when i was 11 and filling the neighbor’s silo.
It's a great time to waste corn, maybe I'll drive the orice up!
Good looking setup Chris!
Thanks!
Wagon is trying to pull the chopper sideways, that's why i liked the tandem axles on our Gehl 760 and 865. Last year i chopped corn silage for dad was with the 760 using a Deere 4240, in tall corn low gear was all she could handle with a two row head.........
Boy that is a good video I never got to run the chopper but I hauled a lot of wagons In my time I miss it to this day because everything else stopped other than chores until the chopping was down.thanks again Chris
I didn't realize dad pulled you away from the dealership to haul chopper boxes. I was usually in school, so that probably won't explains it.
No I didn't run stuff for your Dad I meant the other farms I worked on.
@@chriszenker2468 ok I didn't think grandpa would have given you up that easily.
Ooo noo 😅
What a great video, cool shots! We had a 2 row fox chopper when we farmed. Would chop directly into the feeder wagon, plus we would make piles sometimes. It was too much for the WD-45, as that was geared too high for one thing. My Dad got an Oliver 1850 diesel at some point in there, and that was a great match for the chopper, although it played with it.
Cool! On the cover of the Oliver 200 chopper literature they have a Super 55 pulling it. It's a single row, but that does seem like a load for a 55
@@ThatOliverGuyChris yeah it would probably handle it power wise, but if you have hilly fields and a full wagon, you need something bigger in front
Don't think I've ever seen an Oliver forage harvester. That's a rare one. Great video, as always.
Thanks 👍
Very cool!
Thanks for the video Chris hope you had fun
I did. Thanks for watching!
Man, I love high-power PTO operations, particularly if they're combined with some draught activity
Great video Chris, but it makes me sad for Ross because he usually has alot of sadness at his place with breakdowns and repairs.
We did have the one breakdown, but it was a quick fix. If I had Ross's big hammer it would have been fixed even faster! 😂
Ok it does a good job!
Enjoyed this bro plenty of cameras not missing any action. Safe travels. Ken.
Thanks Ken!
Nice Chris. That a early 70s Chevelle I spied up the drive? What a great place to hang out your place is.
That's my brother's latest toy. 68 Chevelle!
@@ThatOliverGuyChris Nice toy. I had a '71 back when I was cool or I thought i was. My favorite car ever.
@@farmerbill6855 my brother had a 73 before he could drive. Dad had a 65 with the 350 horse 327, but he sold that when he became a dad.
Brian is a John Deere guy - ooh well we all have our flaws, some worse then others.
All kidding aside, what a lovely kit from back then, funny thing is that corn back then was only half as tall, but it made pretty good work of modern corn as well.
We don't hold it against Brian. He's learning the way of the Oliver
Always enjoy when you break out the 830 forage harvester. We sold both Fox and Oliver equipment. My memory is of different blower belt shielding then your unit. We’re there changes made in production? Of course that was close to 50 years ago and memories can’t always be trusted!
Thanks for sharing.
The majority of the 830s were built in Shelbyville, but when they closed that factory and moved production to South Bend, they redesigned some of the sheet metal. So your eye is keen! This is one of those late units.
Interesting. The reason I remember that was because when changing knives or adding a screen you would pivot the blower open for access. On the Oliver 830 that blower belt shield had to be removed prior to opening the blower.
@@johnbender1596 I wonder if they changed that design too. This one has a door on the top of the knife drum that opens it right up for easy access.
Awesome video! I’ll need to keep my eye out for an 830 at auction. I’ve noticed some Oliver implements coming out of the woodwork lately in NE Iowa. Always plenty of fellas bidding on anything Oliver in Iowa. The only upside is the JD boys aren’t in on the action 🤣🤣
Fox made chopper for oliver
I have seen pull type and self-propelled chopper at dealer in greenfield indiana many years ago. They were not as nice as yours
Fun new toy
Oliver copied the Fox. The self propelled version used an Oliver combine frame.
I won't lie, think goodness for self propelled choppers. I miss the sounds but I do NOT miss the job. Thing about some of these old choppers and pickers, always seemed like you had to run them for a bit so the "heads" would "shine" up and then, would work flawlessly unless you tried to jam too much in... ie., drove too fast. Great video as always, cheers :)
Thanks!
I think my great great great grandfather father had a chopper like that ! I’m 65 😮
😂😂😂
Great video
Thanks!
Nice video Chris
Thanks!
The ol' Herc sure sounds great!
I love the deep sound they make! Thanks Dan!
Very cool. Today must be the day for pull type chopper videos. You don't see very many pull types being used for corn anymore. You might need to be like ross and plant wide row corn and get some beef cattle just so you can play with your toys more 😂😂😂
Wide rows and rooster sounds! Sounds like sadness 😂
@ThatOliverGuyChris 🤣 I figured it was the cows. But I'll take your word for it
We usually drop chops are pretty green September below to dry out too much to lose your food value you I seen the time it helped the neighbor and he had took a garden hoses and water down. They put preservative on and we never put preservative on him and we never had water down either.
I grew up on a dairy farm l chopped the corn for silage dad had a ford605 one row chopper it was built by Oliver for Ford it was a well built unit the guy in this video needs to slow down the corn is bunching up in the header And not feeding steady in to the knifes the corn looks mighty dry it's a good video
The old 830 working good . We are the only Fox dealer left in the in US.
I was wondering what the status of Fox was. Are they still supplying parts?
Yes for most newer machines. Yours looks like it could be a super 6 or if 546 in a fox.
@@TheFoxGuyBarry Our first fox was a super six. The next one was a 546, it was quite an up grade. Great choppers in there day. Interesting that there is still a dealership available. We had two strong dealerships in our area back then. Wondering what state you are in?
Indiana@@raymiller9391
Neat!!!
That would have been the rig to have back in the 1980s when we'd have a wet fall and have to drag the chopper around with 2-3 tractors... That 2050 or old Herman, for sure.
You wouldn't be able to turn right with Herman, I'm pretty sure he'd get a snout to the tire and run over the first row of corn.
I have always wanted to put out 2/135 in a 3 row chopper and have at it….We quite feeding cattle do vertical integration.
Never seen one like that before
That is a lot nicer chopper than the New Holland 717. Those were so noisy that you could hear them from miles away.
I'm impressed with how quiet it is.
To much power, you blew a hole in the wagon roof!! We got the orange version of this.
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From some angels it looks like the tire on the chopper locks up
I wonder if this is a rebadged fox unit, I remember back in the seventies machinery companies would buy from other manufacturers to save on costs of production.
It's a Fox clone. Oliver built it in their factory.
Yes back when those were
DID WISCONSIN OLIVER NUT 🥜 TALK YOU INTO SHINING UP YOUR 830 CHOPPER ? GREAT VIDEO MAN 👨 !
I had been trying to get with a couple neighbors prior to his visit.
Yes back when those were designed they didn't grow crop of corn like that but don't take the clutch out of the tractor we used to go through that with the cockshutt 's and the White's
It was doing good in second direct. We dropped back to 1st just to keep it easy on us until we got the hang of it
Chris, really cool seeing the old equipment back working again. I remember when I was a kid I know some of the farmers started doing silage at that time. Is this piece of equipment that your dad had used on the farm? Thanks Michael
No, we used a Gehl chopper when we had cattle. I bought the Oliver 6 or so years ago.
Good morning Chris. Love the video. I have an 1855 that has fender tanks and a canopy. Do you know if there is enough room to put dual hubs on with this set up?
There should be, you may have to turn the cast center around to get the tire out farther. Swapping the rears side to side would probably be the easiest way. I'm going to try it when I put my 1855 back together. My 2050 in this video is set up with the centers turned around and dual hubs. The fender tanks are mounted in the outer holes, so there should be room a roll bar on it.
We chopped with 2150 and a fox chopper
Even with the power shift there's not a low enough gear it doesn't matter how many horsepower you got on it
back when being a full line company meant something. PS greener corn would have fed better, need the weight to force it down onto the feed table conveyor. Main reason everyone went to direct to the feed roll feeding.
It needs some acres to shine all the rust up. It flowed in better than I thought it was going to
What would you guess that wagon weighs when it's full?
Those tandem axle running gears were usually rated around 12 tons, so I'd guess right around that
Was that a drone shot between the wagon and a row of corn? If so that was impressive. I was waiting for you to fly the drone in through the front of the wagon and out through the hole in the top.
😂. No, Brian walled along to get that shot. I don't think the drone would stand a chance against the stream of corn coming in.
Anyone else have one of those Choppers you know of? They were probably pretty hard to find when new, now probably impossible? That isn't a Fox though, Fox Clone correct?
Yep, a Fox clone. I know of one in Minnesota, another in Kansas, and 1 in Indiana that is pretty rough. Welters farm supply has a yellow MM version! They made them as a red Cockshutt as well, but I've never seen a pull type. I do know of one red self propelled though. I'm sure there must be others out there.
Nice video! I have got my hands on a 840, Hercules powered chopper. I have not picked it up yet but do you know if fox made a 30" corn head? This one only comes with a fox hay head
That's awesome! I'd love to have the Herc powered 840. I do believe Fox made a 30 inch head. Oliver offered a narrow row 3 row and a narrow 2 row.
@ThatOliverGuyChris I figured I would have better luck finding a fox head then a oliver.
@@echoandy51 definitely. But I've got to think if Oliver was making them, thrn so was Fox.
I don't think I've ever seen an Oliver chopper in person or a video of one in action for that matter. In our area in southern Wisconsin most pull type choppers were gehl or new Holland maybe a couple of deere and fox. Now most are large self propelled monsters. Looks like they did a good job copying a fox chopper.
It's such a good copy, the Fox heads will fit
Great stuff Chris. Don’t do corn on our dairy farm in Ireland 🇮🇪 but we do ryegrass. It’s heavy, very heavy and tough on machinery. So when we get the chance to pull out our vintage harvesters on these heavy swards there is always a feeling of ’is she going to blow up’ !! I was watching your video and the crop not flowing into the machine, that’s when I had that same feeling !
Well done, that 50 something year old chopper was humming.
Credit to you.
@@faFsman thanks!
Did you sharpen the knives and adjust the cutter bar?
They are in good shape. It was cutting nice and clean.
Was the chopper built in around the same year as the 2050?
The 2050 is a 68 and best I can figure the chopper is a 1970. The original owner of the chopper pulled it with a 2050.
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Ici en Bretagne, au pays de la pluie, le maïs est vert et les terres sont détrempées... 🙂
Where the fwa shorter than the two wheel drive?
The frame is the same, but they mounted the axle farther back to make for a shorter turning radius.
Most likely could’ve done better job sliding through there if it was green or corn but not too bad for an old chopper on 38 inch rose
did oliver make those choppers or have another company make them like papec? does it run easy?
Oliver made it, but it was a blatant copy of the Fox chopper
@chris. Who made these for Oliver? It looks like a Fox. In SE Wisconsin, I never saw an Oliver, everybody had a fox since it was made just an hour away.
Oliver copied the Fox so blatantly that the Fox heads will interchange. Oliver built it in their own factory in Shelbyville Illinois until they closed that location. They moved production to South Bend Indiana which is where this one was built
There's a big hole in the top of the wagon
There goes the daughter's college education!
Good day from Ontario I didn;t know Oliver made a corn harvestor So ru saying thes were made ny Fox?
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They were a clone of the Fox. Oliver copied it so closely that the heads will interchange
You need to turn your feed rolls up faster.
I didn't even think about cut length, just wanted to try it out
I have to ask, is this actually a Fox chopper built for Oliver? I sure looks a lot like a Fox chopper we used for several years.
It's Oliver built. In the 1960s, Oliver was trying to become a full line company and told their engineers to come up with a forage harvester. They hadn't made much progress and the big wigs told them, if you can't come up with something, then copy it. They copied the Fox so closely that the heads will interchange as will some of the parts. I don't know if there was ever an official agreement between the two companies, but Oliver definitely built them in their Shelbyville factory until it closed. The last few were made in South Bend, including this one.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris Thanks for the clarification.
Oliver never did make a forage wagon did they? I have a brochure and it only shows flare box, barge, and gravity wagon boxes.
They did have a forage box, the model 740. I think it was a modified version of the 570 manure spreader.. They are very rare.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris nice. I just looked it up and saw pics on google. I have an Oliver hay wagon.
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Thanks Paul
Did anyone else notice the left wheel on the chopper was dragging or were my eyes playing tricks on me.
Someone else commented the same thing. What was the time index when it happened?
That is just a sexy old tractor man! Kenny Chesney. She thinks my tractors sexy! What's that old car in the background around at about 12:30? Looks like an old Barracuda???? That corn looks awfully dry for silaging. Can't be much feed value left in it.
It's a 68 Chevelle.
Corn is just to dry.
Yep. Didn't stop us from having some fun
A gear too high?
Sometimes we were in 1st, sometimes 2nd.
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Why don’t you run it in a lower gear?
We were in first much of the time