Antique Appleton No.8 Fodder Chopper - Chopping Corn By Hand
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- We use this very old Appleton No.8 Fodder Chopper to cut up the corn stalks before putting them into the compost pile every fall. Cutting the stalks up helps them to decompose a lot better.
For such a simple looking machine at a distance, that's more sophisticated than I expected. I'm wondering who would have been the original target market when it was sold in the 1800s or early 1900s. When the garden plot is large enough, a disk+plow could compost the stalks. A small gardener couldn't afford such a mechanical machine only used one time each year unless they had some extra money floating around.
Amazing. I've been wanting to make a heavy duty hand crank or peddle powered power tool drive train and found one of these for cheap. Think it's going to work a treat
We had a hand forager and also a larger one that ran from a tractor pulley. Long gone. Loved watching this video.
Beautiful video
That is a NEAT rig! Beats really doing it by hand a bunch but it's still work. 10/4 about the solemn faces of bygone days. Then was blisters and callouses dawn till after dark if the lamp had oil. Still in good shape but we both try and take care of our stuff. Too hard to come by. But a time grinding fodder beats grinding a day at the dealers. Thanks, Buddy!
God willing I'll be right here and BOY HOWDY I'm sorry about Pop! Tell him I said to hurry up and heal so I can watch him run something! I've been thinking about you anyway. Our neighbor's grandson works in a boat place in Floriduh as a mechanic and he was telling me that just before he left he got to work on a 50+footer? with a pair of 16V-149's for power to the screws. Non-turbos and had made it under it's own power to England and back! Had 6-71 generators. Bet I'd drool over it all. The 149's were/are SWEET engines. We got to talking about the 6-110's. He'd seen 2 and I've seen 1. LARGE bus motors! Well my friend, keep helping Ma and take an egg turner to get Pa pried out of bed and don't worry about more videos. They'll come when it's time! GBWYall!
Nice! You have one of those power units on skids. Fashion up a PTO shaft to that fodder chopper and let 'er fly! Great video. I am looking for a hand crank corn sheller.
The women weren't smiling much either...
Interesting placement of the crank.
Used to do that with a hatchet. 200 to 300 stalks 2 or 3 stalks at a time. Tilled them into the soil.
That is a very handy machine.
Good day Can you see why yrs. ago they were alot thinner than younger generation. good video Thanks
Super cool old machine, OHS nightmare that it is lol. Thinking a nice old Singer-style foot treadle rigged up to that crank would be in keeping with the low tech approach and let your legs do the work while keeping your hand away from those open gears. 😬
That's a cute antique little chopper..lol don't see to many of them these days. But yeah all the old timers who used them types of choppers before probably gotten tired of doing it but what do you expect they hardly ever had easy life of doing things. But I'll guess they all took turns chopping either for making it into compost? Or changes are they made silage out of it especially sides changes are they had a small farm for the small amount of cows and other animals they probably had. But still made compost out of it after they cleaned the burn form the animals. So they gotten twice the use out of it. But inerways that's my opinion I guess. So good video of that :)
Wouldn't be long till was making a pulley off that flywheel to hook it up to one of my old gas engines I got!
Bought one of those off Ebay six months ago. Drove twelve hours one way to get it. They are hard to find.
Were the corn stalks cut by hand?
That's something dad had us do on the farm makeing chopping for the cows when we was little had run it plenty
That’s a cool machine. Thank god choppers are tractor powered now lol
A mechanical genius like you could have powered that man powered machine in no time.
Just sayin' for me, I'd keep those cutters sharp like razors.
nice
Hook that old thing up to an old hit miss motor. Would be an extra cool contraption!
You were the starter engine, but where was the diesel? That may just be one of the reasons the early pioneers weren't happy. Scythes, sickles, oxen and miles for plowing, churning butter, etc..... They didn't even have UA-cam yet! Lol!
Run that all day and see what you look like. .😊🤔👍💝🍵🍵
couple times a year isn't that bad
Id put a little electric motor on it, save you some cranking. I wouldn’t put a gas motor on it to noisy
Yeah, basic 1/2-3/4 hp motor should do nicely. Just don't chop the cord, or fork it.
And here I was, thinking that pioneers didn't smile because they had such poor (or non-existent) dental care. Silly me. :) Btw, that machine would provide some serious motivation to get a girlfriend or wife to help with feeding the stalks. Might be worth having to pay for dresses and eating out and all the crap women like.... haha
@@squatch253 Well, I hear ya. The key, though, is to find a non-modern woman! Of course, women without all the bad traits you listed are already taken, right?! My last girlfriend would have gladly cranked the chopper...total team player, liked getting her hands in the mucky-muck, stout little thing. Unfortunately still batshit crazy. :) So, yeah, just keep soldiering on. At least you have tons of time and mulah to throw into heavy equipment and making videos, so from your audience's point of view you are much more entertaining as you are!