Rainman Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 In local dealer lot. Hooked to blue power... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete1468 Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 Looks like a flail chopper but I can't understand the catching and elevator. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbyfarm Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 No idea. It can't be food grade stuff. No way could edible food be chopped like that without being washed in a chlorine bath. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jass1660 Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 Hemp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
495man Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 If only the flail chopper as factory equipped had a way to directly load another vehicle, they would have saved themselves all that money on the belt, caster wheel, hydraulic motors and hoses. Perhaps NH will study this example. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
756puller Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Kinda looks like something to gather up cornstalks and put them into a windrow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete1468 Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 2 hours ago, jass1660 said: Hemp? It's not painted like Scooby Doo's mystery machine so it can't be. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jass1660 Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Just now, Pete1468 said: It's not painted like Scooby Doo's mystery machine so it can't be. That would be pot, different crop. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reichow7120 Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Mint? I know to harvest mint. They chop it like you do hay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes806 Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Hmmmm maybe to chop windrow hay for silage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1480x3 Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 My guess would be mint. High value crop that you would not want to blow away enroute to wagon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirt_Floor_Poor Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 The hemp that they grow around here is at least 12’ high. I don’t think a flail chopper would work for what they raise here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty_Farmer Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Set up to harvest forage test plots . the cube does the wt. Bottom door opens . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vtfireman85 Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Ive seen something like that before, I suspect it is a marshmallow picker. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DroschaFamilyDairy Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Our Dairy Farm is 20 Miles from Michigan State University, I went to School there, The Building at MSU were filled with Testing & weighing equipment, The Unit in the Picture is Similar to a unit that weigh's the forage in the basket, and dumps the load of chopped material on the conveyor. Jim Droscha 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binderoid Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 I don’t know what it harvested either, but it would have made more sense to me to eliminate the blower and put the bottom of the elevator off the end of the cross auger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainman Posted November 28, 2021 Author Share Posted November 28, 2021 Yes Jim , we are only 15 minutes from UW Madison Dairy research on campus in Madison and 30 minutes south from US Dairy Forage Research Center in rural Prairie du Sac. So that flail chopper & machine is probably used up there as they farm 2,200 acres with 400 cow milking herd at the farm. Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hagan Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 I sold a Bermuda grass harvester and planter this spring and it harvests sprigs with a machine similar to that and plants with a cage type machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver1 Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Paul that unit was parked in Arlington ,Wi just up the street for P&P a farm seed co. so i thing it was used for measuring forge yields. John 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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