Chopping Straw With Some Old School Equipment

[@anthonyhengst2908]

I just came across this this morning. It made my day. My grandfather had one of these that he used on his 18×40 silo for corn up until 1995. He powered it with a Minneapolis Moline U with the belt. I used to unload the corn stalks off the wagon bottoms first always. Grandpa was very particular about that. I very much enjoyed watching this run. I appreciate it for using it. Great memories. I hope you use it again.

[@mikekuhn6216]

At the end of August, our neighbor would set-up his Papec filler to the silo and chop several loads of corn that was hauled in when he opened his field. That wet corn really made his '51 John Deere A talk out loud! Of course, I was there to witness the event each year. I remember my grandpa storing his old Papec in the barn, but never saw it operate. Filling silo was always a great event; however, there are no more silos left in DuPage County (IL). It is now full of houses and light industry.

[@oldtimer4144]

When I was growing up 50 years ago we used on of the papec choppers to chop up course clover bales, blew it onto a wagon with a box on it and feeders built into it. The cows loved it.

[@michaelcamacho2741]

Gotta love the antique farm equipment. Great that you are following in your Grandpa's foot steps and using what you got vs going into debt just to upgrade. Can't wait until the videos of field work!! God bless Trinity Dairy and stay healthy

[@trinitydairy]

Yeah, it might be a little more work, but it is fun to see that old equipment work, I wonder how well equipment made today will work in 80 or 90 years? Glad you like the video, thanks for watching.

[@ronniewayne5748]

Now thats some vintage farming there .i love that .thats awesome that jd 820 is very nice i remember as a kid people used to look at us when we had our john deere plow hooked to our 806 ha ha john deere and ih together.

[@mikeengen1360]

I just really like to see you working with the older equipment. That alone sets you apart from the other channels. Now with the GPS auto steered I think I would get board just sitting in the seat. Good job keep'em coming. Have a great weekend. From Texas, Mike

[@kathrynhelm4176]

I’m glad to see you use the old equipment...they may have lost their “spit and polish” but they keep on going. Besides the economical benefits of sticking with the old, as long as it performs celebrate the performance. I just watched Justin and Jordan’s video (from 1 yr ago) that had the comments turned off. Tell them both I think they did an outstanding job....they sure know the equipment and their comments were delightful. ❤️👍

[@garybridger6707]

Need a little Pullman belt dressing for the drive belt. It had a very unique smell to it. We had long hopper blowers and and false fronts in the hay wagons to do silage.blowers ran with a wc allis off a belt. False fronts had a cable that ran to the back and hooked to a pipe that pulled it back via a electric motor into the blower hopper. Mid 70's we went modern!!!

[@trinitydairy]

Yeah, it's hard to find good belt dressing anymore, the spray stuff just doesn't work on those old flat belts, we have used tar or molasses and that works pretty well, but I didn't have any, we also tried pine tar once but that was a bad idea.when I was little we had the same type of wagons and blower, ran the blower with a SC case, and that was in the late 80s , still have the electric winch for the wagons and the long flat belt for the blower, and probably a can of Pullman's but I think it's hard as a rock. Love the comment, thanks for watching!

[@johnallford7053]

Spring is coming for sure we getting the itch in PA. Your videos sure better than watching the news!

[@trinitydairy]

That's kind of why we were putting videos out a bit more often. Take everyone's minds off the craziness!

[@johnallford7053]

Good idea 👍. I say start advertising whole milk may slow the spread of vurus,. Can't hurt 😁

[@johnyalmendarez8200]

Thanks for your video

[@french-canadianfarmer5049]

Great video! Equipement I can relate to. We use a old hammer mill with a large hole screen to chop hay for the lambing barn.

[@trinitydairy]

Never thought of using that,bet it worked well. Thanks for watching!

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[@lindadanielson7849]

Good morning. God bless

[@trinitydairy]

Good morning! Have a blessed day!

[@kl1958]

My dad grew up on a dairy farm in the late 1920's-1930's. Had the same papec silage chopper/blower/shredder and a port huron threshing machine. Very dependable equipment. They also had a Hart Parr tractor which was originally a Rumley - after Hart Parr it became Oliver and now White. Keep up the good work. Stay well and be healthy.

[@trinitydairy]

Very cool. Jennifer really likes Olivers. There's a threshing show annually near us that has a lot of Hart Parr and Rumlys.

[@kswaynes7569]

Great job! Our first corn chopper, in the 60's was a JD, it had a flat belt drive off a PTO shaft. Next one I bought was a JD#12 one row corn head, a direct cut head and a pickup head, V belt drive instead of the flat belt but similar to your Papec with the big blower and knives

[@trinitydairy]

Had a JD chopper with flat belt drive, one row corn head, and pickup head, don't know what model it was, it was retired by the time I came along, but it was parked along the fence row for years.

[@ronaldfeuerstein435]

Its cool to see machines still working theses day. But hey if its works out for you then yeah stick with it.. Thank for shareing..

[@johnallford7053]

That was neat. Great to see your not afraid of work just be careful with that chopper.

[@trinitydairy]

Yes, really need to be careful with stuff like that,safety shields were few and far between back then.thanks for watching!

[@deandenby8405]

Very good video, interesting the way you do that.

[@bjornlindstrom778]

Great that you use old epuipement but you have to put covers on your spinning shafts! Two people have died in my area through the years from getting stuck with clothing in them.

[@trinitydairy]

Totally agree.

[@robertmarino2158]

Keep up the great work 👍 , enjoyed the video , stay safe ! Bob

[@trinitydairy]

Thanks for watching!

[@legodoug6046]

I like that You use old equipment. Some off thé older equipment works better then new

[@robertheinkel6225]

I see it is still technically a belt drive system. With those big flywheel blowers, the momentum did most of the work.

[@trinitydairy]

Yeah, the frame is from an old pull type chopper that was driven by a short, flat belt.

[@dairyfarmer9307]

I love old school milk parlors. Great video.

[@kendallwilliamson8193]

We were taught to NEVER be close or cross a running pto shaft. I never do and will always walk around the tractor or machine, Kendall.

[@marshallk4355]

Looks like it works pretty good to me yet! I do the same thing with a small bale chopper feed the big ones into it slab at a time and grind it into a pile in my lean to bed stalls every couple days not fancy but it’s paid for and it works Love the videos and nice to see another MN dairy farm going good 😊

[@trinitydairy]

We have one of those choppers too, haven't tried it on big squares , but it does a good job with the small ones, makes the barn dusty though nice to hear from a fellow Minnesota Farmer.thanks for watching.

[@ethanlee9441]

Use it till you cant make parts for it😅

[@dougtheviking6503]

Nice video will be checking out your others. Thanks

[@trinitydairy]

Thanks for watching!

[@matthewjohnson3910]

Good video 👍

[@frankkokoski7995]

My grandfather had one of those .he used it to chop corn

[@trinitydairy]

This one wasn't used for corn here, but they had a different one they did use for corn, my grandpa talks about how much work it was, but they had a big crew and the food was great. Thanks for watching!

[@rogerwilson9892]

Never have seen chopper like that before thanks for showing how it worked would be nice to have around.

[@trinitydairy]

Yes, it works good, glad you liked the video, thanks for watching!

[@rckklim]

Equipment that's already paid for is the best. Even if it's a little old.

[@dodge-ut6ti]

Amen

[@TomSmith-me7ph]

We used ours for chopping pea vines in the silo. We only used it once, we chopped the pea vines too soon, should have let them dry in a little longer, too much juice in the silo. We picked up the pea vines on a hay wagon and then run them through the feed cutter to the silo.

[@bryanginder5903]

That's the game in farming now days if your a smaller produce to stay around, you have to save where you can, lots of us run old equipment still, that's all some of us can afford an it keeps us going just have to take care of it an it will last!!

[@trinitydairy]

Exactly!

[@raynonabohrer5624]

God bless you and your family. Do you have chickens and pigs. do you put in a garden do you have fruit trees?? You have a wonderful family to feed. Lady from Oklahoma

[@trinitydairy]

I do have chickens, every now and again we'll raise up a couple pigs. I have some raised beds for some veggies, and we have a couple apple trees that have the tastiest apples.

[@bigdog3138]

Use what you got if it ain't broke don't fix it.👍

[@ethanlee9441]

Like i always say if it still works use it. 😁

[@lorenplock8244]

The thing about the old school machinery is the power take off no shield lost my leg clothes got caught up in the shaft

[@trinitydairy]

That is very true. That is why we didn't let the kids anywhere near this. Our neighbor was in a severe farm accident a few years ago. The employee helping him ran to our farm covered in blood, and Alan took off to help him while I called 911. They ended up having the life flight helicopter land in the field to take him. He survived, but it's a reminder of the dangers of farm equipment.

[@lorenplock8244]

I fully enjoy your videos.A retired dairy farmer myself keeping your over head or dedt low as possible to by profitability. God bless you and family

[@trinitydairy]

@@lorenplock8244 Thank you!

[@philipr7686]

New to your new channel. Please, some day put a shield on that shaft. Look up Harmless Farmer on KZbin. Farms in Ohio. Lost his arms to a shaft. Farms, repairs, feeds using his legs, chin.

[@trinitydairy]

@@philipr7686 yes I found a shield I think will work on it, I have seen his videos and I agree that farm safety is very important, a few years ago I was first on the scene of a neighbor who was caught in the PTO shaft of a post auger and almost lost both legs, that is something I will never forget, I appreciate your comment and concern also thanks for watching! And God bless.

[@andylieffring3987]

Alan, really cool video! Do you grow any small grains on your farm? If so do you chop the straw in the field and blow it in the barn? That used to be the common practice where I grew up in southeastern Wisconsin. God bless you too sir

[@trinitydairy]

Yes, we usually plant oats or barley,I have wanted to chop it right off the field but it's hard to get the blower at the right angle to be able to get past the feed tank, but I am working on it. Thanks for watching!

[@bryanginder5903]

Ever use corn stalks for bedding? We do works good for us for bedding an in our piston pump. Nothing wrong with starting fluid the only problem with it is some of the people that don't use it right.

[@trinitydairy]

Haven't tried corn stalks, but good to know that they work with the Piston pump, might try them in the future.know what you mean with the starting fluid, you see some people empty half a can and wonder why they have engine trouble. Thanks for watching!

[@mikebrown1188]

The best equipment is the equipment that is paid for.

[@flvince]

Save $$$$ when you can, nothing wrong with that.

[@TomSmith-me7ph]

We would use whatever worked, a lot of mis-matched equipment.

[@TomSmith-me7ph]

Hey, that works just fine, as long as it works, why buy extra equipment when you have something that works.

[@brandonstahnke1090]

The older stuff works better anyway

[@Spjkbz]

why do you chop the straw?

[@trinitydairy]

Mainly because, it goes through our manure pump better, also it's easier to get through the grates behind the cows, and it seems to stay in place better when it's chopped.thanks for watching!

[@markd8405t5000]

Much better video, the last one put me into a seizure.!!!

[@trinitydairy]

If it was the boy's video we totally understand! It was just so funny we had to post it.

[@kirkbengtson2110]

Nice way of repurposing an old piece of machinery. Dad always told me they were dangerous, glad your kids weren't around.

[@trinitydairy]

Yes this old machinery just didn't prioritize the shields and guards like they do today.

[@RuthJones-iz1ve]

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[@stuartsplace100]

use to put hay in like that

[@pocketchange1951]

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[@briancarlson8295]

Looks like you need to pick up around your yard

[@trinitydairy]

We've had bigger projects going on, but if you're offering to clean it up, I accept!

[@roryhinz5267]

@@trinitydairy Your barn and cows look great that's where it counts ! We milk 15-20 cows in Hill Point WI.

[@trinitydairy]

@@roryhinz5267 thank you! Nice to hear that were not the only small farm left. Thanks for watching!

[@RuthJones-iz1ve]

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