Hello there. Just to let you know how much me and dad really enjoy vintage Thursdays. We are much like yourself in the fact we love tinkering around with older kit ( when time allows and between milkings ) keep up the good work!
@douggilroy11884 жыл бұрын
Good one! Looking forward to seeing the rig working next spring/ shold make the 178 grunt a bit.
@MarkLloyd724 жыл бұрын
Loving the vintage vids reminds me of spending time on the tenant dairy farm my gramp use to work on back in the 70s/80s.
@ianthomson46094 жыл бұрын
Another great vintage Thursday, Dan - thank you. Living near Devizes, I’m happy to report that Kidd’s are still manufacturing farm machinery in Devizes, off Folly Road. Their slogan is “Good, Strong Tackle”, which you’ve proved by dragging the double-cut out of the bushes and using it without any fettling. Kidd’s have been taken over by both Taarup and Kverneland and built Vicon machines in the past, but following a management buy-out in 2003, they became Kidd again.
@tobytractor7114 жыл бұрын
Remember father using one of these in the 70s and 80s with a David Brown 995 and then 1390 in Cornwall I remember him winding the chute and trying to steer around the bends when opening up. Brilliant memories for me. Great videos Dan.
@nickhill33624 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed vintage Thursday Dan👍looks great behind the old massey
@masseymadgalway46134 жыл бұрын
Another excellent, informative and interesting video Dan. Love all the videos especially the vintage Thursday one’s keep up the good work. 👌👍
@chrisdalby41404 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of our old David Brown “hurricane “ forage harvester we had on our small farm back in the sixties/early seventies, I remember it being a bit of a chore travelling from the field to the silage pit, as you had to take the tractor/harvester/trailer combination and it was a bitch to reverse, I remember
@WLT-lj3bw4 жыл бұрын
Yes patch it up Dan...great memories and great vintage video!!!!!!👏👏👏👏
@bobpaterson18454 жыл бұрын
Great old machine 👍 after we finished using it as a forage harvester we used it as a topper for thistles docks etc💪💪
@patwatters82052 жыл бұрын
In 1972 when I was 16 I cut silage with a Kidd single chop behind a 2 year old Massey 178,Massey 65 mk2 hauling to the pit and John Deere 2020 pushing up.The following year we graduated to New Holland double chop pulled behind Massey 1080..The New Holland gave serious gear box trouble..
@ritchieblackmore52044 жыл бұрын
Hi Dan, great video, the double cut forager that took me back, thank you
@paulf25294 жыл бұрын
Well worth keeping, looking forward to seeing you sort out the tinwork.
@casto-4 жыл бұрын
For something dragged out of a hedge with holes and dull knifes on it, that did fair well! I reckon Gareth might have a little smile watching this vid lol
@laytonphillips66674 жыл бұрын
Great video dan, good to see you bring something back to life. Amazing how it turned n fired up so well.
@wallaceloan41694 жыл бұрын
This brings back memories of this forage harvester. My uncle used to come and take the end rigs off our hay fields with one of these. I told my uncle and mum that this was the way forward but wold they listen? No lol. I look forward to seeing you getting this Kidd Forage Harvester patched up and hope to see her blow grass into that trailer sitting there. Great video Dan
@philipjmcloughlin22994 жыл бұрын
Great video Dan nice to see old machines being fixed and used again
@kylesullivan31144 жыл бұрын
Great to see that Kidd working again remember seeing them working as boy with little old trailers with congregated metal sides loaded right up brilliant stuff 👍
@ipfreely100014 жыл бұрын
I started off farming on a YTS on a 90 cow dairy herd: they had a double chop- winter I used to use a silage knife- I'm sure Dan will know what one is- then fork the silage into a dumper drive down the feed passage and tip the silage out, 8-9 dumpers full each am apart from my day off Sundays. Hard old work days way they farmed, 1981/2 but didn't hurt me lol
@duncanmardell66884 жыл бұрын
another great vintage video all good fun running her up again
@stevebrown29964 жыл бұрын
Beautiful . She’ll cut better when the “ newness “wears off !
@mikejh3214 жыл бұрын
Many a day spent working on them they were awesome Dan you got to get that done up and back running 👍🏼
@Normal.PuH.3 жыл бұрын
A nice full restoration would be cool
@EnidAgnusDei2 жыл бұрын
You truly have some beautiful kit there what a shame you live so far away, would have loved to do a photoshoot with your machines.
@johnsheahan79144 жыл бұрын
Great video as always keep up the great video on vintage Thursday dan
@noelcahill67074 жыл бұрын
Ideal and cheap for zero grazing every farm should have 1
@peterhoulden68684 жыл бұрын
Another great informative video! Look forward to vintage Thursdays 😊
@bigal23124 жыл бұрын
Had a cousin rent his land for 30+ years to a neighbour and went to collect his baler from the hedge he parked it in, and found that rather than a baler he had a pile of rust. Lol :-)
@paullewis15664 жыл бұрын
Another great ‘Vintage Thursday’, thank you Dan.
@philipm10094 жыл бұрын
Great video Dan ,I rescued a vintage Vicon fertilizer spreader off a neighbor , lifted out of a ditch with our Fordson major and loader brought it home ,I intend to restore it for use and for show
@paulf25294 жыл бұрын
Those old vicon wag tails are well worth saving, perfect for small padocks etc and all the parts still available.
@graemebowyer49014 жыл бұрын
Brings back memories seeing them on Lorries being delivered. A mate of mine on Salisbury Plain has one similar.
@jerryodriscoll36914 жыл бұрын
Nothing wrong with the old single and double chop harvesters, they were brilliant machines in their time and the old precision chops aswell lift 12 acres in a day, even now whenever I think of silage I picture a JF 900 with that distinct hum
@nathanu4254 жыл бұрын
Quite amazing the way it was put to work after all the years sounds like the forager has been a faithful old servant to you and your neighbour. The Kidd machinery was very popular I believe back in the day and from Devizes apparently my dear departed Mothers home. Thank you Dan.
@russellpetrie1194 жыл бұрын
we had one of them on the farm i cant believe it went up the spout with them holes make a good flail mower for around fields and rough areas
@sammaddever42624 жыл бұрын
Great to see them working well togeather fantastic video! Definitely worth keeping if it does that well after 8 years and you've given me some good tips to get our old double chop working again one day
@nickb25094 жыл бұрын
Great video, I’m really enjoying the vintage Thursday videos.
@davldcooksey41374 жыл бұрын
Nice little video Dan, you should always have a tin of WD40 tucked away on all your tractors, oh and a hammer, 🚜👍👍👍.
@IanFletcher19704 жыл бұрын
Another good video Dan My mate still uses a Kidd flail topper on his dairy farm
@julianhawker76724 жыл бұрын
Nice blue paint job needed ;-) Archie Kidd made oil heating boilers too, theres one at the end of our lane thats still going now.........
@upthereds49394 жыл бұрын
Great stuff Dan. You should aim to atleast fill both those silage trailers in the background with her next spring . Get them back working too 👍🏻👍🏻 Hopefully we see some videos of you patching her up 👍🏻
@JonDingle4 жыл бұрын
Quality effort young man! Nothing like dragging and old machine out from the bushes and having a go with it. If you wern't so far away I would love to have helped bring it back to working order. I have used a Kidd PTO circular saw and that machine is a really good bit of kit.
@johnholness14704 жыл бұрын
six blades and blower paddles will make it blow a lot better , also it is missing the hydraulic ram to lift header,i have spent 20 odd years pulling one of those three cuts a year all direct cut plus some zero grazing .still gets used as a topper
@jenniferpablo19734 жыл бұрын
Hi Dan nice old bit of kit and what else have you in the hedge to find Graham
@bilko51094 жыл бұрын
Patch it paint it when you got the time love to see it working
@roberthiggins64014 жыл бұрын
Good vid, Dan. I remember when I was very young the farm used two Lundall's ( if that's the correct spelling? ) Not sure if that's the name of the manufacturer? Then the farm bought a new Holland self propelled and quite possibly that's when they started growing maize. Be grand to see you use it next year if you get the time to get her repaired.
@stevehucker71704 жыл бұрын
Another great video thanks Dan I didn’t know that Kidd we’re manufactured locally thanks for the history lesson ,was that a fergie trailer in the background with silage sides on? Would go well with the double chop
@andrewstephens68604 жыл бұрын
we had a kidd 346 double chop which had 6 blades on the flywheel it was quit surprising how short it would chop we used to use it direct cutting arable silage undersown with grass seeds
@anthony3424 жыл бұрын
is it a kidd....... typed that before you said it ...... we had two kidd 650 side flingers muck spreaders back in about 1987 , they seemed big at the time .
@harveyrobinson35184 жыл бұрын
Great vid Dan are those the trailers y used to use to cart the siliage there
@TheHelgadog4 жыл бұрын
Interesting old harvestor.
@delidan14 жыл бұрын
I think you should drag that silage trailer and slurry tanker out too! Make great videos
@dellboy14194 жыл бұрын
Great video once again.
@ballyhoulihanagrivideos3974 жыл бұрын
Interesting.Were never as common here as the Taarup or New Holland. |Seem to remember that the chopper flywheel on the Kidd had a bearing only on one side. The other were supported on both sides
@brendanwhite97994 жыл бұрын
I use a JF dublechop for tppping and pre mowing if grass gets a little to strong for gtazing
@TheGrimReaper1 Жыл бұрын
Just seen this, did you make a film of doing it up.
@CowfarmerDan Жыл бұрын
Not done anything to it yet.
@stephenjenkins80124 жыл бұрын
Great video keep them coming 👍
@brendanwhite97994 жыл бұрын
The kid was a good machine but had one problem there was one bearimg on the flywheel they wete prone to twisting .Still nice to ss it working
@roberttaylor69184 жыл бұрын
Is that the silage trailer for it sitting their ?
@pocketchange19514 жыл бұрын
👍👌🇨🇦❤, a hedge harvester
@antonyfarming4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic 👍 👍 👍 👍
@StuGreenTech4 жыл бұрын
she lives :)
@claesmansson90704 жыл бұрын
Time to pull the old dinosaur in the tail!Have old Tårup that doesn have auger or blower,cause flails are turned 90 degr.,so blowing grass out directly!JF has other system with knives on a cylinder,also directly blowing out,except if it picks up an old horse shoe,then it cuts it into pieces and ruin knives.