Field Queen Side Dump Forage Harvester Chopping Corn

[@geneclemens1185]

Can't even begin to guess how many hours were spent in one of those side dumps. Grew up on a large dairy farm in south central PA. We had 2 of them and chopped rye, alfalfa, corn silage, and ground ear corn. They were unbelievably stable on the hills. The back wheel on the high side would be off the ground a lot of the time, you would stand on the brake and just keep going. I did lay one over when chopping on a hillside that was strip farmed and years of that made a ledge. I was leaning hard and the back end slid off and it went over cab side down. we had a Case 2870 and big Hough loader and set it back up checked it over and back to chopping. We traded that one in on another new one since it tweaked the dump box, it still worked but we got a new one. They were great machines back in the day. Thanks for bringing back some great memories.

[@hankelrod7315]

I’m in south central pa & still use a red one I bought from Williamsburg

[@geneclemens1185]

@@hankelrod7315 We had 5 in total. 2 yellow, 1 Cat( the one I ran) and 1 was a Detroit. We traded them in and got 2 red Hesston Field Queens. I layed the red one over and then traded it for another new red one. We thought we were special because the red ones had air conditioning that worked maybe half the time. I would love to see you chopper run sometime.

[@holadocumentary]

@@hankelrod7315 What year did you buy that?

[@geneclemens1185]

@@holadocumentary I am thinking it was 1984 when we got the 2 red ones.

[@bigtractorpower]

That was a cool find.

[@tractorchasers]

Thanks! Been trying to find one working since I first learned about them years ago. It was fun to finally see one in person!

[@selfmadefarmer2020]

My grandparents had the non dump version and I spent many hours in it chopping with my grandma. Very cool to see thank you!

[@cotton678]

That is one beast of a machine especially with the Detroit diesel sounds so good!

[@Blackwellll3066]

These choppers are well worth buying just to open feilds for the pull type chopper

[@craigsibley8161]

Cool forager 👍👍👍 Nice video 👍👍👍

[@ronzimmerman8968]

There were a bunch of these in central PA years ago, both dairy and beef operations. A couple got cut down for the side dump to pull behind the SPFH for opening fields. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@tractorchasers]

Glad you enjoyed it! It would be great to find more still working.

[@gregkoenig9200]

Memory lane? I still run a 7650 with a Jimmy, really good machine for smaller operations

[@jasonreber4101]

Love the chopper box on the flat bed truck rocketed it down at the corners

[@hammyfarmer8111]

Ran one for a neighbor back in the 80's, also did maintenance on it including swapping out the cat 3208 twice, second time was a reman warranty issue.

[@curtiswolf313]

There were a lot of these used by the alfalfa mills with a pickup head on them along hiway 30 in Nebraska in the 70's

[@markdanielczyk944]

Pretty cool machine. Of course, anything with a Detroit Dripper(Green Leaker)is cool! Never have seen one of these before. 👍

[@rickperry4960]

No that is old school cool.. what an awesome find! How far did you have to travel to find this gem? Great video

[@jimsteele7108]

Interesting machine

[@larrygro]

I hope he plans on turning cattle on that field, lots of waste. I remember helping my uncle chop corn silage with his 71 Fox chopper. Way different mentality than we had on our own fields because we didn’t have cattle. We would try to save every ear, even picking them up and throwing them in the corn head when we saw them. He would laugh and say “ leave them lay, the cattle will clean them up “

[@HorseMalone]

Looks a proper handy bit of kit. Knew that was a Jimmy !

[@JohnShumate-hb4ri]

I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS A KID TRY COUNTY ALFALFA HAD TWO OF THEM TO CHOP WITH.

[@dogyerf21]

never saw one. very cool! looks very well built.

[@stephenrice4554]

Great tool , don't know why they did away with them , oh yeah , flogging tractors and trailers to cart the chop off . Great film 👍

[@emmitt00]

Thats purity neat, never heard of them before.

[@justinmulhern3071]

Lot like a cotton picker! Great video!

[@robwar2288]

Neighbors had 2 in the 1980’s! I would listen to them screaming all night chopping Corn!!!! Field Queen all but went broke trying to develop the super chopper basically the same Drum as Deere developed, they couldn’t keep the knives from coming loose….

[@travisschwandt2913]

My neighbor's had two of these old screaming girls Kinda of neat

[@ericlindal8008]

You can hear the Detroit screaming

[@EDBZ28]

cool find and video. Did these come with ear plugs or was that an option? Not a big fan of "screamin jimmies"!

[@bradadams2619]

They must using the same hybrids of corn from the same year as the cutter

[@carlpreston1680]

So did they make choppers for hesston or did Hesston buy them out .

[@tractorchasers]

Hesston bought Field Queen in the early 70's.

[@hankelrod7315]

Why is he cutting the wrong way - he’s running so much corn down. They were designed to run clockwise around the field

[@scottmichaels2538]

What happens if it quits or wont start, how do u get the dump box up to work on the engine?

[@tractorchasers]

That's a great question! I think most of the engine is accessible from the sides also, just easier to work on when the box is up.

[@geneclemens1185]

@@tractorchasers The engines sat pretty low in them. You could easily get at the engine from the sides. The dump box started around 5 feet high.

[@donsnilner1657]

Probably could plug in tractor remotes in a pinch.

[@jetegtmeier71]

the crop suffers a lot of rubber poisoning when that thing turns around a curve, 3 row head and the machine takes out 4 rows LOL

[@tractorchasers]

Yea, there is definitely a reason modern choppers have the rear wheel steering.

[@gregkoenig9200]

That was a very poor job of planting. Even a 6 row combine would have struggled

[@benardojwang3439]

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[@charlietanner6211]

i think we had a co that pelletized alfalfa in this area i believe they ha som of these they weregreat in there day good seeing one still running cant stand the gm noisse

[@jamesbarbour8400]

Unusual but certainly interesting machine. Shame that the Company went bankrupt.

[@stevenarnold1960]

sounds like a lawn mower

[@subzeromjc]

My goodness that engine is screaming.

[@randythompson2681]

Is it me, or are they cutting this corn too late for silage?

[@tractorchasers]

Yea late silage. He was chopping some to fill the silo more and get the fields opened up to combine.

[@scottmichaels2538]

Seems a bit top heavy

[@jasonreber4101]

9 min bet u speeded it up a bit

[@tractorchasers]

Not sped up at all. That chopper cruises through the field!

[@ArmpitStudios]

Those are cool! But that Detroit needs about 7 more mufflers.