Fox Chopper - The Jenkins Brothers, Last Load

The Jenkins brothers prepare to bring in the last load of silage for livestock feeding. The Fox Chopper is a 1981 model year.

[@sheilamclaughlin963]

Fox were good choppers in the day, 2 row. Choppers behind a 4020 or 806 IHC CUT QUITE A BIT Of corn in a day, work the daylights out of those old 40- early 50s trucks with 6’s in them on a 6 mile haul

[@raymiller9391]

Fox the best choppers in their day!👍

[@RJ1999x]

A shame they wouldn't change their dated design

[@sheilamclaughlin963]

Sounds like a jimmy in the chopper

[@greggergen9104]

That corn looks 10 times better than your 2012 video... That must have been a drought year.

[@justinreichow9892]

Yeah, 2012 was a major drought year.

[@tonycoupland6281]

Silage chopping is my favorite time of the year!!!

[@karlk6860]

My Dad worked with FOX in Germany to develop this chopper for the US market so I got to drive them a fair bit which was of course the highlight of my since I was in 4th Grade at that time. I was never in one with a cab so I always got the full volume of that little Detroit. My Dad passed away a couple years ago and I found a bunch of the old brochures for these choppers in one of his brief cases! Lots of very good memeories!

[@RJ1999x]

Do you have literature of the pull type choppers?

[@karlk6860]

@@RJ1999x I got your reply to this post and went through my Dads two brief cases looking for any lit he might have had and could not find any and I know he had some at least on the self propelled choppers. I called my Mom to ask her if she knew where they had gone to, he also has a set of service manuals again for the self propelled units and Mom told me after Dad passed a friend of dads contacted my mom and she gave him all of it she could find. With that said sorry I apparently do not have any brochures on anything anymore!

[@RJ1999x]

@@karlk6860 That's ok, thanks for looking, the reason I asked is my Uncle bought a brand new Allis Chalmers 190 XT series 3 in 1971 and Fox chopper used it pulling a pull type Fox in their sales brochure, just thought it would be neat to find, seeing I have the tractor

[@karlk6860]

@@RJ1999x Sorry I do not!

[@karlk6860]

@@RJ1999x I sure wish I had it to give to you! I wish I had the technical manuals to I would love to finally learn about how it all worked. Did you know that the self propelled units very early in their development came out with a German built diesel prior to them using Detroits. I remember Dad found one somewhere and brought it home Ithink the engine was stuck and we worked on it and got it lose and he had it running shortly after that, I dont remember if it was a Doitz or a MAN built engine I do remember it was a lot more quieter than the Detroits were!

[@Travis_Rivers]

Its got that loud ole Detroit in her lol

[@jcarlosvillalpando6404]

If you will sell that chopper later please let me know

[@MrCatsbluevideo]

Looks great!

[@scottydog62]

Yeah that's more like it haha

[@jamesbarbour8400]

I really like that trailer hitch arrangement , very clever 🙂

[@planeiron241]

Here in Barren County Ky A man by the name of George Baker had a Fox 2 row with Badger wagons he done custom chopping in the 70's to middle 80's, that old Detroit would howl all day. They was chopping one day and run into 2 rows of Mary Jane about 100 feet long, every state trooper and sheriff form the whole state was there, TV it was crazy

[@badlands555]

If he had kept on chopping cows would have been happy

[@scottheinze5303]

I hope he has something to protect his ears that thing is loud.

[@pfauniversal1890]

2genCummins1799: if he don't get wound up in the PTO of that wagon first .

[@cidertom5140]

Best engine for converting diesel into noise!!

[@ЕленаШахова-и5к]

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[@RippleAffect]

Corn silage

[@cidertom5140]

Forage harvester it turns grass wheat or in this case corn into cattle feed or for bio- mass