Making Hay and Silage with a Gehl Forage Harvester (1949)

[@EnergyTRE]

one skill that can only be refined never replaced.

[@harlandschuster2703]

I really enjoy watching these old promotional videos....thanks for posting!

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

Thanks for tuning in! I enjoy seeing everyone having a good time with these videos.

[@frankdeegan8974]

Friends I am 75 now and I participated in this type of harvesting it was light work for a teenager and most enjoyable. Saving a load or two for after dark so we could set the carbonators on the belt tractor so there was a small flame coming from the tractors stack made the mix just on the rich side so the tractor started good in winter weather.

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

I never ran a Gehl chopper. Gehl wagons, blowers, and mixers, but not choppers. So sad that they left the farm equipment business, because they made great stuff! I had the honor of meeting a VP at Gehl, and he and his wife were the nicest people you would want to meet. 👍

[@robinsites9790]

I accompanied my Grandfather and Uncle as they made and put up corn silage for their dairy operation back from the early 60s until the sold the herd in 1975. They used all Gehl equipment including 2 self unloading wagons. In 1967 they built a big new silo and traded in the old 1 row cutter for a new 2 row cutter and partnered with a neighbor with 2 more wagons. This brought back so many fond memories. Thanks for posting.

[@ronzezulka6646]

Hey Ikon,,,have you ever seen one of the choppers featured here in action? Very cool. Osha approved, lol. We had a belt driven, long auger Gehl blower for years until we bought the New Holland. Ran it with an rebuilt F20. We used to dig a small pocket for the tires and staked it down with long steel rods.

[@choreboy3906]

We obtained a Gehl 56" blower after years of suffering from a Badger. Wonderful improvement!

[@johnnytoobad4287]

Really enjoyed the video. When they unloaded the wagon I thought that the amount of spill was minimal. Very impressive. We unloaded wagons into a blower back in the day and often did a lot of cleaning up

[@tdwebste]

I remember this blower on our farm when I was in public school.

[@unclebones2488]

Bravo Ikon LOL my first job at 12 years old was driving a silage truck. I had too look thru the steering wheel & dashboard LOL. Boy did I have to haul ass get too the pit to unload & back to the field before the dump wagon got full . thanks for the memories

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

There are days that stretch of road between the field & pit could stand to be a bit shorter. Lol! Glad you enjoyed!

[@dedrakuhn6103]

I have only seen one of these machines under a tree on an old farmstead. I thought it would be cool to see it run. This is an awesome video,! Thank you for posting this

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

Thanks for turning in! Glad you enjoyed!!

[@morganottlii2390]

Gehl made great stuff! Thanks for the video!

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

Indeed they did! Thanks for tuning in!

[@teresadroessler9872]

Thanks for sharing, I love Gehl equipment

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

Thanks for turning in! Glad you enjoyed!!

[@frankwurth5375]

This is the iron I grew up with! Just love watching this equipment at work, as intended.

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

I'm glad you enjoyed! I also enjoy seeing the equipment in it's natural habitat. :v)

[@tronstone7679]

Thoroughly enjoyed this video

[@larrykriete7035]

Dad bought a new model 1200 chopper and side dump wagon I think in the late 70's ,along with two #99 blowers to fill 4 Blue Harvestore Silos. Had 3 Gehl forage boxes mounted on 1959 ford trucks and used a Gehl center pull windrower, don't remember the model. Ran that combination untill we bought a used selfpropeled JD in the early 2000's. Kinda miss the simplicity and ease of repairing the Gehl. It is still in the shed and field ready for when the JD breaks down. I really enjoyed your video of the early chopper and equiptment. Thanks for sharing.

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

Glad you enjoyd! The center pull windrower might have been a 2245 or similar. Those were good machines. I have a video of those that will be coming up in the next week or so. Stay tuned!!

[@theda850two]

The flat belt driven silage blower is a hoot, I noticed they didn't take the Transport wheels off when they set it up, But looks as if they only dug them in Maybe a few inches.

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

It's hard to tell, but it looks like there's a wood stake in the ground in front of the wheel facing the camera. It has me wondering though, how much will that blower pull into the belt on dry hay & a short pipe to the mow? Then again, the original family farmstead had a concrete pad poured next to the silo & there are four semi circular grooves about 2" into the concrete where the wheels of the silo filler sat. Granted, concrete isn't going to give like dirt, it wouldn't take much to chip away at the grooves with a constant heavy pull on the belt. Just my thought on it.

[@theda850two]

@@ikonseesmrno7300,, Keep up the good work with the videos, I just noticed that one about a mixer went up, gonna watch that now.

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

@@theda850two Thank you!

[@B_r_a_n_d_i]

Really cool. Ty.

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

Hey gerl!💕 Glad you enjoyed!!

[@Crazyfarmer67]

The big wheel bringing the grass into chopper looks hideous, but it does seem to work well.

[@tpfromcentralpa1692]

These Gehl video's are great.............Everyone puts up the full line companys, but these short line makers like Gehl I find interesting. Is there any grinder/mixer video's in the future?

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

I'm glad you enjoyed!! There are several videos for the Mix-Alls, so stay tuned!

[@farmingfishingfamilyontari2814]

So no kernel processor?

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

Nope, not yet. That wouldn't come to pass until after the advent of the cylinder cut machines.

[@MilkMan608]

It's 1949, bud.

[@farmingfishingfamilyontari2814]

I wonder if I was making a joke 😀

[@Frenchbroadcatman.]

I could smell the silage grew up on a dairy farm in western n.c. when I can smell cow shit and silage I know I'm close to home

[@tootired76]

All the potential ways a farmer can lose a limb....

[@flyingled3176]

Some have and worse

[@MrMagnum7220]

What would those people think of todays big equipment?

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

I've heard mixed reviews through the years.

[@l337pwnage]

You go further back and you'll find people opposed to mechanization in general because you lose your independence. The first thing they'd ask about modern machines is, "How am I supposed to fix that when it breaks?" It gets to the point to where, essentially, you're just working for the machinery company as one of their employees as you end up just working to make them money.

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

@@l337pwnage That brings to mind the Luddites.... who I think might have been on to something.🤔

[@nazzarenoceretti8025]

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[@ikonseesmrno7300]

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[@Xerdoz]

What the hell? Making silage with molasses? Over here they use formic acid (with some other stuff added as well).

[@frankwurth5375]

I helped a few neighbors put up corn silage years back. We used a 1 row Gehl chopper pulled by a 4020 Deere, A bit of over kill. Had 2 ancient Gehl forage boxes, I always got the worst one and pulled it with the old 620 Deere. For Additives we would pour the bags across the top of the load so as to have the unloading process mix it into the forage. This operation stopped when the local stockyards closed down and we all got out of the livestock business, As we couldn't afford to ship semi loads of livestock many hundreds of miles to out of state processors. I think most of that Gehl machinery is still in the neighbors machine shed. I had bought a big , heavy Papec field chopper for feeding green chop to our small herd of feeder cattle. It was PTO equipped. Pulled it with my MD Farmall, was a bit of load, likely would have helped to replace the stationary shear knife, and get a clean cut. My brother wanted to keep it so I let him, rather than argue over it. He never even moved it from where I last parked it 45 years ago! I always enjoyed working with that vintage of equipment. Today, the only livestock operations around are the mega hog buildings and the operation now ships to a processer hundreds of miles away and sell under their own label for much of it. Funny, one packer puts out dozens of different labeled product! When Tyson's and the USDA, manipulated the livestock prices and put all their competition and small producers out of business by forcing the live hog prices to less than $9.00 per hundred weight. We all had to get a town job to survive! Shame, it was a good life on the small family farm when you could make a living at it!

[@richardbailey7558]

Those blowers look kinda dangerous

[@ikonseesmrno7300]

They can be if you ain't careful. The safety shutoff bar was about a decade into the future, from the blower in the video. That only shuts off the feeder chain. There is no E-stop for the fan.