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- Retired in Minneapolis
Same concept with about a century of improvements.
Origins of brush chipper: '30's silage chopper
- Thread starter Tom Dunlap
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- Retired in Minneapolis
1925
Young Inventor Develops First Husker/Shredder - Farm Collector
The young August Rosenthal developed the first successful corn husker/shredder when he was just fifteen years old.
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pete3d
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- Hinchinbrooke
In my youth we actually used this type of chopper (though it was rather antique even then) not for corn, but to chop low grade hay for bedding on our dairy farm.
(I’d like your post Tom but I can’t say I like the memories of using that machine - they aren’t so sweet.)
(I’d like your post Tom but I can’t say I like the memories of using that machine - they aren’t so sweet.)
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- Retired in Minneapolis
@pete3d
Well then, I liked your comment! After seeing those vids I was reminded of my first experiences with a brush chipper. It was in about '73. Marv bought a 12" Asplundh chuck and duck that was still on 6 volt. He changed it to 12v though.
Chipping ag materials must have seemed like a project that would never end.
Well then, I liked your comment! After seeing those vids I was reminded of my first experiences with a brush chipper. It was in about '73. Marv bought a 12" Asplundh chuck and duck that was still on 6 volt. He changed it to 12v though.
Chipping ag materials must have seemed like a project that would never end.
RogerM
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- Louisville,KY USA
My Dad talks about how the cattle would love that warm meal during those cold ND winters...
So another question, who and when was the first brush chipper invented. Around 1976 I bought an old Fitchburg chipper for $1500. I had sat in a field along with an asplundh chipper for a good while. The first ti.e I fired it up it scattered the engine belts along with the governor belt and I almost lost the engine. It ran good for me for a couple of years before I sold it and moved on.
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- Retired in Minneapolis
Sounds like 2 cylinder diesel tractor. My Grandpa had a small one J Deere green with the side belt pulley. Scared the hell out of my Gandma who told of the belts removing arms. Old stand alone threshing machines. As kids we never saw the pulley hooked up or even turn but we got to hold the steering wheel going slow riding on Grandpa's lap. He still turned the vast farm gardens with it and a small plow into his 70's. Turned over the potatoes in one swipe in the fall which stored easy a full year in the dirt root cellar under the living room floor of the log house.
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- Chardon, OH
FYI Silage - - -
In 1984 I worked to startup & trouble-shoot a very small chemical plant in Ireland for 10+ months.
Great people experience.
It was a chlorine & caustic plant; but the primary product was to make bleach for the dairy industry. (Cl2+NaOH+H20)
The plant had lots of financial problems, so it had a number of "side-activities".
The plant imported Sulfuric Acid (H2SO4) from England. It was diluted, & sold to farmers to enhance the acidification & fermentation of silage. Very profitable.
Now back to the main Post Topic . . .
In 1984 I worked to startup & trouble-shoot a very small chemical plant in Ireland for 10+ months.
Great people experience.
It was a chlorine & caustic plant; but the primary product was to make bleach for the dairy industry. (Cl2+NaOH+H20)
The plant had lots of financial problems, so it had a number of "side-activities".
The plant imported Sulfuric Acid (H2SO4) from England. It was diluted, & sold to farmers to enhance the acidification & fermentation of silage. Very profitable.
Now back to the main Post Topic . . .
