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Cullom, Illinois | Going to put up my own haylage this summer and have a few questions. My local New Holland dealer dosen't sell much forage equipment, so I'm looking for a few answers.
Is a 790 NH forage chopper good enough for roughly 40 acres of sudan grass and about 20 acres of straight grass? I realize these are smaller choppers and they don't seem to hold their value as well as the FP230/240. But for what I am doing, will they be OK?
Next, what's a good quality forage wagon. Gehl, H&S, Badger, New Holland? So many brands it hard to decide which ones. Got any suggestions?
Thanks. Trying not to do anything not NAT approved. |
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NCOhio | We had a 790 chopper and liked it alot. We had a 2 row corn head and chopped a 12ft swath of alfalfa. 1st cutting was a little slow going, but 2nd and 3rd cutting were sometimes too light. I think the 790 was rated at least 150 pto hp. We had H&S wagons. |
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Thunder Bay, Ontario, Great White North | We had a 782 New Holland chopper many moons ago, one neighbor runs a 790, basically same machine. For your acres it should do the job well. We were covering 150 acres 2-3x a year at the time I owned mine. |
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WI. | I run the same chopper and do more acres a year than that. It'll do you just fine. |
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NC Indiana | We have a mid to late '90's 790 and get along good with it. We chopped 20 ac of corn with it last yr and plant to put up 70 ac's of wheat and alfalfa yet this spring. I've had several guys tell me H & S are the best, but I've not used any. I've ran 940 and 960 Gehl's, 214 Deeres, old Dion's, and a Rex on corn silage. The Rex was the nicest of those wagons, but can't find parts. The Gehl's were a close second. We plan to chop a pile in the middle of the wagon and not pack them full for hay/wheatlage. |
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north-central Indiana west of Fulton | Had 2 Rex wagons for 25 plus years,now have all Millers. No comparison in haylage if filling an upright silo. Millers unload smooth and even,Rexes unload in clumps and are an economy wagon. Heard H &S are good ,I think Badger made NH. |
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| New holland and Badger are the same wagon.
The newest Gehl's are made by H&S
We are in a heavy dairy area and most of the wagons around here are Miller-pros or H&S. haylage is the hardest on the unloading mechanism which caused all of the Rex wagons to disappear from the area years ago.
The Gehl wagons were pretty good also. |
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Fairbury, NE (Southeast) | The gehls are smooth. Got a few of them, an old massey ratchet style and a badger. All we have are ole woodies, so can't comment on the newest ones. NH and Badger may be the same some years, but our badger and the neighbors NH are completely different designs. Their newer, heavier built NH is hands down a better wagon. |
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Eastern Half of Kansas | Don't have any experience with a nh 790, but should be a good starter machine for you. On the wagons, should tell us a budget, 3 wagons max $10k total, or whatever. For the most part there are three building wagons still h&s, miller, and Meyers. Arts way has bought miller and badger and are building both. I wouldn't consider badger new or old if the new design is the same as the ones builts in late 70's or 80's. I think dion still has a wagon but are few and far between.
Some new Hollands are built by badger but there are some new holland steel sided ones that I have neighbors that like, crop carrier 8 I think.
I would recommend h&s 7+4's. If you can go new enough for steel sides. |
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Eastern iowa | Chopper should be fine. If you can find a good 900 would be a little better. Wagons I would recommend Meyer or H&S. Should be reasonable priced if find some fifteen to twenty years old. A lot of smaller Dairy guys retired and never chopped much. Would personally not go anywhere near a gehl wagon. |
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western iowa,by Denison | do you bag the silage Roo or do you put the silage in the pit? |
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SW WI | H and S with dual auger unload are the best I have used |
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Few more haylage questions...chopper.
