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| Got an old gehl. Thinking it's going to be hard to get a custom operator in right now. Don't really want to do whole plant silage but might try some snaplage if it wasn't too big of a pain. Worst thing I see is it's gonna take forever with a 2 or 3 row head. |
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NE Mo | I think up North they run some corn processors on silage cutters. May try Wisconsin |
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Callao Missouri | Chad is there any way you can just set the 1480 to put a lot of cob in the tank to do the job?
On the Deere chopers they have a plate that attaches to a two or three row corn head for a combine and then attaches to the choper. seems to work ok. |
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| The stuff that I looked at today is so wet that it won't even shell with an old hand type corn sheller. I'm thinking it's just going to go to mush in the combine. |
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Edgerton MN | Talk to Lindquist Mfg in Giltner NE. They make adapters for any chopper to match any corn head. Gehl did supply their own snapper in the 70's and 80's if you can find one of those. I think it was a massey head. You may also check with some of the custom guys that chop for dairies and feedlots. They could come in with a 6,8 or 12 row rig and get r done. |
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IA | We have done what you are describing with to make earlage with a 3960 and a 343 corn head. I have attached a picture out of the Deere parts catalog for reference. It actually cuts faster than what you think because ground speed is quite a bit faster making earlage versus silage. Although this probably won't work for the Gehl maybe someone has something like it or can make an attachment for what you need. I see DVR gave posted a source just before me so hopefully it works out, good luck.
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nw pa | think you ought to try the combine.. amazing what the dairy farmers do with some of that super high moisture stuff. Take the screen out and put in a 2 inch hole screen. grind it up and use it for silage. The trick was to not try and shell it. More grind it. trouble is getting it out of the tank.Lot of broomsticks on the side of combines when they do it.I would try some with a combine |
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| give pell equipment a call, talk to sales, they are a old gehl dealing, I think gehl made heads for them. 231-924-2510 |
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Embarrass WI | Snaplage was all the rage around here in the 70's. In the 90's you could buy dusty old snapper heads at auctions for iron price. Most guy's reason for quitting them was that they were too slow, it was easier and faster to call in a guy with a combine and run the high moisture corn through a roller mill at the silo. Combines will also work in a wet field that you can't go in with a pull type chopper and a heavy wagon full of snaplage. Still see some snapper heads listed for sale every fall, I saw some this fall but I can't recall where. Is the corn standing good? If so, you could just cut it really high. That wouldn't be a lot different than snaplage, since a fair amount of trash gets in with that too. |
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s.c. north dakota | I bought one 5 years ago to put on my 1250 gehl. used it 2-3 years, makes great feed. Now we are combining high moisture corn and running it through a roller mill. I did like the idea of having pieces of cob in there for buffer. If your interested, call me at 701-220-1775. The head is located in S.C. North Dakota. Rob D |
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| FOX built 'em and sold 'em for years, for both 30 inch and 38 inch rows. We'd run ours with a solid plate behind the knifecase... well almost solid. It had a row of square holes across the trailing edge, all the way across, about 1 inch square per hole, maybe a quarter inch of steel between 'em. We also built custom shields to cover each end of the stationary knife or a certain amount of shell corn would blow out the sides. They fit under the jam nut on the adjustment screws. That rig made great HMGEC, and we fed it for years with great results. |
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Is there any such thing as a snapping head for a pull type chopper?
