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North Liberty and South Bend, Indiana | For those that still fill silo's what do you use for a blower tractor? We have always used an open station tractor. For as long as I can remember they have been Case's which have the throttle in easy reach from the ground and right by the steps of the unloading tractor. Have noticed some of the neighbors are using tractors with cabs and can see an easy way to get to the throttle. |
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NE WI | We used a case 1690 for our blower tractor. About all it was good for. It had a cab but dad rigged up a piece of fence wire to the throttle and had a old style throttle lever off of something that had dedents in it and would hold the throttle when rotated. Was 2 round plates with holes drilled around the outside and ball bearings with a spring tension system. We left the throttle in the idle position in the cab and it worked well. Couple that with the hydraulic unload option we had we never had to unhook the chopper box from the pickup truck. Pull up to the blower, attach the hydraulic unload motor to the chopper box, crank up the throttle and start unloading. |
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| Open station 1466 with a DT-466 transplant.............With the pump turned up........ |
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north-central Indiana west of Fulton | We use an IH 856,have for many years. Put a Year-A-Round cab on in '95 but we seldom shut it down and turn off pto between loads. Usually loads don't have much time between.
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Amherst WI | I used my 7710 Ford this past year. The right hand door is pretty handy. I will say an open staion 06, 26, 56, or 66 is pretty hard to beat though. |
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Statesville, NC | It's been 25-30 years, but we used to fill a 60' silo with an IH 574 diesel. It was pulling the blower, and the Kelly Ryan platform with the hydraulics. It was a tough little tractor, and is still going strong for Jimmy R52. |
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South Western Ontario, Canada | Well best one that we have is hands down the old ford 9600. Has the right door and being taller helps to reach the pto lever from the ground and put a weight on the foot throttle.
Massey 1155 wasn't bad but hard to get the throttle
Dave, what farmall do you have on the forage rack? 450?
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west central Iowa | Farmall 560 diesel High Clear on IH 56 blower, works real well! Throttle and pto lever within easy reach of ground on right side. PTO unit went bad Sunday, pulled it out and put spare unit in, took an hour and running again. |
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Between Omaha and Des Moines, 7 miles South of I80 | 1975 IHC 1066 (165 HP) with cab. Dad and my brother rigged up a solid rod (roughly 1/4") at the rear of the tractor, that goes under cab, up to Engine's governor throttle control.
Just start PTO (at rear of tractor), pull homemade throttle rod(also at rear of tractor), start feeding silage blower. Works great!
We unload 4 loads an hour, so tractor just idles, while I switch wagons. (Meaning, once tractor is running, we don't need to shut it down, for our situation)
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NW VA | We avoid silos as much as possible, but when we have to:
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| We use a JD 4440 ( with a cab) on the blower. The right hand lower half door is left open and the throttle can easily be reached from the ground. The tractor pto is left on between loads as the tractor idles. |
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Between Omaha and Des Moines, 7 miles South of I80 | Where's the scoop shovel ??? (just kidding)
We always keep the pile to a minimum, in front of the blower.
Less clean up, at end of the day. (That pile would drive my Dad nuts) |
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| dave that is one neat tidy farm; wish i could get myplace looking that fine. impressive |
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| Used a 4010 Deere on the wagon and a 4020 on the blower, both open stationed. The 4010 had the PTO on the left and the 4020 was on the right and made it really convenient.
Haven't filled silo in 17 years and kinda miss it, other than the dozen trips a day up and down the silo.
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Central MN | We use a 4030 with a cab. Leave the PTO on and just reach in the right hand door from the ground and pull the throttle We used to use a IH966 before she died on the bagger one year. I must say I prefer the 4030 on the blower VS the 966 anyday! |
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west central Iowa | We have used everything from a DC case to a WD 45 to ajd G to a 560 and presently use an 856 to run blower and table. The DC actually worked pretty good you could grab the governor rod and open it up a little more when you a big bunch coming. The WD 45 had a shear pin in the driveline of the tractor that sheared. The jd G beat the shear pins on the blower to pieces as fast as you could could put them in. The 560 worked good until the overflow on the radiator plugged and the radiator split and cooked the motor with nobody sitting on it, but it got sleeves and pistons and a new 706 head and still runs good today. I use the 856 now the 560 hydraulics probably wouldnt run the table. I may have to make a throttle rod like 4WD talked about up above. |
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| Have used a variety of tractors on stationary PTO work. Some such as a D-19 were easily controlled from the ground, others (most) needed some type of additional controls added to make it easier, and safer. Surprisingly, one of the best was a JD 730. |
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West Central Wisconsin | Do you have other uses for that power unit? When we were using shaker-pan blowers we used a 4020 but as we added tractors we replaced it with the older 4230. The 4230 seemed to have a little more rpm and we also keep the lower right window open. We now have a H&S 680? blower and don't have near the plugging problems as with the shaker-pans. Wagon tractors include the two 4230's, 4020 and an old model "A" for close hauls. 4455 is on the hay chopper for 1st and 3rd crop alfalfa. The 4455 goes on to the corn chopper for corn sileage and one of the 4230's go on the hay chopper when we mix 4th crop alfalfa with corn. I remember using a 630JD two cyl. back in the late 60's-early 70's on the blower and the big tractor then, the 4020, was on the chopper. That was the main reason we never chopped alfalfa. Joe |
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Between Omaha and Des Moines, 7 miles South of I80 | Years ago, hauled many a load in with 1949 JD "B" model.
With 3010 on blower and 4020 on chopper. |
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NW VA | The Balzer blowdecks are very leaky under the cross chain. Don't know of any way around it, but it is annoying. |
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NW VA | It spends most of it's time pumping water.
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Southern IL Randolph County | We have been using a NH TL100 open station, which works good because you can reach both the throttle and pto switch (located on the right side top of fender) from the ground. We used an AC 180 for many years, but was not near as handy to climb on to and get going. It was always fun though to watch the 180 blow the black smoke when the wagon would throw a good wad at times, kinda made you cringe at times wondering if you we going to have a plug, but hey you have to choke up the blower at least once while filling silo to make it offical. LOL |
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Faunsdale, AL | D318 CAT out of an old crane that got scrapped and a military surplus D333 CAT with a Rockford clutch blow silage here. The D318 is the same engine that is in an old D6 from the 40's and 50's and the D333 was used in the D6B before the 3306 came out, but this one is turbocharged rated 200 hp instead of a little over a hundred in the dozer. Both of them mutter along quietly until a slug of silage hits the blower and then there's a BLAAAH! for a second and then they quiet back down. D318 runs with a straight pipe, but the D333 needs the muffler to cut the turbo whine.
Both of them are belted to a shaft that runs back along the engine to put the PTO stub shaft next to the bottom corner of the radiator support. This parks the engine over close to the silo and makes for a smaller footprint. Even have the tongue on one that comes out of the frame and can slide that in most any place.
Used to use an IH U450 engine on propane with a SnowNabstedt clutch and gear reduction for 540 rpm to blow silage, but the CAT's are a LOT quieter than the straight piped IH. It is coupled to an IH 1250 grinder mixer grinding shelled corn these days.
Before that a 4 cylinder LeRoi engine off an old Fox pull type chopper blew all the silage here. Pipe on exhaust used to glow white as night fell! Lots of ears of corn roasted over that propane exhaust back then.
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North shore of Lake Ontario | Interesting post. We,ve moved from a 710 JD to a 3020 to a 4430. then we used a 6400 for short time before we hitched up an 8100. Traded off the 81 and put a. 7430 on it but it's been giving us fits so we shoehorned the 8230 into position complete with duals. And I must say its our best blower tractor yet. As the hot rodders say there is no substitute for cubic inches!
tom
Forgot to add we run a home built blow deck with the blower mounted right on it so once the tractor starts it is never shut off. Filled a 20 x60 last week in 5 hours.
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Warburg, AB | Dave9110 - 9/17/2012 18:57
We use an IH 856,have for many years. Put a Year-A-Round cab on in '95 but we seldom shut it down and turn off pto between loads. Usually loads don't have much time between.
For whatever reason that cab makes me think of those old JD cabs.
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| 4320 jd for filling harvestore with hm corn!!!!!! Love to hear it sing! |
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north-central Indiana west of Fulton | Bigrock - 9/17/2012 21:23
dave that is one neat tidy farm; wish i could get myplace looking that fine. impressive Thanks,Arend ! |
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North Liberty and South Bend, Indiana | How do you get to the throttle on one of those new tractors? |
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Northeast Kentucky | It's been 5 yrs since milk cows and silage went away, but we used a IH MTA gasser. One man could easily reach the PTO and throttle from the ground, while another went for more gasoline |
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| Right now a Massey 1100 is on the blower because it doesn't have a cab. But other times it's a Massey 1150, 2745 or 3545. The blower is a CIH 600. |
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| Now that funny. |
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