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Elizabethtown,KY | I'm 68 and when I was about 10 my Pappaw helped his neighbor haul in bundles of green corn (several other farmers helped and did this all around the neighborhood) on hay racks. It had been cut with a binder pulled by a tractor, at the silo was a Papec ensilage cutter pulled by an M Farmall and a flat belt. There was one team of horses on a rack and I was allowed to drive it back to the field when it was empty, that was the only time I ever drove a team.
The Amish here still fill silo that way, but they have a Diesel engine power unit that they use on the cutter.
We had a chopper and blower on our farm even when I was the age that I saw the old time way done when I stayed at Pappaw's that summer. I believe the chopper we had was either a no.6 or 8 Deere 1 row, I think we later had a no. 12, after that we had a Gehl chopper. We had wagons with a false front gate,cables on the floor and a roller on the back that was driven with an electric motor with a reduction gear on it. | |
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How were the silo's filled days gone by?
