Fox chopper thanks for the help (pics)

Got the guy his 806 back and took his Fox 3000 chopper in trade for the work I did on it. Got a pickup head and a 2 row corn head as well. Plus all the manuals. So in the true spirt of Allen in NE I will be going right through this bad boy to be ready to chop grass in the beginning of May. Looks like it really only needs a few little things and a good sharpening and it'll be ready to roll.

Things to check for wear are:

Lifting linkage

Apron chain

Gathering chain

drive chains

drive sprockets.

other chains

knives

shear bar (should be able to reverse it if not done so already)

chains

belts

spout lining

blower band

pick-up teeth

tension springs for feeder rolls

grease lines

drive chains.....

If ya need any parts, go right to Hiniker, they own the name now. We buy directly form them for our 3000, and if they don't have the parts they'll point you to a guy who does.

Any other questions, I'll try to help. Still learning with ours but I've been running it for a good 4-6 years now, and another fox before that one.

Donovan from Wisconsin

The gathering chains on the corn head are more than likely stretched out too unless they were replaced recently. We just did ours last season after breaking one near the end of th corn in 05 and putting a different style on to get us through. On ours the blower band blew out (I think that was during corn of 05 as well) but we stole the newer one off our older fox out behind the barn. maybe 1 1/2 hours downtime and i was chopping again until the clutch blew out on our 1855. 2005 was a rough year with break downs but we still made ok time with most repairs being small. We switched tractors the next day and kept going with the 1855 on the bagger instead and got it fixed after.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Also kinda curious- is your corn head a 2 row wide or narrow? ours is a wide but we have 32" rows. It works fine but not sure what would happen if we went to 30" with a different planter.

The gathering chains on the corn head are more than likely stretched out too unless they were replaced recently. We just did ours last season after breaking one near the end of th corn in 05 and putting a different style on to get us through. On ours the blower band blew out (I think that was during corn of 05 as well) but we stole the newer one off our older fox out behind the barn. maybe 1 1/2 hours downtime and i was chopping again until the clutch blew out on our 1855. 2005 was a rough year with break downs but we still made ok time with most repairs being small. We switched tractors the next day and kept going with the 1855 on the bagger instead and got it fixed after.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Also kinda curious- is your corn head a 2 row wide or narrow? ours is a wide but we have 32" rows. It works fine but not sure what would happen if we went to 30" with a different planter.

Gotta tell ya, I'm just a wee bit jealous. That is one crop gobblin' SOB!! You done good! No, take that back. You done really, really good!

Wonder what the heck he was thinkin'? :>)

Allan