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I can't even begin to identify this relic...

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watson524

04-06-2008 18:00:36




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Now here's where the fun starts. This is the first of 4 or 5 things that I can't even take a guess at. I don't know if those metal long rods go with it or just happened to be laying there. It looks pretty beat up but maybe someone needs parts vs me just scrapping it. On the one side, in raised lettering I think it reads "Papeo Maching co. Shortsville NY"

And on the back, there's this round mouse wheel looking thing with wooden type dowels connecting the two sides.

Can someone ID it and tell me if it's worth not scrapping. I'm at a point where I'd give some of this stuff away for free if someone can do something with it vs seeing it just go to scrap.

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watson524

04-07-2008 16:29:30




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 Re: I can't even begin to identify this relic... in reply to watson524, 04-06-2008 18:00:36  
Does anyone use the surge pumps anymore? I posted it on a local tag sale site for $10 but if anyone here wants it, you can have it. I have no idea if it would even go anymore.



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Dave Sherburne NY

04-07-2008 16:19:16




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 Re: I can't even begin to identify this relic... in reply to watson524, 04-06-2008 18:00:36  
My dad used a papec silage blower just like that, the lever on the right reverses the feed when
you try to put to much corn in it. Ran ours with
a John Deere A borrowed from the neighbor. Or with
the Ford 8N when we hauled the corn stalks with the
Plymouth Doodlebug my uncle made. The stalks were cut with a PTO powered Corn binder like yours.
On the ground to the left of the Papec is a Surge
Vacuum Pump, good for two milker units. I don't think that hayloader is a New Idea, the NI had the
big wheels in the front and caster wheels in the back.

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gitrib

04-07-2008 09:42:25




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 Re: I can't even begin to identify this relic... in reply to watson524, 04-06-2008 18:00:36  
Boy you have a drove of real antique farm machinery. It could all be in a museum. I remember has a small boy in the 1935's my father filling silo with Papec Silo Filler pulled by a John Deere D Tractor. Every once in a while it would overload the old D and it was a job to empty
the filler pipe that we packed full of green chopped corn.



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fergienewbie

04-07-2008 04:48:08




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 Re: I can't even begin to identify this relic... in reply to watson524, 04-06-2008 18:00:36  
I must really be getting old. I haven't been around a farm in years, but recognize many of these old items. Threshers were just on their way out when I was a young kid--late 40s, early 50s. Am more clueless about the new stuff.

Larry



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jwal10

04-06-2008 18:24:00




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 Re: I can't even begin to identify this relic... in reply to watson524, 04-06-2008 18:00:36  
I wish I was closer to you, I have bought several of the old Papec choppers for the axles, wheels and frame. I have built little pony wagons out of them and also little wagons to sell produce off of at farmers markets....James



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Bill Lisbon

04-06-2008 18:21:27




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 Re: I can't even begin to identify this relic... in reply to watson524, 04-06-2008 18:00:36  
it is a silage cutter,before forage harvesters, corn staks were brought to the silo whole, run thru the machine and blown into silo.



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Leroy

04-06-2008 18:17:51




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 Re: I can't even begin to identify this relic... in reply to watson524, 04-06-2008 18:00:36  
That is anouther item for the Amish area, if it is not good enough for use it will make parts for what they have



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Bob Bancroft

04-06-2008 18:16:47




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 Re: I can't even begin to identify this relic... in reply to watson524, 04-06-2008 18:00:36  
That's a Papec ensilage cutter/blower. Bundles of whole corn plants were brought to it and the long table fed the corn in evenly. It was chopped and blown into the silo by the one machine. The rods look like silo hoops.(Just big clamps going around the outside of a silo to hold it together.) Years ago I scrapped a wooden box with a set of knives and drive gears. When I found out it was for a Papec like yours, and the antique and horse guys could have used it, I felt terrible.

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watson524

04-06-2008 18:16:13




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 Re: I can't even begin to identify this relic... in reply to watson524, 04-06-2008 18:00:36  
Yep, it was right next to the blade... I kind of spread things out today to get better pictures.

You know it's interesting, I think some of the old pulley is still there. Inside where the dowels are, there are what looks like very many tightly layered layers of paper so that must be it.

Where did those silo hoops go? The silo came down before I was born I think or close to it (1976) but I know when we redid the barn last year, dad took out the foundation of the silo and we also found these square'ish doors that I think he said were for the silo. Maybe 18 - 24" square.

Is this ensilage cutter worth anything to anyone? Even to give it away to a good home or should I just scrap it?

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LenND

04-06-2008 18:15:39




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 Re: I can't even begin to identify this relic... in reply to watson524, 04-06-2008 18:00:36  
Yea, it is a Papec silage cutter or chopper. We had one when I was younger and it would give the WC Allis a good workout.



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formerly ny bill

04-06-2008 18:08:50




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 Re: I can't even begin to identify this relic... in reply to watson524, 04-06-2008 18:00:36  
it was sitting in front of the blade, wasn't it? i almost commented on it on the other thread. its an ensilage cutter, made by papec machine co, shortsville, ny. the wheel on the back is the remains of the belt pulley. most pulleys were made of paper with the plates on the sides and dowels holding them together. used for chopping bundles of corn and blowing the chopped corn into the silo. the silo hoops laying on it should be saved, as they work super for things like tying the sides of a bowing barn wall together etc etc.

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