It is just as its called, a field chopper(sometimes called forage/silage chopper) You know what a stationary feed cutter is for, its the same thing just made to pull behind the tractor.
Its for chopping material(straw, hay, silage(corn or hay) into little pieces running in the field. The blower(some models the knives are the blower) on back has a chute on top, like a snow blower, to direct it in the wagon(used to get material to yard), that can be removed to blow back material onto the field. There are two main heads that go on them(not saying they have to have both), a pickup(like baler for windrows) or a corn head for cutting of corn(or sunflower..ect) stalks.
The chopper we have is rarely used for silage. It mainly gets used to chop straw in the field to blow up in the barn for bedding. Also used to disperse windrows by chopping it and blowing it up in the air. We even used it a couple of times to play like the big boys and filled the bunk wagon behind another tractor.
A green chopper(different type) is basically a lawn mower for a field. it cuts the hay/grass crop when sanding green and blows it into a wagon for feeding or silage. Not as much demand or use for these as the basic forage chopper.
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