If there is money to be made with parts or scrap iron, maybe... But to use you won't even have enough HP to run one modern enough to be worth owning. Choppers are not like balers in that they can easily be resurrected from the dead and used when they're 50 years old. The knives are much more finicky and need to be set right to get a good chop. It can be done on and older machine, but go price out a set of knives. They usually run in the ball park of $100/each for just about anything. Deere might be cheaper where they had a whole mess of knives, but then volume makes up for it.
Our NH 892 has a 12 knife cutter head. I have it set with 8 to get a slightly longer chop in corn, but that's still a lot of $$$ to replace a set of knives and the shear bar.
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