Posted by jimb2 on September 24, 2019 at 10:13:18 from (174.114.155.238):
In Reply to: Iowa........ corn posted by Mutt and Jeff on September 24, 2019 at 07:23:11:
That same bent fork was used to pull silage out of the "False Front" forage wagons into the forage blower trough as the "False Front" of the wagon was drawn to the rear by cables attached to a roller rod at the rear of the wagon that was driven by a racket gear on the forage blower. We had three of these forage wagons that were used from the early 1950s until early 1970s when we bought self-unloading wagons and a new JD PTO driven forage blower with a hopper. The previous forge blower had been an early 1950s NH belt driven with about a 10ft trough that you raised up the trough drive past with the wagon, lower trough, back the wagon up about 1 ft so back of wagon is over the trough, connect the PTO like shaft to the roller that rolled up the cables that winched the "False Front" of the wagon to the rear, start the blower a get it up to speed and then open the rear door of the wagon and prop the door open and engage the ratchet that would turn the roller to wind the cables around it and the Operator would use one of those bent forks to drag the silage out of the wagon to keep it feeding evenly into the blower. In the mid 1960s the NH forage blower was replaced by an IH forage blower but still belt driven. Back in the days when neighbors would all work together at threshing and silage chopping.
See old pictures from about 1972 below, me chopping corn with IH 454 and IH #16 chopper into "False Front" silage wagon, Dad and neighbor unloading corn into IH forage blower with bent forks. I believe the following year we bought two self-unloading wagons and a JD PTO driven forage blower.
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