Posted by Adirondack case guy on September 08, 2020 at 08:08:54 from (74.76.16.33):
I didn't want to hyjack Tom's post below, but he is correct in saying that they won't feed in downed corn.-----Case made a deal with IH and sold rebadged IH choppers as their model 300 chopper. We were Case dealers when this happened, and had the header feeding problems described by Tom. Case got with IH engineering and an IH engineer and a pallet box full of different gathering chains and other parts were sent to us. When the parts arrived, Case branch service people and the IH engineer showed up and we hooked my uncle's 1963 Case 831C to the chopper with a 30" two row head.------We experimented with different styles of gathering chains, knock down bars over the row unit, bolt on teeth for the feed rolls, and finally some spring bars that we bolted at the front bottom of the head to hold the corn straight up as the gathering chains grabbed it.----- The bars and extension teeth helped the most. ------Now the good part of the story. On the final day, The IH engineer was feeling like he had solved the problem, and my dad, myself, 2 Case service reps. and the engineer were walking along behind the forage wagon, (low sides,no roof) looking at the remnants of stalks that were left, and the engineer was bragging how smooth the chopper was now running and how uniform the silage cut was. He no more than got those words out of his mouth and a piece of cob about the size of a tennis ball cleared the back of the forage wagon and hit him square in the forehead, knocking him down. The rest of us were having a hard time keeping from laughing as he picked himself up, but we never heard any more about uniform cut.------WE went on and started selling Hesston choppers. Loren PS The 831C is now mine and you have seen it hooked to my wood trailers, and still earning it's keep.
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