Thanks for posting these. Really cool.

I'm getting tired just watching these guys work 🙂

You load those monster sileage boxes up and that poor little Z would have all it wanted!

I was a kid when we ran the Fox choppers. 2 row, manual adjust spout, so the rear window of the Year Around Cab had to be taken off. JD 4020, then a Ford 9600 became the power unit. In 1981 my spoiled cousin wanted to keep up with the new stuff, and JD 4440 showed up with a 3940 chopper, electro hydraulic controls. But the old Fox's were easy to fix, and actually made better silage. I'm not sure what happened to them, but I took a liking to the New Holland choppers when Fox disappeared.

Thank you

fun to see those MMs at work!

We had front unloading wagons, with a chain drag. The blower could not have been bigger than 24-30 inches in diameter with an 8 inch pipe. Really slow going. :)

Part 2 of a 16mm film The Fox Forage Master Fox River Tractor Co 1949.

THANKS FOR POSTING I can remember the neighbors having one back in the early 60s. PS That chopped hay was sometimes a real barn burner kind of a feed.

When I was a kid doing this it didn’t seem that dangerous at the time. How is the world did we survive? Guess that was bc working around all those chains made you get common sense quick. I remember being deathly afraid of those corn heads. I remember pulling a full loaded wagon down a steep hill & the H popped out of gear & we went for a ride. I couldn’t have been more than 9 or 10 & I remember my butt bouncing off the seat which pulled my foot of the brakes - not that they worked anyway. Somehow made it to the bottom without wrecking or killing anybody. God was with me.

It's amazing how generations before, they had to do everything by hand. Than they started using machines, that were "huge and heavy" nowadays 70,80+ years later machines are twice sometimes three times as big.. funny how things changed, it's amazing, but sad also. What I mean by that? I live on a small scale farm myself but lots of other farmers getting hay fields cut off but has been staving the plants out of cutting and cutting not put nothing back. So that's the bad part of having machinery easier for people to go over twice many acres for same amount of crops, instead of doing little extra work of maintain fields, cuz I even know some people who does that today. So that's showing me the only way for farmers today maintain their fields/ pastures, than forage crops today would been as tall as how it once is if machines would quit being used, or if people would respect their lands not stave them out. Other than that machines are nice to have, p,s wunderful video.

Once upon a time if you had a Fox chopper especially a 6600 or 6650 you were the big enchilada around your area. But Fox simply faded away like Papec, Owatonna and others.

I wonder what that little song is called at

Now I know why the front unloader silage box was invented. I can't imagine standing there with a rake and pulling out crop

If one corn harvester works great think what 20 of them can do

Blowing dry hay into the mow and you better have some masks available for unloading, if you like your lungs.

Man, the auto-steer really sucks on these models