Old John Deere machinery is just beautiful, if you have grown farming you can get to smell this kind of videos.

I just love the sound of a forage harvester brings back so many memories

My kind of equipment Anything newer then the early 90s is getting fancier then I need

what an awesome classic JD outfit. This farmer is a good operator and taken great care of the JD equipment. Always hated those deere pto's in that era...just miserable to hook & unhook. Pretty big price tags for the '80s. My family had bought a new 3940 in 1983 or 4 and I remember coming across the paper work and I almost think they paid 24k for it back then and a 2 row corn head. Did you know Halpins sold a bunch of new 716A forage wagons to Kodak back in the '80s? They used them to handle film scraps.

Always enjoy watching forage harvesters.

That was a big set up when it was new. The chipper was huge and the wagon was some of the largest available

I know this farm. Thats so cool you was filming in my area!

Great video

We had one of those wagons on our farm in Washburn, Mo. in the late 70s. It was teamed with a pull-type John Deere forage harvester pulled by a John Deere 4230 tractor.

Corn chopping is great😉👍I've never heard of someone who had a chopper box like that in my area, I think they weren't common in eastern germany back in the day.

Never seen one chopper box like that here in the Netherlands probably because we only do silage in bunks but we have our own 5820 chopper since begin 2023 with a grass pick up and a 6 row (chain)corn head we plan on always chopping corn and grass with it.we have the only one in our area since most farmers call the contractor with their big claas chopper I do know that there’s more jd chopper,s here but that’s to the southeast part of the Netherlands.

So great grass cating mashin

I love these old school machines, and seeing them in action is just flat out great.

Thank you so much for posting older John Deere forage harvesters in action! Love them so much, the smell the sound and the hole series 5000! Sadly in germany there are no JD 716A chopper boxes (they got no over run brakes and that is illegaly for use on the road). Love these chopper boxes too, knowing they not good to the choppers' transmission. Go on filming the oldtimers, Thank you BTP!👍

Excellent forage harvester video once again big T 👍👍👍 Can't say I've saw a JD forage wagon around here...

Splendid review. Thank You

My brother still runs 3 of those wagons. Always loved seeing those choppers running around western New York, all 4wd.

I have seen 5820 choppers in the United Kingdom but never the forage box here we tend to use end tip silage trailers although there is a move to non tipping ejection trailers which are more stable unloading when high sided bodies are fitted and I have seen washed out rear discharge manure spreaders used as well. Typical crops that are chopped in the UK are grass ,maize(corn)whole crop cereals as well as modified machines cut and chop 2-3yr old willow trees for biomass fuel

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Good video.

Did a lot of farming in the 90s with that type of forage wagon. Unloaded in to silos and bags .

Sure a cool chopping combo

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There has never been a better self-unloading wagon built than the 716A as far as I'm concerned. I know lots of farmers who would agree with me. I know of several farms that still use them. One farm near me runs a whole fleet of them behind a Deere 6650 SPFH. I've filled lots of them with our pull type 3970 behind a 4020 and (later on) a 7410. I've also run a lot of corn through our neighbor's 5830 4WD when we used to help them chop. Great memories! Now my brothers run a 7480 and trucks on our farm. Way more productive and comfortable to operate but that old stuff is still awesome!!

I always thought those John Deere chuck wagons were beautiful. We had a big Dion being our newest along with a Badger and the oldest was a Papec

How do the become separated from all the stalk material and husk material?🙂🇺🇲

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Looks like a nice operation, not an army.

Why does it seem that every forage harvest video I see, they wait until the corn is about half dead before chopping. I'd've figured that they would chop when it is still totally green. Also, the head on the SPFH, can it be used for other crops, or is it corn only??

Fantastic sound coming from that harvester

Check out Kip Siegler farming ,he and his family have an older sp jd chopper and at least 10 or 13 716A chopper boxes.

those older choppers will still bring half of new money at auction, i'm starting to restore my NewHolland Sperry/Rand 880 pull type

I live in England 🇬🇧 middle of the country right on the east coast and I not seen them silage carts

I'm sure there would have never been anything like that here in Northern Ireland. At that time it would have been grass only, Maize is a fairly recent thing here and with our wet conditions something with small wheels like that would sink up to it's axles and puts no drawbar weight onto the tractor. Also with small farms and narrow roads that would have been very clumsy and unmanouverable.

Was 1989 the last year Deere offered forage wagons?

That's a really expensive machine!

Harvester is in immaculate condition. Nice video