How Does It Work

[mjarrels]

Just watching my dairy farm neighbor chop grass... fills a large tripple axel wagon and unhitches... backs the chopper to another tripple axel wagon and continues to chop... all without getting out of the cab! Some sort of auto hitch system?

mark

 

[Birdhunter1]

Could be an automatic pick up hitch. They make a hitch that you never have to get off the tractor to couple wagons and such for my Ford 3910 but I have never actually seen it (saw a few pages on it in my owners manual).
I am assuming this is a self propelled chopper and not a chopper pulled behind a tractor?

The easiest way to find out is go over and ask him!

 

[patrick_g]

Oh no no no, don't ask... let's all speculate!

It is more fun to argue and speculate on the number of angels dancing on the head of a pin that to use a loupe or microscope and count them.

Pat

 

[Cacinok]

i, for one, like to argue.

 

[texasjohn]

I think he's an illegal alien.... you know how porus our space borders are... a real alien deep under cover... with kinetic motive powers... he's just like Yoda, he's one with the Force of Nature and doesn't try to Farm, he just Does

 

[mjarrels]

Chopper pulled behind a large JD cab tractor... no jocking around when backing up... just backs up to another wagon, hitches and goes... takes about a minute. Keeps three wagons in the field at once. Long rig with tractor, chopper and wagon!

mark

 

[jdbower]

The chopper is actually powered by a flock of highly specialized squirrels. The gerbil overlord commands a small number of them to hitch and unhitch the trailer - you'll notice that the chopper slows down slightly here.

Either that or maybe a remote operated hitch, perhaps controlled by the 3-point arms or a dedicated hydraulic control depending on how the chopper is mounted?

 

[TiminMN]

I use agri speed hitches for grain wagon. When your move 30+ wagons a day it saves a lot of time and steps on and off a tractor.

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[andrewj]

i, for one, like to argue.

I for one, could sense the angst in the thread and was drawn like a moth to the flame...I could feel it was completely devoid of microscopes, or loupes, whatever a loupe is, and so I came, as it is my nature. And now, for my speculation, I submit to you that it is hydraulic in nature, operates from a remote, and further, that it is John Deere Green, as all good equipment is.

 

[Brad_Blazer]

I use agri speed hitches for grain wagon. When your move 30+ wagons a day it saves a lot of time and steps on and off a tractor.

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Very cool invention!
The dairy farmer I worked for back in the day, Jack Wegner, didn't have that but he did have the ability to back up the tractor + chopper + chopper box (wagon gear) INDEFINITELY. I saw him do it in the field for 200' to pick up the end of a windrow. I also saw him back a wagon into the loft uphill with a full size pickup with topper. I never saw him pull forward to straighten it out. I can back trailers all day long but to this day I can't back a wagon worth !@#.
I think Jack might be an alien.

 

[DieselPower]

Those extra pivot point's will get you every time.