3rdgenplumber
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I recently bought an old farm that hasn’t been farmed in years but this is one the things here and I was curious if anybody knew some info about it.
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it is a feed chopper made to chop corn stalks for feed. The description is:
Description A cutting box for corn that has a large metal wheel with two blades and a metal box with No. 3 molded onto it on a wooden stand. The wooden components are painted red, the metal components are painted green. It has Peter Hamilton Mfg Co. Peterboro, Ont." stenciled onto the shoot with black paint. "KEEP SCREW AND WHEELS WELL OILED" is printed on one side of the metal box.
Description A cutting box for corn that has a large metal wheel with two blades and a metal box with No. 3 molded onto it on a wooden stand. The wooden components are painted red, the metal components are painted green. It has Peter Hamilton Mfg Co. Peterboro, Ont." stenciled onto the shoot with black paint. "KEEP SCREW AND WHEELS WELL OILED" is printed on one side of the metal box.
Farmer J.
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Yes, it's a chaff cutter. You feed hay or straw in to it between the toothed rollers and the blades in the wheel cut it in to short lengths, to make it more digestible when mixed in to the animals feed.
Just google 'chaff cutter' or see them on you tube.
Just google 'chaff cutter' or see them on you tube.
Roberts210
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It's a chopper for cane or sorghum. The cogged rollers push the stuff forward so the blades on the large wheel can chop it up. I can't quite tell, but it might need two people to operate--one to turn the chopper wheel, and the other to turn the cogged rollers. From the pictures, I can't quite tell if the chopper wheel turns the cogged rollers also.