[AT] was Potato diggers - Slight variation now swap list

[Lew Best]

Hey guys

I won't post this but once (not a spammer) but I have a yahoo list
called homestead_small_farming_exchange.  It was set up for the purpose
of buy sell trade of this type of thing.  I'd love to see it get much
more active than it is!  Please feel free to join & post your "for sale"
items or "heart's desires" there.  I do moderate the first few posts so
it may take a little while for posts to show up.  Home page link is  
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/homestead_small_farming_exchange 

Lew


> I am generally on the lookout for various machines, but 
the problem 
> is:  where I can I find them?  I used to be able to find 
some at auctions, 
> however the auctions that have the equipment I need have 
pretty much run 
> their course and auctions now are mostly large farm 
auctions.  Our local 
> machinery dealers have refused for quite a while to take 
any of this small 
> type of equipment on trade


<<snip>



> At the present time I am looking for a flail chopper.  
For those not 
> familiar, they were a machine 5-ft. wide that cut hay 
with swinging flails, 
> threw it into an auger, which in turn augered it into a 
set of knives which 
> recut the hay then blew it into a wagon to feed the 
cattle on a daily 
> basis.  I do not have livestock, but on my limited 
acreage such a machine 
> would do a good job of cutting up the cornstalks so they 
wouldn't pug my 
> plow.  

<<snip>>

	Son Scott bought a regular Brady stalk chopper (I think it 
was called a 4 row) at auction a year or so ago and started 
to fix it up but we are switching to all hay and horse 
pasture. Right now I don't plan to plant any corn this 
year. I think it is missing one half of the PTO shaft and 
it needs a smallish (famous last words) repair to one end 
of one shaft where a drive pully mounts on it (pulley loose 
on shaft). The chopper probably had paint on it at one 
time...   ;-)
	Scott just walked in and I asked him if he wanted to sell 
it and how much. He shrugged and said $50.
It is this type but not as wide and has less paint (copy 
and paste):<<snip>>
 

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