Today I have been thinking a lot about these Ensilage Choppers, I am pretty sure there was a very nice original one at Dome Valley sitting out the back of the building when we had the Massey Spring Meeting there about 2005, more photo's I need to dig out now, but I just can't picture it in my mind when we went back for the auction in 2007, ort maybe I was just blinded by everything else going on.
Also I seem to now recall seeing one at George and Barb Smyth's auction in Canada more recently, think it was sitting inside the barn with some of the other implements, I have checked my photos of that trip and didn't take a photo of it, if I am correct and anyone else has a photo please post away.
Also I was saddened to learn this winter of a Farm Museum in Yorkshire recently sending one of these machines to the scrap yard, it's thought the machine worked locally and no doubt gifted to the museum a few years ago, its a shame to think such a rare machine fell victim of the recent high scrap prices and now its gone forever.
The times we hear this about museums not taking care of the artefacts which were so generously donated to them from caring owners who looked after them when their working life was over. This old iron is much better cared for in the hands of private enthusiastic individual collectors, who not only preserve and restore them for others to see, some also enjoy using them occasionally for the job they were built to do.
There would of been a feed elevator there for you John, if only someone had got to it before it met it's fate of possibly going to China.
Here are a few more pictures from last Saturday.
Malcolm.