Fox Chopper

Can I ask a question here on a FOX Chopper that has a hay head and a 3 row cornhead?  Wanting to know where I can inquire on value? 

Edited by Fairlady - 31 May 2020 at 9:53am

Pictures?

Ok. I'm trying to find someone, but don't know where to start.  Thanks!

The fox chopper. My dad bought a pull behind one for filling silo. He had more problems than he wanted with it. Just always had some issues with knives. Pipeline thing: Yes my dad put in a stainless system in about 1970. He loved not carrying tons of milk!

I had one of the last ones made.  6V71 Detroit diesel, a pretty good machine actually, just old hard to get parts for.  But rest assured, when you went into a corn field with intent to harvest, you better have a bunch of wagons and capable people to push the blower at the silo hard!  She would fill a wagon in three and a half minutes.  I kind of miss running it, It put a smile on my face every day i ran it, but I was always sitting on the edge of my seat for fear it flew apart, sold it t an auction for 8500 I think 4 or 5 years ago

Well, yields were only 100 BPA back then...…….

I enjoyed watching them fill silo when I was very young. The neighbor usually brought in an old Farmall F20 to belt up to the AC blower. Wagons were false gate type with the gate advanced by a little electric motor that they attached to a steel shaft with cables wrapped on it to make a sort of winch. Someone would use a fork to rake the silage somewhat evenly into the conveyor that fed the blower.
That stuff was all gone by the time I started working around the farms in the neighborhood. Replaced by modern Gehl PTO blower and side unloader wagons, also Gehl. The chopper was Fox pull behind, I think we had some other brand for green chop hay. The Fox must have worked OK, it was replaced by a newer one at some point.
I think most of us were glad when silo filling season came around because it usually marked the end of a very long, hot season of hay baling. The weather was usually pleasant and lots of seat time on the tractor instead of handling bales.

Edited by Rick of HopeIN - 29 May 2020 at 9:06am

Here in my part of Indiana I think you would be lucky to sell it for $1800, But I sure like the looks of it. We just don't fill silo's anymore

I really like it too, but agree with Steve's comments regarding price - most of the Midwest is in that boat. It would need to go to someone who likes it as a novelty and has the room to store it (I wish I had the room).

We never had a SP model, but had Custom 90 and 3000 models. Both were really good machines - no real trouble, just keep the knives sharpened. In our area of dairy country, Fox was pretty much viewed as the gold standard.

Edited by GreenOrange - 29 May 2020 at 11:46am

If I remember correctly, those Fox choppers, were around 125 to 135 Hp.

I know Dad's was the Continental Gas. He had the 2 row head on it. Then in 73, he went to a Field Queen with the 3160, and a three row head.

Edited by bigal121892 - 29 May 2020 at 7:31pm

Worked for a neighbor years ago,(‘83-‘85) that had one of those in gas version, hay head was totally shot. Used with 2 row corn head to just ‘open the fields’. Once around the field, and on trip thru the center on all the corn fields. The rest was chopped with a Papec pull behind a Case 1175, or the Case 1030 Comfort King.