Time to revisit Graf ...

[WiltonRanch]

The odd farm I’ve seen in this area gather chaff and dump it in piles as it fills up. They just let the cows mill through it in the winter. It’d be a bigger job to collect and move it as it’s so light and bulky. Better off to bale it all together with straw and tub grind it, that is if there’s enough to bale.

The poverty box. Redekop used to build the blower and wagon. Had a blower on last combine. Put the chaff on top of the straw. Made reasonable feed with supplemented grain and hay. Blower was a pain in the arse. At least ours was wore out and constantly plugging. Some guys were pulling high dumps and dumping into a truck with sileage racks. Dumped in piles at the feed yard, watered, ammoniated, and covered. Bumped up protein and made a decent feed.

[Old Cowzilla]

Did the McLeod System ever get much traction?

Looks like an amazing idea for a mixed operation.

Neighbor tried that machine one season it was built to light lots of breakdowns and downtime. Idea was good but product not so much. Went back to regular combine next season. If he couldn't make that machine work I don't anybody in the area that could.

[WiltonRanch]

From what I understood of the McLeod harvester was that the cleaner which separated the graf didn’t do much more than a combine shoe. A wasted opportunity to clean down to export standards and keep all the nasty weeds off the fields. Now I see redekop is building the weed seed smasher but cost is nuts.