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jaybmiller 
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 Topic: Gleaner A modifcation
Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 6:58am |
Ok guys, trying to 'justify' buying a nice Gleaner with a 10' head. I can't use it on my 'farm' of 1 acre but though gee what if I took the head off and put a snowplow blade there?
Anyone else try this whacky idea?
It'd have great visibilty !! And a nice warm cab unlike my D-14 !!
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FloydKS
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Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 7:06am |
Just leave the head on and maybe the straw spreader would 'throw the snow' to one side....
I have seen something done with an old combine but can't remember what is was now. ?a back hoe? ?a grave digging rig?
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DonDittmar
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Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 7:47am |
Check out Farm Show Magazine. Thats where I see it it done
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 8:13am |
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Find an old Uniharvestor. Then you can simply remove the combine parts and still have the cab. Add a 3 point hitch up front and a PTO and you can switch from the blade to the snowblower when needed.
Edited by CTuckerNWIL - 18 Nov 2010 at 8:14am
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 8:18am |
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Andrew
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Posted: 20 Nov 2010 at 5:24pm |
Hi Jay, long time no "see" (for me anyway). Thanks for asking the
question, and thanks to Charles for the links cause ...
Although it's not Orange, I recently bought an IH615 combine for scrap
price as a source of project parts (I'd like to make a small skidder for
instance). However maybe I can use it for other things while I decide
what to do seeing as how it starts and drives just fine.  I think it'd look good with a plow on the front like this:  cheers, Andrew
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Dale
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Posted: 20 Nov 2010 at 7:22pm |
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Go for it. Its amazing what inventiveness can do.I wish I knew how to post pictures. I bought at an estate auction a self propelled snow blower made from: 1)a massey combine cab/frame/transmission 2) a jd 3130 diesel engine 3) a 1 ton chev 4 wd front end for the steering axle 4) all meshed together with self fabricated sheet metal and a whole lot of genius. It is totally hydrastatic. The builder made it so that it is a 3 range hydro-both forward and reverse. For some reason beyond me, the snow blower is hooked to another 4 speed/with reverse transmission (I have a couple of blower fan speeds that are toooo! fast-I have never used the reverse either). He hooked the chev 4 wd drive to a hydrastatic motor so it's fully hydro and can operate independent of the front drive (at the auction someone had moved a lever the wrong way and when they started it up the drive wheels went one way and the steering wheels went the other). I think alot of folk thought is was broken-it wasn't. The builder/owner was a fellow named Maurice Newton (related to Issac Newton?). Never knew him but daughter talked to me after sale. He was a self taught hydraulic genius. There are more gauges and things on this that he had there for a reason, and most of it is beyond me. His workmanship is impeccable. Can it ever blow snow-like 50 ' in the air and 75' horizontally. Apparently it was written up with pictures in Farm Show. It also came with a fork lift attachment (the home made blower is easily removed from it's quick hitch. I stupidly didn't bid on his fully hydraulic vertical and horizontal rotary hedge trimmer (3 arm fully articulating) that went for about $100. When daughter told me she was hoping it all stayed together I approached the winning bidder but the price had risen 10 fold to $1000. I didn't bite. Sorry for the long winded post-but guys like Maurice deserve the praise even if posthumously.
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