Gleaner A modifcation
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Topic: Gleaner A modifcation
Posted By: jaybmiller
Subject: Gleaner A modifcation
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 6:58am
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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 !!
------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
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Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 7:06am
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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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Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 7:47am
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Check out Farm Show Magazine. Thats where I see it it done ------------- Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity" 1968 D15D,1962 D19D Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date 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.
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2010 at 8:18am
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Here is an old post about a green one. http://www.ytmag.com/ttalk/messages/405451.html - http://www.ytmag.com/ttalk/messages/405451.html Or this red one. http://antiquetractorsforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=127528 - http://antiquetractorsforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=127528 ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Andrew
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2010 at 5:24pm
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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 |
Posted By: Dale
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2010 at 7:22pm
| 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. |