Jesus. I wish this level of detail was what all news was like. Very clear and it didn't treat the viewers like idiots. Seriously the best story I have seen.
I love how he talks about this machine as if building it was as natural as riding a bike. Guys like this can build whatever they need out of what they have lying around. Gotta respect that. Job well done.
I agree with you. Our sociopathic overlords in the corporate sector would not be able to find a use for a guy like this because he likely cannot write code nor use data manipulation software like minitab for example. They would say a guy like this is maybe only useful as a mechanic and offer him $21 an hour to work on something. I say THEY are useless, inept, and have led the entire western hemisphere down the drain. On top of that, they shoved their new found flavor of Marxism up our ass. It's time to fight back people.
Nice to see a town that is frugal with their money, and is willing to use old equipment that is still in good working condition rather than having to waste money on the latest and greatest new crap that hits the market.
the latest and greatest is often in the shop due to parts and in there longer due to parts availability... where as the old iron will work and work till it blows up, then you can fix it for cheap because parts are everywhere.
I think it's great when someone has the ability to take something that was built for one job and turn around and rebuild it to do another. That takes a lot of talent.
WoW. More Saskatchewan genius !. Am from there, and when i noticed the video, on UA-cam, knew right away, BY THE ELEVATORS in the picture; this is from Sask. ! Good boy, PF Report !
It WAS A COMBINE-IH 915. The separator and shoe was removed and frame cut. The engine was turned 90 degrees and lowered to new frame from truck. It was remodeled and resembles a swathed but started out as a very common 915.
I would think a self propelled chopper would be a better choice, but who knows. I think cost is probably the chief factor, if cost gets too high, well, then you're getting to the range of just buying something already built.
Growing up 50 yrs ago, in the long Ohio winters, the neighbor farmers had the same savy & innovative methods of dealing w/common everyday needs. Most were uneducated, but if they could get there hands on raw materials and introduce a power source - electricity, a gas or diesel engine, and some hydrolic power, it was WWII ingenuity made to order. In this country, beginning w/our farmers of the 18th century, necessity has always been the mother of invention. You give the right people a purpose & resources/raw materials, you'll see a man glow & come to life before your very eyes - THAT'S what is sorely missing in our society. The world doesn't totally revolve around computers, printers, "a cloud" or %$#@ phones, when meeting simple human needs... They should put this man on the city board, or at least pay him as a annual consultant to take advantage of his skill set for the community. The detrimental and common mistake today is that everyone needs to be "qualified/educated" and well-healed to hold vital positions in cities/towns pertaining to infrastructure policy and procedures.
"Kevin Ford a long time employee of the town of Kelvington, Saskatchewan, Canada turned a 915 International combine into a SNOW BLOWER" Thor you are cancer, shut up.
In the early Eighties, I saw a similar setup using a New Idea Uni Harvestor, with a mounted Snowblower. I thought this was one of those, when I first saw the video
Pretty ingenious. With a 9 series combine with 3 or 400 more hp it could handle a 5 ft wider head and throw a double wide snow chute. Just more expensive to clear the street faster with beefier components. Need a clutch for chains hidden in the snow.
My town owns a bidirectional tractor and then mounts the blower on it in winter, does the same thing. Didn’t have to build anything. But still use it for loader work, Rough cut mowing, street sweeping, etc
I think you missed the part where he explained that the engine used to be up on top of the machine, and 90 degrees to the machine frame. During the modification he put the engine where it is, behind the cab, and turned it 90 degrees to be parallel with the frame. To do that he said that he cut out much of the combine frame behind the cab (because it wasn't heavy enough) and replaced it with the rails of a heavy truck frame.
That's a good use for an old, mostly obsolete, but still good running piece of equipment. I imagine it would be do-able on a number of different makes, although sometimes on the older stuff they were built more simple and that can be a benefit when it comes time to try to modify it. I used to see this type of thing once in a while where people used those old UNI power units, which was likely easier, but none of them had as big a blower mounted on. I don't think the UNI would have enough power. Takes a lot of juice to run a blower that wide with a truck chute on it. My small town in WI paid $$$ for a blower unit that mounts on the front of the Volvo I90 payloader and runs off hyd. power. I think my favorite part of this is he used a 540 PTO unit and fabbed up a 3 point. This means the blower unit could easily be removed, mounted onto any tractor with a 3pt, but also that the combine machine without the blower is basically a power unit they could mount pretty well any 3pt/PTO powered equipment on. For instance, wood chipper. This is an important design point because the machine is now more modular, but also if the blower gets to worn out, they can put any 3 point mounted snow blower they can come across onto this power unit. That lends to longevity, and also more $$ saving down the road. I was skeptical at first that so much fab work would have a desirable result. But given the price of older combines, and the fact most of the fab work was junkyard parts, this was probably a very economical conversion(provided he didn't bill the city 20 grand for his time) and would be a reasonable solution for many small townships. The time savings of blowing snow to remove from a street(after plowing it all to the center) vs "scooping" with a payloader or backhoe is legit.
move to saskatoon and operate our city you HAVE my vote good to see repurposing equipment instead of pissing away tax payer dollars and give yourself a raise YOU deserve it ! GREAT PIECE OF EQUIPMENT
I'd imagine it wouldn't be too hard to add an auxiliary heater to it. If that's the same motor International used in some trucks, then all they would have to do is connect it to the engines original heater hose outlets.
You also could build a snowblower out of a old self-propelled Haybine they look just like a combine and you wouldn’t have to change anything in the back half of the machine I wouldn’t think😊
The video of the guy who did the same thing to his Gleaner combine had a shorter through the snow quite a distance, so the longer shoot, must really slow it down.
I'm not getting into the "It's not a combine" pissing contest, I just want to know if come summertime it can do anything else, or is it strictly a snowblower from here on out ? It would be awesome if it could function as something productive in the summer AND still be a snowblower in the winter.
i dont know, it could probably be easily modified to be able to swath as well as blow snow. I mean its basically a swather now, with a 3 point hitch on the front.
Hello, all. Here in Alberta, ( the ' tank farm ' town) has yearly ' fair '. They have what is called. '' combine crunch '' . Painted up, old RUNNING COMBINES, are in a bang, bang smash-up derby. i cannot understand, fully ' grown up ' people, playing a childish, destructive game, in such an UNTHANKFULL, ' lost ' generation. (too much money, i suppose = spoiled rich old people ). WHERE AS, IN SASKATCHEWAN, where i was born/raised, HAS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT, BUT LOGICAL AND PRACTICAL ' MIND ' SET. insanity, knows No human bounds.
Here in California, he’d be fired for altering an agricultural piece of equipment and sued for non-compliance of the strict air resources board’s whimsical view of man caused global warming.
Dozer1642 I'm sure he would've done so with in the compliance of liberalfornia. If it's to save money, states would be all for it. This conversion definitely cost less than a brand new piece of farm equipment, or even a front loader with a heavy ass snowblower. But if your state is that bad, I feel Trump needs to make your state great again.
zinderkugel us still holding onto the Russia narrative that CNN forced down your throat for four years? Obama, Biden and Hillary have stronger ties to Russia than Trump does. Sorry you have to try to treat your TDS for another four years. Idiot.
"We do not half appreciate the benefits to the race that spring from honest dullness. The clever people are the ruination of everything." ... 250k views; < than 1% "likes" w/even fewer comments is a sad indictment. I'd insert "the highly educated and well healed" for clever...
did you not listen to the video?? He took an old 915 IH COMBINE and ripped out the combine parts like the hopper, feeder house, sieves and Others and moved the engine to behind the cab instead of beside like on the 915 COMBINE. He then ran a PTO driveline from the transmission to the front to power the snowblower. That was all explained in the video.
Larry Mulalley did you not listen to the video?? He took an old 915 IH COMBINE and ripped out the combine parts like the hopper, feeder house, sieves and Others and moved the engine to behind the cab instead of beside like on the 915 COMBINE. He then ran a PTO driveline from the transmission to the front to power the snowblower. That was all explained in the video. Also in the "lower 48" a combine and swather are the same in Canada.
Tyler's farm sim Channel it is not a swather, it is a combine! IH 915 to be exact. If you would listen to the video it states that he took all the combine parts off and made a new frame and used other parts from other tractors and such. It used to be a combine but is now a snowblower.
Jesus. I wish this level of detail was what all news was like. Very clear and it didn't treat the viewers like idiots. Seriously the best story I have seen.
I love how he talks about this machine as if building it was as natural as riding a bike. Guys like this can build whatever they need out of what they have lying around. Gotta respect that. Job well done.
Yes agree indeed. Guys like that are getting fewer and fewer
Gonna build one like that. Excellent idea. I’ll save ur contact info in case I need more info buddy
I agree with you. Our sociopathic overlords in the corporate sector would not be able to find a use for a guy like this because he likely cannot write code nor use data manipulation software like minitab for example. They would say a guy like this is maybe only useful as a mechanic and offer him $21 an hour to work on something. I say THEY are useless, inept, and have led the entire western hemisphere down the drain. On top of that, they shoved their new found flavor of Marxism up our ass. It's time to fight back people.
Nice to see a town that is frugal with their money, and is willing to use old equipment that is still in good working condition rather than having to waste money on the latest and greatest new crap that hits the market.
So true and half the time the "latest and greatest" isnt so great
the latest and greatest is often in the shop due to parts and in there longer due to parts availability... where as the old iron will work and work till it blows up, then you can fix it for cheap because parts are everywhere.
this man is a genius, his explanation of the process is incredibly simple and important.
I think it's great when someone has the ability to take something that was built for one job and turn around and rebuild it to do another. That takes a lot of talent.
It’s a gift. 😁
These guys just amaze me. Give them a welder, some old machines, and a pile of scrap metal and they can make just about anything.
Well done. Most effective way to utilize old equipment. Just because it's old doesn't mean it no good.
Great Video
that dude saved that town an assload of money on a blower those things are hella exspencive !! great work sir. !!!!
WoW. More Saskatchewan genius !. Am from there, and when i noticed the video, on UA-cam, knew right away, BY THE ELEVATORS in the picture; this is from Sask. ! Good boy, PF Report !
It WAS A COMBINE-IH 915. The separator and shoe was removed and frame cut. The engine was turned 90 degrees and lowered to new frame from truck. It was remodeled and resembles a swathed but started out as a very common 915.
HUSTON FARMS est 1842 i wish people could actually LISTEN to the video and they would actually understand.
I was about to say some ignorant shit but then decided to wait and watch the video. It certainly is a combine.
Great use for a retired machine. Plus a heater and blowers and better lights. Excellent 👍
Pure genius . I've often wondered if a combine could be adapted to blow snow .
I would think a self propelled chopper would be a better choice, but who knows. I think cost is probably the chief factor, if cost gets too high, well, then you're getting to the range of just buying something already built.
Honestly this is so well thought out. Its a vary ingenious re-use of older equipement and fabrication.
That's the best combine mod I have ever seen and it works great.
We need a version of Monster Garage for farmers!
Really neat conversion ! Best use of a 915 I've ever seen !
Ingenuity repurposing an old combine. Very cool!
Very ingenious and well thought out. A well balanced machine.
Growing up 50 yrs ago, in the long Ohio winters, the neighbor farmers had the same savy & innovative methods of dealing w/common everyday needs. Most were uneducated, but if they could get there hands on raw materials and introduce a power source - electricity, a gas or diesel engine, and some hydrolic power, it was WWII ingenuity made to order. In this country, beginning w/our farmers of the 18th century, necessity has always been the mother of invention. You give the right people a purpose & resources/raw materials, you'll see a man glow & come to life before your very eyes - THAT'S what is sorely missing in our society. The world doesn't totally revolve around computers, printers, "a cloud" or %$#@ phones, when meeting simple human needs...
They should put this man on the city board, or at least pay him as a annual consultant to take advantage of his skill set for the community. The detrimental and common mistake today is that everyone needs to be "qualified/educated" and well-healed to hold vital positions in cities/towns pertaining to infrastructure policy and procedures.
Loved the Prairie Farm Report
Very nice, great way to re furbish an old combine.
"Kevin Ford a long time employee of the town of Kelvington, Saskatchewan, Canada turned a 915 International combine into a SNOW BLOWER"
Thor you are cancer, shut up.
I thought it was a swather but he's done a huge amount of work on it. Had me fooled.
Ben "well if you don't respect your elders, ill teach you to respect your betters"
Great idea, and these old combines can be bought in most cases for scrap value, so it wouldnt cost a fortune to build one.
In the early Eighties, I saw a similar setup using a New Idea Uni Harvestor, with a mounted Snowblower. I thought this was one of those, when I first saw the video
New Idea sold a snow blower for the Uni System. But they never seemed to put enough of reliable power in them
Pretty ingenious. With a 9 series combine with 3 or 400 more hp it could handle a 5 ft wider head and throw a double wide snow chute. Just more expensive to clear the street faster with beefier components. Need a clutch for chains hidden in the snow.
Engine is not a 404, it is a 400 series IH motor (414ci). 404 was a John Deere engine...
thumbs up! wish there were more smart people like you on this planet
My town owns a bidirectional tractor and then mounts the blower on it in winter, does the same thing. Didn’t have to build anything. But still use it for loader work, Rough cut mowing, street sweeping, etc
I always liked the bi directional tractors. I don't think they were utilized or marketed well enough
it looks more like a forage harvester, combines usually have the engine on top next to the grain bin (also absent) and so is the threshing equipment
I think you missed the part where he explained that the engine used to be up on top of the machine, and 90 degrees to the machine frame. During the modification he put the engine where it is, behind the cab, and turned it 90 degrees to be parallel with the frame. To do that he said that he cut out much of the combine frame behind the cab (because it wasn't heavy enough) and replaced it with the rails of a heavy truck frame.
There is a little fan mounted in the cab. Goes to show that even in the dead of winter a Canadian can think it's still too warm. 😆
That's probably for blowing heat at the windshield so it doesn't fog up
That's a good use for an old, mostly obsolete, but still good running piece of equipment. I imagine it would be do-able on a number of different makes, although sometimes on the older stuff they were built more simple and that can be a benefit when it comes time to try to modify it. I used to see this type of thing once in a while where people used those old UNI power units, which was likely easier, but none of them had as big a blower mounted on. I don't think the UNI would have enough power. Takes a lot of juice to run a blower that wide with a truck chute on it. My small town in WI paid $$$ for a blower unit that mounts on the front of the Volvo I90 payloader and runs off hyd. power.
I think my favorite part of this is he used a 540 PTO unit and fabbed up a 3 point. This means the blower unit could easily be removed, mounted onto any tractor with a 3pt, but also that the combine machine without the blower is basically a power unit they could mount pretty well any 3pt/PTO powered equipment on. For instance, wood chipper. This is an important design point because the machine is now more modular, but also if the blower gets to worn out, they can put any 3 point mounted snow blower they can come across onto this power unit. That lends to longevity, and also more $$ saving down the road.
I was skeptical at first that so much fab work would have a desirable result. But given the price of older combines, and the fact most of the fab work was junkyard parts, this was probably a very economical conversion(provided he didn't bill the city 20 grand for his time) and would be a reasonable solution for many small townships. The time savings of blowing snow to remove from a street(after plowing it all to the center) vs "scooping" with a payloader or backhoe is legit.
Awesome. That man knows his stuff.
move to saskatoon and operate our city you HAVE my vote good to see repurposing equipment instead of pissing away tax payer dollars and give yourself a raise YOU deserve it ! GREAT PIECE OF EQUIPMENT
Farm Fixed. GENIUS !
excellent video excellent build thanks for posting
yeah, we've been doing that in Winkler for a few years now
Ingenious at its finest
Nice idea!! does it have any down pressure, that would make it able to get under ice and remove it also??? Nice choice of old combines... 🙂👍
I'd be really impressed if they modified a snowblower to harvest crops!
That's kinda what a harvester is
Great job. Heater inside or not? Not likely since that would require Defroster and wipers etc.
I'd imagine it wouldn't be too hard to add an auxiliary heater to it. If that's the same motor International used in some trucks, then all they would have to do is connect it to the engines original heater hose outlets.
Combine likely has a heater, though wipers may be iffy
Lol herb Hallman is literally a family friend of mine and goes to my church
Lucky you! Smart man
We've been converting Owatonna swathers into blowers for year's down here in mn dontchaknow?
there ya go, if you have something old you can always make something new
Excellent job love it
I always thought a Swather chassis made with interchangeable swathing head and snow blower
Find a need , fill a need . 👍🇺🇸
Good day from Ontario. So does he still have & use it. Thanks
Excellent job
If he's feeling frisky and wants more versatile chute, he could build one based off of Zaugg's design which uses multiple linked deflectors.
You also could build a snowblower out of a old self-propelled Haybine they look just like a combine and you wouldn’t have to change anything in the back half of the machine I wouldn’t think😊
Nice job.nice unit
Is the case drop box running direct off the engine crankshaft
Reminds me of the Top Gear Showbine (UK)
yes thus WAS a combine
That's awesome🎉🎉🎉
Like the way he thinks….
He and I would have a lot to conversate. And not Just because
He seems to b a Case IH man. 😁
Great demo vid!
Ingenious!
Ah yes...prairie farm report guy. I knew that voice was familiar
Nicely done however, it’s going to take quite a bit of time to change the back this fall for harvesting.
Very good machine its great
www.harvestsalvage.ca/915_IH_combine2.JPG i
It definitely is a combine that has been modified with truck frame as the video says.
Yes there was a 715 ,815 and 915 many of them in left out here
The video of the guy who did the same thing to his Gleaner combine had a shorter through the snow quite a distance, so the longer shoot, must really slow it down.
Canadian ingenuity saving taxpayers money. Excellent. I hope he is paid well for his time.
Doesn't take long to fill up that dump truck with that machine, I wonder how far they have to go to dump it.
He obviously watches Top Gear
So they turned a farm thing into a snow thing?
Umm, yeah. Some of the dumb farmers have been re-purposing stuff for the last, oh, 100 years. Them smart folk are just figuring it out
In the UK, our councils would happily pay £250,000 for a snowblower that only gets used for 2 weeks a year
Makes the 6.6 work a bit 😂
I'm not getting into the "It's not a combine" pissing contest, I just want to know if come summertime it can do anything else, or is it strictly a snowblower from here on out ? It would be awesome if it could function as something productive in the summer AND still be a snowblower in the winter.
It will only ever be a snowblower from now on
i dont know, it could probably be easily modified to be able to swath as well as blow snow. I mean its basically a swather now, with a 3 point hitch on the front.
Here in Stupidtown,we call it a post- hole digger not a combine.
No windshield wiper ? Hmmmm
Clarkson!!!
Beaut and a bonnie!
He got the idea from top gear
Its a dt414 at least
Hello, all. Here in Alberta, ( the ' tank farm ' town) has yearly ' fair '. They have what is called. '' combine crunch '' . Painted up, old RUNNING COMBINES, are in a bang, bang smash-up derby. i cannot understand, fully ' grown up ' people, playing a childish, destructive game, in such an UNTHANKFULL, ' lost ' generation. (too much money, i suppose = spoiled rich old people ). WHERE AS, IN SASKATCHEWAN, where i was born/raised, HAS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT, BUT LOGICAL AND PRACTICAL ' MIND ' SET. insanity, knows No human bounds.
( i create shop stuff; made a belt sander from old table saw motor, and skateboard wheel for tracking. works awesom)
Just as though it had been designed for the job.
That's is alot of work to mod it.
Well if herb recommends it....you know its legit!
Ryan Fisher yea herb really knows his stuff
pete pependoski Every town needs a Herb! Proof old guys rule! I hope to be one someday
Ive hauled many a load of oats out of that elevator
I had the same idea,but I called mine a snowbine.
Here in California, he’d be fired for altering an agricultural piece of equipment and sued for non-compliance of the strict air resources board’s whimsical view of man caused global warming.
Dozer1642 I'm sure he would've done so with in the compliance of liberalfornia. If it's to save money, states would be all for it. This conversion definitely cost less than a brand new piece of farm equipment, or even a front loader with a heavy ass snowblower. But if your state is that bad, I feel Trump needs to make your state great again.
Dozer 1642 GO AHEAD AND TAKE TRUMP AND YOURSELF TO PUTIN , YOUR THE OTHER ND OF AMERICANS THAT RUSSIA NEEDS.
zinderkugel us still holding onto the Russia narrative that CNN forced down your throat for four years? Obama, Biden and Hillary have stronger ties to Russia than Trump does. Sorry you have to try to treat your TDS for another four years. Idiot.
@@dozer1642 well this aged like milk lol
Well it’s commifornia so
It's 414, not 404, and you change the sleeves and pistons it becomes a 466
That is a swather I think
Mower Man gx85 no it is a IH 915 combine, look it up!
top gear did not this first this is a snow blower top gear juset a snow plow not a snow blower
why didnt you reply?
AGAIN, WE DONT NEED GOVT TO TAKE OUR MONEY , WE CAN JUST DO IT ON OUR OWN
that looks like a forage harvester not a combine
It DOES! And blowing into the truck is waay better than into the shoulder of road or people's yards. Genuise!
Just me, or anyone else think he's a dead ringer for Tom Hanks?
Who needs engineers?
AMEN! Most are educated beyond thier intellect!
Should try putting it in a garbage truck. Compacting it...
Good.
Video distribution. Please watch if you like.
"We do not half appreciate the benefits to the race that spring from honest dullness. The clever people are the ruination of everything." ... 250k views; < than 1% "likes" w/even fewer comments is a sad indictment.
I'd insert "the highly educated and well healed" for clever...
Would have been better off starting with a forklift tractor
Not enough HP nor hydrostatic capacity
Sadly this is something that might happen less and less.
Forage harvester ,wheres the combine
did you not listen to the video?? He took an old 915 IH COMBINE and ripped out the combine parts like the hopper, feeder house, sieves and Others and moved the engine to behind the cab instead of beside like on the 915 COMBINE. He then ran a PTO driveline from the transmission to the front to power the snowblower. That was all explained in the video.
Try watching the fucking video before posting a stupid comment!
no its not a combine.... its a snow blower made from combine, tractor, and truck parts
That's not a combine, but nice try. It's a Chopper/Swather.
2500 dollars and change
It's a Swather not a Combine but who cares!
Larry Mulalley i
I guess in Canada it could be called a combine but in the lower 48 its a Swather
He said it was a combine but he put it on a truck frame
Larry Mulalley did you not listen to the video?? He took an old 915 IH COMBINE and ripped out the combine parts like the hopper, feeder house, sieves and Others and moved the engine to behind the cab instead of beside like on the 915 COMBINE. He then ran a PTO driveline from the transmission to the front to power the snowblower. That was all explained in the video. Also in the "lower 48" a combine and swather are the same in Canada.
Fml it was a combine
That is not a combine, and it never was
Search up a 915 international, that's what it used to be, it's a mix of machine but primarily a combine
That ain't a combine. It's a windrower
or what we call a self propelled swather !!
Michael Beerbados it looks like a Massey 885
Cooper Kiichler no
Tyler's farm sim Channel it is not a swather, it is a combine! IH 915 to be exact. If you would listen to the video it states that he took all the combine parts off and made a new frame and used other parts from other tractors and such. It used to be a combine but is now a snowblower.
Did you actually watch the video before commenting?
Top Gear did this first.
Not well.
Mark McLennan they mad a plow not a snowblower
Mark McLennan top gear failed at this
Mark McLennan they did not lol my neighbour made one in 1974 and it's still going