Combine Snowblower Handles Big Drifts Easily

Combine Snowblower Handles Big Drifts Easily COMBINES Conversions When a December storm dropped more than a foot of snow and winds piled up into 5-ft drifts in Zearing Iowa Don Peck wasn t worried He was ready with his powerful homemade combine snowblower Now in its 13th year of use the three years he spent building it were well worth it Peck says I wanted something big with a cab he explains The Deere 45 combine I started with was perfect Peck removed everything behind the cab and narrowed the combine to 7 ft wide He turned the motor 90-degrees and added weights in the back He used the combine s 26-in wheels on front and its smaller ones on back He installed power steering a New Holland hydrostat a Deere 3-pt hitch and the hydraulic system from a Cockshutt tractor to power a used 80 McCormick snowblower This way I ve got the snowblower in front of me I sit way up in the cab to see everything Peck says He engages the blower with the combine s original levers inside the cab He can also move the blower up and down and direct the blower spout s direction His homemade snowblower is the same length as a tractor and easy to maneuver with good traction from the big tires He notes that he left the serial tag on his creation to show skeptics that it really did start out as a combine Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Don Peck 212 North Elm Zearing Iowa 50278 ph 641 487-7306; tractormanpeck@gmail com

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