Loader-Mounted Scaffold Made From Combine Head

Loader-Mounted Scaffold Made From Combine Head TRACTORS Loaders 28-4-4 A loader-mounted scaffold built from an old 14-ft. combine header saves a lot of time for Glen Schweppe. "It's very stable and gives us a lot of room to work," says Schweppe, of Syracuse, Neb. He stripped the header down to the frame, removing the reel, auger, and sicklebar. He put a piece of rubber belting on the floor to stand on and used 1 1/2-in. sq. tubing to make a metal railing and runners on the bottom. A bucket-mounted bracket with quick-tach "ears" on top of it is used to hold the scaffold on Schweppe's Deere 7320. "It makes a nice, roomy, low-cost scaffold," says Schweppe. "I've used it to paint our house and quonset building and to work on the gutters. It's fairly lightweight because all that's left is the basic shell. The opening where grain used to feed into the combine is still there, so I can throw trash through the opening into the bucket. "For safety, we position the scaffold so it's almost touching the building, then lock the brakes on the tractor. There's no room to fall down between the scaffold and building," he notes. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Glen Schweppe, 1355 S. 32nd Rd., Syracuse, Neb. 68446 (ph 402 269-2602; email: ds85827@alltel.net).

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