1/4-Scale Case-IH 2144 Combine
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I built this 1/4-scale Case-IH 2144 combine for my grandson, who really loves it. It's also a real parade favorite. I built it the hard way, without any powered shop tools except an electric drill and welder. It took about two months to build out of scrap metal. It's built on the chassis of an old White 1610 garden tractor, which I reversed to run backward. I replaced the tractor's original engine with a 12 hp Briggs & Stratton. I built a frame for the 8-ft. long machine out of angle iron and covered the frame with galvanized sheet metal. A 4-ft. grain auger fashioned out of a 4-in. dia. driveshaft is fitted on the side of the machine. There are lights on front and flashers on back.
Since completing the combine last spring, the machine has appeared in eight area parades.
It really draws a lot of attention. I can always tell when I'm in a town with a lot of retired farmers. Many of them give me the thumbs up sign and then make their wives go out in the street and take a photo.
The driver sits in the "grain tank". The throttle is located next to the steering column. I moved the steering sector up front and lengthened the original steering rod.
Reversing the gears on the tractor was easy. The engine belt-drives the transaxle and the belt already had a 1/4 twist in it. To reverse the gears all I had to do was twist the belt a quarter turn in the opposite direction. The 4-row corn head is complete with gathering chains that were made out of bicycle chains, with metal hooks pop riveted to them.
It has a lot more sheet metal on it than I ever thought it would have. All together I used more than 1,100 pop rivets. I paid $25 for the garden tractor. Otherwise, the engine and the decals were the only things I bought. I paid $360 for the engine and $25 for the decals. (Jerome Lenth, Box 35, Postville, Iowa 52162 ph 563 864-3770)
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1/4-Scale Case-IH 2144 Combine FARM HOME Toys/Games 27-2-43 I built this 1/4-scale Case-IH 2144 combine for my grandson, who really loves it. It's also a real parade favorite. I built it the hard way, without any powered shop tools except an electric drill and welder. It took about two months to build out of scrap metal. It's built on the chassis of an old White 1610 garden tractor, which I reversed to run backward. I replaced the tractor's original engine with a 12 hp Briggs & Stratton. I built a frame for the 8-ft. long machine out of angle iron and covered the frame with galvanized sheet metal. A 4-ft. grain auger fashioned out of a 4-in. dia. driveshaft is fitted on the side of the machine. There are lights on front and flashers on back.
Since completing the combine last spring, the machine has appeared in eight area parades.
It really draws a lot of attention. I can always tell when I'm in a town with a lot of retired farmers. Many of them give me the thumbs up sign and then make their wives go out in the street and take a photo.
The driver sits in the "grain tank". The throttle is located next to the steering column. I moved the steering sector up front and lengthened the original steering rod.
Reversing the gears on the tractor was easy. The engine belt-drives the transaxle and the belt already had a 1/4 twist in it. To reverse the gears all I had to do was twist the belt a quarter turn in the opposite direction. The 4-row corn head is complete with gathering chains that were made out of bicycle chains, with metal hooks pop riveted to them.
It has a lot more sheet metal on it than I ever thought it would have. All together I used more than 1,100 pop rivets. I paid $25 for the garden tractor. Otherwise, the engine and the decals were the only things I bought. I paid $360 for the engine and $25 for the decals. (Jerome Lenth, Box 35, Postville, Iowa 52162 ph 563 864-3770)
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