Combine Coverted Into Crain

Combine Coverted Into Crain COMBINES Conversions 28-2-10 Aron Wiebe of Niverville, Manitoba turned an old combine into a handy and economical crane. The 72-year-old bought the 503 International combine for $600. He then removed the header and mounted a crane on front of the machine by hinging it to the same points where the header had been mounted. "The frame of the crane is made from two TD6 crawler track frames welded end to end," he explains. "The hydraulic cylinder is from a D4 Cat loader lift cylinder. The end piece is an 8-ft. long section of 8-in. I-beam, and is adjustable so as to keep it level at any given height." Wiebe mounted a trolley on the I-beam and then attached a chain hoist to the trolley. He uses the existing combine hydraulics to operate it. "At present, I am using it to handle logs at my one-man saw mill," he says. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Aron Wiebe, Box 296, Niverville, Manitoba, Canada R0A 1E0 (ph 204 434-6478).

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