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.

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.

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.

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.

this man is a genius, his explanation of the process is incredibly simple and important.

that dude saved that town an assload of money on a blower those things are hella exspencive !! great work sir. !!!!

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.

Great use for a retired machine. Plus a heater and blowers and better lights. Excellent 👍

Now that is a job well done. Work smarter not harder.

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.

Pure genius . I've often wondered if a combine could be adapted to blow snow .

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.

We need a version of Monster Garage for farmers!

That's the best combine mod I have ever seen and it works great.

Honestly this is so well thought out. Its a vary ingenious re-use of older equipement and fabrication.

Loved the Prairie Farm Report

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

Very ingenious and well thought out. A well balanced machine.

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.

WoW. More Saskatchewan genius !. Am from there, and when i noticed the video, on KZfaq, knew right away, BY THE ELEVATORS in the picture; this is from Sask. ! Good boy, PF Report !

Very nice, great way to re furbish an old combine.

Awesome. That man knows his stuff.

thumbs up! wish there were more smart people like you on this planet

Engine is not a 404, it is a 400 series IH motor (414ci). 404 was a John Deere engine...

Farm Fixed. GENIUS !

I'd be really impressed if they modified a snowblower to harvest crops!

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

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 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.

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

Ingenious at its finest

Find a need , fill a need . 👍🇺🇸

Lol herb Hallman is literally a family friend of mine and goes to my church

there ya go, if you have something old you can always make something new

He obviously watches Top Gear

excellent video excellent build thanks for posting

yeah, we've been doing that in Winkler for a few years now

yes thus WAS a combine

We've been converting Owatonna swathers into blowers for year's down here in mn dontchaknow?

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.

Excellent job love it

Canadian ingenuity saving taxpayers money. Excellent. I hope he is paid well for his time.

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.

Ingenious!

Reminds me of the Top Gear Showbine (UK)

In the UK, our councils would happily pay £250,000 for a snowblower that only gets used for 2 weeks a year

Nice job.nice unit

AGAIN, WE DONT NEED GOVT TO TAKE OUR MONEY , WE CAN JUST DO IT ON OUR OWN

Ah yes...prairie farm report guy. I knew that voice was familiar

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!

Good day from Ontario. So does he still have & use it. Thanks

Very good machine its great

Clarkson!!!

He got the idea from top gear

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... 🙂👍

Just as though it had been designed for the job.

Great job. Heater inside or not? Not likely since that would require Defroster and wipers etc.

www.harvestsalvage.ca/915_IH_combine2.JPG i It definitely is a combine that has been modified with truck frame as the video says.

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.

Makes the 6.6 work a bit 😂

Beaut and a bonnie!

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.

Doesn't take long to fill up that dump truck with that machine, I wonder how far they have to go to dump it.

Nicely done however, it’s going to take quite a bit of time to change the back this fall for harvesting.

I had the same idea,but I called mine a snowbine.

So they turned a farm thing into a snow thing?

Is the case drop box running direct off the engine crankshaft

Well if herb recommends it....you know its legit!

Here in Stupidtown,we call it a post- hole digger not a combine.

Just me, or anyone else think he's a dead ringer for Tom Hanks?

Ive hauled many a load of oats out of that elevator

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.

No windshield wiper ? Hmmmm

That's is alot of work to mod it.

Nexy top gear jerry rigger

Should try putting it in a garbage truck. Compacting it...

Good. Video distribution. Please watch if you like.

Who needs engineers?

Its a dt414 at least

Sadly this is something that might happen less and less.

top gear did not this first this is a snow blower top gear juset a snow plow not a snow blower

"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...

That is a swather I think

no its not a combine.... its a snow blower made from combine, tractor, and truck parts

that looks like a forage harvester not a combine

2500 dollars and change

Would have been better off starting with a forklift tractor

That's not a combine, but nice try. It's a Chopper/Swather.

Forage harvester ,wheres the combine

Not a combine it's a hay bine

That ain't a combine. It's a windrower

Wrong piece of machinery it Swatter

Top Gear did this first.

Sea foam don't do shit.

It's a Swather not a Combine but who cares!