Pedal-Powered Combine Big Hit With Kids

Pedal-Powered Combine Big Hit With Kids AG WORLD 27-6-24 Frank Miller, Mott, N. Dak., recently sent FARM SHOW photos of a pedal-powered combine he made that's patterned after a Deere 9600. A child sits in the grain tank and pedals and steers just like he would with a conventional pedal tractor. Miller built the pint-sized combine entirely from scratch. The frame is made out of tubular steel covered with sheet metal. The front wheels are 12 in. high and the rear wheels 6 in. The pedals chain-drive the front drive wheels. Steering linkage extends from the steering shaft to the rear end of the combine, where a T-shaped unit is used to shift the wheels from side to side. The bottom part of the grain tank is hollow. The rider sits on a seat borrowed from a pedal tractor. The seat is positioned low enough that it doesn't show from the side. The reel does not rotate. "I thought that a rotating reel would be too big a load for the driver to turn the pedals. If I did this project over I'd probably install a small gas motor to rotate the reel," notes Miller. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Frank L. Miller Farms, 307 Iowa Ave., Mott, N. Dak. 58646 (ph 701 824-2637).

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