Pull-Type Combine Converted To Grain Cart

Pull-Type Combine Converted To Grain Cart COMBINES Conversions 32-4-19 Frank Dyck, La Crete, Alberta, converted a late 1950's Deere 96 pull-type combine into a low-cost grain cart. "I use it for all my crops including wheat, peas, oats, and barley. It works great and cost very little to make the conversion," says Dyck. "I already had the combine which I had bought used. Someone had added a 1-ft. high plywood extension on top. The hopper holds about 100 bushels with the extension." He removed the header, keeping only a 4-in. dia. pipe at the back of it that he used to make a brace from the hitch to the combine's offside wheel. After removing the pto shield, he cut a wedge out of the inner side of the hitch beam and then used a winch to bend it in so he could pull the hitch from the center. Then he welded the hitch back together. "I didn't want the grain cart trailing to one side like the combine did," says Dyck. He also removed both elevators, the cleaning shoe, and the straw walkers. He cut off the combine's body just behind the beater shaft, allowing him to leave the unloading auger drives intact. "The pto is used to belt-drive the auger," says Dyck. "One limitation is that the cart is too high to fit under the unloading auger on my IH 503 combine, but I plan to lower the entire cart by working with the wheel attaching plates where they connect to the combine's frame." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Frank M. Dyck, P.O. Box 388, La Crete, Alberta, Canada T0H 2H0 (ph 780 928-3944).

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