Steering Wheel Replaced With Knob
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"It provides a much more open view ahead of me and is easier to use," says Pennsylvania farmer S. Elwood Homan, who replaced the steering wheel on his 1970 Oliver combine with a single lever fitted with a steering knob. He says the idea would work on any combine.
Homan welded the metal steering knob onto one end of a bicycle kick stand. The other end of the kick stand is welded onto the steering wheel hub off an old Studebaker car. The hub mounts on the steering column shaft.
"It's a big improvement over the original steering wheel," says Homan. "The steering wheel was big and I was always trying to look through it to see what I was doing. It was also hard to use. A knob is easier to grip than a wheel and has a quicker response. I used the Studebaker steering wheel hub so I can still put the original steering wheel back on if I want."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, S. Elwood Homan, 5190 W. Whitehall Road, Pennsylvania Furnace, Penn. 16865 (ph 814 237-7510).
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Steering Wheel Replaced With Knob COMBINES Miscellaneous 17-6-7 "It provides a much more open view ahead of me and is easier to use," says Pennsylvania farmer S. Elwood Homan, who replaced the steering wheel on his 1970 Oliver combine with a single lever fitted with a steering knob. He says the idea would work on any combine.
Homan welded the metal steering knob onto one end of a bicycle kick stand. The other end of the kick stand is welded onto the steering wheel hub off an old Studebaker car. The hub mounts on the steering column shaft.
"It's a big improvement over the original steering wheel," says Homan. "The steering wheel was big and I was always trying to look through it to see what I was doing. It was also hard to use. A knob is easier to grip than a wheel and has a quicker response. I used the Studebaker steering wheel hub so I can still put the original steering wheel back on if I want."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, S. Elwood Homan, 5190 W. Whitehall Road, Pennsylvania Furnace, Penn. 16865 (ph 814 237-7510).
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