A Tumbleweeds View of Scrapping

Several partial days because of weather and machinery repairs resulted in most belts, wiring, and the header mount removed as a result.



Tackling a combine is like a giant jigsaw puzzle that you have to dismantle one piece at a time in the proper order. In addition to the possibility of it collapsing on itself, you have to deal with hydraulic fluid and diesel fuel. Both are flammable, but not explosive. They are not as challenging as the power plant, community water tanks, the dog food plant, or the waste water facility.

They are time consuming. You have to skin them to get to all the moving parts. The body is two layers of sheet metal with various angle iron, channel, and tubular supports. I usually start at the top and work down so I am above the piece being removed. The exception is the cab because you have to get access to the support beams.

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