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I'm a principal at a school in NM. If you find a bus that could be put in service here, my tiny little charter school really needs an activity bus and we don't really have a budget. Love the channel and all you do for your community!
Everyone, upvote this one so it gets noticed. I'm sure Dave would be happy to do it if he hears about it
@@christopherbushnell2129chill bro he is only the principal not the owner of the school
@@christopherbushnell2129Jesus bro he just tryna get kids to school
@@inVAINwetrustnah he’s looking for a bud for field trips and other activities. Notice how he said activity bus?
Google says charter schools are funded by federal, state, and local taxes. So, Cardona, Grisham, and your neighbors don't think you need a bus.
Figure 8 race at the Freedom 500??
I was just about to comment that too
Freedom bus 2.0 Florida man edition
That’d be wild! 😂
yes yes
Cleet , you should invest in a dirt late model with Hunt the Front! Man you could raise a lot of eyes for dirt track racing!
You should remove the seats and prep them for people who want to convert this into homes. If possible you can deliver them to their land and if they want your team to help you convert them into a living space, they can pay you guys. I really want one of this but I don’t have my land yet. Thank you for sharing this great business idea with us. It’s genius and there is a lot more you can do with these beautiful buses.
They could be used as great storage units on wheels.
I would love to get my hands on one . Home , shop all in one rig . Fixed income prevents me from picking one up . (Cost of them second hand) maybe purchase from your client ? Let me kno Please n Thank You Sir !❤
Do a Tesla moter in it 😂 will it run
big glass and metal shell, think of the heating/AC needed yikes
Turn them into motorhomes and sell them as that
I know a few farmers who use old school buses as storage barns and animal shelters. Also I can definitely see how someone could convert them into solar lumber kilns or food dehydrators relatively easily.
I’m a disabled vet I live full-time in a 40 foot motorhome. I would’ve died to try to get a hold of one of those buses turn it into a place to live. There’s a lot of veterans out there that would be more than happy to get one of those to turn into a home, just a suggestion
First, Thank you for your service. We are in your debt.
You have the same idea I had. These buses are potential homes for our Vets who need us now. It would be awesome to see these converted to homes. The key is land to park them with hookups.
Yes! Housing!!
That was my thought. Park it in place housing.
My 1st thought as well, shelter for the homeless.
Thank you for your service sir!🙏🦅🇺🇲 but he obviously bought them with a game plan in mind, no need for the back story, sorry if I sound like a dik but this is what the country and where it's headed has turned me into
build tiny homes out of them or see if Demo Ranch could use them for camping "cabins" at his resort.
my first thought was demo ranch haha
I just came from his video talking about ranch plans. These would be great as multi-bed cabins.
I had the same idea but call it BUStling City
They would have income for years.
It would be cool if other creators came to the ranch and did their own bus conversion and added the build videos to their channel. Create a creators bus village to go with the event center build.
Now that’s an idea while he’s trying to get the Abandoned Resort ready for people. 😃😃
Love what you do for people even if they cant afford the help you give… thank you ALL + Hans I think you are funny as hell please keep doing what you do!
Utah boy here!!! You should turn one of them into and recovery portable / Mission room. To make plans on how you’re going to do the job and what tools will be needed. You can also be used when you are doing recovery or helping with finding someone that is missing (Command Center).
I think Cleetus needs his own version of the Freedom Bus for the Freedom Factory.
Great idea
Itd be a cool project to see them turn it into a toy hauler to put a car into. Even cooler if they match the paint of the bus to the car that it hauls.
That was my first thought.
Not sure the side walls on the freedom factory will hold up to that lol
Let a bunch of TH-cam people each have one to deck out and then race them at the freedom factory
Mobile workshop for field recoveries, equipped with tools, welders, compressors, spare parts etc. Cut open 1 side and fit a roller door, install a gantry crane that reaches out and you can lift and pull small vehicles or engines inside to work on in the dry. Might be able to squeeze some seats or bunks in there, maybe even a small bathroom.
I have literally thought about doing this for years. Mobile workshop in a bus, camper awning off the side and some work tables that fold down. Press and a lathe inside also. Could work on precise Stuff inside or pull up next to what ever your working on fold out the awning and lower the table on the side. Little doors for air, torches, welding leads all out the side.
@@TheH-Dfamily It's a phenomenal usage for the bus!!! I've been in Electrical Reliability Consulting for Chemical Plants and Refineries for the last 10 Years, and we contract work a few Millwrights that have this exact same setup out of an old bus. They have 3 of them, and they've modified the insides to have dual work benches on both sides, parts compartments, tool compartments, etc. Everything a crew of 3-4 guys would need to do do everything from field machining to repairing small electrical components. The back has a small lift for small electrical NEMA frame motors up to about 50HP for bearing swaps, re-leads, and small rotor stands. It's super damn cool, and in the Houston Area where the density of work is as demanding as it is, you're at a major advantage being able to tool up in the field and have a mobile work station.
I love it. I handle everything from standard 230/460V to 13.2-13.8KV large Synchronous assets. Demanding since it's 24/7 365 but the risk/reward is phenomenal.
Tiny home donations and a Mobile Command Center
I'm for a Tiny Home project or Tiny Home resort. MIni Cabins
@@TheH-Dfamily And don't forget the BBQ and seating !
Nice find. Build a giant merry go round with a power source in the center, cut the tops off so the kids have the wind in their hair spinning at 75 MPH. Easy peasy. :)
If you have land zoned residential do a bus park housing (do conversion livable space for added income)🙂
Weld four of them together - 2 wide, 2 long - with ginormous tracks and skis in the front to make a world-shaking snow monstreme!
Ooooh I was thinking something similar to that
I was thinking one behind another to make a long monster bus, but I like the 2x2 idea bro that would be sick lol
Or maybe 4 of them welded together 2 wide and double decker?
That's the dumest idea I've heard in all the comments so far
yeah weld them together like a double decker top one with accelerator bottom one with steering with
off grid bug out campers would be an option...wood stove and some insulation,a compost toilet, and maybe a solar panel on the roof and you´ve got the bare essentials for a cheap and easy moveable off grid hideout without having to do much for it.
or turn them into tiny houses, set them in a spot with a nice view and rent them out for holidays and vacation.
or you set them on a vacant lot as a makeshift shelter for homeless.
merch or food truck also something you could do...just so many options!
You had me until you said homeless. It would turn into a drug den.
@@whysix3417 not every city is philadelphia and not every homeless is an addict...that been said thow would you rather see them doing it on the middle of the sidewalk in front of the eyes of children or somewhere where nobody can see them...and even addicts don´t deserve to freeze to d*ath in winter or d*e of a heatstroke in sommer...pretty heartless comment there my friend...and i think in utah and over all it would be a nice thing to give to those who have nothing if you have more then enough. but only one of many suggestions I made so don´t get to hung up on it!
TURN THEM INTO TINY HOMES AND GIVE THEM TO HOMELESS VETERANS!!!
@@pauls.8748 I would rather they be deleted by use of a small metal object.
This is the best option I think. I would totally love to see myself in something like this.
Here in Alaska a ton of those get turned into family motor homes. I've seen some really nice ones.
That MCI got a lot of old dirty memories in the back! 😂😂😂
What a score. Give one to Brent in Cerro Gordo for the dry season to get people up the mountain.
That is a very cool idea
Probably too big to make it up that road
@@ekdaman13They made it up the road with concrete mixer trucks, and military grade semis. I’m quite sure a bus could drive up it just fine considering school buses drive in all sorts of hills, sharp turns, and various terrains. Heck even these buses have been used in foreign country’s. A good bus with good ac, a better battery and some nice wheels and brakes should do it fine considering their ground clearance with a better suspension.
Better yet, put a four wheel drive suspension under it with big floater tires. Then it would be perfect for transporting people up the mountain, even if the road got a little rain damage.@@YogurtSnipe
Hell yeah love this idea
Donate to your local fire department for training. They can use it for extrication/entrapment training. Pick it up for them when they are done and scrap it. You won’t begin to understand how much this will benefit them.
Used to work for a FD, I love this idea!
That's sounds like a good idea they could also donate some to police to test new police products
Donate....hahahahah you watch Dave sparks right? This dudes out to make every buck he can in any way possible.
Try selling them to some of the Caribbean islands. They are in need of transportation, they will figure out how to get them road worthy . They don’t have the same rules and regulations to get them road worthy. You sell it to them make your profit and help them with the transportation logistics and they will look after the importation and duties. Good Luck
Tax writeoffs can be good as gold to a business, publicity (local business donates to FD for training feel good story on tv news and newspapers) is incredibly valuable .
Bury the busses and make an underground living space.. keep.kickin ass guys
I recently saw video of a roof top museum slash activity space, and one of the main features was a bus parked off of the edge of the roof like a viewing platform, people could enter from the back door and walk the length of the bus looking out the windows and even having a seat in the driver seat to look out the front windows.
School busses make great camp sites ... I have family that took busses to lake property they own and built homes in them for those who like to live at lake during the summers..they also have a built home with a store on front main and last known was over 90 lots with only a few of permanent busses and others for rentals short or long term...called Paradise Cove up at Whitefish Lake..Alberta
Depends on weather. Steel frame while durable can pick up lots of condensation, witch is why shipping container houses are rather horrible idea. It might work in perma warm climates where there is no condensation, but in north its bad unless its just few bunk beds and simple table resistant to mold. Then again RV's exist and those tend to be fine most of the time, but yeah needs RV expert, havent delved into that territory, just seen how bad things can get with condensation is steel frames.
@@Hellsong89 ..insulation and drainage supposedly... been had for many years ...no problem
Take them to Brent in Cerro Gordo. He can use them as storage units or renovate them as individual cabins to rent.
Cerro Gordo tourbus, yo 🤣🤣
the CERRO GORDO RV PARK !!! pimp em out and make them into AIR BusNbeds for the TOURISTS!!! :) well I would do 2 ore 3 diff parks diff places, but ONE SET GOES TO BRENT IN THE C.G. !!! MY VOTE !!! for what its worth
LOVE JOY COMPASSION
I hope that when these buses do get fixed up, they get donated to maybe a school in need of buses. As someone who was enthusiastic with school buses since the age of 4, this video brought light to my day.
Make a RV for the team to stay on some some of the wild recovery you guys do!
You should definitely consider turning some of the buses to 4wd RVs for the remote recoveries. Would be handy to the Crew.
Yes exactly so much room and possibilities
Isn’t that basically the freedom bus?
@@jeffsimonsen8449 I think a little road-legality might be sprinkled over this particular idea....
set one up for next years SICKWEEK ??? ;) or the next dragNdrive ??? powertour:??? 2k footpounds and 4x4 ?? LOL
Make the world's longest school bus is what..
That Prevost is a goldmine. I was the electrical design tech for Vantari and designed the systems for custom motorcoaches. Were I you, I'd snatch the Prevost and turn it into a camper. We would get unfinished chassis from Canada and they cost 250K stripped.
That's crazy didn't know that
Yeah that Prevost is worth some money for sure. And he said it had a new engine and stuff, definitely a goldmine. Would make an amazing RV.
Perfect for off grid living/ hunting or fishing cabin, etc.
Install some Driver safety Roll Cages and let’s see some Derby Bus !
they dont run
⚠️Warning: Must be equipped with Shielding on the front driver side windshield for protection🛡 that way we can avoid any penetration fatalities,
Any buses ripped in half is disqualified.
😅😅😅
@@LukasDBrownmonster truck show would be awesome too
You guys do a lot of rescues and recoveries and trips out to the middle of nowhere quite frequently. How about you take one of the buses fix it up paint it make it look really nice and then turn it into a mobile cooking platform. You could turn the back of the bus into the kitchen with smoker and barbecue grill vented out the back along with refrigerator freezer and a griddle top. You could then take the front of the bus and fill it with tables and benches on both sides. This will allow you to grab a cook and head out on one of your trips and be able to provide hot meals for your crew. It can also service as a warm-up shelter, or meeting place outside of the elements because you do so much of your stuff in the winter. You could bring your staff inside have your meetings and make your plans outside of the elements as well. You could even deploy it for search and rescue events and other emergency situations where they need a portable food bus. You could even have a serving window on one of the sides of the kitchen where people could just walk up straight to the bus and grab a hot meal and return back to their work. I think it would be cool if you painted it with your logo and made it match your other paint schemes and have it roll with you when you head out on some of your adventures. If it turns out well, then you could make a duplicate one and donate it to search and rescue or even the church to deal with those type of disaster or certain rescue missions.
Edit: you could also split your crew into two teams, and have a competition on who could make the best food bus as a video. Then donate one to the search and rescue or the church.
Dude chill, by the time you're seeing this they already made up there minds
great idea! I forward
He's about making money. He's not donating anything. Just like the recovery vids. He does them for free because it makes him money on content. Can't make money by giving things away.
@@Itsxthebk14 I don't think you watched the entire thing ngl, was literally said "maybe you guys have cool ideas" 3 days prior to this upload. So they wanted people to put out ideas like this.
@@DeathsAvarice buddy your off your rocker today, they do that to get engagement so it shows TH-cam people are interacting with the creator they're playing the game and actually really don't care what Trevor from Arkansas or dipshyt from Peru has to say
A wrecking yard in Lewiston Idaho used old buses to make a fence around the perimeter of the storage yard.
I love seeing Alan with you guys!
We used some old busses for deer camps. Insulated, added wood stove and bunks. Turned out great.
Build the ultimate 'Bus to RV conversion' with a dozen bunk beds, a bathroom w/shower, and a kitchen for those long hauls where the whole team has to go way out into the sticks for a few days. Like for those times when you all drive out to the ghost town/mines and need more room.
There are also people who love converted RVs who don't have the time and skill to do it themselves but would pay good money for a bus or truck to RV conversion.
Been watching you guys for years 😁
You come up with some crazy ideas🤣
Take one of the front engine cab-overs and make a recreational camper/boat hauler.
You're familiar with the new Canoo truck coming out, and the SeaDoo Switch 🤔
Build a hauler that combines the 2.
Camper/flatbed/boat trailer 👍🏾
Custom Camouflage scheme
Sleeps 4
Auto raise roof for head space
Mini kitchen
Solar panels
And Carry's & deploys the Switch 19 or 21 ftr
Just saying🤔
PS: Can't wait till you market the Badger 👍🏾
Whistling diesel knows what to do with the buses
An uncle of mine had a school bus converted to mobile hunting cabin. Bunks, bathroom, kitchen, basically an RV. Neat idea for a project.
An idea I had was for when the team is off on a big project and you need accommodation and catering.
Get a running bus, strip it out, fit bunks, a toilet and a small kitchen. It might not be luxury but it will be warm, dry and useful.
I think there's room for 3 bunks high but it would be better just 2 high. Curtains and lights for each bunk, plus personal storage and people should be happy.
On the outside I'd definitely fit an awning with lights, then cooking could be done outside (BBQ).
Proper custom paint job or wrap and accommodation is sorted. 🥳
That wrecker is quite strong for its size. I would've expected a semi wrecker not an f650
They would be great to turn into mini houses for the unsheltered Dave. You just need to find some property, and fix them up for accommodation.
In my hometown, guys race these once a year at the fair. It’s freaking hysterical watching a school bus drifting.
I would turn them into tiny houses. They could be set up on a property and rented out for holidays. You could use reclaimed materials to give them character and clear out other materials you aren't using.
Great idea “Glamping”
He could make a shit ton of content bringing these down to Demolition Ranch and turning them into air bnbs
My first thought was "tiny houses"! If anyone can get it started &/or done, it'd be you!
Show Cody how to drop a bus from a Blackhawk.
So instead of the Cozy cone hotel, have it the School (cool when you paint over the S and h letters) bus hotel?
When in doubt, you can tow them onto a parcel of land turn them into inoperable cabins for a unique Airbnb experience. Been wanting to do the same with decommissioned subway/light rail cabs. However building a fake subway station costs a bit of money
“Pray-Vo”. Watch out for the XLII delam issues. Older Prevost can be a nightmare in general. The systems are super complicated and not common. Amazing busses. Not for the faint of heart. There is a reason a $1M+ coach goes for 20k sometimes
How about schoolbus greenhouses either for your church or local schools? You replace the roof with clear or translucent panels, take out the seats and replace them with wooden planter boxes, then place the bus at it's permanent site. Fill the boxes with compost/soil, installing a small heating system for winter, and use one corner inside for tool storage. They're popular with homesteaders and provide both a garden and greenhouse with almost no construction costs!
Total agree had similar idea a green house!
We saw a great video about a team of experienced off-grid folks from Alaska who take on projects to train and equip others who are interested in self-reliant living, and they not only built the greenhouse in a schoolbus, but they attached fencing for free-range chickens and built an adjacent garden as well!@@seaflower1520
thats a huge amount more work then just making a greenhouse
I''ve built greenhouses, and simply pulling seats out of a bus and installing wooden boxes for raised bed gardening, then putting a few translucent ceiling panels in, makes a reasonably-easy job out of the usual nightmare of covering your usual hoop house of a similar size. And, since there are just about zero acquisition/supply costs for scrappers/preppers/off-gridders, you'd be surprised how fast a schoolbus greenhouse can be built! Check it out online, and you'll find some great ideas - in the video I saw originally, the folks were living in a schoolbus and working on a cabin, so a crew from Alaska donated their time to show them how to do both projects in just a few days with a few folks volunteering their time to assist. And, it keeps the buses out of the scrap heap - someday, with the way things are going, having extra vehicles on your property might be a good thing! LOL!@@Dominic_IBM
TOOL BUS!! You guys could gut one & build out a rolling shop. Drill press, shop press, lathe, cnc/mill, plasmarobot, bolt bins/fasten all, compressors & lines w/ external hookups all around. Rig a gantry out the back end for hoisting jobs up & into "Tool Bus". You would be able to back up to a busted rig, pull the motor, re-build it, drop it back in & roll away!! Love the Channel, Keep up the good work!
This is a great idea
Great Idea, would have to build power into the thing though
Welder/genset all the power you need
God bless you all in all your travels guys be safe
Use the parts from all of them to build 1 good running one that you convert into a sleeping 😴 camper with a bunch of bunk beds so when you go on long distance recover or snow rescue jobs the guys have a place to crash out when tired 😊😊😊
Do a dual engine 4x4 build. Graft a rear engine and a front engine. 5 ton axles. Set it up for your recoveries. Carry all your extra cables, cribbing, spare parts. Ultimate support vehicle. Add a ton of exterior lighting or a light tower like fd heavy rescues use. Have all you needs ready to go and organized in one spot. Could also add front and rear hydraulic winches. The Allison trans in those have a pto spot.
Dual engine with half the body of a rear-engine and half a front-engine would be sick!
Man, donating them to a fire department or a fire and rescue training facility would be awesome. The buses can provide new and veteran firefighters the ability to learn where to cut and extricate patients. Being a firefighter myself, getting a bus for training purposes is hard, and with your team's abilities, I think you could provide a training facility with some great equipment to practice skills on. Also, it might provide you with the chance to throw on some gear and play with some amazing tools. I know my department would love to cut up an old school bus and it's a chance for you to provide first responders with a training tool that may not only save children or adults in your community but others as well.
Local tow companies near me let the fire department do as they wish with junks, then haul the scrap away. It's a win/ win situation. If your chief contacts local impound yards, I'm sure they will bring some junkers over with no questions.
Two years ago I had a Saab 9-5, no resale value and I could use the parts such as interior and lights + trim for another one. No point in putting it on the marketplace and having to peddle it for months. So I donated it to my local fire department. Such a Saab has hardened metal reinforcements in the pillars, in the doors and elsewhere. Firefighters were very happy with this because they are rarely offered vehicles and certainly not something like this. I was more than happy to help them with it, more than the few 100 I could have gotten from a sale
@@jeremysales1232 correct we have that now but we host a large crash course and trying to obtain a bus is very hard as it requires a heavy tow to get it there and back. Also our crash course roughly has about 30 vehicles at once and getting a tow truck driver to deliver that many vehicles is sometimes challenging.
Use them to build one excellent running and driving RV and do a give away with it! I'm sure lots would enter for a ultimate RV. You guys are just that awesome
those Blue Birds are built in Ft. Valley, Ga 45 mins away from me, the best buses in the industry
I could use one as a house currently homeless due to paying child support... I Love Your Channel Your An Amazing Person ❤ Keep up the great work 👏
Please help this man.
@heavydsparks
Let all help this man out
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so you had kids that you can't support and now your whining about having to support them? Get at least two jobs, you'll be fine.
Donate them to the boarder wall. Great lookouts and shelter.
New arrivals might think they're getting a free ride to paradise.
Crazy idea. Weld 4 together. 2 side by and 2 length. Turn THAT into a party off-road bus.
Whistling Diesel knows some stuff about school busses...
The school bus with the fancy seats is what we called the “Trip Busses” our HS band loved those for our long concert trips
I've seen old school busses in Florida, being used in watermelon harvest.They are great for bringing the watermelons from the field to the packing shed
Seems like you could weld sheet steel over the windows, reinforce the structure with box steel, and bury them as "apocalypse" shelters which is big business right now. I guarantee your rendition would be awesome, reminded me of a man in Canada who has gone to great lengths to protect himself and up to 500 others from catastrophe.
Bruce Beach, 83, an American transplant to the Ontario hamlet of Horning’s Mills, has buried 42 buses to create a nuclear fallout shelter.
Yup I've seen that crazy bus collection buried .
We need to start a go fund me page for Alan's hat again. The shear terror he puts these hats through. And, on top of that they are the front line of the protection of of the vestibule containing an entire Universe. Yea, I call that a stressful job. All forms of monetary value per Terra firma rates are accepted.
I’m with cleatus, get them running, and race them!! Even if it’s just a race to the scrap yard.., but I feel you need to find a massive piece of cheap property, and build your own recycling yard!!
Use one or two at your Mountain camp for storage or convert into accommodations for guests camp rough-it. Hears one for you guys, suspend it high in the air on steel frame for birds eye view of the camp.
Can use as a bridge also! Covered
*Yeah baby, stack'em three high like a container home on a 4" square steel frame!*
I’m envious. In Texas, people buy old buses, use the engine and tranny, sell the tires and use what’s left for storage. (Prevost is pronounced “PRAY-vo” for some weird reason. They’re from Canada, eh?)
It's a French Canadian name, given they are from Queerbec.
Well, the round cab would make a good greenhouse template 😂
Relocate them to a site that will allow you to remove the chassis and space them out evenly, then build single room housing. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida 🌞
Take some of these to SLAB CITY, CALIFORNIA, for the unsheltered homeless people that live there, make it so that they have something to keep them warm & dry from the inclement weather, spring time will bring them more rain; there are more homeless people there. I'm homeless in Santa Cruz County, these Housing Matters ppl are slowly working on helping me with my own housing...
You think you can strip out enough weight to be within slung payload capacity of the Blackhawk? A game of giant lawn darts sounds fun.
Coming from a mobile diesel tech
A wheel seal replacement
Wheel seal
Brake and drum on that wheel position minimum. If the other side of the axle brake is within 10% of a new shoe your good to go , if not the brakes have to be replaced on that said axle and it’s also 10% of the axle behind it . I would love to get my story out to you sir heavy d . Great videos .
My late night thoughts:
Cut the backs off of a bunch that you can drive, while preserving the flatbeds to then do lighter framing construction to build wild rolling homes that can be auctioned off one at a time as completed with trick paint jobs, and hotrod mods. If you can make a good return, then maybe donate one legit dwelling style "tiny homebus" to the best deserving human in need of a place, on some existing tiny home lot that would allow it to be moved there. Or keep it for the guests.
Back in the daze, people would come up with amazing conversions with beautiful designs and some with really stylish hardwood interior build-outs...craftsman approach, with creativity, and functionality, stained glass church windows and wild additions like hot tubs, back porches, etc.... Many in the Pacific Northwest in the 70's...they would be parked in Mendocino forests and the renegade growers would use them to live in, while being able to drive them too. Or sometimes just built out to be permanently parked, glorious habitations.
If you invite some qualified/aspiring creative designers/architects with the opportunity to get their work showcased and seen....maybe hold a competition...who knows how awesome some might be! the sky's the limit. On that note--maybe you get an old airplane fuselage and weld it onto the roof of one and/or add a vw microbus top or beetle on top for sleeping quarters. Skylights, hot tubs, launch pads...
Weld up some crazy train car-style party zone with several of the removed cabs connected together end-to-end and install it all on railroad tie-supports with solid flooring and such. you could make the worlds longest limo-bus party pad! Or a bowling alley bus.
Build one out with side rockets and Mad Max the F out it with flamethrowers and m.g. turret. Might come in handy irl sooner than we think.
The least worthy bus carcass could be made into great shooting range fun, with spinning iron plate character cutouts in the windows. Exploding targets, etc.
Also, you could just make one completely air-tight, have fun filling it with propane (somewhere with 100 acres or more around (and no flammable forests, homes, neighbors, etc. and makey go *BOOM!!!!*
XD
Party buses. Hell you could even take the "Hot" teacher thing to a new level.
Build a giant bathtub that you could drive around with Diesel Dave floating on a big rubber duck. Rent your mobile pool out for bachelor party’s.
Great channel to follow 👍🏻
My son wants one to convert to live in while he’s in college. He’s been looking at books where folks have converted them.
He graduates high school this year.
Love your channel. Your Ingenuity is wild!
Congratulations on the graduation, to him and the whole family!
He will get hassled by cops everywhere all the time. He will get hassled and hassled and hassled and hassled and hassled and hassled and hassled and hassled and hassled and....
@@dingusdingus2152why in the hell would he get hassled by the cops you could simply park at an RV park nearby the college problem solved or he can make arrangements with the dean of the college to park on campus. The RV park would probably be more ideal what the point is the problem of being hassled would not exist
@@gearhead9115 paying a million dollars a night to sleep at an rv park defeats the purpose of getting the bus, which is to live cheap. The dean at the school will flat refuse to allow him to park on campus. Why would cops hassle him? Don't ask me, ask the cops, of which there are more than 800,000 in the u.s., and who have nothing better to do than hassle some poor schmuck who is just trying to get by in the world. As near as I can tell, it's in their job description: approach total strangers and initiate hostile confrontations 8 hours a day. A cops goal is to issue as many citations as possible and make as many arrests as possible. Anywhere he parks the bus, any time of night or day, any cop who sees him will stop and hassle him. All I know is, he WILL get hassled.
theres a ton of youtube channels on this. Cheaprvliving is a good one.
Heard of some people in UK, they converted them double deckers typical English busses into play ground for kids and they rent them for birthday celebrations… instead of the parents taking they’re kid to a birthday party place… they turn up with the bus in front of your house for the day and let the kids play inside them, where they have toys and all the stuff needed…
Saw a vid on a guy who buried a bunch of busses and made a huge underground bunker complex for the shtf day.
was pretty cool how he joined them all together with big drainage pipes.
School bus races with cleetus at the freedom factory!
Or Monster Truck Jam at the FF
As much as I would love to see that with these busses, the logistics just don't make sense. It would be FAR cheaper to buy busses down in Florida instead
So all this time money and energy to destroy everything, yeah that's how you sink a business into the ground
First of all ,my step brother, kris, just got on working for you boys awesome to see and love it. Short cameos I get to show the fam is awesome. First ever TH-cam comment, I’ll say save one for a Blackhawk air drop, haven’t seen anything of the sort, and as an aviation fan I’d love to see some of the capabilities if possible. Can also team up with whistlindiesel with the tank for some carnage. Even just taking the monster bus over a few would be awesome! Big fan, seeking employment as well if ever in need of welders, enjoy the channel, get after it!
possibly you can take the nicest one to build into a driving workshop and give it a special function, like a support vehicle. And if there are a few fixable busses you should definitely race them
There is a place at the hot springs near Richfield that fixed up old busses as rooms for guest' to stay at while soaking in the hot springs. Fixed up like hippie style. Really cool amd fun.
I see converting it into a sudo toy hauler for 4 snowmobiles and pulling a 4 place enclosed snowmobile trailer. Seating for 12 and some cool amenities in the bus for comfort and hauling up to the U.P. of MI. Rock on!! rip, rip... Brappp
Thank you for the educational lesson. Buses are a growing trend to convert into RV/ nomad vehicles. People who make a living off e-commerce, using their laptop and WIFI.
I'm Mark and also an LDS from the UK. I wonder how our Sunday School book ended up in there? Maybe the owner misunnderstood being 'stripped' of all unGodliness
These buses can be converted into mobile homes with kitchen, bedroom and log burner. Or convert into something a community could use like a big games room for schools or for the homeless.
You still have those crazy ass water treatment plants? You should build one into emergency relief unit:
- big fuel tanks
- tranny out .. genset power end in
- solar panels on the roof and sidewalls
- batteries in
--> ready to drop into location of need with lowboy to provide power and clean water --> if not profit, very cool
Cody just runs his busses over with the tank.😂
See the running one I know of a school that is running on some older buses that really could do with a forth reliable bus down in Southern Utah. While they manage they could do with running a fourth pickup route for it's kids as those buses get overfull some days.
The non Runners - I have seen people turn them into trailers or chicken coops! Probably not quite your style! Or even just as dry storage!
Reepair, put bunkbeds in them, turn one into a bathroom bus (showers etc) and drive them to festivals as a mobile hostel.
Set them in a great location and turn them into airbnbs
Scrap metal is a great side hustle... I actually did it full-time for a couple years before starting my lawn service... My first equipment came from the scrap pile... I just put new carbs on em and turned other peoples garbage into a business...! Scrap metal is a money maker...!!!
I made a lot of money scrapping old lost junk piles in the woods and I used a metal detector to locate old copper tubing, pipes and such here and there. Found more than a few gold rings too! And this was in the 70s thru the 90s using old technology. There used to be a fortune in lost coins. I`d set my detector that had target ID (90s) to find just quarters and dimes, then go back for the nickles and gold rings later. They`re harder to locate among the trash. Today you can do great with a cheap Simplex or Vanquish machine.
These need to become massive off-road Motorhome style monster trucks for overland use in the desert.
I always wanted to build a self sufficient a tiny home in one of those buses. Mobile home type thing but the price of buses here in Canada are crazy. Would be cool for you to build one for when you go out on recoveries, have somewhere to sleep at the location. But nice if you build one to sell or do a give away? Count me in to buy a ticket. Cheers
It was Cleetus's idea first but I do think a figure 8 bus race at the Freedom Factor would be awesome. Then afterwards, save a couple and maybe build a toy hauler/camper for the crew on recoveries.👌
Great use of the quote "I'm your Huckleberry." Doc Dave! Cool video. As Always, May God Bless you and yours! 😇
Need to hook up with old Cleet at the Freexom Factory and have a figure 8 race lol
For the ones without working engines, why not turn them into trailers? Gut the inside, turn the back into a swinging door, and make some nice car haulers out of them, or campers. Just need to move the axles around to make them work as trailers, or set them up to fit on a gooseneck.
Get one really mechanically sound and donate it to Brent up at Cerro Gordo to ferry up people for Ghost Town Tours :)
Build a bus home with one of them and Raffle it off to the fans. Make it unique, maybe some sponsors to help build the project. Make a serieses of you guys building it.
the rest of the buses for whatever else ideas you guys have.
No, this isn't HGTV my man
veteran bunk houses on wheels! it help out the homeless and it would be a good use of the money you will spend to get them able to be used as homes
Turn them into AirBNBs, the simpler the better . Profit. Park em in Utah beautiful place.
Is there a place that could use the non running busses as homes for the homeless? Convert them into a mini bus home village?
Back in the '70's many hippies used to convert old buses into rolling homes. There was even a book with the name 'Rolling Homes' written with lots of good pictures back in the day. A well made school bus makes an excellent foundation for a rolling home! And Prevost is pronounced 'PreVo' for what ever reason up where they are made in Canada.
School fleets are really needed for students for smooth transportation in studying
You may have heard this already. If you have 10 buses, take 1 and remodel the bus into a full size dual kitchen.
2 Bus make a laundry room. 3. Bus make out of a gym. 4 & 5 Make bathroom. 5 - 10 make bedrooms. Remodel all of them and use for the homeless or a bus airbnb.
These guys influenced me to pick up a non operable skid steer at the auction. when i got it home i found the fuel pump wasnt priming , i fixed that and it fired right up. Probably made 15k in a few hours work if i sell it.