I Bought An Entire Fleet Of School Buses...

[@CleetusM]

Figure 8 race at the Freedom 500??

[@nicholasdockins9474]

I was just about to comment that too

[@dailydad64]

Freedom bus 2.0 Florida man edition

[@sam0wings]

That’d be wild! 😂

[@murksee]

yes yes

[@bodine4479]

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!

[@justinsalada6016]

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!

[@nunyabizness4354]

Everyone, upvote this one so it gets noticed. I'm sure Dave would be happy to do it if he hears about it

[@finding.nirvana]

​@@christopherbushnell2129chill bro he is only the principal not the owner of the school

[@inVAINwetrust]

@@christopherbushnell2129Jesus bro he just tryna get kids to school

[@JUJUBEJUBILEE]

@@inVAINwetrustnah he’s looking for a bud for field trips and other activities. Notice how he said activity bus?

[@rh-bd6wv]

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.

[@paullalone4718]

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

[@bakingnanaskitchen4799]

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.

[@SamIam420]

Yes! Housing!!

[@nicholasmarion8468]

That was my thought. Park it in place housing.

[@ed6720]

My 1st thought as well, shelter for the homeless.

[@TrumpDatB1tch]

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

[@JustAutoChannel]

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.

[@benroberts8489]

They could be used as great storage units on wheels.

[@thomasroberts1635]

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 !❤

[@remcostolk8893]

Do a Tesla moter in it 😂 will it run

[@kev4241]

big glass and metal shell, think of the heating/AC needed yikes

[@jerryforeman4543]

Turn them into motorhomes and sell them as that

[@Sm158ith]

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.

[@SuziPoozi]

Used to work for a FD, I love this idea!

[@Classiccargirl74]

That's sounds like a good idea they could also donate some to police to test new police products

[@2BigFooted]

Donate....hahahahah you watch Dave sparks right? This dudes out to make every buck he can in any way possible.

[@alexvelasco4579]

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

[@ronv6637]

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 .

[@MRWest85]

build tiny homes out of them or see if Demo Ranch could use them for camping "cabins" at his resort.

[@ProdThrash]

my first thought was demo ranch haha

[@TheBigburcie]

I just came from his video talking about ranch plans. These would be great as multi-bed cabins.

[@dsutton419672]

I had the same idea but call it BUStling City They would have income for years.

[@TheBigburcie]

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.

[@Katseye102]

Now that’s an idea while he’s trying to get the Abandoned Resort ready for people. 😃😃

[@danowen3]

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.

[@TheH-Dfamily]

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.

[@peepininmywindow5170]

@@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.

[@TheLab1999]

Tiny home donations and a Mobile Command Center

[@cheriblom6507]

I'm for a Tiny Home project or Tiny Home resort. MIni Cabins

[@linmal2242]

@@TheH-Dfamily And don't forget the BBQ and seating !

[@wanderinghippie75]

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!

[@pauls.8748]

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!

[@whysix3417]

You had me until you said homeless. It would turn into a drug den.

[@pauls.8748]

@@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!

[@timothycockerill9770]

TURN THEM INTO TINY HOMES AND GIVE THEM TO HOMELESS VETERANS!!!

[@whysix3417]

@@pauls.8748 I would rather they be deleted by use of a small metal object.

[@christianhodge4818]

This is the best option I think. I would totally love to see myself in something like this.

[@stevencash391]

I think Cleetus needs his own version of the Freedom Bus for the Freedom Factory.

[@MNW-69]

Great idea

[@jacobpuckett7899]

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.

[@stanthehandyman3719]

That was my first thought.

[@itsisme1993]

Not sure the side walls on the freedom factory will hold up to that lol

[@rynomustang7453]

Let a bunch of KZbin people each have one to deck out and then race them at the freedom factory

[@EmonoobUldum]

Weld four of them together - 2 wide, 2 long - with ginormous tracks and skis in the front to make a world-shaking snow monstreme!

[@Classiccargirl74]

Ooooh I was thinking something similar to that

[@thebobshatney]

I was thinking one behind another to make a long monster bus, but I like the 2x2 idea bro that would be sick lol

[@collinator68]

Or maybe 4 of them welded together 2 wide and double decker?

[@TrumpDatB1tch]

That's the dumest idea I've heard in all the comments so far

[@jaykennerley5870]

yeah weld them together like a double decker top one with accelerator bottom one with steering with

[@bryanmann2316]

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).

[@Lstn2urmama]

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

[@Hellsong89]

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.

[@Lstn2urmama]

@@Hellsong89 ..insulation and drainage supposedly... been had for many years ...no problem

[@WilliamEades_Frostbite]

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.

[@robertmusgrove7953]

That's crazy didn't know that

[@kurtveldeman9291]

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.

[@N.I.L.84]

What a score. Give one to Brent in Cerro Gordo for the dry season to get people up the mountain.

[@JustinHammond]

That is a very cool idea

[@ekdaman13]

Probably too big to make it up that road

[@YogurtSnipe]

@@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.

[@21jojijo]

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

[@petepowell7399]

Hell yeah love this idea

[@williemitchell1176]

If you have land zoned residential do a bus park housing (do conversion livable space for added income)🙂

[@larrymayberry2312]

We used some old busses for deer camps. Insulated, added wood stove and bunks. Turned out great.

[@Rbradt37]

Take them to Brent in Cerro Gordo. He can use them as storage units or renovate them as individual cabins to rent.

[@timvandijknl]

Cerro Gordo tourbus, yo 🤣🤣

[@alexmikhael5061]

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

[@risinbison1106]

In my hometown, guys race these once a year at the fair. It’s freaking hysterical watching a school bus drifting.

[@keithmcgee7679]

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 👍🏾

[@johnathonjasper8090]

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.

[@PrincessAddie14]

Dude chill, by the time you're seeing this they already made up there minds

[@WillLockwoodStudios]

great idea! I forward

[@ralphhondaman]

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.

[@DeathsAvarice]

@@PrincessAddie14 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.

[@PrincessAddie14]

@@DeathsAvarice buddy your off your rocker today, they do that to get engagement so it shows KZbin 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

[@edredmazda]

An uncle of mine had a school bus converted to mobile hunting cabin. Bunks, bathroom, kitchen, basically an RV. Neat idea for a project.

[@R.T.Schaefer]

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.

[@Seriously_Unserious]

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.

[@jasontaylor2995]

Bury the busses and make an underground living space.. keep.kickin ass guys

[@RogerM88]

You should definitely consider turning some of the buses to 4wd RVs for the remote recoveries. Would be handy to the Crew.

[@disiontactics9949]

Yes exactly so much room and possibilities

[@jeffsimonsen8449]

Isn’t that basically the freedom bus?

[@mfree80286]

@@jeffsimonsen8449 I think a little road-legality might be sprinkled over this particular idea....

[@alexmikhael5061]

set one up for next years SICKWEEK ??? ;) or the next dragNdrive ??? powertour:??? 2k footpounds and 4x4 ?? LOL

[@BANGDANGOW45]

Make the world's longest school bus is what..

[@Slikx666]

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. 🥳

[@clayferguson340]

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 .

[@funstigatorstv5793]

A school themed Airbnb or retreat park. Around deck courtyard with a bunch of kids, games and swingset. Your childhood!

[@AdamSouthworth-w5y]

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 KZbin 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!

[@louloubell6586]

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.

[@sharvey1192]

Great idea “Glamping”

[@brqxton8974]

He could make a shit ton of content bringing these down to Demolition Ranch and turning them into air bnbs

[@dawnday937]

My first thought was "tiny houses"! If anyone can get it started &/or done, it'd be you!

[@JohnSmith-lw2bm]

Show Cody how to drop a bus from a Blackhawk.

[@coopercovelo]

So instead of the Cozy cone hotel, have it the School (cool when you paint over the S and h letters) bus hotel?

[@LandonStratman]

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.

[@jeremysales1232]

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.

[@matra149]

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

[@LandonStratman]

@@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.

[@dannyboy6754]

I drove those babies for 30 years. Those would make a great skoolie. Blue Bird buses are one of the best. I spent a week in Georgia at the plant. An amazing place. Be safe everyone

[@ReactionEX]

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 👏

[@jemdouglas2904]

Please help this man.

[@BabyG22v]

@heavydsparks

[@aziznuhu3151]

Let all help this man out

[@nicholaslandolina]

Restored coolness

[@Jenna-q6w]

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.

[@connoisseuroftigolbitts]

Install some Driver safety Roll Cages and let’s see some Derby Bus !

[@LukasDBrown]

they dont run

[@RickyWomack0611]

⚠️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. 😅😅😅

[@connoisseuroftigolbitts]

@@LukasDBrownmonster truck show would be awesome too

[@Chainwrangler001]

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!

[@thomasbarlow4223]

This is a great idea

[@RoxyLuffer]

Great Idea, would have to build power into the thing though

[@ronv6637]

Welder/genset all the power you need

[@darkporky]

Make a RV for the team to stay on some some of the wild recovery you guys do!

[@anneott]

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!

[@seaflower1520]

Total agree had similar idea a green house!

[@anneott]

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

[@Dominic_IBM]

thats a huge amount more work then just making a greenhouse

[@anneott]

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

[@stevenallen2530]

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.

[@diillydallydork]

Can use as a bridge also! Covered

[@1nvisible1]

*Yeah baby, stack'em three high like a container home on a 4" square steel frame!*

[@bobclark7211]

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!

[@Dancing_Alone_wRentals]

Congratulations on the graduation, to him and the whole family!

[@dingusdingus2152]

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....

[@gearhead9115]

@@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

[@dingusdingus2152]

@@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.

[@chadfaulkner3600]

theres a ton of youtube channels on this. Cheaprvliving is a good one.

[@raynbeauheathercheng7721]

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...

[@cliffjacobs8011]

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.

[@PhilCobProductions]

Dual engine with half the body of a rear-engine and half a front-engine would be sick!

[@1987Confused]

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.

[@brysonngaming2678]

The school bus with the fancy seats is what we called the “Trip Busses” our HS band loved those for our long concert trips

[@BenMcCuiston-j1q]

In North Carolina, there’s huge tobacco farms and lots of them use these old busses on their farms by taking off the roof, taking out the seats, and installing a conveyor belt the length of the bus. They drive them through the fields,, harvest the tobacco, throw it into the buss, and then it dumps and uses the conveyor belt during the process.

[@ProlificInvention]

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.

[@davestevens4263]

Yup I've seen that crazy bus collection buried .

[@UziRid3r]

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.

[@mattiaslindh37]

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 👍🏻

[@billjensen6216]

The drivable one, I would turn it into a 4x4 camper. Set it up with tanks for waster and waist water. Table and chairs, a bed or 3. Refrigerator and heaters and A/C basically for camping and hunting camper. Just a thought

[@johnnyh8878]

Donate them to the boarder wall. Great lookouts and shelter.

[@Jonny_The_Organism]

New arrivals might think they're getting a free ride to paradise.

[@bryantford3054]

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?)

[@lakaiskates8064]

It's a French Canadian name, given they are from Queerbec.

[@DxCBuG]

Well, the round cab would make a good greenhouse template 😂

[@clevelandjhono6908]

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

[@MuminahBlanks-S.E.H.D]

I saw buses and all I could think was Bus conversion. My ultimate dream. Love your channel.

[@SteveTwoodturning]

Is there a place that could use the non running busses as homes for the homeless? Convert them into a mini bus home village?

[@jackrobinson6277]

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.

[@Jenna-q6w]

why would he do that. what incentive is there?

[@samuelpo3378]

don't forget you can also do that

[@ericlakemaker9910]

Unsheltered ? You mean homeless

[@temujinkhan6326]

why dont you buy a homeless person a home first before telling someone else how to spend their money... In another note i would live on one of these

[@theburtseoni]

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.

[@ohAerox]

I love seeing Alan with you guys!

[@charlesballiet7074]

great for housing/camper conversion. very solid frames and with a little work can be given more headroom. I know 3 people who have done it and dont regret it

[@hpk8191]

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

[@CLCIII]

Great use of the quote "I'm your Huckleberry." Doc Dave! Cool video. As Always, May God Bless you and yours! 😇

[@billpletikapich5640]

Perfect for off grid living/ hunting or fishing cabin, etc.

[@mitch500]

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.

[@kurtisstutzman7056]

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...!!!

[@baneverything5580]

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.

[@johncarros7678]

School bus races with cleetus at the freedom factory!

[@connoisseuroftigolbitts]

Or Monster Truck Jam at the FF

[@turtle2448thomas]

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

[@PrincessAddie14]

So all this time money and energy to destroy everything, yeah that's how you sink a business into the ground

[@Bob-727]

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

[@scottdavis9579]

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.

[@PrincessAddie14]

No, this isn't HGTV my man

[@elmorientez3787]

Get one really mechanically sound and donate it to Brent up at Cerro Gordo to ferry up people for Ghost Town Tours :)

[@ynotynot8040]

Make rv's or bunk houses for your employees for those long time jobs . They would be a retreat for your employees on those long jobs or a command center or a parts stores or a food vehicle . Lots of options depending on the job

[@moetrumpet]

How about painting one green and putting it back into service with the schools as the 'Cool Bus'. You could do an experiment running it on veggie oil and let the kids/community be part of the experiment. Getting the used veggie oil donated and learning how to filter it.

[@BluBoomie33]

OMG!!! I'm a school bus driver and have dreamt of having a skoolie to travel the U.S.!!! I use to drive a Bluebird Transit 78 passenger, but then I got promoted to a brand new Thomas Conventional. I absolutely love this video! THANKS for posting! 💛🚍💛🚍💛🚍💛🚍💛🚍💛

[@ThirdeyedeasInc]

Top 9 Old School Bus Possibilities Find a roadside view location property owner and partner to set up an Old School Camp Ground using the busses as rental sleeping cabins. Pull the bodies off and use them for cattle/feed shelters on your beef property. In Mexico they use them for chicken houses/coops. Start an OLD School BBQ franchise... I'll be your Huckleberry to run that outfit! Use your beef! Do a youtube short cutting one in cross sections and using for school bus shelters at the end of people's drives. Do a YT short burying one for a SHTF shelter/bunker. Allen could use them for tunnel liners at the fortress. Allen could start a Mt Fortress Primitive Campground and use as cabins. Do a short painting one white and using it as roadside bill board signage... a la Wall Drug!

[@lowbudgetbob1155]

If you smell a hint of coolant in the exhaust, check it over real good. I worked on school buses for almost 25 years and if you smell coolant...it's never good. Pull the dipsticks on the transmissions and make sure the fluid is the right color and there's no rust on the dipstick. The transmission coolers on those Thomas buses can leak coolant into the trans fluid after the engine is shut off. We replaced a couple of transmissions due to that problem. Those buses bring back a lot memories... DOT would have a heyday with that electrical tape repair...

[@GTTemperd]

Wow,I would buy them in a second, vagabond housebuses/tinyhomes are heaps of fun to work on/build/design and so popular .nice1 bro always entertaining,always inspiring

[@alexxjaa]

Set them in a great location and turn them into airbnbs

[@ronchase9479]

WOW!!! I bought 35 school buses. 18 are conventionals & 17 flat noses. All run I paid $90K for all 🙂 Nice video Dave!

[@ryanoutdoors5985]

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.👌

[@StevenSayers-oc4gk]

Pants company’warm primitive’? Hardly heard what you said. Went back to listen a couple of times too.

[@kevinfleming9919]

Turn the Prevost into an RV and sell it! With the school busses, take a couple of them and cut the roofs off, raise them up to a comfortable height for walking around inside, cabinets, shower, etc, and make them custom RV's, maybe with a Sparks style design, and replace windows with metal from the sides of the spare parts ones and put some better insulating windows in place of the bus drop windows, and maybe do one with an enclosed Toy Hauler rear with drop ramps for ATV's, Motorcycles, bikes, etc, or even a small flatbed back for them to strap onto!

[@johnharris7191]

Cody just runs his busses over with the tank.😂

[@crazybro5153]

You should do a storage yard tour! I know I would want to see everything. What happen to the three cool vehicles you guys were making. I know that F1 semi would be sick. Bus derby? Keep up the good work guys! 💪

[@Dr.CharlesMc]

Here a great idea for the nondriveable ones - turn into off grid homes and make a tiny home park on a piece of land and either make them rentals or sales as homes and just charge for the utilities. They are being reused, putting the homeless into homeownership while saving our carbon footprint

[@alvaradotowing23]

These old buses make great underground storm shelters. You can build it to your needs, and bury them in the ground.

[@PrincessAddie14]

That's the biggest waste of time and energy and most pointless act ever thunk

[@Daniel-Weaver]

Didn't some guy do that with 40 or buses? Made a whole underground town.

[@ripn929707]

​@@Daniel-Weaveryes, some crazy old man made a rust pit in the ground.

[@Jonny_The_Organism]

Better off putting them on stilts.....or if you prefer to dig some holes....make a bushenge!..

[@ralphhayward5693]

I suggest you have one team design and build a tiny house from one bus. Once one is done, it won't be too hard to build the next. Scrap the seats

[@Adam-mn1wr]

get teams together and give them a bus, make them run and do some sort of adventure, maybe take them to Cerro Gordo and see if they make it up Brent's road .. could be an epic multi-part story then leave them up there to be converted into tiny homes to see out the rest of their days :)

[@MarlonMarkJames]

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.

[@BarnesWelding0609]

I had no idea they offered dismantler permits. when I was running a body shop, we just cut the squarebodys up into small enough pieces that the scrap guys didnt care. Most had titles, some didnt

[@joewks08]

Market those working busses to the Skoolie community!! We have a 35’ school bus that we were turning into an RV. We stripped it down to bare metal inside. It has flooring & spray foam insulation all throughout the inside. It’s a blank canvas…ready to be built into an RV. Unfortunately, we have to sell it do to family health issues.

[@shannonhedden]

I was thinking you could take one that you make run well and kit it out to be a bunk house on wheels with a decent man's kitchen, flushies and eating nook but make it spectacular so no matter the late night, overnight jobs you can take good care of yourself and your crew. Just make sure she can off-road so she's accessible on recoveries.

[@yourfuture5756]

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

[@aussieguy3689]

I see a bus like that and accommodation comes to mind , You could fix them up a little inside deck them out with the basics tidy the outsides up sell them as stationary homes or help out the underprivileged and struggling homeless familys . Homelessness is becoming a real problem here in Australia too the available rentals in most areas are at only 1% where the demand for them has risen to over 8% so 7 out of 8 people / families are going without or finding it near impossible to keep a roof over their heads .

[@taylorlengyel]

Pull the engines to sell, park 2 of them about 12ft apart and put a roof in between the two, instant dual sheds for dry storage and a parking spot in the center

[@ericleanne1628]

Dirty Mike and the boys!!!! That was hilarious. Love “The other guys”. Awesome movie

[@VividVision_]

GIANT Jenga ‼️

[@bwillan]

I'd be careful with that Prevost. It looks like is was last used by a Chinese tour company. They are known for running those hard and doing the bare minimum for maintenance.

[@77nizzova53]

Agree, but he said it had new engine and transmission!!! He probably would want proof of that, but he didn't get that one anyway I believe!!!!????

[@ricksmith4736]

I smell soy sauce

[@terryskaggs2024]

Hi heavy D. I live in northern MI around the Traverse City area. Here there is a local cherry company that scoops up a lot of the old busses to haul the totes of cherries in from the fields. The cut the bodies off just behind the driver to make them into flatbed. They work pretty good too.

[@littlemac9425]

Build the first street train🚃🚃🚃🚃

[@drunkjonboy]

Turn it into a boat that will transport people from traverse city to Petoskey via water. Lol

[@lawdog490]

My cousin owns a large school bus company… most of the buses he sells are fully functional…this is because most school districts have in their contracts that regardless of the buses condition, cannot be older than 8-10 years. Interestingly, a man from the Dominican Republic, bought a dozen, cheese ( full size) buses, he is having them shipped back to the D.R., he has a large bed and breakfast of these buses that he converted,…saw the pics, what a job he did…great vid as always. 😊

[@RecordSeeker]

Not sure where you are located, but the part about the age limit is definitely not true in most of the US.

[@gerrymchale8965]

I know it's true in certain towns in New York.

[@minecrafterselite1]

@@RecordSeeker it depends on their school like many businesses they like to get rid of older vehicles and get new ones to prevent any unwanted headaches older vehicles will cause.

[@heatherd.9390]

Care to share the channel name? I'd be interested in watching that too!

[@2011BBSS]

I live in a bus in montreal where its cold and i think you could built cheap shelter with them.(solar pannels/inverters/batts and cheap webasto copies could help pplz in need

[@harveytinnes5562]

Make a two story RV out of two of them. Have all the living area on the lower and sleeping on the top. Maybe even a ramp on the back to store your classic car for driving around when you are parked.

[@davesnothere2782]

Mad Max

[@charleswolfe7068]

Have you ever heard of Quartzite, Arizona? Combine all into 2 or 3 RV conversions, then sale them at Quartzite next winter season.

[@darrenreeves6936]

Strip’em to just a frame and shell, mount a fifth wheel or gooseneck frame on front and sell as a ready to build camper/mini home

[@lidolf8168]

That wrecker is quite strong for its size. I would've expected a semi wrecker not an f650