I Bought An Entire Fleet Of School Buses... 

Figure 8 race at the Freedom 500??

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!

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

Thank you,Big D and brothers,Your are solid.Enjoying your vids,I wish the world was a team like all of you do.Thanks.

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).

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.

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!

Here in Alaska a ton of those get turned into family motor homes. I've seen some really nice ones.

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. :)

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

might be able to get more for the busses if you pull the seats out and mostly strip the interiour sounds weird but theres a lot of people that repurpose these busses to rv's , having a bus ready to put walls and stuff in is a big plus

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.

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

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.

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!

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 👍🏾

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.

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. 🥳

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

I love seeing Alan with you guys!

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

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

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.

those Blue Birds are built in Ft. Valley, Ga 45 mins away from me, the best buses in the industry

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

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 👏

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.

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

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.

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!

Building living space (camping-cars) , they are selling well for the 25-35yo

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 😊😊😊

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.

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!

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

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 🌞

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.

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?)

A wrecking yard in Lewiston Idaho used old buses to make a fence around the perimeter of the storage yard.

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

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.

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

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

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 .

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 RU-vid 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!

make a really cool train, i did once with three, cheap to do too not for the road but for private park of golf course or something like that. if you install a cool looking tow bar between them just only need one engine and one driver. keep all wheels on the ground and just build a Tow bar like trolley type deal. I can help it would be cool.

Bless others with a home if not running but have a place to put it. Do the same with the ones that does run. MAY GOD BLESS YOU EITHER WAY.

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.

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

They will be good for a camping bus with some good forniture a sink .. and it will be nice to watch that

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.

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.

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 👍🏻

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

In Central America, they use those buses for public transportation, and I believe in South America as well they still useful because they have a great engine

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

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!

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.

“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

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

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.

Bro ship them out to somewhere the cold doesnt matter. Maybe cali or florida as refurbished houses. Surely an npo would love that. Not sure it would work in utah. Too cold. But those things are huge and could easily be repurposed as housing

i would totally turn the best couple of them in to bare bones rv... sell them for project vehicles assuming they run reliable enough. is what i would do if i got my hands on one, turn it in to a basic rv, work on it as ideas or needs arise.

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.

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

Build the running and driving one into the ultimate overland vehicle. Not as crazy as the freedom bus but definitely off-road capable. Then trick out the interior as a camper with full kitchen, bathroom and bunks.

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.

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.

+1 for housing solutions, or the firefighter training was also a nice idea

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!

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.👌

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.

When he pulled out the teachings of the president book in that party bus I busted out laughing! 😂

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! 💛🚍💛🚍💛🚍💛🚍💛🚍💛

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

perfect bunker shells

There is a place here in Ontario. Thats kinda famous. I guess he dug big holes in the ground. Burried like 10 school buses. And re-enforced them to turn them into bomb shelters. Back in the 60's. Now its a little known tourist attraction.

Set them in a great location and turn them into airbnbs

Hey Dave, the pligs used to make silage haulers and manure spreaders out of those old buses. Cut the top off stiffen the sides, put a belt system on the floor to unload the silage or chopped hay or manure. Just a thought

Rebuild them for Nomads and totally gut them and a fresh coat of paint and resell at a good price. That state is known for that!

I got an idea and challenged for everyone around one! How about carefully taking those older school apart and making them into little houses for people to live in! I thought about campers first! Yet the tiny house to me is a better fit. Have fun no matter what one will do with the older busses. I was trained to drive a 40 foot school bus and ended up getting my license and not getting the bus driving job. Cause I speak up and did do this at the school driving place. They kept our buses in a building; my neighbor was a driver and he passed on with cancer in about three weeks after knowing he had cancer. So try not to park and drive the school buses in buildings. These are better just kept outside so we don't inhale the bad fumes. I had to park in the building a few times to see if I was ready to take the Class B test and I passed it. I drove it slowly though. Paul

School bus races with cleetus at the freedom factory!

Cody just runs his busses over with the tank.😂

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.