Gretchen the Gleaner harvesting corn.
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Topic: Gretchen the Gleaner harvesting corn.
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Subject: Gretchen the Gleaner harvesting corn.
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2025 at 5:05am
| Here's a video Evan shot of his 'E' in action. Pretty cool! https://youtu.be/njmG4FAx5og?si=So8ePaKagnI6bPf3" rel="nofollow - https://youtu.be/njmG4FAx5og?si=So8ePaKagnI6bPf3 |
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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2025 at 5:30am
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Nice video, love seeing the old iron in action. Darrel |
Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2025 at 8:14am
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Very, very nice video! ------------- Blue Skies and Tail Winds Dana |
Posted By: wjohn
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2025 at 10:58am
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I met a guy up in MN who started out farming with an E in the late 70s/early 80s. He got up to 500 acres fairly quickly... 2 rows of corn at a time, picking into January! Crazy to think about that. ------------- 1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45 |
Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2025 at 2:57pm
| As I have said for many years, any 1960's Gleaner (in good condition) does just as nice of job shelling corn as a brand new combine of any make or model. Just not as many bushels per hour !!! |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2025 at 9:22pm
| If you tied some 'screens" to your walkers and opened the cylinder to run whole cobs you could travel MUCH faster |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2025 at 6:35am
I will alert Evan to this. Thought he might check in and see I posted it.
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SteveM C/IL wrote:Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2025 at 7:20am
| The reason Gleaner combines of that age DIDN'T try and run a whole cob was because of the wooden slats in the raddle chain. Whole cobs was pretty hard on the slats and could break them. Sooo, be careful. If he has steel slats, then not an issue. |
Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2025 at 9:13am
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IBWD Mike, Great video. Thanks for sharing it. That AC 226 in-line 4 is a gutsy little engine @ 62.7hp(1967). Awesome engine to listen to when it’s operating at its working pace. Just imagine it’s torque demands to run a cornhead, threshing cylinder, separator cleaning, transfer clean grain up to grain tank, & carry the machine along with operator/fuel/grain thru the field? Weights per 1966-67 Base machine: 6750 lbs, E-240 cornhead 1376 lbs, 35bu corn 2000 lbs, 32 gal gas 200 lbs, Operator 150-175 lbs. |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2025 at 10:01am
| Good point Doc. I forgot about the slats. After loosing some in my A2 I put a steel raddle from Manchester Mfg in. Old age got them more than the cobs. |
Posted By: evan austin
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2025 at 9:10pm
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Hey Everybody, I want to say Thanks to Mike for posting this, and thanks also to everybody else for checking it out! It took a lot of work to get it back to what I thought was close enough to "field ready." She was a little rougher than I thought  I'm happy with how it did. I definitely need more practice adjusting and setting it up. It does still have the old wooden slat raddle chain, so far it's holding together but some of the slats look pretty rough. I remembered reading an old post about how the wooden slats didn't play well with whole cobs so I decided not to worry about the walker screens, at least for the time being. It still needs a bit of work but it's getting there. I've got a 10ft grain head to start on sometime, it's going to be a project too.The absolute best part of getting to run it, was the excitement on my 8 year old's face when he rode with me. He'd been looking forward to riding in it since we dragged it home last January, and that made it all worth it.  I finally updated the playlist with videos of working on it if anybody is interested. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu0_fWm0RsqPAfqnGC1Cw2WtJs8YAHRIm Thanks again, everybody! I hope you all have a good one Evan
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Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2025 at 6:38am
| That combine is a great story Evan, you made a real machine out of one that could have went to scrap. |
Posted By: Allis dave
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2025 at 10:16am
| How does it do on power? There a local Gleaner E that would be neat to have, but I'd have to run a 3 row narrow head on it. I have doubts that the E could handle 3 rows of 200bu corn |
Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2025 at 10:33am
| Yes. It certainly could. Example: If an N-6/R-6/R-60 would handle 6-30's of 200 BPA corn at 6MPH, the same combine would handle 12-30's at 3MPH. The harvesting unit will handle so many tons/bushels of crop per hour, so it is just a matter of the correct ground speed. ** The biggest problem is a grain tank size that won't let you get very far when you use a large head. |