Gleaner AII

a few years ago, my neighbor was at the local elevator having coffee and chat with other farmers and myself. he was considered a big farmer in the area and he and his boys were all jd. when asked by the manager of the elevator what combine he liked the best out of all of them he's had all his life....he said a Gleaner combine was the best he'd ever owned! his boys were also there and you should have seen their jaws drop to the floor! I do remember him having a Gleaner sum years before, and I also remember his boys tell him he needed to get rid of that combine because it was embarrassing them! he did get rid of it and he retired either that year or the next and let his boys take over. since then they have been thru probably 7-8 different jd combines...apparently they haven't found a good one yet!

JW...not gonna gits into a *issing match...I've had deere combines too, found that other brands were a lot easier to work on than the deeres were if needed! i'm just saying what happened at the elevator that day! my last deere combine was a 6620 and after running an IH rotary, they were far superior machines than the deere. the best combine I've ever had in the time period was the Gleaner N5.

John I have a later ser# A is just 300 short of being "A-II" it's like that little battery bunny it just go's and go's. lol
I look at the greens as great seed relocater's, they do a good job cutting and seeding for next year all at the same time. lmao  

John, just trying to add to your thread, but here's a picture of an AII. This was taken at the Rantoul Half-Century of Progress show several years ago. It's a nice, small, simple machine.

IMO any combine can keep the losses under control, and its highly operator dependent, but I have never seen a bin sample from a Deere come close to that of a Gleaner.

IMO the Deere "dependability" is that Deere has figured out life cycle intervals to the point they can eliminate downtime if you spend enough in the off season.

We need pics of the A2 John!


Edited by GM Guy - 23 Jan 2015 at 6:29pm

In my area there are mostly green ones and the ducks and geese love it. I run a L2 and they don't land or feed on any land that we farm but are always just across the fence. That's not just one or two days but day after day and the hunters know it too. You can see it from the road during a wet fall with all the corn and beans growing in strips after harvest.   It makes good coffee shop talk too....