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GM Guy 
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Posted: 27 Jan 2017 at 3:25am |
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Gleaner: the properly engineered and built combine.
If you need parts for your Gleaner, we are parting out A's through L2's, so we may be able to help.
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GM Guy
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Posted: 27 Jan 2017 at 4:12am |
The only tractor shot I have this year, 7580 doing some last minute summer fallow before I head off to Idaho.  Some Great Basin Wild Rye that the poor C2 diesel had to suffer through  It is common in Idaho for grain to be down, this is average, and it gets worse from here. http://s1290.photobucket.com/user/rborneman_08/media/2016%20Farming%20Season/0809161800a_zpsqezplmii.jpg.html?sort=2&o=18 Idaho has rocks. Poor auger finger.  Some forage oats right next to a pivot of corn. not dry, but the windo was coming so it had to be done. 
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Gleaner: the properly engineered and built combine.
If you need parts for your Gleaner, we are parting out A's through L2's, so we may be able to help.
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GM Guy
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Posted: 27 Jan 2017 at 4:14am |
Back to KS for corn:   Dad and his latest marmon 
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Gleaner: the properly engineered and built combine.
If you need parts for your Gleaner, we are parting out A's through L2's, so we may be able to help.
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JayIN
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Posted: 27 Jan 2017 at 4:34am |
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Nice pics! What planting population do you shoot for in that Kansas corn? It looks like dryland corn?
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sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?"
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JasonB
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Posted: 27 Jan 2017 at 5:35am |
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Beautiful pictures! Loved seeing that clean looking L2 Gleaner and R60 Orange stripe at work! Have to say those R60's were really sharp looking with the Orange stripe decals. Nice looking N6 Gleaner as well, they are becoming less common up here.
Any pictures of the C2 Diesel?
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ILGLEANER
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Posted: 27 Jan 2017 at 7:48am |
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Thanks for the pics there great !!!
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Posted: 27 Jan 2017 at 7:58am |
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Looks good out there!
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GM Guy
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Posted: 27 Jan 2017 at 12:24pm |
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Thanks for the comments guys!
JayIN, population goes as low as 8,000 on the high ground and as high as 16K in the low ground. We hire a good friend that is a bigger operator to plant with his 8000 series White 16 row with variable rate control. We like the concept of variable rate, but cant afford it, so we hire that out.
JasonB, I think I have a pic from 2015 of the same combine in the same field, so that should be close enough, I will go look for it.
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Gleaner: the properly engineered and built combine.
If you need parts for your Gleaner, we are parting out A's through L2's, so we may be able to help.
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GM Guy
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Posted: 27 Jan 2017 at 12:40pm |
JasonB, found some! :) I dont like the strain it puts on the machine, and dad happens to have a 71 G diesel Hydro that started life as a grain combine, and the previous owner did a shop conversion to a bean special, but none of the panels are perforated so as a bean combine it could not rid itself of dirt very well. My thoughts are to convert it to be a grass machine, as it has a spike tooth cylinder which works well in grass, and the late G has more adjustments in the cleaning system, so we can fine tune it better, and this particular G has a hydraulic belt unloading conveyor, which eliminates the transition point which liked to clog in grass. plus, the 301 turbo is alot cheaper to find parts for and has more grunt, and the separator clutch is bigger. 
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Gleaner: the properly engineered and built combine.
If you need parts for your Gleaner, we are parting out A's through L2's, so we may be able to help.
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LB0442
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Posted: 27 Jan 2017 at 2:03pm |
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Great pictures, thank you for posting them.
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JasonB
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Posted: 27 Jan 2017 at 2:33pm |
 GM Guy wrote:
JasonB, found some! :)
I dont like the strain it puts on the machine, and dad happens to have a 71 G diesel Hydro that started life as a grain combine, and the previous owner did a shop conversion to a bean special, but none of the panels are perforated so as a bean combine it could not rid itself of dirt very well.
My thoughts are to convert it to be a grass machine, as it has a spike tooth cylinder which works well in grass, and the late G has more adjustments in the cleaning system, so we can fine tune it better, and this particular G has a hydraulic belt unloading conveyor, which eliminates the transition point which liked to clog in grass. plus, the 301 turbo is alot cheaper to find parts for and has more grunt, and the separator clutch is bigger.
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Great looking C2 Gleaner! In very nice clean looking shape! Love seeing the older Gleaners. Thanks for posting.
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AC7060IL
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Posted: 27 Jan 2017 at 6:48pm |
GM Guy wrote:
Thanks for the comments guys!
JayIN, population goes as low as 8,000 on the high ground and as high as 16K in the low ground. We hire a good friend that is a bigger operator to plant with his 8000 series White 16 row with variable rate control. We like the concept of variable rate, but cant afford it, so we hire that out.
JasonB, I think I have a pic from 2015 of the same combine in the same field, so that should be close enough, I will go look for it. |
Thanks GM Guy. We have a son & daughter-in-law living in Denver. This fall while we were driving across I70 from IL to CO to enjoy Thanksgiving with them, we saw corn fields like yours & asked the same population question. Now we know. Doing some simple yield math, I figure a 500kernel ear x 8,000 plants might yield 30-50bu/acre. Double that for higher 16,000 plant low areas?? How close did I figure?
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GM Guy
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Posted: 27 Jan 2017 at 7:59pm |
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AC7060IL, you are pretty close! :)
With the wind damage that resulted in alot of down corn on the end rows (thankfully none on the long passes) we still netted about 48 bu. acre on the corn.
Did you drive by on I70? that corn field was on the north side. :) Stop in next time, free tours given. :)
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Gleaner: the properly engineered and built combine.
If you need parts for your Gleaner, we are parting out A's through L2's, so we may be able to help.
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AC7060IL
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Posted: 27 Jan 2017 at 8:19pm |
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Yes, we drove I70 both directions. What exit are you close to? The next trip out, we will stop by for a tour - thanks. We saw corn on both sides still awaiting harvest. After Thanksgiving (11-30-16) on our return trip thru east CO & west KS, wind (from NW) gusts were 40-50mph and were blowing semis (box trailer types) over or pushing their trailers sideways 2-3'. Tumble weeds were rolling all over I70. Closer to Salina, we watch a farmer trying to pick his corn in those winds. I was amazed the corn was still standing.
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Posted: 28 Jan 2017 at 1:55am |
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wow...we strive to plant 22-28,000 per acre dryland corn here!
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Mikez
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Posted: 28 Jan 2017 at 8:47am |
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Thanks for sharing the pictures
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GM Guy
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Posted: 29 Jan 2017 at 2:15am |
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AC7060IL, we are near Exit 27.
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Gleaner: the properly engineered and built combine.
If you need parts for your Gleaner, we are parting out A's through L2's, so we may be able to help.
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Posted: 29 Jan 2017 at 9:05am |
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Very nice pictures! It nice to see some areas of the country I may never get to. Thanks for taking the time to post the pictures!
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Posted: 29 Jan 2017 at 5:47pm |
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Do you farm in multiple states or custom combine?
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8030 and 8050MFWD, 7580, 3 6080's, 160, 7060, 175, heirloom D17, Deere 8760
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Ryan Renko
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Posted: 29 Jan 2017 at 6:18pm |
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Great pictures!!! It looks like you take great care of your equipment. That R 60 looks like a beast!!! Ryan
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Posted: 29 Jan 2017 at 7:03pm |
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love the pic thanks for posting
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Posted: 29 Jan 2017 at 7:45pm |
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Great pictures! Just curious on how it works on farming in two different states that far apart? It's also amazing on how farming practices differ. We plant 28 to 33,000 on corn population.
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Posted: 29 Jan 2017 at 9:53pm |
Thanks for the great pics!!! Those are some great L2 shots! The "air-brella" on the Diesel C2 is neat, too! I've heard they just blow chaff down your neck, and they aren't common down here. A neat collector's item, regardless.
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Posted: 30 Jan 2017 at 9:58pm |
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Hmmmm. I have seen your Marmon truck on a calender? I love your pictures of the L2 and the R60 side by side.
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GM Guy
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Posted: 01 Feb 2017 at 10:21pm |
victoryallis wrote:
Do you farm in multiple states or custom combine? |
We just farm in KS. We do a few small custom jobs in KS. Most people out here have their own machine, or have a dedicated custom cutter, so we only get small jobs the cutters wont bother with or in the case of this year, a neighbor's combine breaking down. As far as Idaho, Grandma's place is in Idaho, and it is rented out to keep peace in the family. (siblings, fair rent rate versus crazy rent some BTOs that failed math class were paying before they went down, etc.) We have a second fleet of combines out there that we leave out there and do small time custom work with, we try to do a couple hundred acres total. Keep in mind guys we are over-capacitated on combines, we dont have many acres, so we may look big, but I think in our county we are in the bottom 25 percent size wise. :)
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Gleaner: the properly engineered and built combine.
If you need parts for your Gleaner, we are parting out A's through L2's, so we may be able to help.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2017 at 11:34pm |
GM Guy wrote:
victoryallis wrote:
Do you farm in multiple states or custom combine? |
We just farm in KS. We do a few small custom jobs in KS. Most people out here have their own machine, or have a dedicated custom cutter, so we only get small jobs the cutters wont bother with or in the case of this year, a neighbor's combine breaking down.
As far as Idaho,
Grandma's place is in Idaho, and it is rented out to keep peace in the family. (siblings, fair rent rate versus crazy rent some BTOs that failed math class were paying before they went down, etc.)
We have a second fleet of combines out there that we leave out there and do small time custom work with, we try to do a couple hundred acres total.
Keep in mind guys we are over-capacitated on combines, we dont have
many acres, so we may look big, but I think in our county we are in the bottom 25 percent size wise. :)
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Makes sense now.
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Posted: 02 Feb 2017 at 1:00pm |
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Thanks for posting the pictures I enjoyed them a lot. A few years ago I visited my oldest in Ruleton when he was working for Eyster harvesting and they were camped there. They were running corn north of Kanarado and a few miles north of town there was an farm still running cylinder Gleaners, I think Ls? There was a big old Gleaners pull type in the fence row behi d the house.
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