Gleaner AII
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Topic: Gleaner AII
Posted By: JohnCO
Subject: Gleaner AII
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2015 at 9:59pm
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I bought an A a few years ago at a consignment sale 25 miles from my place. It had a 3 row corn head on it, which I needed and the seller told me it had a 12' grain/pickup head in a barn near Niwot. Found it was only a couple miles from my place. Never knew it was there. Guess it could be considered a "barn find". Anyway, it has proven to be a great combine! I hauled it home on a tilt deck trailer the other day and again was impressed at how such a simple, small machine can do such a good job. Pretty simple controls and aftermarket cab but for my small operation I couldn't ask for a better machine. Sometimes the machines from the good old days are still just the thing for the twenty first century! ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
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Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2015 at 3:27am
| 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! |
Posted By: Jwmac7060
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2015 at 9:42am
| Shameless I like you and don't wanna start a war of colors. We had Gleaners the whole time I was growing up.F,s,M's..series 1,2,and three. I was a die hard silver guy,until we bought our first Deere. I honestly didn't know how easy harvest could be until we got one. Breakdowns all but stopped,parts were readily available and the whole process was faster. I hate to say it but I'm sold on the Deere combines |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2015 at 10:24am
| 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. |
Posted By: Jwmac7060
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2015 at 11:00am
| Shameless do you like the case IH better than the n-5?..just a side note..I do not own any green tractors..all A-C and Versatiles |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2015 at 11:15am
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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 ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Jwmac7060
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2015 at 12:03pm
| Don't they will all reseed if their not set right. I can take you to a field run by every brand that has put corn over the ass end. Its all how their set and how you drive. |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2015 at 12:46pm
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. |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2015 at 5:32pm
| JW...no I like the N5 a lot better, but at the time when I needed to replace a combine real fast...the IH was the best option at the time...it was get the crop out or lose it at that time, that's how I ended up with IH. (it's a long story) |
Posted By: GM Guy
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2015 at 6:27pm
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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! ------------- 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. |
Posted By: Dgrader
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2015 at 8:51pm
| Yeah John. Pics would be good. |
Posted By: AGCOjim
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2015 at 10:50pm
| 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.... |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2015 at 8:00am
OK John here's a shot of my A so lets see your AII. lol  ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |