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Topic: Sitting in the M2

Posted By: Lonn
Subject: Sitting in the M2
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2010 at 3:29pm

Getting ready for soybean harvest in the fall and I look at the M2 in wonder and think, how did anybody else even sell any combines when the M2 was new. One of my friends has a 6620 and there is no comparison when you jump from one seat to another. The Gleaners were light years ahead in technology and comfort at the time. I mean, just go sit in even an old L or M and then plant your rear in a 915 or 7700 or whatever and I can't see how the others ever sold a machine if there were a Gleaner dealer near by. Just had to say they are an awesome technological thing of beauty. Lonn

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Posted By: BobHnwO
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2010 at 3:31pm

I would like to have an M2 some day!

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Posted By: John D
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2010 at 4:03pm

Our last combine was an M3 with gear drive, I loved it! Hydro would have made it yet.

Posted By: michaelwis
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2010 at 4:06pm

tell me about it .. center seating .. perfectly balanced .. and what goes over the sieve would starve a mouse

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Posted By: powertech84
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2010 at 4:59pm

Funny you should say so, i climbed in the cab of the new gleaner r76 at the farm show yesterday, and thought to myself, "man this thing is about 20 years behind the times".

Posted By: orangereborn
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2010 at 5:13pm

Did you mean the R76 or the SP100? Dale

Posted By: powertech84
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2010 at 5:27pm

No, deffinetly the r76. I saw the sp100 too though. Sad to say, but that machine was probly ahead of its time, even though i can hardly imagine what the poor guy who spent a day behind that steering wheel would go through.

Posted By: Amos
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2010 at 6:03pm

Funny this thread comes up today. I just finished up my Dads M2 for our oat crop (22 acres) yesterday and put it back in the shed all ready to roll. When I was changing the cylinder drive pulley and a salesman stopped in to talk while I was doing it he was saying, man that was easy to do...I said on my R52 all I have to do is open the shield and shift the transmission lever, no bolts no belt pulled through another pulley/belt to change(pinch your finger)...then he said yeah but these are real easy to work on. You are right about the cab. I could never figure out riding with my neighbors when I grew up how come their cabs were so noisy, even when they got rotaries their cabs were louder than the gleaners. I do find the M2 cab a little cozy compared to the R52. I have had fun going back about 25 years here running it though. It will do an incredible good job, just uses way too much fuel for its production ability for me. We do like the straw out of it better than the R52, and my Dad has a combine to drive now, course that complicates harvest some though. They were a good machine in their day and still have parts available which is a good thing as well.

Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2010 at 6:50pm

I haven't been in the cab of an R76 so I wouldn't know what makes them 20 years behind. What are you comparing it to? What makes it so bad? I know by the early 90's every other make pretty much caught up to Gleaner comfort but when the 2 series came out in 92 when I was working at the dealership I thought they had leaped ahead again.

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Posted By: michaelwis
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2010 at 8:08pm

20 years behind? where ?

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Posted By: KevinON
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2010 at 6:47am

I use an M gear drive in about 400 acres of crop each year. I haven't fixed the a/c yet, but I think that once I do, it will be a nice combine to drive. I don't find that mine is that hard on fuel, though. Where are you located, Amos?

Posted By: Andrew(southernIL)
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2010 at 8:47am

Never been in a M but Always thought our International from the early 80's was very comfortable. I do know it was much more comfortable and quieter than the Deere's of that time and they don't crack the grain like the Deere's do. Ours is new enough it has the electric over hydraulic controls which makes it very comfortable and easy.

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Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2010 at 9:13am

Yes by the early 80's some companies were catching up to the Gleaners in comfort and ease of operation but going back in to the 1970's I don't know how Deere or IH sold any machines. Compare the L or M to the 915 or 815 or 7700 or 6600. Another friend of mine back in the late 80's showed me their 7720 that they had just added an aftermarket electro/hydraulic header lift to. He thought that was just the cutting edge and when I told him how the controls were in an old L he just had a hard time believing me. He had never been in one and had no idea. Couple the ease of operation with ease of maintenance and repair and the reliability of the Gleaners, compared to others from the same time frame, well, there is no comparison. Top that with Gleaner, at the time, having had the highest resale value and lowest initial price. It just wows me.

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Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2010 at 8:25pm

I should post pictures of the M2 I took right after I got it last summer. Have to scan them in first as I used the old film camera. I should say the wife will scan. I'm incapable of scanning and operating a digital camera. M2 I operate just fine.

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Posted By: Amos
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2010 at 11:54pm

Kevin

I am in the heart of Skunk's Misery, a place called Newbury.

As for the fuel it uses I am comparing its consumption/acre to my R52. My Dad running the M2 (at about 2mph even though it is capable of almost double that, he says he knows how to run it, I don't argue any more). The R52 is run at almost its capacity, I try to not be using any more power than will unload on the go and have just not cut the rpms more than 20-30 when starting to unload a full bin. * row on the 52 and 22' flex comparing a 4 row and 15' flex on M2. Could also be the M2 pump is not set right, as it runs/starts real good we have never had it tested. It did have a plug out of the exhaust manifold when we got it and the turbo was making no boost, worked much better when I put a new plug in there.