AGCO and Gleaner’s future?

Gleaner getting quite a few upgrades in 2023  "100th", got that from a local that's a engineer for them.   So if it happens he doesn't know and it will be after 2023. Going to be the SX or X series.   If you ever get a chance to go through the Hesston, KS plant it is well worth it, 90+ acres under roofs.  They make round, square, big square balers, swathers self and pulltype, planters, manure spreaders, axial combines and Gleaners, and probably forgetting a few other things.  Also when you get to the combine assembly line and see 1 axial for every 10 Gleaners going down it  it's no question why Agco spent all that money on R&D, oops oh ya that was for the giant junk Fendt. 

Oh ya, I believe the plan is to keep Gleaner and Junk Fendt and phase out the Massey design.

  If I had my way, I would not need to open the rotor shield to remove the air cleaner filter. The batteries would be around on the left side of the door with the ground wire on the cut out switch. The engine oil filter would be easier to see and replace. The throttle would be a twist grip like a motorcycle, but on the hydrostat handle.

  And lastly GLEANER if you are reading this, get a hold of the Mc Dermott pool cue company and have them build up a Gleaner Combine cue with bag like they did for Snap - On some years back. A 602 G core. Burly maple with black, silver and red inlays with a bag to match. It can stand next to my Snap - On and Miller Welder cues.

Daehler wrote: The biggest boo boo they made in the S series is that the 2nd concave was taken out. If they left it in then I think any rotor loss could be corrected easily.

You must be talking about the adjustable seperator grate?

It's still in the S series however it isn't adjustable,  and yes if you tighten it up it would stop rotor loss, used a lot of power but would stop it.  I don't really have any rotor loss problems in the S, I'm running a precision rotor, however I have a shoe load problem in green leaf milo.  Have put in cage covers to reduce separation area and still no rotor loss but to much shoe load.  Thinking of going back to factory rotor and getting 1/2 in. spaced bars for over concaves and then putting sweeps in the separator side clear to discharge probably 3 at discharge and then 3 staggered across the separator end.  No reverse bars at all.  My opinion is if you get the grain out at concaves you won't have rotor loss, if you don't and thrash on separator side you get rotor loss.  A precision rotor has over twice the bar surface area a factory rotor has but I'm thinking it is over thrashing in green leaf milo.  In wheat you can't find anything on the ground behind it and it puts seed wheat in the tank, so it's better than stock for sure in wheat(not that stock did bad).

we run rotor at 300,  tried slowing down and speeding up but that made it worse.  we run a drago gt series head with the ear shocks in the stripper plates so thats as clean a head as your going to get, ten times better then a gleaner head we had those before.  i know its not the head because we crawled under machine after header went over but not rest of machine and it was clean at that point.  And we would go through field under load and then stop quick and turn off thresher and you can see all the kernels on the rotor spreader plate.  also checked concaves and they were clean.  concave clearance usually around .85".  what do you mean by precision rotor?