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Oldoug 
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 Topic: GLEANER Still on Top!!!
Posted: 16 Feb 2012 at 9:59pm |
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Matt Folkers
FOLKERS RESTORATION
Restoring vintage things to last so the future can enjoy our past.
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SHAMELESS
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012 at 3:03am |
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appears to be ALOT of good usable pats on it yet!
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Stan IL&TN
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012 at 7:37am |
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The cab on the M still looks new. What a waste.
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1957 WD45 dad's first AC
1968 one-seventy
1956 F40 Ferguson
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Don(MO)
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012 at 8:17am |
Looks like you went to Cook's Tractor! Yes it to bad that some die to keep the rest of them going. I'm on a first name with Cooks just got a steering wheel for my 4020 from them called them on Tuesday and it's sitting on the tractor today.
Don
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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.
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Unit3
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012 at 9:36am |
We also have a Cook's here in Algona, Ia. Cook's Scrap Iron & Metal. About 10 years ago on a visit I saw two pull type Gleaners up on the pile. After being picked up and stacked, they didn't look to proud.
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Lonn
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012 at 5:38pm |
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Why don't some of you guys (Fred for example) get a good cab like that to display in your show room like in the old brochures featuring the Gleaner cab? I always have wanted to do that. Would save at least a few cabs and could take them to shows for fun. get a 7700 and 915 cab too for comparison. Dreaming today as I sit here bored.
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ACscott
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012 at 7:30pm |
 Lonn wrote:
Why don't some of you guys (Fred for example) get a good cab like that to display in your show room like in the old brochures featuring the Gleaner cab? I always have wanted to do that. Would save at least a few cabs and could take them to shows for fun. get a 7700 and 915 cab too for comparison. Dreaming today as I sit here bored. |
Lonn I think that would be really cool to have one all fixed up sitting in the shop
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DanD
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012 at 7:32pm |
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It always amazes me how machinery that is so much newer than anything we have can so quickly wind up as such a pile of junk. Some people must not care for their machinery at all.
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Ryan Renko
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012 at 9:02pm |
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I agree 100% DanD!!!! I see equipment in the scrap yard that is 30+ years newer than what I'm using!!! Ryan
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Malcolm/NC
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012 at 9:39pm |
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This picture makes me feel old. When I first got out of college I worlked at a AC dealership for a while. One of the fun things I got to do was go to the depot yard to unload the combines (like the M pictured here) off the flatcar, then drive them to the dealership. The only truck they had was a 1700 International Loadstar. If it did not fit on the truck they were driven to the farm. I drove an M Gleaner some 40 miles to deliver to a farm once. Fun times and memories.
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Unit3
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Posted: 17 Feb 2012 at 10:31pm |
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Lonn, that isn't all that bad of an idea. I can remember some folks would set a tractor cab at the end of their lane ways for their kids to sit in while waitng for the school bus.
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AllisFreak MN
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Posted: 18 Feb 2012 at 10:42am |
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I could use the ladder off that M, mine is bent up.
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'49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2
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