Gleaner plant tour?
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Topic: Gleaner plant tour?
Posted By: victoryallis
Subject: Gleaner plant tour?
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2017 at 11:01am
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Looks like we will driving from Michigan to Arizona to visit family. Does Gleaner do plant tours? Not exactly in our route but could make it work. ------------- 8030 and 8050MFWD, 7580, 3 6080's, 160, 7060, 175, heirloom D17, Deere 8760 |
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Posted By: Ron Eggen
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2017 at 11:10am
| You need to see if they are building combines yet . We went on a bus tour in the fall of 2015 and the combine plant was closed until March of 2016, so we got to tour the hay tools (Hesston) plant only. With the terrible farm economy, it wouldn't surprise me that the combine plant is closed right now also. |
Posted By: victoryallis
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2017 at 2:40pm
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Very true ------------- 8030 and 8050MFWD, 7580, 3 6080's, 160, 7060, 175, heirloom D17, Deere 8760 |
Posted By: caledonian
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2017 at 3:22pm
| Wouldn't hurt to look into it. Could be fun & educational all at the same time. |
Posted By: Dale-OH
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2017 at 7:14pm
| They do tours but ask that you schedule in advance. Ill see if I can find the phone number for you tomorrow |
Posted By: Armand(AZ)
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2017 at 8:28pm
| And if the Arizona part of the trip includes Mesa or close by stop in if you have time. Always enjoy having AC visitors!! Armand |
Posted By: Dale-OH
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2017 at 10:14am
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I was able to find an email address you can try to schedule a tour. If you do not get a response after a few days let me know and ill make a few calls. hesstonplanttours@agcocorp.com
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Posted By: Ed (Ont)
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2017 at 12:27pm
| Where is the Gleaner plant (s)? |
Posted By: victoryallis
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2017 at 8:21pm
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Hesston Kansas ------------- 8030 and 8050MFWD, 7580, 3 6080's, 160, 7060, 175, heirloom D17, Deere 8760 |
Posted By: victoryallis
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2017 at 8:26pm
Suburbs of Phoenix ------------- 8030 and 8050MFWD, 7580, 3 6080's, 160, 7060, 175, heirloom D17, Deere 8760 |
Armand(AZ) wrote:Posted By: GM Guy
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2017 at 9:22pm
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The Gleaner plant at Hesston KS does do tours, and they are awesome. Like said above, see if the combine plant is even in production right now due to the slow ag economy. It would suck to schedule one and find out they are not even building. Good luck! ------------- 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: CrestonM
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2017 at 10:31pm
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We went on a tour of the plant on our way home from Hutchinson in 2016. They weren't making anything, and the combines on the assembly line (It was neat to see the tiny base frame and various stages afterward up to the almost finished product!) Everything was stopped and the combines had quite a bit of dust on them. Still, it was neat. A guy who used to work for Gleaner when A-C had it in Independence, and later worked there at Hesston gave us the tour. They have a big (I forget how big) press brake they still use a lot that was in the Independence plant. (So yes, the machine that cut out parts on your L/M/F/N series combines is still making parts for your new S98!) I recommend the tour highly. We saw the paint booths, the big vats of chemicals they dip the combine frames in, etc. All very cool! It was just HOT when we went! Even saw the room where they hook all the testing equipment to the combines and run them.
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Posted By: Ron Eggen
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2017 at 11:22pm
| You need to stop in Hutchison, Kansas, they have a underground salt mine and a Space Museum that you can tour. They were great. |
Posted By: Steve79
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2017 at 7:59am
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+1 on the Cosmosphere (space museum in Hutchinson KS) it's great, they have a real SR71 there and Apollo 13. Man is the blackbird cool. http://cosmo.org/ |
Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2017 at 10:54am
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There is a blackbird at the SAC museum west of Omaha on I-80. Also displayed elevated like at Hutchinson. There are a couple at the Museum of Flight on the south side of Seattle. The best one is a the Evergreen Air and Space museum at McMinnville Oregon, its on the floor on its land gear and the docent nearby was a ground crewman for them in their working days. The Cosmosphere is very good and much better than the supposed air museums at Wichita. At Forbes Field, Topeka, Kansas is the Combat Air Museum which is more vintage and very good. Every aircraft looks like it could be rolled out and flown and the display sign for each often shows its last flight was to the museum, though sometimes on a cable under a big helicopter. There are reports of a large air museum at Liberal Kansas, but I've not been there. Gerald J. |
Posted By: Clay
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2017 at 11:43am
| The one in Liberal is very good. |
Posted By: Herb(GA)
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2017 at 11:55am
| Google 'blackbirds at museums'; was not aware we have approx. thirty. Also, Harry S. Truman Library is just east of KCMO in Independence, MO just a block or so off I-70. In 1955 I hitchhiked a flight from Forbes to D.C; one had to be in uniform and have leave papers. Forbes was also a Strategic Air Command (SAC) base so I was accompanied by a guard at all times during my couple hour wait for departure. Herb(GA) |
Posted By: Steve79
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2017 at 7:18pm
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The Forbes field museum is neat because the exhibits in that second hanger are just jammed in there, No velvet rope to keep you 10' back. Trumans museum is also cool, Eisenhowers library in Abilene is on I70 is very good too. There are lots of little museums in Abilene, greyhound, telephone, old west, Eisenhower. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2017 at 2:10am
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Also in Topeka is another museum at the airport of numerous civilian and military aircraft including a B52, some other big bombers, a 727 cargo plane and a Beech Starship, I believe the first one made. Most are sitting outside but there are some biplanes and other stuff in the old terminal building, also some old cars and trucks and maybe a tractor or two, don't remember now.
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