Brand new M3 Gleaner
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Topic: Brand new M3 Gleaner
Posted By: Butch(OH)
Subject: Brand new M3 Gleaner
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 4:54pm
| There is a never used M3 Gleaner combine fot sale over on YT photo ads. No price listed. |
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Posted By: JasonB
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 5:11pm
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Just checked the add out over there! From the picture provided that Gleaner M3 does appear to be brand New. Although is it possible that the combine was repainted and the hour meter was replaced? Seems odd that someone would have a Brand New Gleaner M3 with 3 hours on it and hardly used. See there is no price listed on the combine. I wonder what he is asking for it? If its legit, would love to hear the story behind that practically new M3 Gleaner. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 5:24pm
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I called the guy and talked to him. He wants $40K. Supposedly a neighbor of his bought it brand new from a dealership that was closing. The guy had five M2's already, and an L3, and he needed a new header for one of the M2's. He went to the dealer, and the dealer which was going out of business, cut him a good deal on an M3 with a grain head. $45,000 for the package. Only problem was something had busted the windshield out, but the dealer put in a new windshield. The guy kept the M3 in the shed all the time when he got it home, and put the grain head on one of his other M2's. He kept the M3 as a backup, but never needed it. He said he let it run for a few minutes twice a year, and that's all it ever did. It needs to go in a museum, if this is all true! He's going to send me more pics of it. I also heard of a NOS All-Crop Super 100 in a quonset hut in Nebraska somewhere, but I couldn't find it. I talked to the guy who owned it's grandson, and he didn't remember where it went. He said they still had a 40 and a 60 though. I don't remember if they were NOS or just slightly used.
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Posted By: JasonB
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 6:50pm
If it all possible, please post the additional pictures of that Gleaner M3. Id like to know if it's still got the original plastic on seat. That is quite the find, and indeed that combine should go to a museum. $45,000 is not that bad of a price for that practically new Gleaner M3. I remember a few years ago, a low hour John Deere 7720 Titan Turbo with under 400 hours on it, sold at an auction for $50,000K and it looked practically new. It's amazing at these really low hour vintage machines showing up. |
CrestonM wrote:Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 6:56pm
$45,000 was the price he got it for in 1983! He's asking $40,000 now. I'll post the pics when I get them.
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Posted By: JasonB
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 7:00pm
Wow! He is trying to get close to what he paid for it New! Hopefully the additional photo's show that this is the holly grail of M3 Gleaners. I saw that Gleaner in the Fanetti auction last Aug, and it was in darn nice shape as well. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 7:17pm
| I think it's odd because in the pic on the ad, the combine is missing the swing out guard on the left side of the machine. Hm... |
Posted By: Ryan Renko
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 7:27pm
| Holy sh*t!!!!!! That is a amazing find! We need many more pictures of this jewel!! It needs to be put in a museum at this point. Ryan |
Posted By: JasonB
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 7:40pm
I wonder if he might have taken the swing out guard off of this M3 Gleaner to put on one of his other Gleaners? Even if it turns out that this Gleaner M3 is not Brand new, it definitely still is one of the nicest Gleaner M3's I have seen. Given that the guy got a heck of a deal on the M3 Gleaner when it was New, What was the Original retail price with no discounts on an 83 L3/M3 Gleaner? |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 7:43pm
| I believe list price for a '84 L3 w/ 24' header was $110,000. |
Posted By: Dale-OH
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 7:59pm
| He called me a couple months ago and wanted $50k, he didn't have any pictures to send then |
Posted By: Daehler
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 8:18pm
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This is cool even if its new, slightly used or whatever. It looks to have been kept inside for sure. I have a 1986 price book just for a small reference. Someone might have a older one but it says a M3 hydro corn-soy was $78,098 list price. L3 hydro corn-soy was $90,809 list. Thats standard equipment without options. Flex heads range from $10,139 for 13 ft to $12,835 for 22ft. Ridgids were $7,030 on 15 ft to $7,975 on 24 ft. Reel was another $662 on 24 ft. Just an idea of prices. ------------- 8070FWA,7080 BlackBelly, 7045,2 200s,D19,D17,G, WD,45,UC,7 AC mowers and lots more! "IT TAKES 3 JD's TO OUT DO AN ALLIS, 2 TO MATCH IT IN THE FIELD AND 1 FOR PARTS!" |
Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 8:19pm
Think he'd of been better off financially to buy a CD with the money in 1983. |
Posted By: grinder220
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 8:38pm
| Couldn't even buy a new head now days for the price of a complete package back then. |
Posted By: MACK
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 10:13pm
| Would it be one that was built in Mexico? MACK |
Posted By: ILGLEANER
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 10:21pm
Wells in Plymouth Nebraska ??? Or your talking about the guy in south east Nebraska,with the 100 ------------- Education doesn't make you smart, it makes you educated. |
Posted By: ILGLEANER
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 10:21pm
Ain't that the truth !!!! ------------- Education doesn't make you smart, it makes you educated. |
Posted By: DanD
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2017 at 10:54pm
 While I admit that from the picture the story seems plausible, I just have to wonder why one would use this one picture as the only photo to accompany this "for sale" ad. Wouldn't you include at least a couple of other pictures to advertise a new, never used 35 year old+ combine? Maybe they only allow one photo, but still. |
Posted By: VAfarmboy
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2017 at 12:48am
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Interesting barn find! It is amazing what is hidden in barns all around the country. So many times when a farmer dies the machinery is just left sitting. I know of at least three farms within five miles of my place where the old farmer who lived there when I was a kid back the 1970s has been dead for decades, and someone else is cash renting the place, but the machinery is still sitting in the sheds right where he parked it the last time it was used. A while back I saw saw where some widow lady in Kansas had these two old flat screen gas Deere 6600 combines that only had a few hours on them and had been sitting in a shed since they were practically new. http://blog.machinefinder.com/4747/1972-jd-6600-combines" rel="nofollow - http://blog.machinefinder.com/4747/1972-jd-6600-combines This one is pretty interesting too. I heard from the neighbors that the old farmer who owned our farm before my dad bought the place harvested over 200 acres a year with one of these back in the 1960s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrMNyGxOcUk" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrMNyGxOcUk |
Posted By: JasonB
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2017 at 4:38am
No, that would be the Gleaner L4 combine, built at the old AC plant before Gleaner and AGCO got involved and shut down production of the L4. For what I gather, the only differences between the L3 and L4, was the cab, and the Cummins engine. I am not entire sure the combine even said Gleaner on it. Id like to know how many L4's were actually built. |
Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2017 at 5:20am
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JasonB. I have pictures of an L4 that was for sale near Elmira a few years ago. Made in Mexico. It did have GLEANER on it and the Cummins engine. ------------- Nothing is impossible if it is properly financed |
Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2017 at 7:47am
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Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2017 at 7:50am
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Now that I think about it there is a brand new never assembled Snap Coupler 2 row corn planter in one of my sheds and a set of brand new mounted planters to fit a C in the barn. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2017 at 11:28am
I honestly don't remember. It's not either of those though. His name will probably come to me here in a little bit. Terry Johnson told me about it originally. Who are the 2 you're talking about? I guess I'm unfamiliar with them.
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Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2017 at 11:36am
Reminds me of what everyone around our farm told me. Great-granddad harvested 200 acres a year with his All-Crop 60A, from 1950 till 83. He died then in 85. There's about 6,600 acres on that machine just from his work, plus his son told me he'd loan it out to neighbors who either didn't have a combine, or needed help getting done quick. But it's not going into retirement yet! Hopefully I'll double that number before I'm gone! The plan is to cut 40 acres of wheat with it this summer, providing I don't break down. Last summer was the first time it was used since 1983, and it ran good the whole time, and never broke down. (Knock on wood)
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Posted By: TREVMAN
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2017 at 7:19pm
| An old family run IH dealer folded a few years back in central Saskatchewan. In one of the storage sheds they found a new in crate never assembled threshing machine. Story was that the farmer ordered it, it came but due to a large and late crop, he bought a combine off the lot. The threshing machine never got sent back or sold. Supposed to be late 40's. I think they gave it to a museum. Trev. |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2017 at 9:42pm
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From the piece about the pair of Deere's looks like $40,000 may still be a lot high. Or is Shameless getting in on this and going and digging some of the old mason jars up he has hid??????????? I have run some JD 6622's as well as about 6 MH ,or MH2.,Give me a Gleaner any time.A Deere would out climb a Gleaner and not side as easy. But thrashing a Gleaner is easier to set and keep grain in.
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Posted By: Fred in Pa
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2017 at 6:19am
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Has anyone that close to this unit gone and looked at it . ------------- He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless ,still dead. If all else fails ,Read all that is PRINTED. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2017 at 7:48am
I agree the Gleaners are much easier to set and retain grain, but....I do believe a low-houred machine (Or even NOS!), regardless of color, is always worth a lot! Yes, even a Deere. Plus, the flat screen Deere --00 series combines are rare as it is. Most of them burned up from overheating issues, due to the flat screen, if they weren't updated to the rotary screen.
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Posted By: TramwayGuy
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2017 at 10:10am
| Wonder if the Factory ever got their money from the dealer that went out of business and sold the M3 for half price? |
Posted By: JasonB
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2017 at 10:24am
Not sure, but I imagine by 1983 Allis Chalmers was in a fight for survival and probably were forced to take whatever amount of $$ they could get out of the dealer. Either way, both the dealer and AC involved took a substantial loss. |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2017 at 1:23pm
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Hay Creston I have had more MYSTERY fires on a Gleaner than a John Deere. Had several MH2's with smoke coming out of separater,no bad bearings or rubbing parts where found. Both where one and done never had more problems,but the Jd it was easy to see what caused it. I think where the fresh air is sucked into the Gleaner cab may have smelled the smoke faster than a JD as well. No matter the brand can never keep the engine compartment to clean. Smelling smoke a 100 degree day and a grain field just kind of takes the fun out of the day.
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Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2017 at 1:44pm
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Really? I've only heard of 1 Gleaner fire in my life, and that was an electrical issue in the engine compartment. I see and hear about burned up JD's all the time. Actually...another story now that I think about it...a buddy had a few very early L's once, and one had a bearing go out. Part of the bearing must have dropped off the combine and into the stubble, because the field caught fire. He said they were out there with five L's dropping their headers and backing over the flames to snuff it out.
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Posted By: JasonB
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2017 at 4:12pm
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There does seem to be more of abundance of Red or Green catching fire, but mostly the newer machines with all the plastic shielding, and the plastic fuel tanks. Then again, ANY COMBINE of any brand will burn. Rarely have I seen a Gleaner burn, although it's quite possible. Last Gleaner I saw that had burnt was an R40/ R50 years ago. Always very important to keep the machine free and clear of dust around the engine compartment etc. But fires can still happen, especially in crops like Sunflowers, or small grains. |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2017 at 4:47pm
| Sadly, there are a few burnt Gleaners at the combine salvage yard near Colfax Ia. |
Posted By: CALEBnOK
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2017 at 7:15pm
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I was cutting with the L2 in a bottom next a small lake and picked up a piece drift wood. Got to smoking pretty good and i kicked the seperator out and grabbed road gear and headed for the lake. Got to the edge of the water stopped and got out. I luckily Extinguished the fire but had that not worked she was fixing to take a bath! |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2017 at 7:20pm
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When I was growing up in the 70's and early 80's (when Gleaner was king) it was Deere and Massey that had a reputation of burning up. My cousin did lose a gas F2 once to a fire but the culprit was a rubber fuel line that sprung a leak right onto the distributor or spark plug wires. Could have been salvaged but opted for a diesel F2 ASAP. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: Beirnesy
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2017 at 8:12pm
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Here is link to Machinery Petes article on this Gleaner M3 along with more pics https://www.machinerypete.com/media_posts/never-used-1983-gleaner-m3-combine-found" rel="nofollow - https://www.machinerypete.com/media_posts/never-used-1983-gleaner-m3-combine-found ------------- 1969 220,1967 190DXT,1968 190DXT, LGT's 710,,716 |
Posted By: JasonB
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2017 at 8:37pm
That is definitely a legit combine, and definitely looks like she just rolled off the line at Independence Mo yesterday. Some nice pictures of the combine, and absolutely hardly any rust on her. Never sat outside. Wonder if it still has the plastic on the seat? |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2017 at 8:46pm
| Those are the same photos he sent me just earlier today. Seems weird how almost all of the paint is gone off the gas tank. |
Posted By: VAfarmboy
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2017 at 8:52pm
The flat screen Deere 00 series combines were fine with diesel engines in them. We ran a 1973 flat screen diesel for 35 years with no overheating problems. One reason we kept running it so long was because the flat screen machines with gas engines had such a bad reputation for overheating and burning up that nobody wanted a flat screen machine even with a diesel in it. Dad was going to trade ours on a new combine back in the 80s but even the Deere dealer wouldn't give anything for it so he kept on running it. |
Posted By: JCFarms
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 7:14am
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So! It DOES NOT belong to the ORIGINALS owner. The neighbor bought it and is the one who thinks it's worth $45000. Bet he bought it for $5000.00. |
Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 7:23am
Really doesn't matter who owns it as it stands now its a certainty it was never used and the story is true, that's what's important.Also what he paid for it has no bearing on its Market value. If you found a $100 bill lying on the side of the road would you sell it for $20 because you got it for much less than its true market value? The real 'original' owner of the combine BTW was AC/Gleaner |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 7:27am
Deere would have enough pride to by a Deere like it if they don't already have one on display at their plant. I've been to the Waterloo plant back in th elate 80's and they had several tractors on display that were unique in some way. If memory serves, I believe the last 4020 is there and maybe the last 6030. Does anyone know if AGCO has any type of display that features any unique Allis or Gleaner? ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: JCFarms
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 7:37am
Yep. He can ask what ever he wants. Agco doesn't even list Gleaner on most of their advertising. Not even their website. |
Posted By: Dale-OH
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 9:10am
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Agco has a Fordson Gleaner at the Hesston Plant last time i was there but not much room at that plant for displays. Jackson MN has some heritage displays im told in the new Visitor center but i have not seen it, Thought I heard it does have AC there. I have also been to the MF plant in France and Fendt Plant in Germany and both do showcase a few of there heritage. But i would be very surprised if AGCO purchased this combine, I hope someone who appreciates it buys it and cares for it. JCFarms, I just looked at AGCO website and if you click the OUR Brands link at the top of the page Gleaner Is listed along with sunflower and white planters. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 10:48am
| I think I'll buy it and take it on harvest. Lol |
Posted By: JasonB
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 10:58am
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Hopefully it does not go to Mexico to be run into the ground, which seems like where most of the vintage equipment from the 70's, 80's and now 90's are heading now. Case in point, a few years ago a Near New JD 4455 with MFWD and only 30 hours on it sold for $155,000. That tractor probably should have been bought by Deere or donated to their tractor museum in Waterloo IA. Instead a farmer in Mexico bought it and was going to put 3,000 hours a year on the tractor and drive her into the ground. That Gleaner M3 definitely belongs in a Museum. If Kevin Bien was still with us, perhaps he would have convinced AGCO to have bought the combine to display somewhere or rotate it across Ag museums in the United States. |
Posted By: JCFarms
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 12:17pm
I just wonder why it is not on their home page. Wasn't Gleaner one of the very first brands they started with? |
Posted By: Jwmac7060
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 12:31pm
| 45,000 dollars for that combine is lunacy to anyone who would actually use it...Now if some collector wants to buy it to display I suppose if you've got the money it makes sense..I would be scared to death of using it...What kind of fuel is in it...Sitting in an open sided shed I wonder if the mice have been in it...Are the tires dry rotted....Neat find but no thanks at 45000 dollars...We had a brand new green stripe M-3 in 87 and I believe after we traded our M-2 on it...The balance was only 47000 |
Posted By: JasonB
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 12:34pm
AGCO Corp does not want to admit that "AGCO" stands for "Allis Gleaner Company" or they pretend that it never was called that in the first place. Gleaner is the last part of Heritage left that traces back to the Allis Chalmers days. The idiot in charge of AGCO doesn't seem to understand that or care. Why they are still called "AGCO" is beyond me, the Orange tractors are gone, and no connection at all to past. They should just change the World wide Corporate name to "Massey Ferguson Corporation", seeing as it's Hesston by Massey Ferguson now. AGCO is a messed up company and its no surprise that they are trying to burry the Gleaner name on the website or not promoting it more. |
Posted By: combinechris
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 1:48pm
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He wants $45,000 for it and he says he begged the guy to sell it to him. So I am suspicious of this person saying it only has eight hours on it. I'm sure the guy bought it for very little and now is selling it for an outrageous price so to me he seems like shyster and a jerk. But if he is giving some of the money he is selling it for to the gentleman he bought it from then I would have a different opinion of him. ------------- 35 combines and 15 forage harvesters. mostly allis combines and equipment.WTB 2 row cornhead for a 90 |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 2:12pm
x2 I couldn't understand why he begged for it for many years, and now is turning it around.
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Posted By: wheatbreeder
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 2:26pm
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yeh the fuel tank paint is sad for a machine with 8 hr and shedded all its life ------------- Farm stuff 8050,6690,175,F2,5050,WD |
Posted By: JasonB
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 3:01pm
I wonder if the fuel tank on this "8 hour Gleaner M3 combine" was switched out at one point with another Gleaner's fuel tank? Yeah I am also wondering why the guy begged for years for the man to sell the combine, only to him finally selling to him and then for him to turn around and sell it right away. Something does seem off about the combine. |
Posted By: Dale-OH
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 4:28pm
| I can only assume that they keep the largest brands on the front. Gleaner is only sold in a hand full of countries around the world, MF, challenger, and fendt are sold around the world in over 125 countries |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 5:54pm
| Our L3 has been shedded its whole life, and even though it's been used regularly, it still has more paint on the tank than that one! |
Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 6:05pm
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8 hours on the hour meter. is that real? Is that a recent r5eplacement? Or has it gone past 9999, if so how many times? Gerald J. |
Posted By: JasonB
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 6:25pm
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It's quite possible the hour meter is correct, on the other hand it is also quite likely that the hour meter quite working as well, Have the same hour meter on my 1977 AC 720 Garden tractor that reads 220 hours, but no way is that correct, and the meter has never worked on my AC 720. Wish we could see more photo's of the cab interior and what the condition is like. By looking at the controls and wear and tear on items in the cab, you could quickly point out weather it really does have 8 hours on it. Would love to see the front beater that pulls the crop into the combine from the head. If all the paints there, it's likely legit. More photo's from inside the grain tank would also leave clues as to how many hours are on it. If it's not truly legit, it's still a darn nice M3 Gleaner and one of the nicest ones I have seen. |
Posted By: Ron Eggen
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2017 at 9:34pm
| If anyone is out there looking for barn finds , I'd like a low houred 10 - 18 alwawy kept in the barn. |
Posted By: wmw995@gmail.com
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2019 at 9:25am
| Does anyone know what happened to the gleaner m3 combine that was advertised as having 8 hrs |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2019 at 5:17pm
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Fun how old posts come up from the past and reading your own thoughts from the past. Just a week back reading of a Deere 8800 with a 100 hours selling in Canada at auction for $70 to $80,000. Some thinking that was more than the new price. With others thinking you would be crazy to think of repairing the time damaged belts,hoses,and wiring  . So maybe $45,000 was not that much. |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2019 at 6:02pm
| Hard to believe,, but could be I guess |
Posted By: OhKen
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2019 at 9:03pm
| Sad fact is if you pulled the machine monitors out of the overhead console , the rodent damage would look like a 30 year old machine |