Gleaner M mph
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Topic: Gleaner M mph
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Subject: Gleaner M mph
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 12:06am
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There is a Gleaner MH for sale about 30 miles away for a good price. I would like to get it, but trucking would probably kill the deal. Bad news is the best route is I-90...so would be a job just to drive it home. Curious as to how fast they will go??? ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 4:49am
| Oh, I am sure it would do 20 MPH. Is it a hydro, or gear drive. ..? How about a header. ..? You be driving it with a header on it. .? My brother in laws M2 gets a little squirrely at top speed, and in between 12 and about 17 MPH, it'll get to hopping so bad you can't sit in it. Around here, on country roads, I always kept it just under 12. Once in a while, on a longer road trip, I'd take it up to full speed, but it would be a white knuckle grip on the steering wheel. Do you have to take it right through Spokane, or are you coming in from the Idaho side. ..? You should easily be able to get all of your harvest in in one day with a machine like that. Lol. Darrel |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 11:09am
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My book says a gear drive will do 20, and a hydro will do 25. I've never had an issue in road gear with a hydro.
30 miles in a Gleaner is nothing....I know guys who drive that far just between fields! Lol
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Posted By: Fred in Pa
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 11:21am
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Keep in mind that driving a combine on the road you do not know much about ,could be more then u ask for .Check out brakes real good ,but hydro should hold u back and slow u down . ------------- He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless ,still dead. If all else fails ,Read all that is PRINTED. |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 3:37pm
This one is out west of the airport, so no good way to get it here. Thru town might take out some turn signals?? Don't think they would like me taking the interstate. Skirting Spokane would probably add 40 miles! Has header, but comes with a trailer. Might have to see if my trucker friend knows someone with a lowboy.... ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
darrel in ND wrote:Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 3:41pm
If it comes with a header, just have the person following you pull the header. Combines through town aren't too bad without the header, especially an M.
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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 4:03pm
| Drive it home right down the interstate. Be on the road with it at first light on a Sunday morning. Make sure both mirrors are on it and adjusted properly, make sure that you have an SMV sign on it, and make sure the flashers work. I wouldn't think that would cause too much havoc. Darrel |
Posted By: wekracer
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 4:09pm
| I'm with Darrel. But I like saturdays myself. Seems like church traffic starts early Sunday. It's less than legal height so traffic signals wouldn't be a problem either. Good luck |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 5:51pm
What happens when it quits?? https://spokane.craigslist.org/grd/d/mh-combine/6232843867.html" rel="nofollow - https://spokane.craigslist.org/grd/d/mh-combine/6232843867.html ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 6:18pm
| you have minimum speed limits on an interstate, and I pretty sure there are signs posted...no farm equipment. I've driven combines thru big cities before...it really is fun! you'll clear overhead stop lights. drove my last combine about 70 miles, couple hours, that included going thru 3 cities. no biggy! see if the radio works...that'll help ya! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 7:07pm
| Now that I've seen the picture of it Eldon, I am on to you. You just want it for the tires so that you can make more beach master tractors. Darrel |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 8:09pm
Spokane roads are not very farmer friendly...between the hills and the rivers, no good route. ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 8:10pm
Yeah, you have me pegged lol! ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 8:45pm
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I have been out on the 101 highway with a 75 MH. We never could more than 22 mph out of any of them. It didn't seem to matter if they had 2900 or 3500 the speed was the same. I think the condition of the hydro makes more difference. I think moving 4 at time was the most we ever had. Generally 2 or 3 ,always put the one with most hours in front. Then nobody ran off from anybody else. One season they had a JD 6622 which would only do about 16 mph out on the road. Slows things down more than you would think going 10 to 30 miles.
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 9:16pm
| they had to get them there, what routes did they take? |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 9:41pm
Oh no please don't say that!!  Lol |
Posted By: Bill(MO)
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 10:21pm
| Back in the day Dealers drove them out of the Plant in Independence up to 100 miles. I don't know about interstate hiways but think I would notify cops along the way. |
Posted By: BradH
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 10:39pm
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That was my thought, they had to get it there somehow. Also, I always thought there was a 40 MPH minimum limit or something like that on an interstate. Maybe I'm wrong on that though. If all else fails, the next best thing is to get a few guys with helicopters to come pick it up, literally. Later, Brad ------------- Warning! Blind man with a tractor! Head for the hills! |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 10:55pm
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It is a hydro diesel...says he would drive it 40 miles. I wonder if the Hillsides are any taller than the regular combine? I'm tempted to drive it, but the best route has the bridge closed right now :-( ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 11:21pm
| can he hold it til the bridge re-opens? |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2017 at 11:35pm
I could run it down to a friends place a few miles from there and leave it, but the whole idea was to get something to cut my rye, which is ready and going down.... ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2017 at 6:16pm
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How wide is a MH? ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2017 at 8:07pm
| Say Eldon. Even if you do run it around the outside of Spokane, and it ends up being 60 to 80 miles, that isn't a huge road trip for that machine. To get the width of it, your best option would be to have the seller measure it for you. The ladder should fold up and make it a little narrower. My guess is that it's around 10 to 12 feet. Darrel |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2017 at 9:25pm
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Wow, he says just under 16' wide at the tires! Must be made for big hills! ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2017 at 9:25pm
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The height is less than 13 feet unless the bin is higher than the cab. Rolling up to underpasses at 20 miles an hour they always looked to me like it was close,but knew the outfit I worked for had been up and down the highway for years. I went and put a tape to the 78 MH2 in the weeds out back about 13.5 wide and ladder is out another foot but can be folded up. I don't ever remember doing it so may be a little taller than cab when folded up. Check with city or state patrol if you are wanting to drive it but are worrying about it.
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Posted By: ajl
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2017 at 10:22am
| Wouldn't think twice about roading a combine 30 miles around here. I dont mind going on 4 lane as there is more room to pass than on 2 lane. Likely your 4 lane is busier though. I have done more miles than that with an 8570 Massey this year. Do find at speed the rear steering can get squirrely so usually only do 16-18 mph. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2017 at 12:25pm
| So Eldon, Where is this rye that you have to combine? Didn't remember seeing it when I stopped in. But then I can't remember what I did this morning, either. There's an SP100 allis combine for sale by Red Lodge MT, too. That would make a nice small acreage rye machine. Darrel |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2017 at 12:32pm
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I just have a couple of acres across the road...probably not worth the hassle, plus it would have to sit outside. I'd like to find a 60, but the ones around here are pretty much worn out from doing dry beans. ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2017 at 12:43pm
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In my opinion, the All-Crops are the simplest combine built. Not hard to overhaul one. Or just get that 100 Darrel mentioned! |
Posted By: Tramway Guy
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2017 at 12:54pm
| I have never seen an Interstate Highway that allowed any kind of farm equipment on it, unless it was on a trailer or mowing the grass median and shoulders. |
Posted By: combinechris
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2017 at 10:55pm
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The interstate highways it's not allowed on in Wisconsin. And only on certain state highways. ------------- 35 combines and 15 forage harvesters. mostly allis combines and equipment.WTB 2 row cornhead for a 90 |
Posted By: GM Guy
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2017 at 11:18pm
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MH is higher than a level land M. also terrible ground clearance, so you wont be hauling it. The pivot point is only 6 inches or so off the ground, and the wide width will make hauling not fun. do measure the height, but I think roading it you will be fine. Keep in mind, hauling you can get in all sorts of trouble with permits, flag cars, etc. Roading it, you are just farmer john. Give the machine a look over, and check fluids in all compartments, you dont want a transmission locking up going down the road. The older Gleaners with budd style lug-nuts usually rode better due to perfect wheel alignment, the 2 series and up with the straight holes and flange nuts could bounce due to not being centered. To those who responded with concerns about the legality about roading equipment on the interstates, that is a pleasure of many western states. If you dont have many country roads, the interstate is welcome and completely legal. There is no sign banning farm equipment like there is in eastern states. We roaded a MH2 180 miles to the Idaho farm, and a N5 200 miles. The N5 was a back row special off a JD dealers lot dumped on a cleanup auction in Utah. Dad phoned in a bid to the auctioneer, got it, we left from KS in a pickup with supplies, arrived at the combine, serviced it out, and left for ID. We asked all the locals the best route, they said the interstate. Sure enough, just as we were pulling on, a Steiger 500 pulling an air seeder was getting off the other side. We drove IIRC about 40 miles of interstate, then were able to connect with a back route from there. not a single mile was dirt, all pavement. all but about 20 miles was either interstate or a state highway. The MH2 was all state highway except for the last 4 miles. @Eldon, to answer your question, the MH will do at least 20, and will get close to 25 based on hydro condition and engine high idle setting. The cab pre-cleaner upper snorkel is removeable, and the tip tops on the extension can be flipped down if height is a concern. MHs were never supposed to have extensions due to weight and center of gravity, but I see the farmer got a set of a M level land. :) IMO it looks like a worthy deal, if you are comfortable driving it, I would make sure there is a fresh SMV decal on the back, get the flashers working, service it out, and hit the road. ------------- 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: GM Guy
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2017 at 11:25pm
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also, how far is this guy? Getting the L2 trucked in might be a better option: https://spokane.craigslist.org/grd/d/surplus-farm-equipment/6238856233.html" rel="nofollow - https://spokane.craigslist.org/grd/d/surplus-farm-equipment/6238856233.html ------------- 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: DanWi
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2017 at 10:19pm
| I think you can run Interstate 39 from wausau to portage have seen equipment on it in the stevens point area. And we have pulled a few pieces down 41 through the oshkosh area, no other way to get the lake without going into the city. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2017 at 7:38am
| Well, Eldon.......? We're waiting for pictures of this heading down the interstate, or combining rye, or stuck in traffic...... or anything? LOL! Darrel |
Posted By: Sandknob
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2017 at 8:01am
| Heck my m2 will do 28mph. With a lot of pucker factor! I usually run it around 18. |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2017 at 8:57am
You may wait a long time. I decided to pass on it....too much trouble for a few dollars worth of rye. Guess the mice and birds will eat well this year...
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Posted By: bradley6874
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2017 at 9:30am
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We had a tow truck pull a burnt n5 in for parts for us he picked it up from the steer axel we pulled the drive couplers once the tires got round again 😁he walked right on up to 45 mph he did that for 150$ cash he likes cash and no paper work ------------- You can wash the dirt off the body but you can’t wash the farmer out of the heart and soul |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 04 Aug 2017 at 8:37am
It's not the monetary value of the rye that you're after here. It's the fun of bringing in the crop! Darrel |