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QuoteReplyTopic: Something Called a Gleaner Posted: 31 Aug 2017 at 11:24pm
Looked like some kind of harvester n the scrap yard, pretty beat up with the 6 cylinder Allis Chalmers engine sits high on the machine and has yet to suffer any damage.
Engine still turns over, not sure how many cubic inches or horse power it has. I have no use for the engine but could arrange for the scrap yard owner to set it aside for anyone interested in it.
Has some sort of an extended thing on the bell housing with a large belt on it, defiantly not a Rockford, probably better if interested party's contact Jack directly.
Did not have my camera with me and the Gleaner is an hours drive from home.
From what I seen, not enough paint left on the Gleaner to tell what color it was when new, The machine is pretty beat up right now because of rough loading from whence it came from and being shoved around the yard to its new resting place.
Jack's scrap yard is one of the interesting stops that I make whenever I'm in the neighborhood, he lets me pick interesting finds that may have come in with the loads of scrap.
I made the over head trolley in my shop from rollers that came from the hog slaughtering plant, lots of interesting goodies come from the plant.
You all will have to settle for the history of the Gleaner Company.
Gleaner combines date back to 1923, when the Baldwin Brothers of Kansas, inspired by Jean Francois Millet's famous 1857 painting, The Gleaners, and so decided to use the term as the name for their radically redesigned self-propelled harvesting machine.
The Baldwin Brother's Gleaner incorporated reaping, binding and threshing
all into one machine. Gleaner Baldwin Combines of Independence, MO fell
into bankruptcy in the 1930s as sales plummeted. William James Brace
became the receiver and with his son-in-law, George Reuland and others
brought the company back. During WWII, they also produced war related
machinery parts.
They were among the pioneers in the "self-propelled"
machines, that is combines which had integrated propulsion and were not
pulled by tractors. These machines were often considered the "Cadillac"
of the industry. Allis-Chalmers purchased Gleaner in 1955 and continued
to build the Gleaner machines in Independence, MO. When Allis-Chalmers
folded, it became part of Deutz-Allis and in 1991, AGCO
(Allis Gleaner Company)was created. The Independence plant was moved to
Hesston, Kansas in 2000, near its roots where the Baldwin brothers
started.
In 1979, Gleaner released another major innovation to the harvesting industry, the rotary combine.
The Gleaner N6 was the first such combine(style of rotary, not the
first, as IH was), followed by the N5 and the N7, the largest combine of
its time, with cutter bars as big as 30 feet.
Some of the firsts introduced by the Gleaner are: an auger that replaced canvas drapers, a rasp bar threshing cylinder
instead of a spike-tooth arrangement, and a down-front cylinder that
put threshing closer to the crop. It introduced the rotary combine. It
also introduced the use of galvanized sheet metal and the name “GLEANER”
– two trademarks that have remained unchanged for over three-quarters
of a century.
In 1955, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
acquired the Gleaner company. This was what launched Gleaner onto
success and the production of numerous new models, as well as a wealth
of new technology. Allis-Chalmers is the name under which Gleaners are
most well known. These combines superseded the All-Crop brand for Allis-Chalmers. The AC models are shown below
In 1985, Allis-Chalmers became Deutz-Allis, and Gleaners products continued to be were produced under the
Gleaner brand name and had a Deutz-Allis green stripe on the. Most used the air-cooled Deutz engines. This was the start of the downfall of the Gleaner combine.
In 1991, Deutz-Allis became AGCO, and Gleaners were consequently sold under AGCO, which actually stands for Allis Gleaner Company.
The green stripe was changed to orange, which exists today. A major
change to the appearance of Gleaner's was the move from unpainted
galvanized steel for the body, to a painted gray body. In 2000, AGCO moved the Gleaner manufacturing facility to it's AGCO (Hesston)
facility in Hesston, Kansas in order to have a more modern facility and
to centralize many engineering and production functions at one
location. This facility is located just a few miles away from where the
Gleaner company originated from.
Also during this time-period, AGCO rebadged some Gleaners as Whites, using the same silver-galvanized steel body, with a black stripe and the White logo, using a Cummins engine. These were available for at least the 1992 model-year.
The history article got a couple things wrong like IH being first rotary. New Holland was before IH and one of the Baldwin brothers built a pull type rotary about 1930 or so.
The history article got a couple things wrong like IH being first rotary. New Holland was before IH and one of the Baldwin brothers built a pull type rotary about 1930 or so.
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