Baldwin Pull-Type Gleaner

This is a 1931 Model A Gleaner combine, powered by a Ford Model A engine, equipped with a pickup header to pickup swaths. This combine would have cut/picked-up a 12 foot width.
This was a restoration in progress during 2006, where my uncle was trying to get this old Gleaner combine working properly. By the third day, they had it working fairly well, so he hooked up a Rumley tractor to it, which would have been about the same age as the combine, for some final pictures.

[@dawalker38]

Dale Walker In the late 40's don't remember exact year. My dad had a baldwin pull type with a 1932 MODEL B FORD 4 CYL. Motor. Pulled it with a ford fergeson tractor. From Cherokee Okla.Would go to Perryton Texas start cutting and on to Nebraska. I am 82 and remember great times.

[@skn9895]

There are two old Gleaner pull-types in the trees on the land that I lease. One is a Model F and the other is a Model P. I would love to restore one or both of them. Our agricultural heritage is worth saving.

[@agplainsman]

What fun to watch this combine work. As a young boy I helped on a 1929 Baldwin. My Dad put me up in the bin when it started getting full to even out the load with my hands. He kept going until it got scary up there but he could get 60 bu. into the bin. It had 1X12 extension on to of the factory bin.

[@Superintendent-iy9zv]

GREAT VIDEO GENTLEMEN!! WISH MY GRANDDAD WAS STILL WITH ME!!👍👍👍

[@lestonbrewer1200]

ws part of a threshing group in the 80's it is allways a thrillto see these old machines going again the first time with the baldwin spent serval years onthe AC gleaner the c2 f andg thinkthey are still the finest harvesters out there

[@EZ570]

....back in the day this combine was something to be able to own. It must still be kept in a shed somewhere, to still function so well. It must not need too many replacement parts.

[@Eddie_Schantz]

In the late 50's and early 60's one of my uncles had a Baldwin pull type combine he used for straight cutting. His had rubber tires though. I don't know what year it was and if I remember correctly it had a six cylinder Ford engine or it may have been a 4 cylinder, I just don't remember for sure but it was a pretty good machine for its time.

[@robertheyes3975]

Incredible machines, interesting how this one worked, really.

[@richtdronz6507]

Great video guys, please thank the old farmers for getting the old gal going again.. now I know what the piece of equipment is in the back of my ol farm that has vines growing all over it.. lol..

[@wayneriedlinger]

I love these old Gleaners. I've got a model F in working condition.

[@deonelawlar8726]

Those cats sure do a good job of pulling in the hilly fields, more so than the wheel tractors and have seen hilly field like that in the Washington wheat fields, sure not like harvesting in the Dakota red river valley

[@christopherhenderson4820]

Electric start even! Nice.

[@Gilstrap2009]

You really need to gear down the header auger and pickup. But kudos for making it functional!

[@user-lo6cf3df1x]

I love it

[@robgood1706]

I loved watchin it work

[@lenievanluijk]

.lego

[@jvust]

As far as I know, everything was geared as it would have been originally coming out of the factory, but yes, it does look crazy fast. On days two and three they had it working a lot better - I think they replaced some rubber flaps just ahead of the cylinder which helped push the swath into the cylinder rather than it just bunching up. It was some poor crop in that part of the field that year (thin stand) but remember that we also used a modern day swather which is likely three times as wide as what they would have done back in the '30s, too. So that would make the job a bit harder for that old combine.

[@badlands555]

Sometimes just getting the working parts shiny again helps. Straight cutting in thinner grain stands that combine would do a lot in one day

[@trackhoe23]

Looks to me like the combine didn't like being pulled by that modern tractor. Great video!

[@frankdeegan8974]

Looks as though the first tractor was too fast, the combine was too rusty inside with the feed problem corrected it did not growl from too big of clumps pushing through at once.

[@joe51chevy7]

It looks better being pulled by the Rumley.

[@RJ1999x]

Everything looks better being pulled by an Allis Chalmers 👍

[@ascoop22]

It looks like the variable speed header and pickup drives were not working that day.

[@deweydodo6691]

They sat outside and those shiny straw walkers turned to rust and clogged up fast . No hill side special either .

[@ronnieg6358]

Some farmers can't count to 10 on their fingers cos they've lost some! Great video though.

[@farmerboy8940]

Great video. Loved seeing the combine being pulled by the Rumely Oil Pull tractor. I can remember as a kid, my grandfather saying.....a really good farmer is missing some fingers.....a smart farmer has all of his fingers....He had all of his fingers...so I guess he was a smart farmer. Can remember though the troubles with the old mounted corn pickers taking a few fingers when plugged.

[@nazzarenoceretti8025]

👍👏🍁💚🍀🙋‍♂️

[@oddroarolsen3696]

Nice to see . Where in America is this ? Greetings from Norway .

[@jvust]

Not America; go further north! :) This was filmed in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. This field is actually just north of a museum which houses quite a bit of Allis Chalmers equipment, much of which was donated by my uncle (who is seen in the video). If you street view the Fort la Reine museum on Saskatchewan Ave east in Portage la Prairie, you can see the museum and the field north of it.

[@deweydodo6691]

straw walkers and sieves look kind of rusty . That will make a headache to run through

[@Cougracer67]

Why, oh why are these guys abusing that poor model A engine?? Come on! Give it a tune up! It sounds so pathetic. No self-respecting farmer would let his machinery get in such neglected shape!

[@RJ1999x]

You really believe modern day farming use this combine?

[@l337pwnage]

@@RJ1999x In some countries it'd be an improvement.

[@RJ1999x]

@@l337pwnage I'm sure it would