Gleaner/Baldwin A II Combine

Harvesting Wheat

[@stephenrice4554]

That's a proper lovely bit of kit , the gleaner and the wagon , beautiful. 👍🇬🇧

[@robertwilkins888]

I had the privilege of operating a Gleaner A II when I was younger. We operated with three Gleaner C IIs. During harvest we had a old custom cutter by the name of Chalmers Nelson that we hired to cut some down wheat. He brought in the last two of his Gleaner A IIs to finish the job. During the cutting Mr Nelson got sick and I took over running one of the A IIs to help them finish. It was about the same as running the C II combine just a lot smaller. Open cab area made for some dusty times if wind was up but other than that the old machines ran perfectly. We moved on from the C IIs to a Gleaner N 6 after that harvest. That was the last harvest that I saw those Gleaner A IIs run. Mr Nelsons health stopped him from operating a combine. He told me stories about his harvest crew in the panhandle of Texas and Oklahoma running 8 Gleaner A combines. Those old days were tough and the men and women who farmed back then were even tougher!

[@gravytrain416]

This takes me back in time. Thank you for sharing. My dad's only self-propelled combine was an A-2. Previously, he and my grandfather used pull-type AC combines; a 60 and a 66. That A-2 was my dad's pride and joy. His did have a cab though.

[@skn9895]

When I was a child, we had a Massey 27 and an International 151. My dad traded both in for a Gleaner “G”. It was my job to fill the gas tank every day. At that time, we just had a hand pump. That was a lot of work to pump gas uphill for an 8 year boy!

[@johnmaxwell7055]

Drove a Gleaner one summer for a neighbor harvesting maize (sorghum) in south Texas in the 1960's. It was a hot, dusty, itchy ordeal - no cab, no umbrella, nada. Just a straw hat. Twenty years later my skin would crawl when I passed a combine in the field. Glad I did it, but wouldn't do it again.

[@danjenkins9427]

ours had an aftermarket add on cab. We weren sure if it kept the dust out or trapped it in.

[@rodcody7278]

Some of the top of the line in that time fairly new when self propelled was being engineerd

[@alexhess4925]

its a jewel

[@jasonrichardson4522]

Grew up in Western Kansas with 4 C2's, they always seemed to put the JD 7700 we had to shame.

[@rodcody7278]

Nice I want it!

[@jerryslater5173]

No cab

[@rodneycody8746]

Good one captian obvious

[@ronaldbradshaw5496]

Great machine

[@combinelover8988]

+Ronald Bradshaw I love old combines.