Gleaner Combine At Work

[@jazzerbyte]

That Gleaner is in tip top shape!

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks 👍

[@michaelklein3112]

Gleaner simply Leaner, Meaner and Cleaner Gleaner!

[@stephenpoessl5464]

Thankyou that brought back memories for me when I was a young lad going from school to work corn carting .the combined harvester we used then was the old Massey Ferguson 780.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad you liked it.

[@richardjoyce3612]

Hats off to you guys for keeping this machine in fine fettle,,, another good film, many thanks...

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Many thanks!

[@paulleaver8820]

This video brings back some good memories it's nice to see the old girls still working thanks for the good video 😊

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jeffekkel5870]

It's amazing how far we've come in such a short time. We used to run a Gleaner K 40 years ago not long after we started farming. It was a small machine but she did what we needed at the time. Now are running an International Harvester 1460 and that is considered a small machine by todays standards but once again she does everything we ask of her. Nice video and greetings from Michigan in the good old USA.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks for the comment. 👍

[@johnd7288]

Love seeing the older combines the gleaner looks a very smart combine ! My favourite was the class giant materdor lovely combine ! Well another great video !

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@nigelford6777]

Yes, I see there is no raised hump in the header to restrict incoming rocks and set the crop up for the auger flights to grab it like the CLAAS.

[@charleshart6992]

Another excellent video - as a youngster l remember these combines, but they were not as popular as the red ones!

[@Casterton-Vintage]

The red ones were king at that time. Things never stay the same. Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@michaelklein3112]

Dont forget to lube straw walker eccentric crank wooden bearings and the shoe hanging arms in the back. On my F2's the Rattle Chain taking the thrashed material up to begin the cleaning process . Your A model reminds fondly of my open station E model. 😊 Nice Video! Beautiful Gleaner! Be safe! Greetings from Ohio, USA Peace!

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks for the message. 👍

[@philgardener7018]

Wow this video is amazing. enjoying the drivers view

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thank you 👍

[@casto-]

Lovely to see the old lass out working👍 looks a lovely clean sample (from a man thats never combined 😆) and a nice crop too

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks 👍

[@crispinaske8293]

Without being there, i might go as far as to dare to say, is it too clean a sample??. I always preferred to see a small amount of rubbish rather than the thought of grain going out the back.

[@ProtonD1200]

ohhh, it brings me back to my youth. I am today 66 years old and in 1972 as a 14-year-old boy I started on a farm where I stayed for 4 years. We had 140 acres of land on two farms that we harvested with an 8 foot massey ferguson 87. Harvest time was the big time for me when I was allowed to drive the Massey Ferguson 87. It was a fantastic combine, it always ran and we never had heating problems like the class and others had, as the Massey Ferguson had a rotating drum in front of the radiator which meant that it never got hot. Here is the Massey Ferguson 87 kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3O6paGMiapsqpY It's wonderful to see that you don't let go of what was before. A warm greeting from Denmark.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks for sharing your story with us. Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@richardbolt287]

Brings back memories of growing up on the 1970s. Our local contractor used to cut our corn with one. He had 3or4 of them some for parts. I think I drove it too.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

A lovely memory to have. Thanks for sharing.

[@majorphoto]

beautiful machine, I live in Michigan, USA and never saw an Allis Gleaner. Our Gleaners over here were all galvanized "color". Also, the straw is very nicely set-up for small square bales.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad you enjoyed the video. It would be good to know how much of this combine came from the US. There are a lot of galvanised parts under the orange paint.

[@DavidWillams-u4y]

Another great video, thank you and well done. Great looking sample as well.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@stephenrice4554]

Superb machine , never speak too loudly of the squeak . Lovely job 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@Casterton-Vintage]

🤣

[@petergardner2334]

NOW THATS A GREAT VIDEO IAM RESTORING SUPER A ALLIS CHALMERS

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Well done. I hope all goes well.

[@Dan.Whiteford]

Congratulations. Excellent video, gorgeous weather helped make outstanding pictures of a lovely working machine cutting a good looking crop and producing a really clean sample and a good swath of quality straw.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thank you very much!

[@FarmGearInnovators]

The squeaking issue really adds character to the video-classic machinery quirks! Glad to see you’re tackling it with patience.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks 👍

[@CarlosMecorobles]

QUE TRIGO MAS HERMOSO SALUDOS DESDE ESPAÑA GRACIAS POR EL VIDEO

[@Casterton-Vintage]

It's good to hear from Spain. Thanks.

[@seeker1432]

I love these old machines still working.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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[@willjeffery2661]

Beautiful grain sample. We used to have an old Laverda that did the same…

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks.

[@martingardener90]

Absolutely loved this video - the only thing missing was a period tractor and trailer on carting duty! I remember seeing a Gleaner harvesting a field near Hartland in North Cornwall when I was small, the farm where I grew up had a Ransomes 801.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks.

[@philipbutler9404]

Absolutely brilliant video looks a good sample

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Yes, it does a great job for it's age.

[@stevearmstrong5321]

Very, very nice video...............

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thank you so much 😀

[@karolbailey5858]

I lived at Church Farm, next door to the Allis Chalmers factory! It was Minneapolis Moline (they opened there in 1947) before it became Allis Chalmers, and it subsequently became Fiat Allis in 1974 until it closed in 1982. I can remember rows and rows of new machinery all lined up along the edge of Dads field. My husband remembers his dad's first Allis Chalmers combine, on which the grain was bagged into 1 cwt hessian bags on the combine, neck of the bags tied by baler twine and dropped by a chute onto the stubble beside the combine for collection later. The combine had a driver and one or two men bagging, depending on how heavy the crop was. A dirty, dusty job!

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Great memories. Thanks for the information.

[@williambowman7589]

Fantastic video 😊

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thank you very much!

[@kendallwilliamson8193]

I believe the squeaking noise was coming from the cutterbar, likely a knife section rubbing the top or bottom of the guard. Look for a shinny part on the section. If it has colour on the section or guard that's the problem one. Watching from Canada!

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Hello to you in Canada. I always enjoy visiting your country. I think the problem with the knife is that it is slightly bent and rubs on the back of the fingers near the drive end. It's just another job to go on the big list! Thanks for the advice and support.

[@kendallwilliamson8193]

@@Casterton-Vintage Should be an adjustment to move that forward or back and move the knife through its cycle while making the adjustment.

[@wayneriedlinger]

thats a nice looking combine. I like the old gleaners. I am a volunteer at a museum at Stony Plain & Parkland Pioneer Museum in Alberta Canada. We have a Gleaner model A in running working condition. Ours is not painted orange like yours. Yours has a ford engine so it is an early built one. Ours has the Alis Chalmers 230 G engine.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I've looked up the museum and it looks like a great place for a visit. I was wrong about the engine in my Gleaner. It's a Perkins.

[@JohnnyMotel99]

Either back then, fields and yields per acre were much, much smaller or we had very long dry summers. I remember this type of combine well.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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[@davidpugh5087]

The squeak maybe the retractable auger fingers

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I oiled them too but still squeaked!

[@bobpaterson1845]

Great video an the old gleaner was producing a superb sample👍 as for cars on the road when shifting a combine in the uk its not the cars its the self centered idiots behind the wheel who think their range rover can bully you 🙄😳 its amazing how when you meet someone like that on a country lane just start up the threshing mechanism an watch them hunt for reverse 🤣 one of our club members up here 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in Perthshire restored a Gleaner combine many years ago and im sure it had a P6 engine in it 🤔 it was then sold to somewhere in England 😕😁👍

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I'm sure the people behind the wheel become less tolerant. There are still plenty of good folks out there though so we should say thanks to them. I'm going to have a look at the engine tomorrow and check exactly what it is. Thanks for the comment.

[@peterparry6206]

The first combine I drove was a Alis charmbers when I was 14 years old and then that was traded in for M F 525

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks for sharing your memories. I bet it was a jump from an Allis to an MF525!

[@rodneycody8746]

Nice

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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[@warrenpost1502]

We have had Gleaners since 1942 except when we had an IH 101 so we could pick corn then went back to Gleaners in 1967 because they had a full frame under it. The down front cylinder would handle weeds better than anything else on the market

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I've always wondered about the position of the cylinder and why they thought this was a good idea. It's nice to hear a reason. Thanks.

[@sewingman1]

The stuff of memories. A Fordson Power/Super Major pulling a Martin Markham 3 ton trailer (made in Stamford) would really complete the scene. The last Gleaner combine I saw working for real was on Grange Farm, Carlby. Could this be the same machine?

[@Casterton-Vintage]

An old tractor and trailer would have been good. I don't think this one came from Carlby.

[@FenlandCrusader]

Good one they was always quite quick down the road compared with massey and ransomes, i busted the slatted elivater on one a couple of years ago so it put me off them a bit, but they do sing nicely with that perkins 6 pot, well done

[@Casterton-Vintage]

How did you brake the slatted elevator? I've had a broken slat or two but it still works.

[@FenlandCrusader]

@Casterton-Vintage right then,we had a field of rye for the binder, we've never had rye before and drilled it to heavy to the piont that the binder couldn't cope with it, it was so entangled the binder was cutting it and dragging itself straight out off the back wouldn't go up the canvas to the deck so all sorts of trouble so we thought it would be a good idea to combine it, I'm afraid it was to much for the alis just wouldn't go slow enough even with half a cut consequently it broke almost all the slats so i took the 788 to do it and took half cut and she took it ok , so not altogether the machine's fault

[@simongleed]

Fantastic content and that engine sounds great too. I have restored a Leyland 804 tractor to new like condition and British Army Chieftain tank MK10 MBT. I have an urge to restore something else maybe a combine??? :) thanks again for this fantastic content.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

A combine would be a great challenge after a Chieftain tank!

[@mcgrorymachined7596]

brilliant video! thank you for putting it together! I really need to try and get out to some kind of working event where machines such as these can be seen in action! the Steam rallys near me don't have a working section as such

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I'm not sure where you are located but our Casterton Vintage Working Event is on 21st and 22nd of September. As the name implies, it is at Great Casterton near Stamford. There will be some very rare and very old equipment on display and it will be working.

[@mcgrorymachined7596]

@@Casterton-Vintage It's on my calendar already! i"m about 1.5 hours away so not too bad. I really must sort something so i can get my tractor working at events like this too.

[@Dave.w-ev9qn1962]

Can you explain the difference between gleaner and conventional combines please? Is it just different way of thrashing?

[@Casterton-Vintage]

A short answer relating to Gleaners from back then. The main threshing is done very close to the front of the combine, right down at the point where the crop leaves the bed. It is then carried on a slatted belt, up into the separation area. I think this is supposed to maximise the separation area because the heavy grain falls through the straw to the bottom of the belt. Maybe one of the Gleaner experts can tell us more?

[@Dave.w-ev9qn1962]

@@Casterton-Vintage Thank you for the info! Thought it must be to do with getting more of the grain before it goes out back end. Your videos are interesting and very well filmed sir🙂👍

[@brianhansen826]

Are the brit gleaners galvanized under the orange paint?

[@Casterton-Vintage]

This Gleaner has a lot of Galvanise on it and I'm 90% sure they didn't have galvanising facilities at Essendine so I assume the galve parts were imported for the US but I don't know if that is right. I will have to ask some of the experts.

[@cidertom5140]

Did you check the fuel level and what it runs on did you find spark plugs??

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Yes, cleaned the plugs, covered in diesel soot!

[@cidertom5140]

@@Casterton-Vintage haha

[@johnvanstone5336]

No grease points? Year of manufacture and horse power please.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

That's a bit technical for a Sunday evening. Probably 50 grease nipples, I'm guessing 1961 and the Ford Dorset engine is probably about 100hp. Lets hope someone that knows what they are talking about reads this and puts me right!

[@kevinmothers904]

@@Casterton-Vintage According to this new fangled internet thingy, a 1961 Gleaner would have originally been powered by a Allis Chalmers 6 cylinder or 262 turbo charged Diesel engine. If it's now fitted with a Ford Dorset she must have had an engine change at some time as Ford manufactured Dorsets at Dagenham between 1981 and 1993 and used them in their Cargo trucks. This has been sourced from Wikipedia, so who knows!

[@davidpugh5087]

But was that American Allis

[@rbharvesters7404]

Perkins 6.288 on this one. Previous models would have had the original p6

[@Casterton-Vintage]

@@kevinmothers904 It's a Perkins 😊😊

[@RichardChappell-t2w]

That is a perkins p6 engine not a Ford

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I believe you are correct. Thanks for correcting me.

[@ianbrown5866]

@@Casterton-VintagePerkins 6-305 !

[@michelplumel7498]

mon frefre avait la meme avec un moteur perkins p6, je l avais remise en route

[@Casterton-Vintage]

This one is a P6. I was wrong in the video. Glad to hear we brought back old memories for you.

[@DavidDenby-bk2nt]

Perking engine

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I will check

[@Mark-d1q4i]

Greeses will stop it its thicker sir

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I'll try it. Thanks.

[@DavidDenby-bk2nt]

Perking not Ford engine

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I will check.

[@goergesouthard3314]

One reason then if ya had 5.combines you could get.10 operators now lucky to beg one to run a million dollar caddilac cab new one lazy sob s

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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