![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the wheels was under the bin where the left rear wheel of the Fordson was. The frame had two 5-inch channel irons across the frame corresponding to where the mounting irons on the Fordson tractor would have been. In where the Fordson tractor would have been, there was a platform that a man stood on to run the header lever. They were the components of the 1926 Fordson-mounted Gleaner combine, minus the Fordson, mounted on an iron frame, with a tongue and a 3-inch pipe axle with 48-inch wheels to make it into a pull-type combine. There is one type of Gleaner combine I have not come up with much information on. Over the years, I did get to know a lot of interesting people, hear a lot of stories, see and find some interesting machinery (although some of it I did not realize what I was seeing until a lot later). Nothing was like coming home late at night from one of these escapades, getting into bed, and hearing my wife say to me, “Which do you want to hear first: the good news or the bad news?” I will have to give credit to another daughter and son-in-law who lived close by, and to my wife, who put up with this and kept the home fires going and saw that the chores were done on the farm. When a couple of my daughters married in the 1980s, one in north central Kansas and the other in southwest Kansas, that gave me a good excuse to get out that way to look into what could be discovered in Fordson-mounted Gleaners and parts. That lasted until the scrap iron prices got high now, little is left. Later, going to old-time farm shows and swap meets, I talked to fellows from Kansas and Nebraska, where some of this stuff was still in groves, fencerows and collectors’ hands. Firsts Some of the firsts introduced by the Gleaner were: an that replaced, a rasp bar threshing instead of a spike-tooth arrangement, and a down-front cylinder that put threshing closer to the crop.In my youth, my dad talked of the Fordson-mounted Gleaner combine he used in the 1930s. The Hesston facility is 35 miles east of, where the Baldwin brothers started the Gleaner company in 1923. It also centralized the and production functions into one location. ![]() In 2000, AGCO moved the Gleaner manufacturing operations from to its facility, which featured modernized manufacturing equipment and techniques. Another problem for Gleaner was that some of their combines used the Deutz engine, a departure from water-cooled engines predominantly found in most other industrial and agricultural applications. Between 19, Gleaner lost significant market share to other manufacturers with broader dealer bases and farm equipment product lines that had marketing and customer service advantages. Despite several ownership changes, the Gleaner brand never ceased to be produced or marketed. ![]()
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