Tamin' The Beast

[Allan in NE]

Finally got this lop-sided jasper unloaded off the trailer where it's been sittin' for the past week or so.

Darned thing doesn't seem near as heavy when ya use both a fork and a spoon. :>)

Allan

 

[glennster]

now its looking field ready!!!! couple parts here and there and you will be in the field. i gotta ask ya allan, when you bought her new, what sold you on the gleaner? here by us a gleaner is pretty rare. mostly you see i-h, deere and masseys, there are a few lexions too. i know they are real popular in the wheat belt. just wonderin....(course we had an allis chalmers model 100 open station with a 4 row bean head)

 

[Allan in NE]

When I was a little tiny guy, my dad bought a brand new all-crop 60 from Allis.

First day he used it, something was haywire; can't remember what, something to do with the engine not reving right or some silly thing.

Anyway, he went to the house and called the dealer. Within minutes, the dealer landed his plane out in that oats field before dad could even get back out there from the house.

He showed my dad what he was doing wrong and off away he went again. Wasn't there 10 minutes.

Never, ever forgot that; been using Allis combines ever since and still dealing with that same dealer to this day.

Can't say enough good about the place. Come to think about it, have never had a single problem with the Gleaners either. Ever. :>)

Allan

 

[Case Lady]

GIT 'ER DONE!!! Looking good!

 

[Vito]

Allan,
Nice to see you breath life into this machine.
Vito

 

[Eric in IL]

WOW! If the combines are that good, did ya ever think about tryin a Orange tractor?

 

[Allan in NE]

Although,

This isn't the combine that I had bought new. The head is, but I just used my current machine to lift that heavy lard-ark up off the ground.

The pretty one still doesn't have an engine. :>(

Allan

 

[Allan in NE]

This isn't the dead one. This is my old F.

Allan

 

[sammy the RED]

Looks like them [b:d70096a4c2]Red Beasts[/b:d70096a4c2] are eating that corn head for dinner ! 8)

 

[Allan in NE]

Never raised oranges. Wrong climate. :>)

Allan

 

[bradley martin]

Now. Allan, you are either going to have plant some corn or go out doing custom work!!!

 

[KIP in MX]

Let me guess...the wind was 20-30 mph while you were doing that.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Very interesting experience/testimony!

My memories of an Allis Chalmers combine aren't so favorable. As a kid growing up in the 60's we had a pto driven A/C 66 direct cut. The machine was in excellent condition as we maintained it well and always kept it shedded when not in use. However the two most distinct memories I have of it are: unplugging it and greasing it. The unplugging was an ongoing and frequent occurance. As I remember it, greasing was an endless task best suited for a monkey. The contortions one had to get into to access grease fittings remain etched in my mind forever. Dripping with sweet in Wisconsin's hot August weather with chaff dropping in your face only adds to the memories. None of us four boys nor my 90+ year old father have any idea where that peice of family history currently resides and hopefully we never will. Let's just say, we're not looking for it.

In fairness, I'm sure a couple significant factors contributing to our negative experience were the fact that the only tractors we had to pull it with for most of its years were simply not geared low enough and lacked live pto. Combine that with a little too much greenery in the standing oats crop and the stage was fully set for a three-ringed-circus.

On the other hand, years later we had an F Gleaner which served us very well. The Gleaner is a good machine.

Glenn F.

 

[Allan in NE]

I hear ya there,

We always swathed the grain so it could dry out and therefore used a pickup. That fact alone eleminated about 80% of the grease fittings of that model.

What I remember about it most about it tho, was that it was so darned loud! Engined models came from the factory with that 6' straight pipe and boy, could that thing ever beller. :>)

Allan

 

[Allan in NE]

By the time I get all the bearings replaced on that rascal I'll probably be too darned old.

What do they have? Something like 32?

Allan

 

[Dairy Farmer in WI]

so you have 2 gleaners? you got any other kind of combine or just gleaner. but that is one hungry lookin' combine! alwyas liked gleaners but can't find any 'round here. most are not willing to sell teh gleaners. well have fun!
DF in WI

 

[Allan in NE]

Yes,

The F I bought 2 years ago (which I unloaded the head with today) and now my old F2, which I just found and "rebought" a couple of weeks ago.

The F is one of the very last ones built and the F2 is one of the first F2s built.

They are very close in serial numbers and the only difference between the two is that the F2 has the nicer cab with the curved glass, some fancier electronics and nicer, more user friendly controls.

Otherwise, they are pretty much the same bird except my original F2 is a corn/soybean special (another name for "I paid too much"). :>)

Allan

 

[Anonymous-0]

Dad had two WC tractors, no live power, and everything was swathed, but sometimes the windrows were really heavy, so he put one WC on the combine to be the 'engine', and he and my brother used the other WC in front, slow in first gear, to get through heavy windrows. Really diminished the slugging.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Fake picture- no mud on the tires, and the top one has TREES!

 

[Paul from MI]

Love that blue sky in the pics. Don't see much of that in Michigan this time of year.
Paul

 

[randallinMo]

Allen, I for the life of me can't figure out what those two things (appear to be buildings) are back there behind the combine and to the left. ??

 

[Allan in NE]

Aw,

Took me a minute to figure out what ya were talking about. :>)

That is a picture of the F2, which is still sitting in town down next to the railroad yard. Those "things" you're seeing are actually the open spaces between the rail cars parked behind the combine.

Here's another angle.

Allan

 

[randallinMo]

OK, now I got it. I had to look closely to see the vertical seams on the rail cars. Initially they looked like some kind of ground based radar buildings or something! Talk about optical illusions!