I was on the harvest run of '78. We had Massey 760s. They were broke down almost every day. That year the majority of combines on the run were L2 Gleaners. I was jealous of them.
@@truebluebluetick Never had any major trouble with the combine I was driving other than when we got to Montana my Air Conditioner went out. I cut the last month with door open and breathed a lot of wheat dust. The truck and trailer broke down more than the combine.
@@KenWalker-g7z haha pretty common!! Way back when we ran a L2 and L3 harvested many days with the door open and no shirt on! Didn’t mind much when I was 15 today I’d probably shut down and get it fixed
I'll bet that family really appreciates you catching high quality footage of their machines. I am sure they take great pride in those beautiful old combines. What you are doing Mike is really a great service to all the hard working American farmers out there. Thank you and God Bless.
Dude! Summer of '85 I was on a crew out of Pond Creek, Oklahoma with 3 new L3"s. We went from Texas to North Dakota. You just stirred up SO many memories. Thank you Thank you!
A Significant difference. Most currant available combines require a Dealer tech to work on and/or diagnose mechanical , electrical or Software Problems! P.S. Not usually done for Free!!!!!
If the lead machine turns the corner leaving the corner standing the second comes and runs off the end circling around taking the standing corner off. Then the third combine turns and leaves the corner, and then cycle continues. That way one machine is always running full and the other is running empty except taking the standing corner off as he turns the corner. Saves fuel and time.
My brother and his crew have been doing this for the last several years in Colorado with two L2's and three L's. We typically only have three or four in the same field at a time, but this was cool to watch. Thanks for sharing this. I'm going to send the link to my bro now so he can watch it as well.
Very nice shots of all three running together. We had a neighbor in the late 60's that ran GleEANER combine annd Allis/chalmers tractors. I hired out that spring of my senior year and did all of his plowing with a 190Xt and a 3 bottem rollover plow.
I just love these combines. So great to see them in action. I love the big wide plains in this video and it is so nice to see wide open farmland without those imposing wind turbines. Thanks for showing.
Great video and find of the L 2 Gleaners I used to do custom harvesting on 36 Highway around 10 miles from the Kansas line , really straight north of Burlington Co. & a mile west in 1992 - 94 . I love the large fields
The local AC dealership was just across the street in my small town by the same man who was also a huge farmer and raised cattle until the late 80's so the man I worked with and for did all the cropland from planting to harvest for years and he's still doing it in 2023 . We live in eastern Kansas . Great locating the older equipment it brings back so many memories
The place we cut was Idelia right on 36 and the farm had a field right next to the elevator on each side of the highway , I've never seen so many cars pull over the edge of the road to watch us go by .
Loved the video! Reminds of the three summers I spent in Colorado in the mid 80s helping with wheat harvest about 15 miles north of the flaggler, aribba area!
i have a 1975 gleaner L havent used it for years mine had the big motor in it. they made some of those gleaner Ls with that bigger motor. it is a corn soybean special. i loved running it they were ahead of there time. real comfortable. they are great combines. i ran a John deere 7700 for a friend about the same time liked my gleaner better, and all i had was John Deere tractors at that time. great video
@@truebluebluetick first take a look at the crop there harvesting. It's fairly light crop and a big new combine wouldn't pay in a situation like that as it looked to be an organic operation
Hey Mike! If you ever get around up here in 40 miles from the Canadian border right in the middle of North Dakota, we run 3 turned up '81, '82, and an '83, 895 Versatiles, The two that run the air seeders is my own 400hp 855 big cam Cummins with an Atom-Jet hydraulic tank on the nose to run my airseeder fan, and Dads is the slightly newer "Candy Striper" 390 hp 855 Big Cam with a updated hi flow hydraulic kit strapped to his 2320 Flexi-Coil air cart, and my 400hp pulls my 787 John Deere (green painted 2320) Air Cart both hooked to 40' 5000 Flexi-Coil drills behind, 1 Versatile runs the Brandt heavy harrow, Willrich Chisel plow converted to a Caulter, old Krause '29 Disk, '40 international caultivator, and the Summers bean roller, along with a John Deere 8630 pulling a matching old school John Deere 20 something foot disk (I think it's a 23-24 foot), a BIG Woods Batwing mower for low spots or pulling stuck tractors out during springs work, my hay team is also that JD 8630 pulling a old donahue trailer with an Oliver 1800 Diesel Loader, G-1355 Oliver-White on my Frontier 1216 Moco (green painted Macdon 5020) conditioner, and a John Deere 4630 on my Vermeer 605XL baler, Harvest team encludes an '98 M11 75th Anniversary 1st one off the line painted R72, my '94 Air Cooled Duetz R-62, for straw bales we use the retired L3 with the Allis diesel and unhook the chopper, that same JD 8630 pulling a older Killbros 1200 Cart, '77 Early 855 big cam Cummins 4800 White-Western star Tandem that used to be a dump truck, 83' 8.2 Detroit fuel pincher C-70 Chevy tandem, '88 350 Big cam Cummins T-600 Kenworth tandem, '91 Cat 3176 FLD 120 semi Pulling an old 80s-90s rebuilt Merrit Sunflower trailer, and a 93 Cummins N14 FLD120 semi with a flat sleeper Pulling a old school Timpte with the quad single speed traps. Running around the yard we have a fleet of old single axles like the old International Load Star, Ford F600, Chevy Viking, Diesel Chevy C-80 Cab over and three 60's/50's Chevy and Ford Trucks I'm trying to get fired up, as well as an old C80 gasser cab over chevy tandem I'm converting and rebuilding to a hay truck. As you can see we usually run old iron on the farm 🤣 even our service pickups are from the 70's 80's and 90's (edit) our only issue is that its only myself, and my dad, mom is our pickup driver to transport us to vehicles, my big brother sometimes has time off being a semi mechanic or comes out on the weekends for harvest, but sometime soon I'd like to have a hired man or two to drive a combine/cart/semi during harvest, be awesome to rebuild my old L3 and even the L2 in the tree row and really have a helluva operation
Growing up in the 90's on a dairy farm I remember seeing those and the JD 4400 combines and thinking they were relics of the far past. Then realizing when I see 30 year old equipment now I think it's "modern".
Great video Mike. Always a fan of anytime to do with A/C. My uncle was an A/C dealer back in the 60’s. I used to have to climb the tire tread so I could get up into the seat of the showroom tractor. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Great video i guarantee them old gleaners are running the wheat a lot cleaner than the newer deere machine a couple months after harvest always see the volunteer wheat coming up the newer machine with bigger heads are only about going faster dumping bushels on the ground behind them
We started with a m2 gleaner than a r42 now have a r62 gleaner now just love them easy to fixes great samples and eat all crops fast if u can keep it away from the r62 just hardly keep with the r42 or m2 hualing
I feel like every year that goes by, it’s more likely people like this will have the last laugh, when everybody else’s stuff is parked due to emissions sensor faults.
The glory days of the Gleaner still exist. Now there are making money they can keep in their pocket. With the cost of equipment now days I wonder what the cost difference is in the outcome of the harvest?
Just me: I had rather have the land and those 4 L2's paid for than run all the ground I can rattle across with the brightest colors the bank will 'sell' me.
Equipment needs for every farm is different. When it comes to farming you can never judge a book by its cover. I know several farms that own new equipment that is paid for too.
Have you ran a gleaner L2? Lol talk about not if I’m gonna break down but when I’m gonna break down. Happy day when the gleaner L’s left the farm. Great memories in them gurls though
Great memories in an L2. (North Eastern NC)
Thanks for sharing this.
Hello! There is nothing more iconic than a "Cleaner"! But three together is amazing!
I was on a wheat harvest crew in 1979. We ran 7 Gleaner L2s and I drove one that summer from Kansas to Montana.
How many times did you break down that summer?
I was on the harvest run of '78. We had Massey 760s. They were broke down almost every day. That year the majority of combines on the run were L2 Gleaners. I was jealous of them.
@@truebluebluetick Never had any major trouble with the combine I was driving other than when we got to Montana my Air Conditioner went out. I cut the last month with door open and breathed a lot of wheat dust. The truck and trailer broke down more than the combine.
@@KenWalker-g7z haha pretty common!! Way back when we ran a L2 and L3 harvested many days with the door open and no shirt on! Didn’t mind much when I was 15 today I’d probably shut down and get it fixed
@@truebluebluetickso basically you didn't maintain the machines
I'll bet that family really appreciates you catching high quality footage of their machines. I am sure they take great pride in those beautiful old combines. What you are doing Mike is really a great service to all the hard working American farmers out there. Thank you and God Bless.
Totally agree. And its capturing historic machines before they are worn out!
We ran Gleaners. Simple machines and do an excellent job threshing.
Dude! Summer of '85 I was on a crew out of Pond Creek, Oklahoma with 3 new L3"s. We went from Texas to North Dakota. You just stirred up SO many memories. Thank you Thank you!
Allis Chalmers.....music to my ears!! Thanks Mike for another good one.
I am always impressed with the simplicity and ease of maintenance of older equipment. What a great video on a few classics!
A Significant difference. Most currant available combines require a Dealer tech to work on and/or diagnose mechanical , electrical or Software Problems! P.S. Not usually done for Free!!!!!
Nice classic harvest team😁👍 it's always a joy to see older equipment still getting used👍😉
Awesome video👍
The L-2s were awesome machines. I go back to the Gleaner G era, loved that machine!
Grew up running one of these. Thank you for making this video.
A good site to see Mike, and three together and the farmers were willing to help out by getting all three together for you is very accommodating.
Great to see those classic gleaners harvesting wheat😊
great over head shots great to see older combines at work still earning a keep for the owners looking good love the older stuff
This video is Awesome. These farmers using these older Gleaners is something you dont see everyday.
Those combines sounded and looked good. I like watching the old stuff still doing a great job. Loved the drone footage Mike!
Amazing find Mike. Imagine it being 1982 - you'd be big-timing with that lineup. A great nostalgia video.
Seeing how food is grown and harvested is amazing.
If the lead machine turns the corner leaving the corner standing the second comes and runs off the end circling around taking the standing corner off. Then the third combine turns and leaves the corner, and then cycle continues. That way one machine is always running full and the other is running empty except taking the standing corner off as he turns the corner. Saves fuel and time.
My brother and his crew have been doing this for the last several years in Colorado with two L2's and three L's. We typically only have three or four in the same field at a time, but this was cool to watch. Thanks for sharing this. I'm going to send the link to my bro now so he can watch it as well.
A great video for sure ... glad you spotted this classic team.
When I was growing up, we had a gleaner K-2. They came a long way. It's neat to see the old machines still getting it done
Excellent video
Very nice shots of all three running together. We had a neighbor in the late 60's that ran GleEANER combine annd Allis/chalmers tractors. I hired out that spring of my senior year and did all of his plowing with a 190Xt and a 3 bottem rollover plow.
Classic Gleaners!
What a view! 😃
Thanks a lot for the video! 😊👍🏻
Great video! Nice to see the classics getting the harvest handled with style!
Awesome to see this kinda farm.
What an amazing find! Great video!
I just love these combines. So great to see them in action. I love the big wide plains in this video and it is so nice to see wide open farmland without those imposing wind turbines. Thanks for showing.
Excellent video and great footage of such great classic combines.
Wow, I am a hooting and a hollering while watching this! Thanks man! Dewey
These collectibles are at working. Really amazing 👍
Like to see N5/N6 harvesting! Still cool to classic iron rolling across fields ❤
thats a great video of gleaner combines thanks for such special video
Blast from the past. Awesome machine
awesome footage here Mike. I bet that farm family is grining ear to ear seeing this and telling all their friends to check it out!
Wow Mike that was a nostalgic video,one for the archives.
I ran an M2 Gleaner years ago on my Dad and Uncle's farm...these machines are built tough...Miss those times even today...located in Central NC...
Those huge fields are unbelievable I'd love to visit for the harvest
Nice Mike. Golden oldies
Awesome to see classic combines still at work !!!
Great video! The shots looking straight down were pretty neat. I'm glad the folks welcomed you to shoot.
Thank you for making this video very interesting
Great video and find of the L 2 Gleaners
I used to do custom harvesting on 36 Highway around 10 miles from the Kansas line , really straight north of Burlington Co. & a mile west in 1992 - 94 . I love the large fields
The local AC dealership was just across the street in my small town by the same man who was also a huge farmer and raised cattle until the late 80's so the man I worked with and for did all the cropland from planting to harvest for years and he's still doing it in 2023 . We live in eastern Kansas . Great locating the older equipment it brings back so many memories
The place we cut was Idelia right on 36 and the farm had a field right next to the elevator on each side of the highway , I've never seen so many cars pull over the edge of the road to watch us go by .
Sorry for all the comments instead of just editing them my phone is a little messed up at the moment
You really do good videos thanks
Now that's what I'm talking about! Excellent video! Find more old school school stuff!
Another great video from Farmhand Mike!! Thank you for sharing these great videos!!!
Love the video love to see Gleaner combines
Man that took me back. I used to run an '82 L2 when I was growing up.
Awesome footage mike! Thanks!!
Loved the video! Reminds of the three summers I spent in Colorado in the mid 80s helping with wheat harvest about 15 miles north of the flaggler, aribba area!
This is a really great video. Old school for sure!!😊
i have a 1975 gleaner L havent used it for years mine had the big motor in it. they made some of those gleaner Ls with that bigger motor. it is a corn soybean special. i loved running it they were ahead of there time. real comfortable. they are great combines. i ran a John deere 7700 for a friend about the same time liked my gleaner better, and all i had was John Deere tractors at that time. great video
Having just recently got into agricultural machinery, it’s really cool to see how technology has changed over the years.
Amazing. Way better than a X9 and a huge payment behind it
Those three even if they had all four running are less efficient then one x9 and breaks down hell of a lot more then an x9.
@@truebluebluetick first take a look at the crop there harvesting. It's fairly light crop and a big new combine wouldn't pay in a situation like that as it looked to be an organic operation
@@truebluebluetickBS
@@carlfalt174it's pretty typical dry land wheat
Those guys are really channeling their inner Blue Angels - tight formation! Very cool...
Sweet video
Good video good to see you Mike
Hey Mike! If you ever get around up here in 40 miles from the Canadian border right in the middle of North Dakota, we run 3 turned up '81, '82, and an '83, 895 Versatiles, The two that run the air seeders is my own 400hp 855 big cam Cummins with an Atom-Jet hydraulic tank on the nose to run my airseeder fan, and Dads is the slightly newer "Candy Striper" 390 hp 855 Big Cam with a updated hi flow hydraulic kit strapped to his 2320 Flexi-Coil air cart, and my 400hp pulls my 787 John Deere (green painted 2320) Air Cart both hooked to 40' 5000 Flexi-Coil drills behind, 1 Versatile runs the Brandt heavy harrow, Willrich Chisel plow converted to a Caulter, old Krause '29 Disk, '40 international caultivator, and the Summers bean roller, along with a John Deere 8630 pulling a matching old school John Deere 20 something foot disk (I think it's a 23-24 foot), a BIG Woods Batwing mower for low spots or pulling stuck tractors out during springs work, my hay team is also that JD 8630 pulling a old donahue trailer with an Oliver 1800 Diesel Loader, G-1355 Oliver-White on my Frontier 1216 Moco (green painted Macdon 5020) conditioner, and a John Deere 4630 on my Vermeer 605XL baler, Harvest team encludes an '98 M11 75th Anniversary 1st one off the line painted R72, my '94 Air Cooled Duetz R-62, for straw bales we use the retired L3 with the Allis diesel and unhook the chopper, that same JD 8630 pulling a older Killbros 1200 Cart, '77 Early 855 big cam Cummins 4800 White-Western star Tandem that used to be a dump truck, 83' 8.2 Detroit fuel pincher C-70 Chevy tandem, '88 350 Big cam Cummins T-600 Kenworth tandem, '91 Cat 3176 FLD 120 semi Pulling an old 80s-90s rebuilt Merrit Sunflower trailer, and a 93 Cummins N14 FLD120 semi with a flat sleeper Pulling a old school Timpte with the quad single speed traps. Running around the yard we have a fleet of old single axles like the old International Load Star, Ford F600, Chevy Viking, Diesel Chevy C-80 Cab over and three 60's/50's Chevy and Ford Trucks I'm trying to get fired up, as well as an old C80 gasser cab over chevy tandem I'm converting and rebuilding to a hay truck. As you can see we usually run old iron on the farm 🤣 even our service pickups are from the 70's 80's and 90's (edit) our only issue is that its only myself, and my dad, mom is our pickup driver to transport us to vehicles, my big brother sometimes has time off being a semi mechanic or comes out on the weekends for harvest, but sometime soon I'd like to have a hired man or two to drive a combine/cart/semi during harvest, be awesome to rebuild my old L3 and even the L2 in the tree row and really have a helluva operation
My relatives in Oregon have 2 of those combines also and still use them to harvest they’re wheat and grass seed
wow, my farm will be like this one dayy
Not everyone wants to spend millions on the high tech new stuff and Gleaner Combines are just as good now as they were when they were New 😃😃
Good video.
Just awesome!
Wonderful video!
I like Mike less videos on UA-cam from the imperial county California 👍👍🇺🇲🚜🚜🚜
I love that old iron.
Nice shots!!!!
Its amazing how far we've come
Great. Well done.
Gotta love that old iron
Growing up in the 90's on a dairy farm I remember seeing those and the JD 4400 combines and thinking they were relics of the far past. Then realizing when I see 30 year old equipment now I think it's "modern".
Love the old equipment!! There was not a gleaner dealer near me so I did not grow up with and silver equipment.
God Bless our farmers ❤
great video mike hope to see more
Those are the first L2's I've seen that didn't have black smoke trailing behind. -:)))
Great video Mike. Always a fan of anytime to do with A/C. My uncle was an A/C dealer back in the 60’s. I used to have to climb the tire tread so I could get up into the seat of the showroom tractor. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
That’s really neat to hear
I believe it was the 190XT model open cab of course.
Nice
Awesome video Mike, we run gleaners on our farm, we have a gleaner M3 that we only use for wheat.
Do you know if the family bought them new, ? - if so they have certainly paid for themselves a few times over.
My grandpa had 3 gleaner combines too…but it was more so he could have atleast one running at a time😅
Great video i guarantee them old gleaners are running the wheat a lot cleaner than the newer deere machine a couple months after harvest always see the volunteer wheat coming up the newer machine with bigger heads are only about going faster dumping bushels on the ground behind them
Not much depreciation in their harvesting machinery account and no screens or sensors to play with and drive you mad 😎😁
We started with a m2 gleaner than a r42 now have a r62 gleaner now just love them easy to fixes great samples and eat all crops fast if u can keep it away from the r62 just hardly keep with the r42 or m2 hualing
Were these machines considered cutting edge in their day?
I feel like every year that goes by, it’s more likely people like this will have the last laugh, when everybody else’s stuff is parked due to emissions sensor faults.
A good example of people keeping old iron going. Likely not as much wear and tear compared to doing soybeans and corn.
😎😎
It's like a cotton picking Gleaner brochure from 1979. As @vervaet17t said, you'd be a big time operation back in the day with this lineup
I've never understood why some guys go round and round the square instead of making a 180 turn at the end of the rows once the headlands are done.
The glory days of the Gleaner still exist. Now there are making money they can keep in their pocket. With the cost of equipment now days I wonder what the cost difference is in the outcome of the harvest?
I had an L3 , and there ain't nothin meaner than a Gleaner driven by a half baked wiener
🤣🤣🤣
No computer codes being thrown here! I’m going to take a wild guess and say their paid for as well. Money in the bank!
Nothing automated about these old workhorses
Cute ole girls with their t-Rex augers. Never really caught on in Saskatchewan Canada. No dealer support
Pretty typical for allis engines. Rolling coal from one end of the field to the other
Not much of a straw spread going on there.
Just me: I had rather have the land and those 4 L2's paid for than run all the ground I can rattle across with the brightest colors the bank will 'sell' me.
Of course but the maintenance is the issue and by that I mean when it breaks down in the middle of harvest
Equipment needs for every farm is different. When it comes to farming you can never judge a book by its cover. I know several farms that own new equipment that is paid for too.
Heck yeah! Very easy to work on, very few moving parts!!
Have you ran a gleaner L2? Lol talk about not if I’m gonna break down but when I’m gonna break down. Happy day when the gleaner L’s left the farm. Great memories in them gurls though
I second that comment!!
Nice