Want to Buy Gleaner combine.

I am a young 27 year old farmer in Eastern TN never owned a combine before, and to be honest I know very little about them. I am looking for a low hour combine that doesn"t cost much. I have read alot about how the gleaner combines are easy to work on. If you have a good clean low hour gleaner you want to sell let me know. Would love if it had the heads and would really love if you had a narrow 30" corn head with it. I am only doing 30 years next year with the hope to grow to 150-200 acres in the next couple of years. I really like the smaller k combine, but I would be interested in any low hour clean combine that is easy on the budget. Thanks guys

You're right that they are easier to work on. Generally one sprocket/pulley on a shaft end, not several. Half as many belts as some JD machines. Easy to adjust and a history of giving a good sample. I would however consider an F or F2 instead of the K. More capacity and a wider selection of heads......up to 4 row corn, 15 foot bean heads.

kind of a oxy-moron thing isn't it. low hour and inexpensive.

If you want a "low hour" and "clean" combine, expect to pay for it.

My son has an F2 and an L2 he is planning on selling soon. He used both this fall cutting beans and the L2 in summer picking corn with a 4 row head.
AC is cold in them both.
You are not too far away if in eastern TN. We are near Westminster, SC. Can see NC and GA mountains from our place.
Email me if interested.
Richard

yes the f series has a lot more going for it , , a good gleaner man knows how to get a seed planter quality sample ,, i ran a gleaner f 5 yrs and was still learnin... lol ,i had 5 buyers for my f,,they seem to sell well ..

Buy a Deere 4400---I go to alot of sales and I have seen some good deals----4400 non-rotary screen $1500-2500----443 corn head $2000-2500----215 or 216 bean head $500-1000! You could have less than $6000 in everything. Lots of places to easily get parts. We used to have a welding shop/blacksmith in town---one of our neighbors had a Gleaner combine, it seemed like every time I went buy there in the fall that Gleaner had its nose in his shop. The blacksmith told me that if Deere used a 1" shaft-Gleaner would use a 7/8--don't know-just repeating what he said!!

Here in Illinois just East of St.Louis you don't see hardly see any Gleaner combines they're all John Deere or IH. My dad ran a Gleaner "E" without a cab from 1969-1991. Only had a two row corn head and a 10' platform. He said he gets the same price for grain as everyone else. Besides he would of had to build a bigger shed if he went bigger. He did send 3 out of 4 of his kids to college this way. I remember riding on the steps of that combine for years and hours harvesting wheat, beans and corn. If any one says beans are dusty, they're right but corn is much worse. I would go with a combine that you'll get good service from with the dealer that is closest.

In the last 10-15 years I haven't seen an old Gleaner combine sell "high" no matter how clean and low houred. Of the "old" combines only a few John Deeres and the IH Axial Flows seem to sell high if they are in good shape.

6-7 years ago I watched a very nice Gleaner E sell for $375 (before scrap prices went up) that the owner claimed had never spent a night outside (and it looked it). The buyer joked he could combine the brome seed in the grader ditches on the way home and have it paid for.

I agree; around 'here', they sell for essentially scrap prices..........no matter the hours/condition.

if you are budgeted for something as old as a k or f, then by all means stick with a gleaner. at least they were advanced enough to have the cab in the middle. parts are available too. if you have enough money for an IH axial flow or a JD 4400, then get ahold of the guy with the F2 and L2. superior machines and easy to work on. the F2 uses same heads as the f. stay away from older narrow row orange heads and get the newer nr black heads. the grain tables were all good.

i just went through buying my first combine earlier this year. had much the same thoughts about a gleaner k vs a jd 3300. I also looked at several other factors availability of parts, distance to the dealer, neighbors with experience on them, dealer operating hours. for me it panned out like this

gleaner:
dealer: 90 minutes away
parts: no k's in local salvage yards
parts: no online ordering / inventory visibility through dealer
dealer hours: m-f 8-5
neighbors: - no gleaner operators to learn from

John Deere:
dealer: 15 minutes
parts: 2 salvage machines local
parts: dealer has online parts inventory status and orders
dealer hours: M-F 7-6 and SAT 7-12
neighbors: running JD combines from a 95 all the way to a 9600

this is just how it worked out for me based on my location for me the dealer component was huge as well as experienced mentors to teach me how to operate it.

-Paul

i always read about dealer location. if we all bought our equipment based on that, then we all would have JD stuff on our farms. shoups has many parts for gleaners. and i never needed my neighbors to help me figure out how to run something.

i have a k for sale 2-38 corn head and 10 grain head shedded--runs great 2750 we are in central ky link_disallowed days

Used to have a custom combiner from Oklahoma cut my winter wheat. Ran nothing but Gleaners. As much grain went out the back as went in the combine bin.

u might consider a 300 massey probably the best of that age machine they can be bought right to

you won't go wrong buying a late F2 or F3 diesel with hydro, 4wd if possible, like the man said get the black corn head and black grain head, flex head if you plan to cut soybeans, i prefer an F3 because it's has electric controls but wouldn't pass up a good F2 ,there small enough to be affordable for a small operation and can easily handle a couple hundred acres if your not on a real short time schedule, pound for pound there is no competition,i've operated a lot of different type machines as for the complaint of strewing grain any machine not adjusted right will do that especially in bad crop conditions, son likes to pick at the neighbors as to why JD's are called green machines says it's easy to see how lush green the field are behind them in a few day's, gleaners are built for ease of maintenance not saying some things aren't a pain,but try working a late model M.F the same size and you quickly understand the difference, not that there bad machines just can be hard to access for repairs,parts aren't all that hard to find for the later machines,neighbor has a 4435 JD build about the same time as the F3 that he traded an F on, heard him say more than once he wish he had it back because the parts for the German JD are metric and it's always a couple of day's to order them at twice the price other than that over all it's a well built machine, get someone who knows what to look for when buying a used combine if your not familiar with what to look for, cosmetics can be deceiving and costly regardless of brand

Well I like gleaner and there are lots of affordable k, l, f, m combines out there but a lot of small farmers here in central in use 6600 or 7720 jd. I like the 7720 but they run 12000-20000, the 6600 though I"ve seen sell for 3-6000 and often with a head or two. I don"t know much about MF combines but saw a nice 550 with both heads sell at a auction for around 6000 I think. Also with your size of operation may be better to hire a neighbor to combine till you get a few more acres.

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