Jeffersonville, OH | WTW - 8/6/2024 10:02
MF combines with the grain cart auger were rated at 4.5 bushels/second. Gleaner S series rated at 4.0 bushels/second. ????
Get your stopwatch out.
The Massey was 4.5bu/sec peak, 3.5bu/sec at slowest. It needs grain weight to unload fast, the Gleaner is 4.0bu/sec start to finish. Average, they are the roughly same speed, but figured on unload time, we are slightly faster across the whole grain tank.
Didn't say it was a bad design, but I wouldn't change to it from what we have...if we're making a change, lets go with something radical. Maybe another adaptation of the Streamer unloaders from the Ideal, or something off the wall. Lots of ways to skin that cat...but Gleaner doesn't want to give up the grain handling quality we have, and I get it...but, we need longer augers, and a different u-joint.
Do I want a Turret style unload, no, but everyone else runs one, and they don't all complain about destroying grain during unload...and our unloader is one thing that we do hear from competitive owners it takes them some getting used to. They don't hate it, but it's different. Our whole machine is already different, and that's great, but if we had to give up one thing, I could argue in favor of changing unloader designs before a lot of other things.
I absolutely believe in the Gleaner combine, and that there is more left in it...but I also don't believe we have to hold on to everything from 1978. Some things may have to evolve...who else is running the same basic platform since their design started? It's an amazing machine, and has made some wonderful progress since 2011, but I want to see it do even more in the next 10-15 years!
Chris
EDIT: I may be a Gleaner guy, but I have ran those MF combines in all 3 colors, and all 3 series. A65, 9795, and the 9540/9545...fine machines once AGCO got them right, but they spent far less on the Gleaner and we still outsold them 3 to 1. We tried to demo them, ran them against Deere, CIH, and Lexion, and did well, but just couldn't get the deals right to sell them.
Edited by c_mayer 8/6/2024 12:00
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Any info on the NEW GLEANER T-SERIES?
