Boy! That's a lot of $$$ for a machine that's going on 25 years old. Considering what a new machine of nearly the same capacity will cost today, it's a bargain.

The L & M series Gleaners were very friendly to work on. Most of the drives are down low so you can stand on the ground and work on them. No shafts run lengthwise with the machine, so all the bearings are out to the side, so they're easy to access.

Gleaners have a rock door that trips and spits out the rock when it hits the cylinder. Down front cylinder location makes that easy to accomplish. Rock door is also handy when you slug the thresher, as you can open it and dig stuff out from the bottom.

As is typical for a Gleaner, they rely on a lot of air for cleaning. Ls & Ms always had a full width squirrel cage fan to supply the air blast. Although not as refined as the accelerator roll implementation found in the Gleaner rotaries, it still diverted a significant portion of the fan's output and blew it through the curtain of falling grain as it left the raddle conveyor and fell to the sieves and thus lessened the load of MOG on the sieves.