Gleaner Online 2023 (Ep 2)

In this episode of Gleaner Online, we take a look at a very special event here in Hesston, learn about the fully welded main frame, and find out what needs to happen to get our machines ready for the field. Strap in, there's a lot to learn on this episode!

[@donbenson5292]

Great overiew..

[@robwar2288]

So you have to change the Reel hose and the back Shiv bolts to go back and forth from Corn and Beans???

[@GleanerCombinesTV]

Correct. When changing from corn to soybeans, you will slow the header down the the slowest speed, move a quick disconnect from a fitting on the feeder house to the single point connector, loosen three bolts with a 3/4 in. wrench, move the lockout ring, then tighten the three bolts. Vice versa when going the other way. Takes a lot less time than you would think.

[@jordanellis8572]

It’s a piece of cake on my R-62. I imagine it’s the same on the S series.

[@robwar2288]

@@jordanellis8572 it’s a Piece of Cake on my S670 hit the button and you are off to the Race.

[@freebooter247]

Hush hush. If they tell me they have to tell EVERYONE

[@buzz436]

Curious to know what the twin rotor setup on the jig is all about? I seen it in the foreground during the in-cab commentary. Can anyone elaborate?

[@GleanerCombinesTV]

That is a display Fendt uses to show the components of the processor in the IDEAL combine. It includes the rotors and the cleaning shoe.

[@davidbell7091]

12:20.. 3 guys? maybe the front office hasn't heard of robotic welding yet..

[@combinetech5088]

All was told too by internal Agco there are updates coming to Gleaner

[@boomerang379]

Still ain’t showing one in a rice field. I’d you want to impress me you’ll have to put one in a rice field.

[@randypraeuner5541]

I love Gleaner but they are falling behind everyone else. Not enough power, can hardly handle A12 row folding corn head even with weight on the back, and other things. You need a major upgrades to keep yourself in the game!

[@J-1410]

Considering the internal war inside agco just to keep their only combine line going, in a way, be glad it made it this far.

[@Christislord5]

The war is over and Gleaner will be getting upgrades. Keep your ear to the ground.

[@J-1410]

@@Christislord5 I doubt they gave up on the Ideal combine that was supposed to be the end all be all.

[@Christislord5]

@@J-1410 what’s your source of that information? A hunch?

[@J-1410]

@@Christislord5 What's your source of information for Gleaner getting upgrades?
No hunch, logical thinking. They spent millions on that new design, and haven't fully released it. It is also AGCO, they don't know when to quit or what they should do. They will try that ideal until it is way past when they should have quit or until it is a decent machine but it has no good reputation. Like Massey.
Agco is the company who is betting it all on a modern Deutz with Fendt. Agco, in North America, is the company who threw away multiple brands with great reputations; Farmhand, Hesston, Allis, White, Sunflower, Challenger, and others, to put everything under Massey, a name without a decent reputation. Now that they finally figured that out, they're trying again with fendt, which is no better off than massey.
It only stands to reason they would keep that idea going, just like what they did with the old White combine design.