I could have painted it several different colors. Black, Ford Red, or Allis Orange. It came out of the factory in Ford Red but it was repainted Allis Orange at the Dealership in 55 after Allis bought Gleaner. This was the first year it had ever been in a field since 1962 after it combined some flax. I hadn't gotten around to having the bigger soybean sprockets remanufactured yet so this video was of it combining 60bu soybeans with small grain sprockets last year. Soybeans were super clean but little over half were cracked. You never get anything running at 100% the first year I have learned with combines. Later in this video I always cringe cause I can hear it eating a bolt I left ontop of the header. This year I took out the return elevator chain an covered the opening in the sieve so everything went to the grain tank. The sample was still very cleaner an put are new Deere Axial combine to shame so I was very happy. One of the best parts about the T3 was its narrow enough to drive right onto a car trailer, an that's how I hauled it home across three states. I'll put my T3 up against any of its competitors any day an I'm a Deere guy.
@@MrTGleaner Haha, wow, that's saying a lot! I noticed you could see down both sides of the machine while driving it. I wish there were more of those around, they would be great for small farms like mine. And with the price of land anymore, they would just get more popular as the years go by.
That's one well presented machine , sounds great and needs to have some work put through it . Great video 👍🇬🇧
What a beauty machine! I can even hear when the grain hits the cylinder, so nice!
I could have painted it several different colors. Black, Ford Red, or Allis Orange. It came out of the factory in Ford Red but it was repainted Allis Orange at the Dealership in 55 after Allis bought Gleaner. This was the first year it had ever been in a field since 1962 after it combined some flax. I hadn't gotten around to having the bigger soybean sprockets remanufactured yet so this video was of it combining 60bu soybeans with small grain sprockets last year. Soybeans were super clean but little over half were cracked. You never get anything running at 100% the first year I have learned with combines. Later in this video I always cringe cause I can hear it eating a bolt I left ontop of the header. This year I took out the return elevator chain an covered the opening in the sieve so everything went to the grain tank. The sample was still very cleaner an put are new Deere Axial combine to shame so I was very happy. One of the best parts about the T3 was its narrow enough to drive right onto a car trailer, an that's how I hauled it home across three states. I'll put my T3 up against any of its competitors any day an I'm a Deere guy.
@@MrTGleaner Haha, wow, that's saying a lot! I noticed you could see down both sides of the machine while driving it. I wish there were more of those around, they would be great for small farms like mine. And with the price of land anymore, they would just get more popular as the years go by.
Gracious that is one clean machine.
How did you get that sheet metal to look like that ! Nice !