Gleaner E

I've gone away from my color comfort zone, typically I'm all green but this little Gleaner E that I was working on is just to nice and the guy that I was working on it for found a nice K2 so now I am the proud owner of a nice low houred E with a 3rn corn head and apparently there is a grain platform laying in the weeds somewhere that comes with it. I am completely ignorant on all things Gleaner so what I am wondering is what can I expect if I try and run this thing this fall it's always been shredded and is very nice if I do run it it will only be on a few acres for fun. Also if I can revive the bean head what all is involved with changing from one crop to another? I know where there is a parts combine with a pickup head and 2rw corn head and I'm thinking about making this my dedicated oats combine so I don't have to hassle with taking the chopper off my 6620. What I am wondering is will the E handle a 12' window in heavy oats? Obviously it will be slower going and being more careful with slugs that the 6620 but for a few acres I think this combine needs a purpose in it's life and not to just be put in a shed. Thanks in advance for all the info I know there are lots of good people on this site to help with any color machines.

One of my neighbors had an E 3 and threshed 100 bushel oats laid down with a 15 foot swather. I did the cuttin with my Versatile. It was a sweet running smaller machine.

I always thought a 10' head was the right size for an E. But we pretty much ran in second gear, near the low end of the variable speed. There's still low gear!
Will the oats be windrowed, or direct cut? Plugging, or slugging, was never a problem in standing grain, with any Gleaner we had. On the old grain heads, with the cutter bar close to the auger, feeding was positive. And then you've got reciprocating fingers in both the auger, and the "feeder beater" behind it, and then the cylinder is right there.

I also have a Gleaner II E combine and would be interested in the two row corn head that you mentioned as I do not have a corn head and have been looking for one. I would appreciate your reply!

Dad bought a new 1967 E Gleaner with a 13 foot header.....Back then we mostly grew 35-40 bushel wheat,20-30 bushel beans,and 70-80 bushel milo.....We only cut standing oats with it once and it did OK if you didn't go too fast.....One year the beans made 40 bushels per acre and we could only take (4} 30 inch rows instead of 5 rows....We also had a 2 row corn head....Get an operators manual and it will tell you what you need to know...

To switch from one crop to another is a WHOLE different world on a Gleaner "E" combine compared to your JD 6620. Changing the cylinder speed from corn to small grains involves changing chain drive sprockets. There are several different "BARS" for the door/concave on the threshing cylinder. There where half rounds ones for small grains and then some that look like channel irons. and ETC>!!!!!

Now if your only talking using it on oats only then just set it up and leave it and you will be good to go. Now you will have around HALF the capacity of the JD 6620. The Gleaner will NOT take slugs even close to how the JD will. So you will need to be careful on crowding the combine.

The Gleaners can be a fun combine to run on small acres. It just is when you really tried to go big they fell down. Too many chains/sprockets/bearings on them. They are easy to work on but you can just about always walk around one and find a bad bearing.

I watched one sell with a platform header on it that only went for $200. It was running and they had used it for wheat harvest a few weeks earlier. I thought I should buy it and combine the brome seed on the side of the road and have it paid for by the time I roaded it home....