Very Nice M2 Gleaner

This will be auctioned off 2-27. We stopped by to go thru the stuff today before tomorrow's auction and it caught my eye. I can tell it has been well cared for. Not an ounce of rust anywhere. Hours read 4900/2900. These pics were taken by the auction service and really don't do it justice because of the lousy angles and the snow of course. But for not being a gleaner person it impressed me. Sorry for not giving more of a heads up I just happened by it today..

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A good friend of mine ran M2 Gleaners. They ran two of them and harvested about 2500 acres each fall with them. The only draw back was the time it took to change from crop to crop. I could change my JD 7700/7720s from corn to beans in maybe an 1/2 hour where they had to change cylinder drive pulleys and such taking much longer to do.

The one in the picture looks to be in great shape. A person could get a lot of good out of that machine.
 
Nice machine 301 ENGINE is OK, but the 426 is nicer in soft or hilly fields or when
using the A 6 row header. Ben
 
I don"t understand changing cyl drive pulleys between corn and beans. Mine has pulley drive that covers the entire range from about 500-1100 rpm, maybe 1300. Even with the K, F, F2, only changed pulleys between small grain and corn/soy.
 
Not on an M3/3. Nothing to change on them.

The F series it was a bit of work to swap pulleys, but only going from small grains to row crops, and you have a few months between one harvest and the other so you could probably squeeze it into the schedule. :)

Just watched a M2 sell yesterday, 20 foot bean head, 6-30 corn head, dummy pickup head. All together ended up around $5000 which is where I thought it should be. The owner kept things up, but everything was old, looked old, had a little rust, etc. it was a clutch machine not a hydro. The bean head was the older metal finger wood bat type.

Paul
 
Beans to corn raise the cylinder,set the sieves and chaffer lift the raddle baffle,change heads feel and go in less than an hour. Ben
 
I never actually helped them change over. They just said it was more of an issue. I know they used different bar/channels in the door under the cylinder. They thought the ones for corn were too aggressive for soybeans. Never owned one just going by what they said.
 
There again, the M&L series, unlike all smaller, previous Gleaners, had an open concave. There was only one changeable bar, and that was on the stone door. You would have to be very dedicated to change that!

Dad only ever had an E, and he changed everything he could! When I got my own Gleaners, I went the opposite way, and got the changes down to a minimum. The biggest/newest I had was a F2. So I still had to change pulleys between grain and corn.
 
paul, to switch pulleys I used a come along between the drive axle shaft and the belt tightener...not unscrewing the tightener...just pulled it down a bit, slipped one belt off, the other one on, and 4 bolts to switch pulleys. I painted one side of the pulley green (of all things!), and remembered that the green side went to the outside, since it was a slightly offset pulley. Very quick change, biggest pain was resetting the bicycle chain for cyl speed adjustment!
 
Couple years I used a fence stretcher to pull the big idler down, and other years I drove my compact loader in and use a chain on the bucket to pull it down. It went pretty fast as you say, the silly little chain was the big task with getting up and down on the outside of the right of the cab by myself.

Sadly probably the biggest time user was finding the other pulley in my unorganized world.....

Paul
 
Cousin and I bought the first combine, a K, in "76. We"d unscrew the tightener nut to loosen the idler arm, then wrench it back....lots of time. I found the come along worked so much better.
 
Actually there were 2, one on the door and one in front of the open concave. Had a M-2 and a M-3, the 2 was a early model, had to change pulleys to do small grain, the 3 had full range. I could change from corn to beans in 30 minutes, and I used a bean screen and the short tooth chaffer for beans. The M-2 in the photo is a corn plus model, can't recall the extra's, but they were for corn and beans.
 
Corn plus models had the walker risers,walker screens, perforated elevator bottoms,speed up sprocket for cylinder beater, cob shield behind the raddle and a few other minor options. Ben
 
We had an earlier model M2 (77 model with low grain tank) and only time the pulley had to be changed was when you went from corn or beans to wheat.

Al
 

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