Gleaner R 52 good or bad

Looking to upgrade from a L2 to an R52. I'm not sure of the R 52 problems since all I have ran are walker machines. I would like to stick to Gleaner since I have a parts guy 5 miles away. The parts guy doesn't know much about them since all he has ever worked on are the walker machines. How are they?
 
We have a 93 with a 520 head and it has the Cummins in it. It has been an excellent combine for us coming from an M3. Easy to work on and reliable. We bought it from Oakley's in Oxford, NC. Bought it and then they put it thru the shop. Have ran it for 2 years. If we need parts, they overnight them to us. We are 400 miles from them.
 
Just a question. IF your parts guy has only worked on the walker machines how much help is he going to be on the rotor machines???? They are a totally different machine.


Also the R52 is a smaller machine than your L2. IF your in corn you will notice this right away. The same size to a little larger would be the R62.
 
I've been buying parts from him for years. He does sell wear parts to quite a few guys around with the R machines. So the parts are available but his knowledge of the actual repair isn't there. He did tell me a lot of parts are the same in the walker and rotary machines?? Are they easy to work on is kinda of what I'm asking or stick to what I'm running?
 
Capacity is more than the M3. Keep the cylinder full and you will have a clean sample. This year's wheat averaged 70 bushel and the sample was better than I could get with the M3 and 316 platform. Normally, our wheat is in the 40 to 45 range. I think we are running a couple of reverse bars on the rotor just like it shows in the manual.
 
Thank you. Today the "Gleaner Parts" guy called and found an R62 with 1300 separator hours and a 20' flex 6 row corn for 10,000 less than the 52.. Is there a major difference in the 2 machines? I love the easiness of the L2 but have doubled up in the last 2 yrs. How are the rotary's compared to threshing and sample in an L2 with a spike in beans? Just curious because that's how I've doubled up. Custom from guys talking at the elevator🤔😜
 
Demoed a R-52 once, had a M-3 at the time, 52 would run at least 2 mph faster in 200 bu corn, and had a cleaner sample. Probably not a lot of common parts.
 
The rotor is 20" longer, bigger bin. We were going to go with a 62 but at the time Oakleys only had a 522 flex and we were wanting a 525. Went with the 52 and 520 flex. Wished we would have made the switch to rotary years ago. I like the bigger cab than what was on the M3. We had an R50 for one year and sold it. Nothing wrong with the 50, 52 is nicer.
 
An R-62 is a high capacity machine, I started with a 20' head, and soon went to a 25', would handle a 30'. They switched to a longer shoe in about 1995, and about 94 to Cummins engines. I run an 8-36 cornhead on mine, and with extra help have combined 3000+ bu/ hr. Sample is clean, but the rotary has a learning curve also. Even with a 20' table you need lateral tilt, unless all your fields are tabletop flat.
 
I think the Rotor would be a little harder to work on. The Older Cleaner combines were pretty easy to work on. Just a lot of drives that the rotor would not have. So it would be about a even thing.
 
You want to have the 62. Will need a bigger than 20 ft head for it though. There are more 62 size machines out there so used parts will be more available. The rotary Gleaners are quite simple and easy to fix. Need to learn how to set them up for your condition such as eliminating reverse bars in easy threshing crops and the feeder house mods and you will have a hungry and reliable machine. Go to the gleaner page on thecombineforum.com for more info.
 
I agree that you would be happier with a R62. We do have a customer running a 62 with a 20ft platform and seems to be happy but I would recommend a 25 or 30. The enclosed rotor is spendy but nice, especially in corn. Check out the hypermods page. Lots of good info there too.
Gleaner hypermods
 
We went from an M3 to an R52 with the cummins. We had a 24 foot platform and a 6 row corn head on it. Very good machine. They are corn eaters!
If you are going from the L3...you should go with the R62.

There are some common parts, but not many.
 

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