Your list of combines you?ve had

OliverGuy

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The post on the 6600 below made me think of the one I had. How about a list of the ones you had with a short description or joke about it each. Here?s mine

MF410 gasser-yikes. But cheap and good to learn on for an amateur and by myself. Happy when it left.

JD6600-gear with 329- great overall machine. Bought it lull time of farming for $550. AC worked! When tank full of beans, beans worth more than combine!

JD7720 titan II-it was a horse. Had about 20 pounds of mouse crp in it when I bought it at an auction.

Current-Case 2188-I don?t know if I?m still an amateur but feel like it some days-very easy to run for me.
 
How about adding a rough time frame for ownership, too.

Gleaner E with 2rw corn head - actually my Grandpa's. I remember riding with him when I was very young in the 80's. It got retired in the late 80's when my dad bought a...

IH 1440 - don't remember it very well. He owned it for only a couple years. I do remember the rear axle being a real POS. He traded it for a...

Gleaner R50 - in the early 90s. Did a lot of custom work with it to supplement milking cows. My grandpa drove it some, but he had a bad habit of leaving the auger out and knocking it off on trees and power poles. I remember him doing it to at least two augers. It burned up in a shed fire in about 2006. Since then, he's owned 2 6620 sidehills and now runs a 2388.

Which brings me to combines I actually owned...

Gleaner M2 - used it one year, 2012, didn't have a shed so left it outside. Rats ate it to pieces, hit the wiring harness especially hard. It's still here, but is stripped for parts. Came out money ahead in selling parts, but vowed to build a shed after that.

Gleaner M2 - bought in 2016. Used it last year and in beans this year. Sitting in the shed right now, but it's for sale. Came with a second M2 that sits next to the first one, it's being stripped for parts, too. Is this how parts yards start out? My wife will be SO pleased...!

Gleaner L2 - Bought it a month ago. Gonna use it for corn if I ever get the corn to dry out. Shed is full of gravity boxes of beans, so I can't park it inside until I get the beans sold or the M2 sold.
 
1975-1977 C-2 Gleaner
1978-1985 M-2 Gleaner gear drive
1986-2000 M-3 Gleaner hydro
2001-2002 R-62 Gleaner
2002-current R-62 Gleaner
 
Earliest combine memories are on a W400 with my Dad pullin a 122 IH (McCormick),then
127
141
101
CII Gleaner
G Gleaner
715 IH
and after being out of farming for 20 yrs, this fall I saved an
F Gleaner from the scrapper. ($350 & new tires!)
 
Well I have personally never owned a combine. That said, I have been around a few family units of Dad's, uncle's, or grandpa's.

1975-1979 era I was around it. IH 303 gas. Cab but no heat or air. I was too little to see much of this one in action so no real stories to remember about it. Uncle or Grandpa never had anything good to say about it though.

1978-1984 era I was around it. Massey Harris 82 Gas. No cab. Operators platform was right beside the main header feeder intake which covered the operator in dust. My Dad was about the only person who would run this wretched thing and he used Mom's old panty hose to make a dust mask. He always came off that thing covered in chaff. Chrysler Industrial slant 6 engine was eventually removed and sold, tires put on tractors, and the rest of it scrapped.

1979-1985 Massey Furgeson 510. Gas (327 V8 chevy engine). Cab but no air or heat. Big POS as far as I was concerned. My uncle spent lots of time unplugging that thing. Our frontline family combine though if you want to call that POS worthy of that title.

1980-1993 John Deere 40. Gas. No cab. Dad's combine that he picked up for cheap. Impressive little machine for a well worn machine that dad picked up for cheap. After Dad died I sold it for parts. The engine which ran still ran well ended up being transplanted to a Deere Crawler a neighbor owned.
 

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