Gleaner c combine 1962

I just bought a nice looking gleaner c on purple wave it's been shedded and used every year they just cut Milo with it! It looks cheery but I don't know a lot about them except they are easy to work on! Dad had a Gleaner k2 and I've ran 3300 and 4400 and jd 45 but never been around a 60's vintage gleaner. I bought some manuals from jensales but id like to know all I can any response I thank you for and I'll post pic this weekend when we go get it!
 
It should have a 262 cubic inch Allis Chalmers engine, the same as used on a D-19. It's a 7 main brg ,and in my opinon very good motor, I know one thing it's got plenty of power for that application. A very easy combine to adjust every morning, except it has a cheap raddle chain in it, maybe you will get lucky, and it been upgraded to the one that was made or sold thru Manchester Kansas. The factory raddle chain has to be checked daily.
 
Thank you explain the rattle concept to me I'm newb! Is this like the sieve and chaffer? The engine is the original
 
The raddle chain is behind,underneath, the cylinder and drags the straw and chaff to the strawalkers,that's where Gleaner says a lot of the seperation takes place. Now there's got be a curtain in there also, if that's out you have to replace it or whatever.Take out the square inspection tins, about where that said chain would be, and if you can lift it up over two inches its getting loose, then u have to raise the header, crawl underneath, put your saftey stop on the lift cylinder [right side as i remember]and and remove a little rectangle door and you can see the front of the raddle chain, and also the two bolts there that you tighten the raddle chain with, then crawl out and check it again,. But have the previous owner explain or show it to you. That was the only thing that was cheap or i thought was stupid about it.
 
Ok good to know! I appreciate the info! I will ask and have him show me. Are there good after market places to find parts for these? I don't have trouble finding parts for my old jd stuff but I don't know much about gleaner
 
The rattle chain is what carries the material from the cylinder to the sieve and straw walkers. A c2 was dadsbig combine back in the day, a simple yet very capable machine. Lots of grease zerks so you better get a manual and look it over. I bought a g when I was in high school, still own it, but she is pretty well worn out, I haven?t harvested a grain crop in 10 or 12 years now, sure miss it.
 
I found a place online called schmittandsons they have parts and I mean parts lol, for every gleaner under the sun!
 
yeah, you can buy parts but maybe not Gleaner,but there are short lines companys all over, but i wanted to ask you what kind of crops are u going to harvest with it?Are you familiar with the closed concave on the Gleaner,it's not a open concave like the Deere with holes in it for the grain to fall thru, as soon as its threshed,if your going to thresh beans you better get your self some differant concaves,If you get the original owners manual, that will be the best book you can get for the machine,The first concave is on the trap door, all the rest are behind it, but the first one is the most important for threshing,if it's got the old U bars, like a small channel iron, and you want to thresh beans threw them as far as you can! Talk to you more later.
 
Ok... Well ya beans would be the main crop I would cut with it. Im not familiar with it at all so this is an education for me. So I'll have to get different concaves I'm assuming?
 
I will! Thank you I'm a maintnance nut I'm all about looking things over and greasing lol, dad says I over do it!
 
Yea but their a piece of cake to put in, see if u can get half moon concaves, to bolt down on the concave floor, like i said before the first one goes on the front of the rock trap door, what ever the book says how many u need, put in and go from there,For beans thats the real deal, the easy threshing crop like oats, barley, rye, and Millet, anything will work for that, but you need half moons for beans. When u get it home tell me what it's got for concaves , we can talk some more.
 
Ok, I'm beating they are not half moons, because they just used it to cut Milo. I will let know this weekend , you are the bomb! Thank you you rock!
 
I talked to the previouss owner last night and I learned that the c doesn't have rpm gages? Not one in the machine... Owe and itdoes come with operators manual!
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That was my feelings when I saw it! The guy who owned it didn't think he has much there , I was pleased as punch when the other bidders stopped at 1300! I really thought I was going to pay 2 or more for it! Baring a disaster I felt like I made out like a bandit!
 
You sure that isn't a C 2, with the widen out hopper is all i got to go bye, but that looks like a real gem, what it say up there on the hopper ?
 
It has to be a C2. I have a early A2 and it doesn't have big levers and the big light up there in the cab. I looked at my A2/C2 brochure and the pics it shows of the operators' platform matches the picture.
 
I can see C but not the 2 it may be a C 2 I'll be up there tomorrow. And I'll know for sure. Now the C2 is just a bigger version of a c right?
 
Updated version, nearly identical. Most Gleaners were modeled as such, the first model was identified by a letter, then in a few years, a number was added to that letter as improvements/options were added to the original. Yours is the cleanest nicest old Gleaner I have ever seen, it must be 50 years old. They are a good reliable simple machine, but keep the channel concaves for harder to thresh crops. 15 minute job to change them. Make sure the concave door is not twisted from stone damage, keep the raddle chain snug or update it to metal slats if you intend to harvest corn. Been running Gleaners for 40 years.
Ben
 
Thank you ben! I can't wait to get it home. According to the owner it had only cleaned Milo and wheat. We are leaving today to get the header and next weekend we pill the machine it's self home. I will posting pictures and updates as we go and I'll have lots of questions. I bought it because I want to collect combines and I will be cutting barely and beans with it. I raise corn as well but I will use the he 3300 for that. I feel very fortunate to have gotten it. Thank you guys all for the responses and future help!
 
I picked up a couple Gleaners in 2015 I am sure my "C" serials as a 1962,, it is for sale if you need one for parts but I am not parting it it sells only complete, has a 16' hdr in NE Wyoming
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It is a c2 ! Just saw it today and I checked out the raffle is has a chain that is completely metal no wood slates the cylinder bar's look really good in it. Haven't got into the concaves yet it was like 3 below out there.
 
If you are going to combine soy beans I?d think you would need another head. The ones like you have are good for small grains, but not so good for soybeans. Being an old Midwest guy most all the Gleanrs I?ve seen have had heads with the retractable finger reels and floating cutter bars. Dad and brothers had E, Gs, and Ls and they all were equipped that way. That solid bat reel will wrap in soybeans.
 
Jkasper, where are you located? I saw that C2 sell, for what it was it sold cheap enough, I think you got a good deal. :)

If you need parts, Mikes Equipment, Buhler KS has parts, and we do as well.

good luck!
 

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