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Whats the good bad and ugly of a Gleaner L2?

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Super Steve

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**posted in combine forum but figured it would get more views here**

I've decided its time to look for my own combine, getting sick of waiting on the custom guy.
I've come across a decent looking L2 that I'm going to look at today but just need some info on what to look at.

This will be my first combine so how hard is working on and setting up one of these?

Will be working with 125-150 acres of corn beans and wheat per year(for now).

What size heads for 40-50bpa beans, 150-170bpa corn, and 70-80bpa wheat?

Thanx for any info
 
good combines but getting old.Check Rattle chains & the false bottoms they run on.Sometimes the bearings on the main shaft spin .Costly.
I used to run Gleaners. Switched to Case.
That was a Good move.
 
The good is they are very simple to work on and for the most part not back-breaking. The bad is they were made too light. Keep a supply of common bearings, shaker bushings, slip clutch jaws, and toggle switches on hand. Check the elevator out under the concave assembly as it gets pretty beat up especially if the machine has been around rocks. On a scale of 1 to 10 barring individual history of a machine I would rate them as a 6.5 or 7 all things considered.
 
I'd just get on about 3 custom cutter's customer lists and say whomever gets here first, gets the job. buying a combine is just the tip of the iceberg, when getting into harvesting your own crop! I know, as my operation is about like yours and I owned all my equipment once!
 
Had gleaners around for years. Last one was an L2. Bearings always going out. Rebuilt wobble boxes so many times I could do it in my sleep. Constantly clogging in good beans or wheat. A REAL pain to unclog. One of the best days ever around here was watching that last one leave the place.
Best money my son ever spent was getting the 9400 JD he is using now.
Richard in NW SC
 
Well......I've spent more hours running Gleaners than any other combine probably. All I can say is,if I was going to get out of the cattle business and start cash cropping,that's what I'd be looking for.
 
Like I said on the other board- overkill for those acres. I don"t understand those who complain about bearings going out- certainly not my experience with 4 Gleaners since 1976. I can"t remember replacing the same one twice- maybe they buy cheap bearings or don"t install properly? Certainly easiest machines to work on, compared to the pretty ones with multiple drives on every shaft. Pretty ones envy REAL rock protection.
 
I ran an L2 for a couple years. Easy to run and WAY easier to work on than anything else. Never had any more problems with bearings than any other brand. They are a little lighter so just run a bit under max capacity and they will run as long and trouble free as any other, they just don't take hard pushing well. An L2 is a large capacity machine, more than jd7700, so most any head will do up to 20' for beans. 6 or 8 row narrow for corn. They will run as fast as you can drive with a 15' bean or 6 row corn head.
 
I shave an L2 now. Good combine. I have never plugged it, never had a wobble box problem, seldom needs a bearing. Easy to work on. Lots of capacity. I have either owned, operated, or worked on about every brand made and Gleaner and IH are at the top of my list and JD and MF are at the bottom. I had a new Massey once and worked on it more than the old IH I traded off. I ended up selling the Massey and buying the IH back.
 
Have two neighbors one runs a gleaner the other a JD, after the gleaner runs the field looks clean after the JD runs looks like you sowed it. Makes a nice cover crop till frost.
 
In our case we always used OEM bearings as the dealer was very close and his prices were very competitive. It did not make a difference plus the new bearings always went on good. No beating or forcing. For me from now till I retire it will be Deere or Case in that order.
 
not use to defending jon dears, but no combine that is adjusted properly should be a seeder. see it all around though. i think they just start them up and go. as for the L2... all good, no bad or ugly.
 
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