As Buescher said, 'Baldwin reasoned that most of his combines would sit outdoors. The Gleaner's exterior sheet metal was galvanized (zinc plated), providing superior weather resistance. The bearings were chosen with service in mind: large and good quality (to obviate failure) and of common sizes (so that the operator could carry a small stock of spares in his truck, and have the size needed when a replacement became necessary). Buescher said, 'Since custom cutters didn't know where their next parts supply source would be, Baldwin designed his combine so that it wouldn't need parts.' (Buescher's tongue-in-cheek point is that the machines were designed and built well so that need for repairs would be minimal.) The frame was 'like a bridge' in its strength. The grain header did not need to be detached for transit, because it fit over the cab of the truck. The short wheelbase and axle track allowed the combine to fit on a truck. It resulted in machines that were reliable and useful, which benefited not only custom cutters but anyone who bought a Gleaner. Buescher (1991) credited the design principally to one of the brothers, Curt Baldwin, and explained that it focused on the needs of custom cutters like the Baldwin brothers themselves: contractors who move north with the harvest season, providing harvesting services to farmers. They were often considered the 'Cadillac' of the industry because of this feature and because of their solid engineering. The Gleaner was one of the pioneers in self-propelled combines. It had a retail price of USD $950 FOB at the factory in Nickerson. The original Gleaner design was mounted on a Fordson Model F. Earlier combines, the so-called pull-type or tractor-drawn combines, were towed by tractors. To that list, the Baldwin brothers' Gleaner added self-propulsion. A combine harvester combines the reaping (plus or minus binding), threshing, and winnowing functions into one machine, hence the 'combine' part of its name. Thus, with the Gleaner name, the company evoked a positive connotation in potential customers' minds, of a brand of harvester that would leave none of the grain behind. In the broadest sense, it is the act of frugally recovering resources from low-yield contexts. Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farm fields after they have been commercially harvested, or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest. They decided to use the 'Gleaner' name for their radically redesigned grain harvesting machine based on inspiration from ' The Gleaners', an 1857 painting by Jean-FranГ§ois Millet. Gleaner combines date from 1923, when the Baldwin brothers of Nickerson, Kansas, created a high-quality and reliable self-propelled combine harvester. JSTOR ( August 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.ДЇind sources: 'Gleaner Manufacturing Company'В вЂ“ news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. I think the raddle chain was also wooden, but our last ones, had metal instead of wood.This article needs additional citations for verification. Always had to run and be listening very carefully for a slip clutch as those were the days before electronics and it seemed that once a clutch slipped (auger one), it would fill the cleaning fan with grain very quickly and break the boards. Cleaning fan has wood boards and those were hard to change out when they broke. Oh the memories of running those machines and working on them during harvest. At one time I had 4 G combines that we ran and 1 for parts. I'd think it's be hard on the variable speed belt to drive it that far. The last of the G's had a hydro otherwise they were variable speed. There is a tool that you use that usually came with the combine to push the pins in and out. You had to drive perfectly lined up and have the head sitting at the proper angle. putting on head is more difficult than taking off. Still have 2 G's sitting in the tree line and a good 6 row 30 in corn head.

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