Gleaner K Combine: Hauling Home our New Combine

Just had to have a small combine that will fit on something smaller than a low-boy semi-trailer so we can haul it to far away fields.

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  • @lukestrawwalker
    @lukestrawwalker2 жыл бұрын

    On a lot of those older harvester machines the brakes don't work... our old IH cotton pickers never had brakes work on any of them (we had 3 at one point). Dad was an IH mechanic in the early 70's when I was a tiny tot and he said basically they *maybe* worked for a year after they left the factory then went to pot, quit and you couldn't keep them working. A lot of the combine brakes were about the same on those older machines. We made it just fine with no brakes on those old pickers... you get used to driving them without it. You just have to be careful-- and you can always shut the engine down and use the clutch as a disk brake LOL:) Only had to do that once as I recall... Another trick is, when backing a combine like that off the trailer with no brakes, you can always shut the engine off, shift it into reverse, and pull the coil wire... just crank it over with the clutch up and let the starter roll it backwards down the ramp. The starter has enough power and gear reduction through the flywheel, pulleys, transmission, and final drives to move the combine around for minor distances... We used to use that trick to move the combine in to hook up to the head on our old Claas/Ford, since the feederhouse was part of the header on those and the connection was made between the feederhouse and front of the combine where the feederhouse attaches to the combine itself, with a pair of half-round "wedges" and a couple locking pins... needless to say you couldn't see ANYTHING from in the cab, so you just got lined up as best you could, get fairly close, shut the machine off, and then shift in first gear and crank the engine over to slowly roll forward inch by inch until they were ready to mate up... jacking up or tugging the head this way or that with a come=along until everything was ready to drop into place... Some of the old tricks that worked way back then on manual transmission machines that would have guys used to hydrostats going "HUH???" LOL:) Later! OL J R :)

  • @ethanlee9441
    @ethanlee94413 жыл бұрын

    This combine brings back alot of memories my great uncle had one

  • @lukestrawwalker
    @lukestrawwalker2 жыл бұрын

    Nice... Dad and Grandpa were back and forth between buying a Gleaner in '73 or '74 or the Claas-built Ford 640 combine we eventually got. The Claas was one of the biggest combines in the US at that point-- 18 foot cutterbar, and they got a better deal on it because it was a '72 model that had been on the dealer lot for a couple years, so that made up their mind for them. IIRC the Gleaner they were looking at was a 15 foot cutterbar and smaller machine, don't remember what model they were looking at. The 640 has a 300 cubic inch Ford inline six cylinder gasoline engine, although they were available with a four cylinder diesel, probably like a Ford 5000 tractor or something. The 300 six always seemed to have plenty of power and did okay on fuel, so no real complaints there. They paid for that machine doing custom work, paid for it basically the first year. I think they gave $12,000 new for it... They had a "standing deal" with some BTO from the next town over they used to go to church with back then... he was a bigshot who ran all new Deere cab tractors, but he always hired his grain sorghum combined, because he wasn't going to sweat it out in 100 degree heat in the old poorly sealed, dusty, poorly air conditioned (if at all) cabs common to that era of machines... let alone an old open station like Dad's old Case 660 combine he had before... Anyway, he'd convinced Dad and Grandpa to buy the new combine with promises that "yall can combine my crop EVERY YEAR!" and he was gonna buy a "Big 12" auger cart (which was big for the time) and run cart from the comfort of his air conditioned Sound Guard cab on his Deere 4230 or whatever... Well, this arrangement was all well and good until some BTO neighbor of his who'd bit off more than he could chew, and contracted for WAY more grain sorghum than he could deliver, and was facing ruin having to buy out the contract or come up with a bunch of sorghum he didn't have... so he offered their "friend" to pay him "across the scales" for his grain and combine it FOR FREE to fulfill his contract, which of course he jumped on... "so sorry if you lose your combine because you can't pay the bank note, but OH WELL THAT'S BUSINESS!" (This guy ended up with a reputation lower than whale sh!t-- like one of his neighbors said one time in the coffee shop, "He'd cut his own mother's throat for another hundred acres!" commenting on how he'd tried more than once to rent his ground out from under him, from his own family!) As it so happened, the early 70's were a boom time for grain prices... grain sorghum and corn, which have their prices basically in lock-step since they're both basically interchangeable for anything you want to use the grain for, (sorghum usually sells for about 4/5 the price of corn, with corn sold by the bushel weight and sorghum sold by the hundredweight (cwt). Anyway, everybody and their DOG was planting sorghum back then to 'get rich quick" off the great prices... This one BTO over other side of our county seat town rented a couple thousand acres of river bottom land on the Brazos River, and put it all into sorghum, which is a cheaper crop to grow than corn. Well, it had worked pretty well, til we got a very wet, very hot June that year, and weed control chemicals weren't that good back then, and there was basically NOTHING that controlled morningglory vines... Well, the sorghum had headed out and set grain and ripened, but the hot wet conditions were PERFECT for morningglory vines to infest entire fields... they spiralled up the stalks, ran down the rows, even reached out across the rows, criss-crossing back and forth and basically making the equivalent of a blanket across large swaths of the field chest high off the ground! This BTO put the word out that basically any custom operator could get as much work as they wanted combining this HUGE MESS... and get paid top dollar rates for cutting it. He set up a "competition" the first day at a big field surrounded by some huge pecan trees... when we got there it was like a combine farm show or something-- combines of every make and model you could possibly see in the early-mid 70's were there-- Deere, International Harvesters, White, Oliver, Masseys, Gleaners, you name it there was probably one there... Everybody pulled in and started cutting, and one by one they backed out of the field having plugged up their combines with the tough, green, STICKY sappy sugary morningglory vines... they'd wad up and then slug feed and lock up the cylinder and stall the combine, and then the guys would be pulling the covers off and getting in there with knives and hay hooks and pliers ripping and slicing through massive wads of vines and pulling it out of the machine to get it running again... Dad slugged our Claas/Ford a time or two, and backed out under the trees to unplug it... Particularly hot nasty work in 100 degree temps in July on the Texas coast with humidity that curls your hair... The Ford had ONE big advantage that Claas put on it when they built it-- the Germans designed the thing with a small diameter, six rasp bar cylinder, with dual heavy cast iron variable speed drive pulleys on one side, and a big honkin' cast-iron block with four holes through it on the other side... these not only acted like flywheels to keep the cylinder turning if it ingested a slug, and having the cylinder SMALLER IN DIAMETER (18 inch diameter) meant it was EASIER TO TURN than the large 8 rasp bar 24 inch diameter cylinders on most other combines, meaning they locked up easier with a slug... BUT that big cast iron "barring block" allowed you to shut the combine off, throw the header in gear, and TURN THE ENTIRE THRESHER BACKWARDS by sticking a long iron bar into the holes of that block and turning it backwards slowly-- you could reverse a wad back down the feeder house and right out under the header auger, toss it on the ground, fire up and clear the machine, and go back to work in like 10 minutes, versus 2 hours of cutting and hacking and cussing and pulling and tugging trying to get slugs out of the other machines... By about 1 pm, EVERY OTHER COMBINE that showed up that day had quit and left! Dad discovered another trick that let him combine pretty much nonstop, after a couple slugs and stalls... Unlike the Deeres and most others that had a little crank wheel to raise and lower the concave clearance from the cylinder to set the thresher, the Claas engineers had put a lever under the seat with a sector with various holes in it that the lever had a pin sticking out to go into, setting the concave clearance... so when he saw a slug go in under the auger, or felt the vibration of the cylinder bars hitting a slug with a loud vibrating "BBBBRRRRRTTTTT" he'd reach down right quick, and throw the concave lever TO THE FLOOR, opening it WIDE OPEN, so the slug would just roll on through as the cylinder bars pounded it around, and the beater would throw it on the straw walkers, which would toss it back and out of the combine, along with whatever unthreshed heads of grain that were in it... wasteful, somewhat, BUT he was cutting entire truckloads of grain with no problems, where most combines couldn't go over 100 feet without slugging and locking up. The Deere couldn't do it, nor Massey or White or Oliver, because you couldn't crank that wheel fast enough to drop the concave before the machine locked up. If you cranked it as fast as you could, it would take you about a minute to crank it all the way open and back closed again-- Dad could let a slug blow through, then pull the lever right back up to the third notch, where it belonged for threshing sorghum, on the go and with no problems. IH used threaded bolts to set their concaves-- couldn't even change it from the cab, as did Gleaner... They were the first to go... Anyway, Dad and Grandpa paid off their bank note on that machine that fall with the money they made custom combining for that guy... we were over there every day and half the night for about a month cutting grain sorghum... Dad was filling 8 railroad cars a day with what he was cutting at one point, so he told me... Say what you will about those Germans, but they DO know how to engineer a piece of machinery!!! Later! OL J R :)

  • @larsonvalleyfarm
    @larsonvalleyfarm7 жыл бұрын

    congratulations on your purchase, it's always fun getting a new toy!

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, new toys are fun! but not for my bank account.

  • @scottviers3794
    @scottviers37947 жыл бұрын

    That's a nice combine you purchased should be a good addition to the farm. Gleaners always did a good clean job of cleaning the grain. Once you give the ole girl a little TLC, she'll be good to go. Enjoy! See you next post.

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. I think it shall perform well. I am surprised at how narrow the manual recommends for setting the cylinder clearance for corn. It would grind the cob to pieces. I've already replaced the rear wheel bearings, the idler bearings for the gathering chains on the corn head, cleaned the windows, tightened the chains and replaced spark plugs.

  • @jrbpa5775
    @jrbpa57757 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations on your new combine. My grandpa had a Gleaner, always did a good job. We had a 600 Case with a Chevy straight 6 cylinder engine running a 10 foot head and 2 row corn head. Rear axle likes to break off in frozen ground that has been rutted.

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. I have heard about the axle problems. Two weeks ago I followed a 600 case to the scrap yard. If they hadn't hacked it up to squeeze it on a landscape dump trailer, I would have offered to buy it. It looked like a decent, shedded, machine before the grandkids or whoever chopped it up.

  • @lukestrawwalker

    @lukestrawwalker

    2 жыл бұрын

    My Dad had one of those back in the early 70's... he got it cheap because basically it was rusted to pieces when he got it... guy had been desiccating his crop with sodium chlorate, which was a common practice back then, to get the grain sorghum to dry down faster... problem was, you were basically running SALT through your combine, so all the dust was heavily contaminated with, basically, SALT... (chlorate not chloride but still, basically the same stuff chemically-- sure corrodes the same!) That combine had the entire auger trough of the head nearly rotted through with rust, Dad pop riveted tin patches in there over the winter after he bought it... the returns shaker pan under the straw walkers was also rotted out completely-- he slipped some sheets of tin up in there and pop riveted them over the old pan so it would hold grain and shake it down into the cleaning shoe... He ran it a year or two doing custom work until he was on a big job for a BTO friend of theirs they went to church with... one day he went to unload with a full tank and BAM the auger drive box broke, which you have to get to from INSIDE the bottom of the tank to fix... he spent the rest of the day digging grain out of the tank and throwing it into a truck with a five gallon bucket in 100 degree plus temps-- had a heat stroke that night and was in the hospital overnight... got it fixed and finished the year, but he and Grandpa decided to buy a new combine after that if they were gonna keep doing custom work and growing sorghum... which is how they decided to get a Claas built Ford 640 combine, after looking at Gleaners, because they got a better deal on the Ford... it's a good combine we still have it and we used it right up to when we quit row-cropping in 2003... OL J R :)

  • @jrbpa5775
    @jrbpa57757 жыл бұрын

    You are right about acres, but that's what we had so we shelled corn around the clock. Only had 2 gravity wagons which keep us busy keeping up. Those were the days.... lol

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    We have gained a few gravity wagons. And I'm glad the combine lights work. Even with more gravity wagons, I have trouble keeping up. One dump of the combine and the wagon is about full. It takes about three fills of the K to fill one of our wagons.

  • @GosselinFarmsEdGosselin
    @GosselinFarmsEdGosselin5 жыл бұрын

    Never knew they made a K... We ran a C2 for years, traded it on an M with factory cab and air-conditioning... Then got a JD 7700, I liked the M better!! Currently have a IH 1480, still miss the M!! had a neighbor with an A, another with an E, and another with an F... The F was the newest, factory cab and Air conditioning... another neighbor had a newer MH, wanted to get it when he retired, but his nephew got it😥 most of our ground is steep, so the leaning Gleaner MH would be great!!! Nice looking K!! If it's hydrostatic, who needs brakes???😎

  • @farmingorfixing4800
    @farmingorfixing48007 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations! They are a good combine and easy to work on you won't be disappointed with the machine. We had two of them and a K2 as well. If you need any advice on the machine don't be afraid to ask.

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    I am sure with more run time, I'll be full of questions. Thank you.

  • @OldFarmAcresJoelK.

    @OldFarmAcresJoelK.

    6 жыл бұрын

    ya keep ur hands away from moving parts too

  • @turbo5488
    @turbo54882 жыл бұрын

    My grandfather had a gleaner combine the bean head was 4 row and the corn head was 2 row I think the combine was a 66 or 67 on the year and it had a 6 cylinder engine gas and also was 30in rows but he yradered it for a massey ferguson combine 410 30in four row corn head and the bean head was four rows and the massey had a 6 cylinder engine and a straight pipe coming off the manifold wish it was diesel

  • @fredf3391
    @fredf33917 жыл бұрын

    Good surprise, didn't know you had snow,and all of your helps look cold.Need more layers of Carhartt

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    This footage is from the first few days of January. And that was the last good freeze we had.

  • @sweetfarmsllc8886
    @sweetfarmsllc88867 жыл бұрын

    Rear axles breaking were common on that model. One of the last new combines my dad bought new was Gleaner K, broke the rear axle at 1500 hrs. I went out and bought a brand new JD 4400 Diesel, had to be about 1977-1978. Gleaner always had a clean sample, but it was broke down more than it was in the field.. Might of gotten a lemon.

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    I have heard of a few others with broken rear axles. Hopefully, I have done enough preventative maintenance that I shouldn't have too many issues.

  • @Vfh........y

    @Vfh........y

    5 жыл бұрын

    It struck me as funny as you were talking about the Gleaner K with the broke axle. We bought a new JD 4400 diesel in 77 I believe it was. Threw a rod out of the motor at 70 hours. Stepdad not happy. Spent 7 days sleeping on the shop floor at the implement dealer waiting for the block to come in from wherever. He was more than happy to help the mechanic .in Northwest Iowa you need to get your chisel plowing done before it freezes hard or gets wet.

  • @danjenkins9427
    @danjenkins94275 жыл бұрын

    looks about like the one my dad had when we stopped doing beans in the early 80s

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    5 жыл бұрын

    Harvesting beans with a K might make me stop growing beans too.

  • @banditfarmer1900
    @banditfarmer19007 жыл бұрын

    She's a good looking machine and glad you found one. I have a parts book for one that shows how the steering should be put together. I think you will be happy with it and your going to be surprised what it will do. Bandit

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    It doesn't have rice tires though. Luckily, I got manuals and parts books with the machine. I do wish it was a diesel, but the GM motor runs well. I already can't wait for next fall, even though I'm not done yet.

  • @banditfarmer1900

    @banditfarmer1900

    7 жыл бұрын

    At least the motor is easy to get parts for and so is the rest of the machine. I think you will be happy with it and it will shell a lot of corn pretty quick. You could find a AC 170 tractor diesel engine and find the bell housing off a later Gleaner E and put them together and maybe add a turbo charger to it . There are some of the later heads will fit the K and the F so a 3 row wide head might be easer to find. If I come a crossed one I'll let you know. Bandit

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    There is no bell housing on mine, it's open flywheel with the drive pulley bolted to it. I am hoping to find a scraped K2 with a good engine. Thank you for looking.

  • @banditfarmer1900

    @banditfarmer1900

    7 жыл бұрын

    Its really not a bell housing fer say but that's what they call them, Its the cast housing that bolts to the engine and holds the drive pulley system . There are ways to switch stuff around you just got to find the right parts to put together and make it work like you want it to. Bandit

  • @jrbpa5775
    @jrbpa57757 жыл бұрын

    The 600 Case combined 700 acres of corn, oats, wheat and some soybeans. We had a dairy so soybeans were not that many acres but Dad used them for a cash crop. Back in the early 60's we didn't have the means to store crops like today. Lot of corn was left in the field and taken off in late January or February. That is when you had to watch the rear axles breaking . Oh, not sure about black tile but we wove tarp in between tines so the grain head would pick up down wheat and oats better...

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    That is quite a bit of acreage to cover with a small combine! They did something similar to our New Holland platform, every few feet, rubber mat pieces were placed to help push the crop into the auger.

  • @sharonbraun1241

    @sharonbraun1241

    7 жыл бұрын

    Jrbpa 57 a man

  • @curtisowens4588
    @curtisowens45882 жыл бұрын

    You look like a little brown Smurf in your coveralls with your cold red nose. Lol nice purchase should do a good job for you. Now you have more wrenching to do before field work. Nice video Jacob.

  • @fredf3391
    @fredf33917 жыл бұрын

    Yes we warmed,and now turn back around cold again with light snow they think. Think it's Indian Braves to your answer about everyone running around . Wife's uncle like Gleaner

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for finding that term for us. I see a couple gleaners near us, but mainly its a lot of Red in the area.

  • @jameswilcoxson3480
    @jameswilcoxson34807 жыл бұрын

    no need to to address your brake issues.just use the clutch brake. gleaners are good start combines. I started with a C2 to a F2 and now run an R60. still use the F2

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    The clutch brake works, but I think i may want the extra persuasion when turning. I think it will perform well for me.

  • @MichaelYuhas
    @MichaelYuhas3 жыл бұрын

    Can you tell me more about the dump truck you used to pull the K? Did it have enough towing power? What was the deck over trailer rated for? Thanks, Nice video.

  • @chevy77rock
    @chevy77rock5 жыл бұрын

    Was always pleased with the way you could clean grain with a K. Never took a load to the elevator over a 0.2% FM. Did you get a bean screen with it?

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes, there was a bean screen, there was many extra parts with it. Unfortunately, I already sold the combine and moved to a twin rotor.

  • @michiganfarming1955
    @michiganfarming19557 жыл бұрын

    Looks like a good machine. If you don't mind me asking why did you get another combine? And is that a 684?

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    I still have a field forty miles away to harvest, and this little guy can go on trailer that doesn't require a semi and a low boy. It is a Hydro 84, and could be yours, if the price is right. I love the hydrostatic transmission, but a tractor with more pulling capacity would help us more.

  • @michiganfarming1955

    @michiganfarming1955

    7 жыл бұрын

    Boehm Farm I see. Personally I don't like hydros. So I'd have to pass but thanks.

  • @ethanlee9441
    @ethanlee94413 жыл бұрын

    My grandfather had the k2

  • @troyskeese1503
    @troyskeese15037 жыл бұрын

    I like your video . My favorite kind I'd voice over sense I don't hear well . Just a quick FYI there is a place in columbus that will re-galvanize . I do restoration work on trucks cars tractors an have sent some stuff there . It's was cheap an they do a good job . If interested I'll look up the number for you

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Hopefully, I don't have to do too much restoration work to it, but I'll let you know.

  • @ethanlee9441
    @ethanlee94413 жыл бұрын

    If you put the corn head all the way down it was its own jack to replace the rear tires

  • @cjfarms2239
    @cjfarms22397 жыл бұрын

    looks good, soon you will be getting an R62!

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Hahaha, you're funny. I think I'll be sticking to New Hollands, unless its another antiquity to play around with.

  • @cjfarms2239

    @cjfarms2239

    7 жыл бұрын

    your welcome, gleaners are pretty good, but its your money lol

  • @bduff007
    @bduff0075 жыл бұрын

    Field tile kept things from wrapping around the reel

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    5 жыл бұрын

    Many of these older machines of any color have the field tile.

  • @OldFarmAcresJoelK.
    @OldFarmAcresJoelK.6 жыл бұрын

    nice i paid mine Gleaner F for 500 bucks with grain head drove it home 10 miles about a year a half ago. of course my cab ain't perfect.it needed some work. Took me a while find a 438 corn head and found one for sale an hour half away for 600 bucks. i used it last year picked corn 2 a half acres.Did yall hit any overhead wires while hauling it? lol

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    6 жыл бұрын

    We cleared all the wires. I have seen 438 corn heads around. I am on a treasure hunt trying to find a 335 corn head, which is a three row wide, for the K. At least you could drive yours home.

  • @OldFarmAcresJoelK.

    @OldFarmAcresJoelK.

    6 жыл бұрын

    i think I seen a 3 row corn head at a junk yard but i dunno how wide is it Ill check it out when I get down there tom when i pick up a used exhaust/intake for my gleaner F combine. i live in southwest michigan.

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    6 жыл бұрын

    That's not too far. The 1890 chopper, the TC30 and the multivator all came from Michigan.

  • @ratrodbubba
    @ratrodbubba7 жыл бұрын

    and everytime you think your combine is to small just remember it could be smaller mines a massey 35sp with a 8 foot head and 4 cylender continental

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    Whoa, that's a very tiny one.

  • @bigDH123
    @bigDH1237 жыл бұрын

    Nice looking machine you got there. Between that and your New Holland you guys will be done in no time next year...You might have to look for more land now.

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Don't get me started on adding more land to farm. That's what got me into trouble buying this machine.

  • @bigDH123

    @bigDH123

    7 жыл бұрын

    I really hope it works out for you. She is pretty, lol

  • @pocketchange1951
    @pocketchange19513 жыл бұрын

    👍👌🇨🇦❤

  • @jameswilcoxson3480
    @jameswilcoxson34807 жыл бұрын

    if you say so. just remember a guy with 30+ years of gleaner experience comments on your video. here's your sign!

  • @jeffhoffman2034
    @jeffhoffman20347 жыл бұрын

    Ur far better off with that gleaner since u guys do soybeans and corn

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    I hope it does well this fall. I may not set it up for beans though, no auto height control and I know the TR will run circles around it in beans. The twin rotors can eat beans.

  • @chicagojoe2737
    @chicagojoe27377 жыл бұрын

    how far did you have to travel with that load and how high is that load? I have a int 403 I need to move. I have power lines and bridges to clear

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    The legal height is 13'6" Which, we'd hope most power lines are 14'+. The deck is 30" and the K is just short of 11' tall. We didn't catch a line over the 70 miles we hauled it home. Bridges should be marked, but they aren't guaranteed over 14'.

  • @lukestrawwalker

    @lukestrawwalker

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@boehmfarm4276 I knew a guy one time who drove a Deere 9900 cotton picker 525 miles from Lubbock Texas to Wharton Texas over the course of several days... probably close to a week... at 15 mph on the road it takes time but in a 10 hour day you can make 150 miles on open road, little less going through towns or whatever... sure cheaper than paying a big bill for a semi to haul it... I've driven my Ford 5610S 100 miles from the Shiner farm to the Needville farm, and back again... it takes about 6 hours at 15 mph going through four towns... just takes some time but it's a nice ride... OL J R :)

  • @jakeziegler599
    @jakeziegler5997 жыл бұрын

    They put the field tile on the reel so beans don't wrap on the reel

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    I understand why, but the commonality of a farm added solution just strikes me as funny.

  • @chevy77rock

    @chevy77rock

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thousands of farmers and everone happened upon the same solution....either geniuses think alike or we're all in the same sinking boat, lol

  • @lukestrawwalker

    @lukestrawwalker

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@chevy77rock or both.... OL J R :)

  • @gleanerman2195
    @gleanerman21957 жыл бұрын

    Gleaners have always been way ahead of other brands, We have ran all of them, from the A's all the way to the new S88's, remember there's nothing meaner than a Gleaner.

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    It took them a while to catch on to the rotory design. New Holland beat them. But I like the K so far.

  • @SilverGleaner

    @SilverGleaner

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@boehmfarm4276 Gleaner built a rotary back in 1931. They hold a lot of patents on rotary design going back to that time. Then they started the N series project in 1967 built prototypes called an N1.

  • @book_farms4440
    @book_farms44407 жыл бұрын

    congrats what r u going to do with the new holland

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    The TR70 will continue to be our main combine. the K is sort of an insurance policy. And the K can go on a trailer that is not a low boy behind a semi, so when I rent fields forty miles away, I can trailer it out to the field instead of a four hour drive.

  • @garythomas9227
    @garythomas92272 ай бұрын

    Looking at a k2, in aution but how wide is the k2. want to know can i truck and triller mines with out paying big money for transport 13:39

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    2 ай бұрын

    It'll fit on an 8' trailer.

  • @ethanlee9441
    @ethanlee94413 жыл бұрын

    Wish i could find one

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    3 жыл бұрын

    They are around, but look in the papers. Old farmers who want to make deals use the classifieds.

  • @dakotabeuerlein1443
    @dakotabeuerlein14436 жыл бұрын

    if you only get 50 hrs out of spark plugs you don't have your card set properly. I run a lot of carbureted engins my swather put 200 hrs a year and did the plugs when I got it 5 years ago and never Did them again

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    6 жыл бұрын

    We've tried fiddling with it. I am not sure they set it from the factory in a permanent fashion. What we think are the adjustment screws won't turn with reasonable force.

  • @lukestrawwalker

    @lukestrawwalker

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@boehmfarm4276 Another thing you can do is get an electronic ignition kit to replace the points... eliminates some hassles there as well. You can put fuel injection on practically ANYTHING with these aftermarket kits but they cost about 5X what you paid for that combine LOL:) Later! OL J R :)

  • @kylefeagins292
    @kylefeagins2927 жыл бұрын

    How many hours is on it??

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    Honestly, I don't know. I don't think it has an hour meter.

  • @forrestsmith7401
    @forrestsmith74015 жыл бұрын

    Where did you find it?

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    5 жыл бұрын

    Near Eaton Ohio

  • @jaredmoorman1300
    @jaredmoorman13007 жыл бұрын

    Why don't you switch to 30 in rows?

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    Because I'd rather go direct to 20s. We plant ten acres of sweet corn, and picking all that by hand is rather tight on thirty inch rows. To keep as few machines as possible, we've one planter for corn. A six row narrow won't fit in our barns, and four row narrow heads aren't commonly available for our TR70. Of course, I could only harvest 20s if a found a Gleaner 420 head for the K, which is super rare.

  • @tebfarms939
    @tebfarms9397 жыл бұрын

    I have the exact combine and 12' head if you need a parts combine

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    Do you have a corn head? Or a spinner instead of a straw chopper? We shall see how it works. Thanks

  • @tebfarms939

    @tebfarms939

    7 жыл бұрын

    Boehm Farm might have a spinner. Nope corn head was sold it was a 3 row narrow. Thanks.

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    I have a straw chopper, but the previous owner took it off, he kept having in plug. It doesn't need a spreader for corn, but it might be nice for distributing bean stubble. I wonder if there were three row wides available for a K?

  • @festus51

    @festus51

    7 жыл бұрын

    If the straw chopper is plugging replace the knives. I had an IH 715 that did that exact same thing/ Replaced chopper knives and all was good.

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    the plugging issue is because the belt would come off, then chaff couldn't fall out of the straws walkers.

  • @bryancovert9821
    @bryancovert98215 жыл бұрын

    BRAVES !!!!! You alleged farmers are funny , agricultural school should be in your future . You are hilarious though , hahahaha !!!!!

  • @Mary-had-a-lil-farm

    @Mary-had-a-lil-farm

    5 жыл бұрын

    Bryan Covert wow! Rude! Nobody wants to hear/ read your negative crap. Keep your very insignificant opinion to yourself.

  • @prestonkerr4421
    @prestonkerr44217 жыл бұрын

    How much did you give for it?

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    $900

  • @darrellnichols6179
    @darrellnichols61797 жыл бұрын

    Hey sir. I have a petronics electronic ignition that should fit that machine if you have a delco distributor. It's new in the box. Send me your address and I'll send it to you.

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    I can't find a way to private message you on here. Whats your email address?

  • @darrellnichols6179

    @darrellnichols6179

    7 жыл бұрын

    Boehm Farm Email me at : haybale1970@gmail.com

  • @internationalfarmer2153
    @internationalfarmer21537 жыл бұрын

    I got another for u way nicer

  • @boehmfarm4276

    @boehmfarm4276

    7 жыл бұрын

    Nicer would be a K2 with rice tires, diesel, power steering and hydrostatic drive. But could you send me a photo?