Combines Are Gleaner owners more with itIJ

[Green_Envy]

Did you check Case IHIJ They have almost 560,000. I don't know about other people, but I check all of the forums.

 

[hunter]

I too check all the combine sites. It does make me wonder though that the red and green guys must check this site a lot to keep the numbers up there with the red and green. Makes me think Gleaner must be competition to all the other colors. I have also seen many Gleaner guys over on the RED and Green. Are you just keeping up or whatIJ best, bill koob

 

[John]

Fairly simple! The Gleaner owners have a simple machine to maintain and repair, and normally do the repairs themselves saving lots of shop$$$. And they are willing to share their knowledge sitting at their computers with the coffee and NOT the daily dealer Coffee Time Sales Pitch of how much better or that they need a new machine every year or two. More than half of the posts are on over 10 year old machines and quite a few on 20 to 30 year old machines. Not many Pre-Rotary questions on the CaseIH site and not many on the Pre-Titan II series at Deere. New Holland site tends to have quite a bit of activity on older machines too. This leads one to believe that the Gleaner and New Holland machines are build for longevity, not for ROll OVER programs that within a couple years you need a different machine(PlANNED OBSOlESCENSE),or they are too complicated for the owner to diagnose and fix. And yes, it does seem that Gleaner owners are more mechanically inclined. In many cases the owners do what the factory doesn't seem to want to do to take a high capacity machine and increase its capacity considerably. Deere and Axial Flow owners can not take their machines and tweak them and get that much of a boost out of them. Gleaner builds on the Conservative side and the owners tweak to Maximize the machine. The AF and STS are built to maximum with little to no room for extra capacity or service life. Does this make Gleaner a better machine, that is to each their own opinion. My 20 year old Gleaner will not be beaten by the largest or newest AF or STS and still at minimal maintenance cost each year. Not bad for an OlD MACHINE in todays market!

 

[corn_king]

No,we are just seeing all the break downs gleaner has.

 

[Unit_2]

Cornchopper, Wonder where you learned to count. The last time I checked, the Case site had a little over 28 thousand more hits than the Gleaner site. Personaly I check all the sites at least once a day when I have time and have posted something on most of the sites at one time or another. Although I'm CIH red all over, I'll have to admit you Gleaner guys make the most interesting reading, the Deere guys like to brag a lot, and the Cat guys are just plain boring. Happy Holidays! K.E.

 

[tbran]

thanks for the acknowledgement here I thinkIJ.-. And if everyone keeps checking on the other guys it screws up all the hit counts!! (;^) . It is a good forum Thanks MG

 

[Green_Envy]

I check all of the sites to see if there is any interesting talk like when people start bashing each others combine. I don't check this site or any other site to keep up. I don't care about how many counts each site has and I don't know why anybody should. I only looked at the count yesterday when that other guy brought up that subject. I have posted on all of the sites except for the Cat and Case board.

 

[Pengs5]

Well said. Peng.

 

[SilverTurnedGreen]

I think all the activity on this page is a good sign; - it tells me that the "Gleaner-owners" are a closer group which seemingly sort each others problems out. I wished this forum was available years ago when I owned an N6.

 

[still_galvanized]

that took a lot of thought and planning to post something as dumb as that.