Ever thought that Gleaner makes a better designed and longer lasting combine than the competition. My 20 year old N6 Series 3 Hyperized puts to shame on effeciency,speed, grain sample quality, down time for repairs and parts availablity and cost of repairs the neighbors 9750STS that is 3 years old. I go 25 miles for parts, he goes 5 or it is "trucked back" to the dealer most of the time. My uncle's CIH 2388 is a nice machine but it still doesn't beat that Gleaner Rotary design and doesn't have the capacity. Neighbors TR99 is no competition either, the only competition I have in the area is a Gleaner R62. And if you notice, most of the complaints about those machines are the "EFI" on the Cummins,(neighbor has had 2 modules go bad),never the rest of the machine. Not many changes have occured since the N Series 3 design, mainly P1 to P3 rotor(and I could update my P1 to a P3. Can't do that with a Deere and Axials have had more extensive changes. We still have C's, E's, G's, etc running in the area, how many 45,55,95,105 JD's are still doing the harvest and IH 203,303,403,503,615,715,815,915 are busy each Fall, Gleaner still wins the age war(with parts available).
