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I'm in North Texas and Gleaner is still king around here. While I see few new ones, I see few new anything in these parts. The Gleaner has always been popular in this area and still seems to be even used or second-hand. There are hardly any other combine brands working in the area and the local dealer seems to do a good job of parts and such. I found it funny when the only custom crew that came through last year had 2 brand new JD 8000 series track type tractors to pull the carts.......but 4 sniny, new Gleaners to do the work.

Gleaner's are popular in my area also but there are no new ones that I know of around here. And if I were buying a new one it would be a CASE-IH or a GlEANER.

Gleaner's custom harvester specials are a good chunk of their business. Sales of all custom machines are somewhat limited in tough times like these due to dealers inability to handle trade ins. As to market share Gleaner is n3. However there is less than one Gleaner dealer per 10 Deere and Case so on a dealer local level where there are dealers the market share gets up in the 30+% area. When AC went defunct they wiped out the dealers in the southeast. Not having any salesmen in one fourth of the country ain't conducive to high market share. It is an area AGCO has to do some real work in. Of course if one had say, 4-5 hundred thousand spare bucks laying around and wants 1 to 2 % return on investment and would like to work 50+ hours per week , I am sure they would sign you up

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).

Yes I agree a new machine no matter what brand it is just simply is not worth the cost.

You are right and as for combines that are 30+ years old Gleaner is the most popular in that category where I live as well. And parts availibility is excellent for them also. The fact is this Gleaner's are simply fine combines.

Bluestem, Back 15 to 30 years ago the dealer there in Enid near you sold a slue of Gleaner combines and he had enough parts in stock to build several just out of parts. I made a lot of trips there to get parts when I was cutting in the area and he never said "I can have it here in two days." He always had in stock. K.A.

I have been there for parts. There are not many Gleaner dealer's left in my part of the country though. I don't think there are more than three in the state of Oklahoma.

The last new Gleaner sale in this county (Central Ontario) happened in 1989. The dealer closed shortly thereafter. I believe Ontario has only 5 Gleaner dealers left, primarily in the southwest. Massey dealers are starting to disappear too, now. That said, there are still quite a number of l or F combines stillon the go.

That is how it is where I live. I do not know of any new Gleaner's.