Combines Question about where the name of Gleaner came fromIJIJIJ

The Baldwin Bros. Named their combine after some 1800's French artist's painting "The Gleaners" that show these peasant woman picking up grain that the harvesters left behind. I also have an old toy Gleaner in the original box that explains what the original "Gleaners" were and goes on to say basicly that Baldwin Gleaners, like the original gleaners, get more of the grain in any crop. Hope this helped... Tom langan

I think that Monet's painting was inspired by the teachings of the Old Testament. The Hebrew farmers were told to leave some of the grain for the widows, orphans, and strangers who might be hungry. These people were called "gleaners" because they got the rest of the grain. Ruth met her future husband, Boaz, when she was "gleaning" his fields. I thought it ironic that when I looked up "gleaning" in my concordance that it told me to see "widows and orphans". Some folks refer to our Gleaners as "orphan combines".

Yes that is the picture that I am looking at in my Bible dictinary. The picture has women in the field getting the crops and in the caption below it, it says Gleaners in the field of Boaz near Bethlehem. Illinois Gleaner

My dad's old 1948 Baldwin pull 12ft unit had a picture on the radiator intake fixture ahead of the platform that the man stood on to raise_lower the header. Dad had installed an electric unit to replace the man on the combine. When Dad upgraded to the 1959 Model A, Allis took the picture off the combine. It was a fitting picture for the combine. The pull and self-propelled A was the easiest to service of all the company units out. Gleaners are still the easiest to service, especially since the two unit (42,52,62,72) design came out. Dad always impressed on me the precleaning fan and ease of service for the unit. I since have had a C2, M, l, N6, R70, and now the R62. They still are the easiest to service on a daily basis and to pull the bearings when they go down. It would be a nice touch to put "the Gleaners" picture back on the machine. It is good to know where one came so one can plan for where one is headed.

The picture that I have seen in dealerships for advertising. I am sure is the one you are talking about I would think that is what inspired them to name their machines Gleaners.

I know one thing, Gleaner always done better at saving grain than the green one! Even back to days of the A and C compared to 45 and 55`S.

Hey. I am still running an old CII. Do about 100 ac. each of corn and beans a year. Does a great job. I can get as clean a grain sample as any of the newer other color machines. All matter of ajustments. Put a set of Trimpe clylinder bars in it and made the old gal a really aggessive machine.