rrlund said: (quoted from post at 16:42:09 10/14/11) I can't speak with personal experience about the N5,except that the guy right south of town runs them,and if they weren't doing the job,he wouldn't be. I do have experience with the older Gleaner conventionals though,and they were indistructable. Don't let any of these guys scare you away from a Gleaner. For many,many years,they were the standard around here. You rarely saw anything else. If I was to get out of the cattle business and start cash cropping,I wouldn't even consider anything else.
And this is coming from somebody who was no fan of the rest of the Allis Chalmers line.
I agree. We had an N5 and run it until everything was shot. Lots of people trash talk em with the silver sided pheasant feeder comments and such but you can usually shut them up by doing a side by side field loss comparison. We had a neighbor ask us to finish for him when his Deere blew an engine. Grumpy old fart who was very reluctant to let that Gleaner into his crops but no one else was willing to help him. He was still whining about it as we filled the trucks so I took him to where his deere was before she blew and cleared a 3'by 3' square area and counted kernels and then did the same behind the N5. After all the math we calculated a 3 bushel per acre difference in field loss. He quit whining.
They do have a few weak spots, one is the curved metal discharge plate at the end of the rotor, it replaceable but you gotta have patience and be skinny as a rail to get to it. The second is the rear axle pivot. Ours broke 3 times. Finally a 3/4" thick pipe welded inside the original fixed it. The last issue is the unload spout is not very high and its hard to unload in big carts. trucks and wagons are not a problem.
This post was edited by 36F30 at 18:27:57 10/14/11.
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