The Gleaners series combines were very popular but from personal experiences the big custom crews didn't use em. My BIL got his 1st one in the mid 70's and used Gleaners until about 10 years ago when he went to a Case IH axil flow. They were running JD's and MF's. The Gleaners were known for doing a better job but were not a durable as the JD and MF bines of the time. On the crew I was with we had 3 7700 JD's along with 3 grain trucks. We started harvest in OK and worked our way north to ND and west MN Red River Valley. At the end of the season we had put on over 1,000 hours on each bine. With the big custom outfits durability was behind the buying decisions. My boss would tell us over and over.....you want clean buy Gleaner.....you want to do custom work don't.
AC wasn't the only company that built tractor with tranny issues. Look at what IH did to itself with the 560. In the 60's and early 70's many companies ran ads about how their product was more modern and therefore better.....so a lot of times products were rushed into production against the advice of the engineers to get a jump on that. IH's 560 is a classic example of that. With IH when the chief bean counter who cut the engineers off on the 560 tranny was named CEO he fired the chief engineer on the 560 project a couple of years after the fact. I think from what I've read that AC for the most part targeted the budget farmers until the late 60's. In the 50's and 60's 100 dollars was a lot of money. So if you could build something with fewer features you could undercut other companies. When AC tried jumping into the higher end lines they just were not ready to spend the money on R&D that they should have. Ad in that thier ag division was just part of a larger company......just like IH was making trucks, appliances.....just too many things.
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