Since you mentioned axle. Dad broke an axle trying to pull a truck out of a wet field on to the road. Allis dealer said it would take 3 weeks to get another. My Dad was an excellent welder. He built a jig to put it in to keep it perfectly straight. He used stainless steel rod with AC arc welder. Axle worked great still in it when he sold it several years later.
My grandpa bought new the last one Baldwin made with the ford engine it was sold after 9 or so years but was still working in 1969 when went in the army
My Dad bought a used T-Gleaner back in the early 1960's. It had a Ford tractor motor on it. Seem like every time I was the operator. It broke down, not a very reliable machine. Then in the later 1960's Dad bought a new F-Gleaner that was much better.
F would have been huge upgrade coming from a T for sure! The T’s are geared a bit too fast with that truck axle in small grain. Something they fixed when the E replaced the T.
So wait. Do the tailings return all the way back back into the head to get re thrashed? As rare as they are I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a T in person. Haven’t even seen to many pictures. Sure is a cute little thing.
Yep thats the most obvious indication that it was built before Allis owned Gleaner was the return elevators went to the header instead of the feeder-house. Wheat you hardly notice but in soybeans there will be a small pile of beans in the header from the return. I actually like it better like that. Makes for a couple less moving parts. I just bought two more now from Missouri and this one in the video is from North Dakota by the Canadian border. So Ive got three T3’s now. As far as I know Im one of the largest collectors anywhere but I know there’s some older collectors not on the internet that have a number them. Only over 500 were ever built so not too many left out there. Allis discontinued the T after buying Gleaner and then a few years later reversed their decision and replaced it with the E which ended up being one of the most popular Gleaners ever built.
It’s always a bit of a pain combining at a show with everyone watching. Having no experience combining small grain and the wheat not dry when you’re doing it. Its a ton of fun though and I couldn’t ask for a better combine. Wheat is my favorite but soybeans is always a ton of fun cause you fill the grain tank every 1/2 an acre… In soybeans I really need someone with a little auger wagon driving along side so I can dump on the go…
@@MrTGleaner I restored an old Oliver and it took me about 3 seasons to get it figured out. We don't have shows here like that, and i wish i had gotten into this stuff a long time ago. Cheers!
Does that combine have a variable speed drive on it? How many speeds in the transmission and where is the shift lever? Is the lever beside the header control for variable speed? Super nice machine all over.
I could have painted it several different colors. Black, Ford Red, or Allis Orange. It came out of the factory in Ford Red but it was repainted Allis Orange at the Dealership in 55 after Allis bought Gleaner. This was the first year it had ever been in a field since 1962 after it combined some flax. I hadn't gotten around to having the bigger soybean sprockets remanufactured yet so this video was of it combining 60bu soybeans with small grain sprockets last year. Soybeans were super clean but little over half were cracked. You never get anything running at 100% the first year I have learned with combines. Later in this video I always cringe cause I can hear it eating a bolt I left ontop of the header. This year I took out the return elevator chain an covered the opening in the sieve so everything went to the grain tank. The sample was still very cleaner an put are new Deere Axial combine to shame so I was very happy. One of the best parts about the T3 was its narrow enough to drive right onto a car trailer, an that's how I hauled it home across three states. I'll put my T3 up against any of its competitors any day an I'm a Deere guy.
@@MrTGleaner Haha, wow, that's saying a lot! I noticed you could see down both sides of the machine while driving it. I wish there were more of those around, they would be great for small farms like mine. And with the price of land anymore, they would just get more popular as the years go by.
It's amazing how little the Gleaner technology changed over the years. My father just got his first M2 Corn/Soybean special a few years ago and the overall design has changed very little from what is shown in this video.
I grew up threshing wheat, soybeans, oats and barley with a Model T Gleaner. Couldn't beat it for clean grain. And the ease of resetting it when slug of grain or stone popped open the cylinder hatch. Really enjoyed operating it.
I was doing high moisture soybeans with some green steams out there. I plugged it only once surprisingly an it was only three handfuls under the feeder cylinder an away I went again! Its just a dream to run! I got a Massey 60sp combine out also an that thing plugged first ten feet in the green stuff! If you remember anything ells about your T please share!!!!!!
I had some bad rust under the radiator so I applied some industrial cold-zinc spay made in Minneapolis MN. Its specially made to look new an stick to galvanizing as long as you do a good job at cleaning the oil an grease off before applying. I liked it so much I covered all of the galvanizing with it. Very happy with how it turned out.
70 years ago, when I was a kid, that was "BIG" equipment. We used an AC60 two row Allis Chalmers combines, pulled behind a tractor to harvest milo maize. Couldn't afford a "BIG" machine,
Great video thanks for sharing it, that’s really neat to see the machine running so well. Okay here’s my Gleaner story we had the model G with a 6 row head and bean header, the combine obtained a new name while we owned it! We called in the 666 G why? Because we could usually get 6 seconds or 6 rows or 6 hours 😉😂 the snapping roll chain or the table chain and the slip clutches. We have the body of a similar model all shot up from target practice, sadly from kids will be kids. Stay well friend.
Great video of all shots of this great machine, thank you for the great share, allis chalmers has never quit in my heart, there still going strong in my memories and heart
I spent many days on an old Gleaner A that looked a lot like yours, Now I see a lot of the changes they made between the two but they kept the barrel for the gas tank. My last Gleaner was a C11 and it was a beast of a machine ! Your keeping the history alive ! Bandit
I have seen these machines laying abandoned in old farnyards all of my life and I have always wondered what they looked like working. I can not tell you what an incredible thrill it is to see them in operation. The biggest thrill of all is your Gleaner T3. I can't imagine what it must have taken to get these old machines working again. PLEASE! Restore more of the old farm machines and document the process on RU-vid! I guarantee you will have my rapt attention to every video!
Our neighbor had one of them when i was young, got to ride on it, what memory. Kids don't know what their missing out on nowadays. Thanks for the video!
