1979 Allis Chalmers 16mm film "Bushels Ahead In Productivity" Showing the whole line of Gleaner combines the L2, M2, F2, and the new N Series Rotary combines.
1979 is the year, when my MF 440 was built. The MF combines at this time were very good machines, but the Gleaner's were years ahead in throughput, performance, electronic control and design. A pity that they were not available in europe... Up to now Gleaner goes its own way and it seems to be the right way...
Not entirely Deutz's fault, at times Allis Chalmers siphoned off to much of the profits to keep other divisions solvent, Gleaner then didn't have the funds to continue to develop and improve their product. The farm recession of the 80's was more than they could overcome. They stumbled coming out of WWII and although they had some good tractors and features in the 50's and 60's they were outclassed by the competition.
@@RJ1999x well that's what one of their executives wrote in his biography about his time with Allis Chalmers, he worked for them from the 1930's until he retired in the mid to late 70's
Actually it was the drought in the 80s that went on and on, and Jimmy Carter’s decision to punish Russia by not selling them our grain. My dad started farming in the mid 70s, when we left in the early 90s prices for wheat and barley were essentially half of that of those when he started. All the small time farmers have it up, no money and banks just took the equipment, or actually set up an auction. We had one, farmers will eat their own and take your equipment as cheap as possible making deals among themselves. You don’t know really what happened to farming and banking in the 80s. I remember trying to chisel plow after harvest with our 300hp 8550, it was like asphalt, really destroyed shovels wheel bearings
We lived in a town of 350 people with an Allis implement, all those small town implements closed because farmers had no money or credit for new machinery. Look at the 8000 series Allis tractors, they made such huge improvements, the cab and FWA being big for me coming out of an old 200 and an 8550. Really can’t blame Allis for failing, and they didn’t, they rolled into Duetz. White was coming out with great tractors. Massey 5200 was pretty awesome, but any v8 farm machinery was bound for the scrap heap
So why was the N6 so much more popular than the N7? We used the L2 with 426 diesel and it kept up with most anything of its time. That 426 kind of screamed
I suppose because not many needed the N7 capacity. You have to be able to haul away what ever the combine eats and the next closest in capacity to the N7 was the N6 and then after that the White 9700, the Deere 8820, and the IH 1480 so I would guess the N6 already seemed like it was plenty big. Also, other than the engine the basic dimensions are the same between the N6 and N7 so it probably seemed like you got more for your money by investing in the N6. My area had more N6 combines and more N5's too than N7's.
