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Post by JasonB on Jan 2, 2017 19:47:45 GMT
One of my favourite part of Gleaner's history is the Hillside combines that were used out in Washington State, particularly the MH2 and MH3 Gleaners. I have a couple of brochures on the MH2 and MH3 machines and studying them, they seemed to be an impressive machine at the time. I loved the way the engineers designed the ladder to reach the cab. It was a unique design, and possibly the best way of getting into the cab on a slope. On the Deere 6602 Hillside you entered the cab via a ladder and access platform on the right side of the combine, as it was impossible to get into the cab from the left side on the Deere combines. With the centerline design of the MH2/ MH3 combines I think with the centered gravity of the machine made them one of the best combines for harvesting on the slopes. I believe these combines maxed out at a 40% slope or so on the Leveller. I recall a Gleaner "Roadshow" video where a farmer was combining with an S77 Gleaner, but also mentioned he had an MH2 Gleaner to harvest the real "Nasty" 35 -40% slopes" where the S77 Gleaner could not go. Now mind you, the Gleaner Rotary design, is one of the few combines capable of harvesting on steep slopes without the use of a leveller to keep the separator level. Id love to see a Gleaner MH2 or MH3 at work on these steep slopes, other then in brochures.
Also, did they ever make a Duetz-Allis version of the MH3 Gleaner? Or what year did they actual stop building the Hillside Gleaners? I have an 83 brochure on the MH3, so I imagine it was not much longer after that?
Jason
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Post by RHB Canyon Equipment on Apr 24, 2018 15:21:53 GMT
I was an Allis Chalmers dealer with three partners in Wa and N Idaho, we had 4 stores and sold the MH and MH2 Gleaner combines as well as the N series rotary Gleaners. The MH series would level to 38% but were commonly run on much steeper ground, I sold two of them to a farmer with several "bowl" fields that were in excess of 50%. It was common to slid off a field but I never heard of one upsetting. Many of the competition machines had a history of rolling over and it was not unusual to have an operator killed in a roll over accident nearly every harvest. There was a prototype MH3 developed but never went into production. The market was too small to make production worthwhile in the late seventies to mid 80s. The MH2 and MH were essentially the same with one major difference, the MH2 has a more powerful engine and hydro. There are still numbers of these machines still harvesting in the Palouse country of WA state and N. Idaho even though other brands make much larger self leveling product to this day. Soft White wheat crops can exceed 100 bushels to the acre on dry land with no irrigation in those areas and is thought to be the highest yeilding ground in the world and it is STEEP! Hope this answers some of your questions.
rhb
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Post by Shaxton on May 4, 2018 4:43:36 GMT
We bought an MH3 new, I ran it several years before leaving our family farm. They were great machines at the time, very popular. We had 3 Ms when I left, an MH, a 2, and my 3, and two headers for each. I have video of us doing a harvest bee for my dad’s best friend after he died. Of the twenty machines there, 13 were MHs.
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Post by Lance Miller on May 20, 2018 8:27:59 GMT
I still run MH2 combines. They are fantastic combines. Fairly efficient to operate on a daily basis. Very easy to maintain and operate. I farm near Colfax WA. I just bought a 22foot header for one of my combines. It is off of a duetz-allis mh3. I am almost always willing to take people on rides in them. ( except for when we are cutting the really steep ground. Just because of if something does happen that nobody gets hurt
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Post by Stout farms on Aug 9, 2018 23:28:59 GMT
Starting up the Gleaner MH2 today to get ready for 2018 harvest near Genesee, Id.
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Post by Chaight on Aug 2, 2021 3:39:42 GMT
When I started farming I bought a gleaner A, barley able to cut any hillside, went right out after harvest and bought an MH2 been running it going on 10 years never happier? Love watching the neighbors struggling on the hills while the MH2 is the mountain goat of combines
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