Gleaner Innovations that Gleaner brought to market!

1) First Self propelled Gleaner combine in 1923- The Fordson tractor mounted combine.

2) First Standing Corn Combine in the 1930's with the first Corn head

3) One of the first companies to offer a Hillside combine with the Model AH combine

4) Center-line design on the Model A Gleaner SP combine which offered better weight distribution and better balanced combine

5) One if not the first Brands to offer tracks as a factory option on combines.... Believe the CR Rice special was the first Gleaner available with tracks

6) One of the first brands to offer a "Hydrostatic" transmission drive for the combines, starting with the F, G, and GH combines. No more clutching to shift gears. Believe Hydro drive was optional first on the GH

7) First on the market with an 8 row Narrow Corn head for the Model "G". Biggest corn head Deere offered at the time was a 6 row head on the 105 and later 7700.

8) First Electric push button controls on the L and M combines. Introduction of the famous Gleaner Swivel unloading auger.

9) First Conventional combine with a 200 bushel Bin capacity, 8 row corn head capability, heads up to 30 feet with the L2, later L3

10) The only Transverse Rotary combine to be built and is still in production today in the new S9 series.

11 First "Class 7" combine with the introduction of the N7 Gleaner in 1980, also first with the 12 row corn head.