You are not kidding! being to think out side of the box is a wonderful thing. to be able to look at something and design a way to fix it so that you are able to keep it running at the same time have it in such a way that is not a destructive way of modifying the piece of equipment. so often now parts are not available or have been discontinued, when you try to get harvester’s running, time is so critical during harvest, so much to do in a limited time. great video, enjoy your narration of what is going on.
Any man or woman can have an idea and with time and money and know how to do it, he or she can build anything they want or change. Like the way you cut the sprockets to make the chain drives. I like it. Have a great day be safe.
My hat is off to you sir, so refreshing to see someone else with the same sickness as myself. I love old equipment and seeing it fixed and running again ( on a job not just at some show ) is awesome. L2 on tracks everyone stand and clap your hands, this is fixin to get good.
Ok, first thing, I watched the video of you putting on the tracks. I was having some anxiety when the combine began to move, lol, I was saying whoa,whoa. Thank goodness it didn't fall. As for the modification to the drive, I must say that it looks awesome. I'm really excited to see it in the field. Once you get the tracks turned around, it will be great. Looking great now. And happy birthday young man. Maybe someday I will get a chance to see it in person.
If you did it right the first time, no one would have anything to complain about. And besides, you wouldn't get that much needed practice by doing it 2, or maybe 3 times. I think it's Awesome! I like your enthusiasm and willingness to try. That's what is missing in this Country. Everyone wants to take the easy way out. You and Dad Strength give this old man Hope. Keep the Faith, and God will watch over you and Bless You.
I used to be a farmer I loved it but i had to go and find other work so I understand what you go through my wife wasn’t happy I like your videos they are really interesting to see how you get things done so keep up the good job I am amazed by the Gleaner with the track’s on it I don’t know very many farmers that would have tried to do it
Excellent video Brandon :) also that idea give yesterday and this explains in message too ! Glad like idea gave too also lube up chain to give strength too with any clean oil got will work even old Desiel motor oil that took from Crankcase too with some new oil add in! Happy Birthday Brandon :) , I hope have excellent day with work plus families & friends to share surprises with you also wishes come true and many more years ahead to also wonderfull year ahead to also! Also glad took 4 video to show tracks plus header for combine long and it okay to so explained it for anyone understand better! Tracks on Backwards I didn't think did it and was know it !
Good job there guys. You're right, what you guys have done there looks much nicer & cleaner than factory. 👍 Looking forward to seeing it in the field shelling some corn. Take care. 🙂
Your drive looks better than the original AC bracket to me. Neighbor had a M2 with that 630 head. It had a bracket kind of like your original one. I had to rebuild the bracket several times over the years for him. As for the tracks wearing. The crop mat from the corn stalks will keep most of the dirt/mud/rocks out of the hinge point any way. The entire setup looks good to me.
Happy Birthday buddy!! That’s a fantastic fabrication. Love what you guys came up with. You’re right about what you’re doing with the old slampig. It’s not a 100K combine and you don’t need it for trade in after 2-3 years. I’m sure Slampig III has her forever home.
Happy Birthday Brandon, you done a helluve job right there, should work like a charm, I just bought a L2 like #3 this fall to, I love it, it's a little step up from my straight L I did run, if you need any help I've been around these old gal's almost 30+ years, there isn't much I haven't done to one.
Great job! I'm sure it will work fine, and I am looking forward to some wet ground corn shelling videos! We could have used it on some wet ground, we covered this year, here in East Tennessee. 👍
😀😀😀😀😀Good job The best way for the use of those sprockets is use keyed tapper locks you cut keyway into shaft slide sprocket on and do the allen keys up which pulls the collar in locking tight no need to weld on shaft that way you ever have to remove its a simple operaton. The track direction isnt that much of a concern i have walked alot of dozers around farms over long distances over the years backwards. Tracks are made to go back an forth excessice wear to pins and bushes nothing to stress about how many years had they gone other direction it just equals up the wear 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the project isnt a million dollar machine so go for it 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Here in Australia alot of harvesters of the cleaner era ran on steel tracks in rice harvest
F2 Gleaners had a drive kind of like that. Yours looks fine. They used those drives so the same head fit the F, Ms & Ls.Just a different drive kit, the plate on top of the head that hooks to the feeder house and filler plates by the feeder beater.
Man you keep doing what you do don't worry about what people say it don't matter if takes u 2 weeks or 3 weeks to get it done I bet half of them can't do what you have done our can do it there self well done
The only concern is the hinge lap lay in dirt and mud is going to wear the plates and you may pick up small pebbles. The latter being bad. Do you have literal lima bean sized pebbles in the field? Stuff is going to vibrate into that hinge. In the long term it doesn't actually matter which way the beams sit, its just the track - so if you swap the tracks and leave the beams you'll be ace fine.
The tracks are backward but the bogie assembly is correct. Slopped through many harvests with 750, 760, and 860 on those tracks and never had a final or hydro problem. Only issue we ever had was on a 2wd 750 in extremely muddy corn and took out the spiders in the transmission from spinning out. Top sprocket gears you down so of course finals must turn faster, if one side spins out it really works the spider gears. Once the pusher axles were installed never a problem. Wasn't anything they wouldn't go through. Really need to check oil in the idlers and bogies. Special oil tip needed to add oil to the bogies because there is only one plug on the outside. It forces the oil through the inside bearing to the outside bearing. Idlers, take both plugs out, pump oil in one hole until it comes out the other.
Just wondering could tracks be on the frame backwards because it makes sense to have the tensioner idler on the front of the track because going forward that’ll be the slack side. Just wondering.
So if you reverse your tracs your idler tensioner will be on the wrong side where your tracks are pulling against it when going forward. Don't know if it would matter but it feels wrong.
The idlers have to stay forward the only thing that are going to get changed are the direction of the track chains idlers should always be forward when I run excavators I always work and travel with my idlers forward if possible very important
can not wait to see this gal chew on some corn i was thinking you could use the oem chain drive and just move it to fit the tracks but i guess that would not work oh well just idea i had from seeing here on the tube something else if you had got the tracks on right side would that have help the drivee line fix
With the clets on the lower side of the pad, they are more likely to carry dirt, mud, etc on the pad instead of it falling off as the pad starts up the back side. It would be a bit of work but what you could do is when the tracks/frames are off, take the tracks off the frames and turn them around. With the frames off the combine and the sprockets removed, you will have lots of slack to pop the rails/chains off the frames. Then the adjustable idlers are forward and the pads are on correctly.
Love the project I have a set of gilbert and riplo tracks that I ran on my R52 gleaner they were direct bolt on to the hubs like the new rubber tracks. They are 36" wide and worked great they are to light for my R62 (350 jd uc ) I run my combine in 3 gear also and only in 2wd do to perfect ground speed in 3rd with the pusher on I feel it would be to slow. I had no problems steering or turning in the mud just use the turning brakes some to kept on the row. Had no problems in the mud just had to carry all the corn to the truck or cart. If I can send you some pictures I will Only concern is the front looks really high and your sives are going down hill. but that may not hurt a thing because a combine can go up hill and still work. Thanks
@@devenportdirtworks1203 any interest in parting with them? I have an r52 and a couple hundred acres of corn to go with the mud and snow getting worse everyday.
Happy birthday! This officially makes you a hero. For extracting the stuck combine in reverse using the dozer: is there an under-frame on the L2 which would allow pulling from the rear axle, or would you need to pre-install a reverse pulling cable connecting to the track frame?
Tracks will probably kick up a bunch of dirt with the tracks being the wrong way, the pitch of the pad running in that direction will make it want to " rooster tail" but I can't see that hurting anything
The drive on our F2 with a 430 looks exactly lik what you built except its crammed between the drive pulley and feeder house. Its a Pain in the ass to hook chain together.
Would swapping sides with the tracks solve some fitment isues-- the tension adjustment would be to the rear where theres more room, and the fixed idler to the front.. and it solves the " backwards" tracks.. For next time..
No you want the tensioner on the front. When driving forward, which will be most of the time, the track tightens up from the drive sprocket down to the track on the ground. If the tensioner was on the back, it would be pulling the tensioner in and slacking the track way too much in the front.
The problem with a lot of people don’t realize what a farmer has to do everyday and unless you have worked on a farm you won’t know they use your videos as just entertainment so they don’t understand
Happy Birthday Brandon! Tracks on backward - smackward? Who cares? If it works out for you, then that is all that matters. You never know, it may even work better. Anybody can be a backseat driver or quarterback, all it takes is talk. It takes people like you to actually get in there, get down and dirty, think it thru and get the job done, and that is exactly what you do!!
Just flip the chain around, drop the drive sprocket off the final drive and wrestle the chain off with help from the bobcat. I agree with comment below, don’t pull on the adjustable idler sprocket.
There is always keyboard evperts that know everything but know very little because they are to lazy to leave the keyboard. I've been a dairy farmer my whole life and I'll say this " It will never work if you don't try or just do it" . My saying is my farm is built not bought, my great grandfather started the farm with his 2 hands at 23 yrs old in 1872 and built everything the house the barn and silo and everything else needed to raise a family and animals my grandfather carried on where he left off and my parents carried on where he left off and I'm carrying on, we as farmers don't have millions just sitting around for new everything we make things work and engineer what we need at that point in time, sometimes the things we need to do the job we are doing are old and worn out and not made anymore and we need to do some revamp work in order fot it to live again. Yes some of our equipment has been bought new but it usually has been tweeked to make it useful for us and what we do and to work with everything else we have it's farming and these people that say no you can't do that or that can't be done have never done it and only know how to push keys and stuff their pie holes.
Man you have a low opinion of your viewers! LoL The whole time, I am thinking this is an awesome idea, and it will work really well, no negative thoughts at all, yet the whole time you think I am hating on you. ROTFLOL :-D Great job, Great design, it WILL last many thousand acres!
Anybody has a 50-50 chance of screwin' something up the first time, but you should have corrected that when you noticed that the first track was mounted backwards! That's all on you. Not pickin' on you, just stating a fact! Take more pride in your work. You're livelihood depends on it, it costs less, and it's a lot less embarrassing! Nothing wrong with a do over as long as you make it right and never forget the humility !
You are not kidding! being to think out side of the box is a wonderful thing.
to be able to look at something and design a way to fix it so that you are able
to keep it running at the same time have it in such a way that is not a destructive
way of modifying the piece of equipment. so often now parts are not available
or have been discontinued, when you try to get harvester’s running, time is so critical
during harvest, so much to do in a limited time. great video, enjoy your narration of
what is going on.
Any man or woman can have an idea and with time and money and know how to do it, he or she can build anything they want or change. Like the way you cut the sprockets to make the chain drives. I like it. Have a great day be safe.
My hat is off to you sir, so refreshing to see someone else with the same sickness as myself. I love old equipment and seeing it fixed and running again ( on a job not just at some show ) is awesome. L2 on tracks everyone stand and clap your hands, this is fixin to get good.
looks good and happy birthday
Thank you! And thank you for sending me some viewers!
amazing how you adapt things to make it work. keep it running and good luck.
It's the secret to survival
Ok, first thing, I watched the video of you putting on the tracks. I was having some anxiety when the combine began to move, lol, I was saying whoa,whoa. Thank goodness it didn't fall. As for the modification to the drive, I must say that it looks awesome. I'm really excited to see it in the field. Once you get the tracks turned around, it will be great. Looking great now. And happy birthday young man. Maybe someday I will get a chance to see it in person.
Hope your work on the Combined works... Happy Birthday...Stay Safe...
Happy birthday ready to see that tracked gleaner in action
Awesome ingenuity! Thats a nice shop and tool box set up you have!
You did such a good job I didn't even notice they were reversed! I like your split gear technology. FRANKENGLEANER is ready for the field.
If you did it right the first time, no one would have anything to complain about. And besides, you wouldn't get that much needed practice by doing it 2, or maybe 3 times. I think it's Awesome! I like your enthusiasm and willingness to try. That's what is missing in this Country. Everyone wants to take the easy way out. You and Dad Strength give this old man Hope. Keep the Faith, and God will watch over you and Bless You.
I used to be a farmer I loved it but i had to go and find other work so I understand what you go through my wife wasn’t happy I like your videos they are really interesting to see how you get things done so keep up the good job I am amazed by the Gleaner with the track’s on it I don’t know very many farmers that would have tried to do it
Looking forward to seeing the tracks vs the swamp. Good luck and safe harvest
Excellent video Brandon :) also that idea give yesterday and this explains in message too ! Glad like idea gave too also lube up chain to give strength too with any clean oil got will work even old Desiel motor oil that took from Crankcase too with some new oil add in! Happy Birthday Brandon :) , I hope have excellent day with work plus families & friends to share surprises with you also wishes come true and many more years ahead to also wonderfull year ahead to also! Also glad took 4 video to show tracks plus header for combine long and it okay to so explained it for anyone understand better! Tracks on Backwards I didn't think did it and was know it !
Good job there guys. You're right, what you guys have done there looks much nicer & cleaner than factory. 👍 Looking forward to seeing it in the field shelling some corn. Take care. 🙂
Awesome Happy Birthday! Like the spinning wheel saw! Lol!
Happy birthday Brandon love watching your work looking forward to the harvesting 💪👍🏿
Your drive looks better than the original AC bracket to me. Neighbor had a M2 with that 630 head. It had a bracket kind of like your original one. I had to rebuild the bracket several times over the years for him. As for the tracks wearing. The crop mat from the corn stalks will keep most of the dirt/mud/rocks out of the hinge point any way. The entire setup looks good to me.
Happy Birthday buddy!! That’s a fantastic fabrication. Love what you guys came up with. You’re right about what you’re doing with the old slampig. It’s not a 100K combine and you don’t need it for trade in after 2-3 years. I’m sure Slampig III has her forever home.
Happy birthday 🎂 good job, your a good engineer!
Happy Birthday Brandon, you done a helluve job right there, should work like a charm, I just bought a L2 like #3 this fall to, I love it, it's a little step up from my straight L I did run, if you need any help I've been around these old gal's almost 30+ years, there isn't much I haven't done to one.
I'd say whatever works for you is just fine . Those older gleaners are cheap and simple they can be customized relatively easily. Great video !
Looking good Brandon, really looking forward to seeing her eat in the field.
Happy Birthday from Greensburg, Indiana.
Great job! I'm sure it will work fine, and I am looking forward to some wet ground corn shelling videos! We could have used it on some wet ground, we covered this year, here in East Tennessee. 👍
Awesome job.
Outstanding work and ingenuity
Gleener "the ole silver seeder" looks sweet.
Happy birthday many more. Fix tracks
Very clever! Im looking forward to tomorrow's video!
You are the man you need to work for a farm equipment company
Great Fix Brandon Happy Birthday Great Video
Happy Happy Birthday! WooWHOO
Allis Chalmers designed it like that, because the basic head could be adapted to many models of Gleaner combines
😀😀😀😀😀Good job The best way for the use of those sprockets is use keyed tapper locks you cut keyway into shaft slide sprocket on and do the allen keys up which pulls the collar in locking tight no need to weld on shaft that way you ever have to remove its a simple operaton.
The track direction isnt that much of a concern i have walked alot of dozers around farms over long distances over the years backwards. Tracks are made to go back an forth excessice wear to pins and bushes nothing to stress about how many years had they gone other direction it just equals up the wear 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the project isnt a million dollar machine so go for it 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Here in Australia alot of harvesters of the cleaner era ran on steel tracks in rice harvest
Looks good, not that iam anybody. Happy birthday. I say another year wiser not older. 💪😁✌
Happy Birthday! Love the channel. I'm excited to see the tracks in the field.
F2 Gleaners had a drive kind of like that. Yours looks fine. They used those drives so the same head fit the F, Ms & Ls.Just a different drive kit, the plate on top of the head that hooks to the feeder house and filler plates by the feeder beater.
Good Job Guy has to Do what He Needs to Make It Work
Man you keep doing what you do don't worry about what people say it don't matter if takes u 2 weeks or 3 weeks to get it done I bet half of them can't do what you have done our can do it there self well done
👍, u'll feel like the night before Christmas, can't wait to get up and get at it!🤣😂😎
happy birthday you have done good
The only concern is the hinge lap lay in dirt and mud is going to wear the plates and you may pick up small pebbles. The latter being bad. Do you have literal lima bean sized pebbles in the field? Stuff is going to vibrate into that hinge. In the long term it doesn't actually matter which way the beams sit, its just the track - so if you swap the tracks and leave the beams you'll be ace fine.
Looks great there Brandon.
I wish I had a big shop like that to work on things.
Looks like it'll work good.
That should work nicely. Great job.
Love the video's and the creativity!!
The tracks are backward but the bogie assembly is correct. Slopped through many harvests with 750, 760, and 860 on those tracks and never had a final or hydro problem. Only issue we ever had was on a 2wd 750 in extremely muddy corn and took out the spiders in the transmission from spinning out. Top sprocket gears you down so of course finals must turn faster, if one side spins out it really works the spider gears. Once the pusher axles were installed never a problem. Wasn't anything they wouldn't go through. Really need to check oil in the idlers and bogies. Special oil tip needed to add oil to the bogies because there is only one plug on the outside. It forces the oil through the inside bearing to the outside bearing. Idlers, take both plugs out, pump oil in one hole until it comes out the other.
Just wondering could tracks be on the frame backwards because it makes sense to have the tensioner idler on the front of the track because going forward that’ll be the slack side. Just wondering.
Happy birthday Brandon
You need some neat, cutting oil on that gear, make it quicker and cleaner cut. Cheers 👍
Very cool
Have a HAPPY, HAPPY!!!
Looks great! Also looks like Wilson likes the camera. :-)
Happy Birthday
So if you reverse your tracs your idler tensioner will be on the wrong side where your tracks are pulling against it when going forward. Don't know if it would matter but it feels wrong.
The idlers have to stay forward the only thing that are going to get changed are the direction of the track chains idlers should always be forward when I run excavators I always work and travel with my idlers forward if possible very important
@@dirtgrainsteel great content keep it up thanks for the response
can not wait to see this gal chew on some corn i was thinking you could use the oem chain drive and just move it to fit the tracks but i guess that would not work oh well just idea i had from seeing here on the tube something else if you had got the tracks on right side would that have help the drivee line fix
You should do video about your pulling truck with the history of it and take it out of retirement and start pulling again!
With the clets on the lower side of the pad, they are more likely to carry dirt, mud, etc on the pad instead of it falling off as the pad starts up the back side. It would be a bit of work but what you could do is when the tracks/frames are off, take the tracks off the frames and turn them around. With the frames off the combine and the sprockets removed, you will have lots of slack to pop the rails/chains off the frames. Then the adjustable idlers are forward and the pads are on correctly.
Nice job!
I knew you could figure it out! lol, Agree it will be fine for now, [keep it under 35!] lol
Happy Birthday!
Full speed ahead !!!
Love the project I have a set of gilbert and riplo tracks that I ran on my R52 gleaner they were direct bolt on to the hubs like the new rubber tracks. They are 36" wide and worked great they are to light for my R62 (350 jd uc ) I run my combine in 3 gear also and only in 2wd do to perfect ground speed in 3rd with the pusher on I feel it would be to slow. I had no problems steering or turning in the mud just use the turning brakes some to kept on the row. Had no problems in the mud just had to carry all the corn to the truck or cart. If I can send you some pictures I will Only concern is the front looks really high and your sives are going down hill. but that may not hurt a thing because a combine can go up hill and still work. Thanks
Do you still have the tracks from the 52?
Yes I do
Video of the R-52 is on youtube under R-52 Gleaner on tracks
@@devenportdirtworks1203 any interest in parting with them? I have an r52 and a couple hundred acres of corn to go with the mud and snow getting worse everyday.
Nvm. I just watched your video and saw they are steel. Very cool looking just not practical for me.
Good job, let’s go shell some corn Brandon
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Happy birthday! This officially makes you a hero. For extracting the stuck combine in reverse using the dozer: is there an under-frame on the L2 which would allow pulling from the rear axle, or would you need to pre-install a reverse pulling cable connecting to the track frame?
Just out of curiosity, wouldn't it be easier to put dual tires on? Although the tracks look cool
Putting the tires on as duals is what he has said he will do with the tires off of L2 number 3
Tracks will probably kick up a bunch of dirt with the tracks being the wrong way, the pitch of the pad running in that direction will make it want to " rooster tail" but I can't see that hurting anything
The drive on our F2 with a 430 looks exactly lik what you built except its crammed between the drive pulley and feeder house. Its a Pain in the ass to hook chain together.
Less talkie more workie . . . ChopChop
Would swapping sides with the tracks solve some fitment isues-- the tension adjustment would be to the rear where theres more room, and the fixed idler to the front.. and it solves the " backwards" tracks.. For next time..
No you want the tensioner on the front. When driving forward, which will be most of the time, the track tightens up from the drive sprocket down to the track on the ground. If the tensioner was on the back, it would be pulling the tensioner in and slacking the track way too much in the front.
It's not the space shuttle, it's a corn mower. -Taryl Dactal
tracks are backwards so you can back out when it gets sloppy
The problem with a lot of people don’t realize what a farmer has to do everyday and unless you have worked on a farm you won’t know they use your videos as just entertainment so they don’t understand
By the way happy birthday Brandon
If you switched your tracks side to side I think the header would fit fine
Happy Birthday Brandon! Tracks on backward - smackward? Who cares? If it works out for you, then that is all that matters. You never know, it may even work better. Anybody can be a backseat driver or quarterback, all it takes is talk. It takes people like you to actually get in there, get down and dirty, think it thru and get the job done, and that is exactly what you do!!
That how my cuson had his corn head set up on his f2 and his m gleaner and that how mine is set up to
How many acres do you farm
Just flip the chain around, drop the drive sprocket off the final drive and wrestle the chain off with help from the bobcat. I agree with comment below, don’t pull on the adjustable idler sprocket.
That's exactly what we are going to do the idlers need to stay forward like any other tracked machine
I had no ideal the tracks were back wards.
Happy Birthday 😂
You know you're going to have the keyboard warriors who have never tried separating rusted tracks or worked for theirselves on a farm ...... smdh
There is always keyboard evperts that know everything but know very little because they are to lazy to leave the keyboard. I've been a dairy farmer my whole life and I'll say this " It will never work if you don't try or just do it" . My saying is my farm is built not bought, my great grandfather started the farm with his 2 hands at 23 yrs old in 1872 and built everything the house the barn and silo and everything else needed to raise a family and animals my grandfather carried on where he left off and my parents carried on where he left off and I'm carrying on, we as farmers don't have millions just sitting around for new everything we make things work and engineer what we need at that point in time, sometimes the things we need to do the job we are doing are old and worn out and not made anymore and we need to do some revamp work in order fot it to live again. Yes some of our equipment has been bought new but it usually has been tweeked to make it useful for us and what we do and to work with everything else we have it's farming and these people that say no you can't do that or that can't be done have never done it and only know how to push keys and stuff their pie holes.
Jeeze don't think you need to explain yourself to everyone everything takes time
Man you have a low opinion of your viewers! LoL The whole time, I am thinking this is an awesome idea, and it will work really well, no negative thoughts at all, yet the whole time you think I am hating on you. ROTFLOL :-D Great job, Great design, it WILL last many thousand acres!
i did not catch it and still cant see the problem lol
Quick get a patent before gleaner steals your idea
3 years later finished cutting lol jk
Anybody has a 50-50 chance of screwin' something up the first time, but you should have corrected that when you noticed that the first track was mounted backwards! That's all on you. Not pickin' on you, just stating a fact! Take more pride in your work. You're livelihood depends on it, it costs less, and it's a lot less embarrassing! Nothing wrong with a do over as long as you make it right and never forget the humility !
Happy birthday
Happy birthday