combineman
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I am a new comer to this forum. We had a custom harvest business for nearly 20 years but went broke in 1994. In that time we ran both red and green machines as to satisfy the needs of our customers who had their preferences. We did demo a few gleaners(R72's)and found them to do a pretty good job in small grains and corn of any moisture. However I had one Major concern...finding good dealers on the road. If you have a good one near your home than you shouldn't have that problem. My other concern is Gleaners ability to hold together. My neighbor has a new 1997 model R 72 and is a big Gleaner fan. I ran this machine in corn last fall and it was a rare day to harvest without a breakdown. I was told that in the first 300 hours, he had nearly 13,000 dollars warrenty work done. Maybe the bugs had to be workedout but Still I was not impressed. Final note...the cab was noisy and not near as user friendly as Deere which by the way is still my favorite combine. I guess you'll have to try them both to see.