![]() They were often considered the 'Cadillac' of the industry because of this feature and because of their solid engineering. The Gleaner was one of the pioneers in self-propelled combines. Earlier combines, the so-called pull-type or tractor-drawn combines, were towed by tractors. To that list, the Baldwin brothers' Gleaner added self-propulsion. A combine harvester combines the reaping (plus or minus binding), threshing, and winnowing functions into one machine, hence the 'combine' part of its name. Thus, with the Gleaner name, the company evoked a positive connotation in potential customers' minds, of a brand of harvester that would leave none of the grain behind. ![]() In the broadest sense, it is the act of frugally recovering resources from low-yield contexts. Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farm fields after they have been commercially harvested, or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest. They decided to use the 'Gleaner' name for their radically redesigned grain harvesting machine based on inspiration from 'The Gleaners', an 1857 painting by Jean-François Millet. Gleaner combines date from 1923, when the Baldwin brothers of Nickerson, Kansas, created a high-quality and reliable self-propelled combine harvester. ![]()
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