Certification of the Chief Executive Officer
                       Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350



                  Solely for the purposes of complying with 18 U.S.C. section
1350, I, the undersigned Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive
Officer of Gehl Company (the "Company"), hereby certify, based on my knowledge,
that the Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 2002 (the "Report") fully complies with the requirements of Section
13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and that information contained in
the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition
and results of operations of the Company.






Date:  March 6, 2003                        /s/ William D. Gehl
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                                            William D. Gehl
                                            Chairman of the Board, President
                                            and Chief Executive Officer