john deere serial number lookup for combine head

If you went from a K to an F to a L as you grew your farm, you had to trade the whole combine and all heads for the new package. However, Gleaner was very poor at getting any type of universal header mount, nearly every series was different.

(Older heads were not adaptable, the top hooks need to bolt on, have 2 spots to bolt the hooks on.) The orange corn heads could be adapted, my F corn heads and grain heads would also fit a G. Individual row unit components were identical, whereas Orange heads had several different snapping roll shafts, depending on location and function in the head.Īdjustment of the stripper plates was much easier on the Black heads. Sheet metal was hinged to flip up for easy access to adjust gathering chains. Sheet metal was punched to allow the 2 inch variance in row spacing. The 66H cross chains (about 6 feet long, considerably shorter than 4 miles) that drove the Orange row units were replaced by drive shafts that drove all the row units. Just slide the units on the toolbar, and reconnect units with different length drive couplers. in reply to IaGary, 12-29-2013 12:06:24īig differences between Orange and the Black Adjustable ones: Black heads you could adjust the individual row widths 2 inches wider or narrower, ie, an A430 could be set for 28, 30, 32 inch rows. Seems to me Massy did something similar to IH with the corn head numbers. Not that it real mathers just wondering how the companies numbered there heads. Where the IH ads just said 844 or 963 and you knew how many rows and what row width it had. Seems to me when I look at want ads for corn heads the other companies always listed it as a 6 row narrow or wide depending on what it was. Then the 2200 series were all narrow row so the last number designated the number of rows.ĭid other companies do this at all. Then came the 1000 series with a 1044,1063 and so on. A 983 would be 900 series 8 row 30 inch head. Then they came out with the 900 series and had 944,meaning a 900 series 4 row on 40/38 inch rows. The 863 was a 800 series 6 row set at 30' or narrow row. The 844 was a 800 series 4 row head on 40' or wide rows cause they were really 38' wide rows. Similar to how JD numbered the grain platforms. The IH and CaseIH corn heads were always number so you could tell what they were. 1020 20' head where JD would be 220 and that is it. IH just had the 710,820,1020 and had to list the width behind the head in an ad. I know JD had the 2 series platforms and the last 2 digits were the width of the head.

While reading the post below it got me to wondering about companies model number choices for combine heads.

John deere serial number lookup for combine head