tkrahn
Guest
We have a 20 foot 973 flex, and have had a lot of trouble with the skid plates right under the knocker boxes being too weak and getting smashed up into the sickle ends. We added extra bars to hold the shoes down, I am not sure if the 30 footers are the same or if that kind of fix is what you are talking about but we just bought a 86 with the bean head that fits it, I am not sure what the number on that head is, it has the hydraulic drive reel, but it has fixed all these problems. The worst thing for our head was putting the ends into a ridge or hole, that would always smash the shoes right up.