Combines whats the largest header anyone has put on the l series

sidekick

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I would guess that since they carried 8 row corn heads they would surely carry_lift a 30ft platformIJ
 

SD_455

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A 8-30 corn head weighs around 4800lbs. My l-2 is a little lite on the rear with the 8 row 30" corn head but lifts the head easy. Make sure you have the 3" lift cylinders.
 

posum

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looking at an old sales brochure from AC; lists 8 row wide corn head and 24 foot flex. I would think with a few mods in the cylinder to help with the higher flow it would be good to go.
 

Peteguy

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Will it lift itIJ absolutely! the l2, as long as it has 3" cylinders (haven't seen one that doesn't...even plain grain machines) can lift quite a bit. 8 row corn heads leave it a tad light in the back, but it is not bad. Here in NW Kansas dad and i are considering putting a 930 on a l2, which is fine when you get around 20-30 bushel grain. one of course would have to do something about the hydro reel drive, as the JD is ran from combine, but the gleaner is ran from the header. If one did not want to spring for the bish plate, that would make it more time consuming, but with a hydraulic system for the reel, and a bish plate, it would not be hard to run a JD on a gleaner. good luck!
 

kurtk

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Thanks guy's, I already have an adapter for a JD head and mine has the 3" hyd. cylinder's. I'm going to add a hydraulic run system off an old gleaner pickup head to run the reel system on the JD. Posum was saying about some mod's to the cylinder, what kind of mod's were you thinking about IJ The JD header mostly going to be using it for soybean's. Thanks for all the help Kurt
 

posum

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Just thinking about some more openings behind the concave, 1 inch spacing rasp bars or after market enclosed cylinder. 30 ft. of beans will load the std. cyl. setup but not load the clean grain elevator. stuff like that was what i was thinking.
 
 
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