Gleaner gurus please.

[centash]

I have an M3 with a series 3 15 foot flex head. Wanting to upgrade to 20 feet for soys. I have a line on a 320 that wss previously on an R42. Is the electrical system compatible with the M3? The plug ins are different,which can be changed, but are the voltages etc. compatible between the two?

Thanks, Ben

 

[Josh4520]

The biggest issue I see right off the bat is the R series heads hook-up differently than the L/Ms. As for the header height and other controls, I think the N series was the same but not sure on the R series. If I were you, I would look for a Deere head with a Bish adapter. Way more head for less or equal money. This is what I am currently looking for on my L2. I already have a Deere corn head on her

 

[JD Seller]

I will second that the feeder house attaching plate is totally different between the Rotary machines and the Cylinder walker ones. When soybean first got popular around here we would pull our hair out trying to get flex heads for any Gleaner combines we traded-in. Different drives and attaching hardware. It is no wonder AC went broke. They would have save tons of money just making their headers all attach and drive the same.

 

[centash]

Thanks, guys. Guess I'll keep looking.
Ben

 

[paul]

Perhaps the downfall of Gleaner popularity.

They made a different header for nearly every line of combine. Makes it real easy to change brands when you have to rebuy everything. Other lines, you could often keep your old heads and buy a new combine, then buy newer heads as you went through the years, and so forth. Folks were more loyal when they could upgrade slowly, machine one year, headers another year.

Gleaner got to where they made the same head, but the throats are all different, and buying the parts to convert one throat to the other costs more then just finding a whole different head.

Pain in the rear.

The R series has the throat offcenter a fair amount, doesn?t it? They feed those rotaries off to one side, not down the middle like an F M L series.

Paul

 

[JMS/.MN]

Yes, the N rotary had the same harness as the M3...I used one to update my M2 so I could use the flex head on it.

 

[centash]

Yes, went and measured that today, offset by about 20 inches. Besides feeding uneven in a cylinder combine, I would imagine it could put quite a twist on the feeder and cylinder housing.
Thanks, Ben

 

[JimIA]

Im not sure how it will work on a bean head but I traded in a M2 one time where the customer was combining corn with it. He had a 3000 hugger head that made work with it. I never did see how the drive worked, yes it was offset but didn't seem to bother him. He ran it that way for 5-6 years until I sold him a R52. So I guess Im saying where there is a will there is a way.

 

[JimIA]

IH went broke as well and interchangeable heads. Just saying.......