Anyone using a MacDon draper head on a Gleaner??
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Topic: Anyone using a MacDon draper head on a Gleaner??
Posted By: steelwheelAcjim
Subject: Anyone using a MacDon draper head on a Gleaner??
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2021 at 9:28pm
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Curious if it works better that an ACGO flex draper. ------------- Pre-WW2 A-C tractors on steel wheels...because I'm too cheap to buy tires! |
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Posted By: Northern Hoser
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2021 at 9:37pm
 It's a rigid 21' head, haven't ran anything else so I don't know how it compares... Works good for me |
Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2021 at 12:07pm
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Northern Hoser, your late L3 is looking good. I imagine that MacDon960 feeds it well? From Strange Brew humors, “Take off eh!” |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2021 at 2:44pm
| The guys on the combine forum say yes. Better in every way. |
Posted By: RWR
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2021 at 6:23pm
| I run a macron on aR75 and it works great |
Posted By: ACFarmer
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2021 at 7:28pm
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Havent ran a macdon. Couple neighbors run them on other color machines. Havent seen them do any better job than our gleaner draper. We run an early 9250, they say they get even better with newer models. ------------- Making a living farming with and working on Allis Equipment |
Posted By: Northern Hoser
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2021 at 10:23am
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I haven't used this L3 with the stock head, so I can't really compare but I've done a fair bit of lodged grains with it and like how it feeds. Matt |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2021 at 11:45am
| On harvest we ran MacDons. All the harvesters I know say the Gleaner headers are junk if you’re putting a big number of acres/hours on them, something about the way the angles of the driveshafts and CV joints are causes them to shake themselves apart. |
Posted By: soggybottomboy
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2021 at 8:20pm
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Creston, you ae correct about the 9250 shaking itself apart. I had to weld up the crop divider frames again this year. I think this is the 5th year for our 9250, and it has given us a fair amount of trouble, but i would never ever ever go back to an auger header. The feeding is much smoother, but when there is a wad of soybeans it seems to feed into the feederhouse slower than the auger heads used to. Much less plugging. Less crop loss. You can start earlier in the morning and go later at night. Much more adjustment for various field conditions including on the go sickle weight adjustment and tip back. The drives have given us trouble also and hopefully they have ironed that problem out on the 9255.
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Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2021 at 8:25am
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That is a cool looking outfit. Don't think I've ever seen a draper less than 30' before. |
Posted By: GM Guy
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2021 at 9:12pm
What was done to make it fit? Bish plate to a John Deere throat kit i assume? ------------- Gleaner: the properly engineered and built combine. If you need parts for your Gleaner, we are parting out A's through L2's, so we may be able to help. |
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