Gleaner 6-30 Corn Head

I got both heads for my M2 home last week, waiting for the hauler to load the combine and bring it. Interesting thing happened - the corn head that came with it doesn't fit an M2, it fits an R series. Came w/an R50 PO bought. He has 2 50's, each came w/a corn head & he doesn't raise much corn, so he included 1 w/the M2 package. Said he thought it would fit. It doesn't. So, I need to sell or trade this one. I plant 8 rows & would like to shell 4. I know where to find a 4-row head for an F2, but is there any way to adapt it to an M? I know throat widths are different & mounting is too, but wondered if there are ways around the problems. If not, I need to find an M2 head. I don't raise much corn either, so I don't care so much if it's orange or black.
 
That could be a diffucult find with M mounts. Other heads will involve quite a bit of work, not impossible but time consuming.
 
The A series black heads for the conventional Gleaners were built the same- took a different drive bundle to finish them for each combine. So you should be able to make any black head work, if you can come up with the attaching/drive parts. If you're handy you probably could make some of the pieces up. There have been wide row heads around here practically abandoned from which you could scavenge drive parts.
The M2 with four row head would work good in 200 bu. corn. But you may need narrow tires to get between the outside rows.
 
Saw a well used 4-30 orange head in the soon to be scrap pile of a dealer here a year ago. It would have needed some work.

4-30 is tough with an M, the tires about scrape the side rows I think. Be very tough in leaning corn.

An F head would not easily bolt on, you would need some adapting. As mentioned the black heads share a lot of parts, but you would need the whole collar and drives part....

Paul
 
Guessing it would be about like the 3-30 on my E3. I run wheel shields on each side & they brush the corn as I go by. I'd be o.k. w/a 6, but like the idea of planting 8 & shelling 4.
 
Really? I wonder, then, how hard it would be to go the other way - convert a head for an R50 to fit an M2? I'll look up that salvage yard on the net.
 
For the price of an adapter you could buy a gps. That way you can space everything exact. Should be no problem planting 8 and shelling 6
 

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