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FatAllis6080

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Been doing some research on what to do about the corn head on our JD 3950, we have a 2 row 30" newer green head, but after inspecting it for this year it needs new drives for the gathering chain. JD wants $400 a piece for a bevel gear on a shaft :roll:

A second option we found was mentioned here, swapping to a New Holland 824 head. I've found one a couple hours away that we're considering looking at, but what is involved in swapping? I've heard of an adapter mentioned, and searched (maybe I'm using the wrong terms) and I've had no luck finding any such thing. Does anyone know who makes this adapter?

Help is much appreciated.
 
I have never seen a set of those gears that are wore out even on the old original yellow heads. Have you checked part numbers to see if the old style gears are the same? Or you could buy a green wide row head for parts. I have a friend with the NH cornhead on his 3950. He bought the adapter from a shop in Central WI. I think the name was Farm Shop.There is not much to it. There is also a place called the Chopper Shop at Colby WI. phone is (715)-223-8060. He might have the adapters or could tell you where to get them and he would have used parts for your head. Tom
 

Thanks for the quick reply. The frame of the head and the brackets the drive sprockets mount on are bent, and led to the gears getting badly worn. My father's struggled with this head for the last 15 years, he complains it's never cut well. We're looking at this as an opportunity to upgrade to a better head.
 

I see Farm Shop Manufacturing out of Owen WI and River Dale Farm Shop out of Princeton WI, either of those ring a bell?

Thanks again.
 
Farm Shop at Owen is where friend got his. Not really that much to it. Call the chopper shop and ask them which 824 head works best. There are different mountings and drives on them and I think you want the 790 drives and not the 900-230 ect. Chopper shop has lots of heads and is reasonable and would trade parts with you as well. Him and his Dad are nice people to deal with. Tom
 
Just find a used head somewhere and part it out... Those gears were junk. I suspect you'll find the heads are about the same from 1950
onwards... I've thought about changing to a NH as well, but was always able to find enough 2-400 dollar heads to keep parts on hand.

Rod
 

Thanks Tom

Rod, the problem is finding them in New England, pull type parts are drying up quickly here. There's an auction end of the month we are planning to go to if the NH head doesn't work out. I agree that it would be worth parting out a head or 2 and make one good one.
 
Yeah, they're probably getting scarce now... I just used to buy them any time I saw one. 400 bucks was nothing knowing what the new parts
cost... I used to break the angle drive for the divider wheel, sometimes the gears you're looking for... and snouts. So the used heads were
well worth the cost. Although I did on more than one occasion think about adapting a NH head as they were a lot more available here too, and
I would say... a better head.

Rod
 
Sorry that I am late to the discussion. Call Country side Equipment @ 607-243-5555. They are in the Finger Lakes region and not that far away from Empire Farm Days if you are going to that. They parts out both JD and NH choppers and represent an after-market parts supplier for choppers made by JD and NH.
 
So my father found a pretty good head that's been sitting. It's an older JD 2 row, yellow with the taller stalk directors.

Mechanicals look great! But one of snouts is missing and the other is in bad shape. And the nice ones off our newer green low pro don't fit without alot of fab by the looks of it.

Before I start butchering this nice head, I've tried finding some nicer ones and coming up with nothing. What should I be calling these? Snouts fine? Is there a model number for these heads that I'm unaware of? I know through JDs site it's listed as row crop head.

Ran late in the day, going to try the chopper shop Monday, Fry's in PA, and I'll try country side.
 
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