What grains are you running and bpa? It mite be a lil front heavy but should work. Mite hafta drive a lil slower. Like 33% slower. My neighbor had one he bought new with a 20ft but only ran soybeans. Think in wheat or oats would be alot to ask out of it. Hopefully sombody has a better answer.

 

I'm not familiar with that header, could it not be welded?

 

I think it will work as long as you creep across the field. I would say you will need some extra weight on the back end as well. As stated above I doubt it will run in wheat. Just not enough hp or capacity in this machine for wheat with that much head.

 

I would take it to a machine shop

The weight won't be an issue but power might be, if I remember right the 1420 had an engine all of its own.

I would see if someone would let you try out a 20 footer just to see

It really shouldn't be part of the frame since it has a floating cutter bar

 

Not sure if the 1420 was ment to carry a 20 foot head or not, but probably can...


You wouldn't be going very fast in 50 bu. + beans but at least you won't have to worry about going too fast for the head to cut.

 

They had the German in them. 358? Like the 715 and 826. It was its own machine. Smaller rotor and sieve. Hard to get much more power out of it with smoke screw. 10hp was about max.

As others said talk to the machine shop. If it cant be replaced it can be rebuilt. But would be a good time to go to a bigger head. I would look around a bit more in the meantime,there is alot of fairly cheap 1020s around and would cut and feed alot better.