MacDon FD75 OM User Manual
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Symptom
Problem
Solution
Section
Dirt packs on bottom
of cutterbar and raises
cutterbar off the ground
Install plastic wear strips
on bottom of cutterbar and
skid shoes
See your MacDon Dealer
Worn/damaged knife
sections
Replace sections or
complete knife
6.8.1 Replacing Knife
Section, page 300
,
, and
Ground too wet; allow soil
to dry
Dirt packs on bottom of
cutterbar with poly wear
strips and raises cutterbar
off the ground
Manually clean the
bottom of cutterbar
when accumulation gets
unacceptable
Plastic wear strip for
cutterbar has been
installed over top of
steel wear plates
Remove steel cutterbar
wear plates when
installing the plastic
wear strips for cutterbar
—
Header is not level
Level header
4.8 Leveling the Header,
page 165
Plants Being Stripped
and Complete or Partial
Plans Left Behind
Parts of vines get caught in
pointed guard tip (occurs
more in row-cropped
beans that are hilled from
cultivating)
Install stub guard kit
See your MacDon Dealer,
,
, and
Cutterbar has filled up
with trash with draper to
cutterbar gap properly
adjusted
Raise header fully at each
end of field or as required
and shift decks back and
forth to help clean out
cutterbar
Plant Vines Pinched
Between Top Of Draper
And Cutterbar
Shifting
of
decks
with
header raised does not
clean out cutterbar debris
Manually remove debris
from cutterbar cavity
to prevent damage to
drapers
—
Reel finger pitch not
aggressive enough
Increase finger
aggressiveness (cam
position)
4.7.11 Reel Tine Pitch,
page 156
Reel too high relative to
knife
Readjust reel minimum
height with cylinders fully
retracted
6.12.1 Reel Clearance to
Cutterbar, page 348
Crop Accumulating At
Guards And Not Moving
Rearward Onto Drapers
Reel too far forward of
cutterbar C-section
Reposition reel
4.7.10 Reel Fore-Aft
Position, page 152
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