MacDon D65 SP DHOM User Manual
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Symptom
Problem
Solution
Section
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 not level.
Level header.
4.12 Levelling the Header,
page 83
Worn/damaged knife
sections.
Replace sections or
complete knife.
Plants being stripped
and complete or partial
plants left behind
(cont’d)
Parts of vines get caught in
pointed guard tip. (Occurs
more in row-cropped
beans that are hilled from
cultivating.)
Install stub guard kit.
8.2.3 Stub Guard
Conversion Kit, page
262
Divider rod running down
crop and shattering pods.
Remove divider rod.
Excessive losses at
dividers
Vines and plants build up
on endsheet.
Install divider rod.
4.7.12 Crop Divider Rods,
page 72
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.
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Reel finger pitch not
aggressive enough.
Increase finger
aggressiveness (cam
position).
4.7.10 Reel Tine Pitch,
page 65
Reel too high.
Lower reel
Minimum reel clearance to
cutterbar setting too high.
Re-adjust reel minimum
height with cylinders fully
retracted.
Adjusting Reel Clearance,
page 202
Crop accumulating at
guards and not moving
rearward onto drapers
Reel too far forward.
Reel too far forward.
Re-position reel.
4.7.9 Reel Fore-Aft
Position, page 58
Reel speed too high.
Reduce reel speed.
Bean pods are too dry.
Cut at night with heavy
dew once pods have
softened.
—
Reel shattering pods
Reel finger pitch too
retarded.
Increase finger
aggressiveness (cam
position).
4.7.10 Reel Tine Pitch,
page 65
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