Troubleshooting – MacDon 963 Harvest Header User Manual
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TROUBLESHOOTING
SYMPTOM
PROBLEM
SOLUTION
REF.
CROP LOSS AT CUTTERBAR
Heads shattering or
breaking off.
Reel speed too fast.
Reduce reel speed.
24
Ground speed too fast.
Reduce ground speed.
17
Crop too ripe.
Operate at night when
humidity is higher.
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Cut grain falling ahead of
cutterbar.
Reel too high.
Lower reel.
24
Cutterbar too high.
Lower cutterbar.
18
Does not pick-up down
crop.
Cutterbar too high.
Lower cutterbar.
18
Reel too high.
Lower reel.
24
Reel too far back.
Move reel forward on
support arms.
24
Ground speed too fast
for reel speed.
Reduce ground speed or
increase reel speed.
17
24
Bat reel unsuitable for
conditions.
Install pick-up reel.
59
Crop left at dividers.
Divider not gathering
crop.
Change divider angle.
25
Strips of uncut material.
Crowding uncut crop.
Allow enough room for crop
to be fed to cutterbar.
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Excessive bouncing at
normal field speed.
Float set too light.
Adjust float.
20
Crop build-up at reel lift
cylinders.
High crop, like canola,
carrying over divider
rods.
Cut top bend off divider
rods, place plastic tubes
over rods to extend height.
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CUTTING COMPONENTS
Excessive breakage of
sickle sections or guards.
Header angle too steep
in stony field conditions.
Flatten header angle
or raise header height.
20
18
Float set too heavy.
Adjust float.
20
Bent or broken guard.
Straighten or replace.
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