Cutting Edible Beans - MacDon FlexDraper FD1 Series Operator's Manual

7.5 Cutting Edible Beans

Symptom: Plants being stripped and complete or partial plants left behind
Header off ground
Float set too light—rides on high spots and does not
lower soon enough
Reel too high
Reel too high with cylinders fully retracted
Finger pitch not aggressive enough
Reel too far aft
Header angle too shallow
Header angle too shallow
Reel too slow
Ground speed too fast
Skid shoes too low
Dirt packs on bottom of cutterbar and raises cutterbar
off the ground
Dirt packing on bottom of cutterbar with plastic wear
strips on cutterbar and raises cutterbar off the ground
Dirt packing on bottom of cutterbar with plastic wear
strips on cutterbar and raises cutterbar off the ground
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Problem Solution
Lower header to ground
and run on skid shoes
and/or cutterbar
Set float for the following
conditions:
- Dry ground: 100–150 lbf
- Wet ground: 50–100 lbf
Fully retract reel cylinders
Adjust reel height
Adjust finger pitch
Move reel forward until the
fingertips skim the soil
surface with header on the
ground and the center-link
properly adjusted
Lengthen center-link
Increase header angle by
fully retracting lift cylinders
(if cutting on ground)
Adjust reel speed to be
marginally faster than
ground speed
Lower ground speed
Raise skid shoes to
highest setting
Install plastic wear strips
on bottom of cutterbar and
skid shoes
Ground too wet – allow
soil to dry
Manually clean the bottom
of cutterbar when
excessive
accumulation occurs
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Refer to
3.7.2 Cutting on the
Ground, page 62
3.7.3 Header Float, page
64
3.7.10 Reel Height, page
95
3.7.10 Reel Height, page
95
3.7.12 Reel Tine Pitch,
page 111
3.7.11 Reel Fore-Aft
Position, page 99
Adjusting Header Angle
from Combine, page 83
Adjusting Header Angle
from Combine, page 83
3.7.6 Reel Speed, page
89
3.7.7 Ground Speed, page
90
3.7.2 Cutting on the
Ground, page 62
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