MacDon FlexDraper FD1 Series Operator's Manual page 597

Plastic wear strip for cutterbar has been installed over
top of steel wearplates
Header not level
Worn or damaged knife sections
Parts of vines get caught in pointed guard tip. (Occurs
more in row-cropped beans that are hilled from
cultivating.)
Symptom: Excessive losses at dividers
Divider rod running down crop and shattering pods
Vines and plants build up on endsheet
Symptom: Plant vines pinched between top of draper and cutterbar
Cutterbar fills with debris when draper to cutterbar gap
is properly adjusted
Shifting the decks with header raised does not clean
out cutterbar debris.
Symptom: Crop accumulating at guards and not moving rearward onto drapers
Reel finger pitch not aggressive enough
Reel too high
Minimum reel clearance to cutterbar setting too high
Reel too far forward
Symptom: Crop wrapping around reel
Reel too low
Symptom: Reel shattering pods
Reel too far forward
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TROUBLESHOOTING
Problem Solution
Remove steel cutterbar
wearplates when installing
the plastic wear strips for
cutterbar
Level header
Replace sections or
replace knife
Install stub guard
conversion kit
Remove divider rod
Install divider rod
Raise header fully at each
end of field (or as
required) and shift decks
back and forth to help
clean out cutterbar
Manually remove debris
from cutterbar cavity to
prevent damaging
the drapers
Increase finger
aggressiveness (cam
position)
Lower reel
Adjust minimum reel
height with cylinders fully
retracted
Reposition reel
Raise reel
Reposition reel
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Refer to
—
3.9 Leveling the Header,
page 286
5.8 Knife, page 437
6.3.5 Stub Guard
Conversion Kit, page 550
3.7.13 Crop Dividers,
page 115
3.7.13 Crop Dividers,
page 115
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3.7.12 Reel Tine Pitch,
page 111
3.7.10 Reel Height, page
95
5.15.1 Reel Clearance to
Cutterbar, page 502
3.7.11 Reel Fore-Aft
Position, page 99
3.7.10 Reel Height, page
95
3.7.11 Reel Fore-Aft
Position, page 99
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