Cutting Edible Beans - MacDon D65 Operator's Manual

7.5 Cutting Edible Beans

Symptom
Plants being stripped
and complete or partial
plants left behind.
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TROUBLESHOOTING
Problem
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.
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 poly wear
strips on cutterbar and
raises cutterbar off the
ground.
Solution
Lower header to ground
and run on skid shoes
and/or cutterbar.
Set float for:
- 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.
If cutting on ground,
header angle can
be increased by fully
retracting lift cylinders.
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 accumulation gets
unacceptable.
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Section
Cutting On the Ground,
page 53
4.7.2 Header Float, page
55
4.7.8 Reel Height, page
58
4.7.8 Reel Height, page
58
4.7.10 Reel Tine Pitch,
page 65
4.7.9 Reel Fore-Aft
Position, page 58
Controlling Header Angle,
page 56
4.7.4 Reel Speed, page
56
4.7.5 Ground Speed, page
57
Cutting On the Ground,
page 53
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