MacDon D65 Operator's Manual page 267

Symptom
Plants being stripped
and complete or partial
plants left behind
(cont'd)
Excessive losses at
dividers
Plant vines pinched
between top of draper
and cutterbar
Crop accumulating at
guards and not moving
rearward onto drapers
Reel shattering pods
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TROUBLESHOOTING
Problem
Plastic wear strip for
cutterbar has been
installed over top of
steel wear plates.
Header not level.
Worn/damaged knife
sections.
Parts of vines get caught in
pointed guard tip. (Occurs
more in row-cropped
beans that are hilled from
cultivating.)
Divider rod running down
crop and shattering pods.
Vines and plants build up
on endsheet.
Cutterbar has filled up
with trash with draper to
cutterbar gap properly
adjusted.
Shifting of decks with
header raised does not
clean out cutterbar debris.
Reel finger pitch not
aggressive enough.
Reel too high.
Minimum reel clearance to
cutterbar setting too high.
Reel too far forward.
Reel too far forward.
Reel speed too high.
Bean pods are too dry.
Reel finger pitch too
retarded.
Solution
Remove steel cutterbar
wear plates when
installing the plastic
wear strips for cutterbar.
Level header.
Replace sections or
complete knife.
Install stub guard 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 damage to
drapers.
Increase finger
aggressiveness (cam
position).
Lower reel
Re-adjust reel minimum
height with cylinders fully
retracted.
Re-position reel.
Reduce reel speed.
Cut at night with heavy
dew once pods have
softened.
Increase finger
aggressiveness (cam
position).
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Section
—
4.12 Levelling the Header,
page 83
6.5 Knife, page 140
8.2.3 Stub Guard
Conversion Kit, page
262
4.7.12 Crop Divider Rods,
page 72
—
4.7.10 Reel Tine Pitch,
page 65
4.7.8 Reel Height, page
58
Adjusting Reel Clearance,
page 202
4.7.9 Reel Fore-Aft
Position, page 58
4.7.4 Reel Speed, page
56
—
4.7.10 Reel Tine Pitch,
page 65
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