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 plastic 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
3.7.2 Header Float, page
55
3.7.8 Reel Height, page
58
3.7.8 Reel Height, page
58
3.7.10 Reel Tine Pitch,
page 65
3.7.9 Reel Fore-Aft
Position, page 58
Controlling Header Angle,
page 55
3.7.4 Reel Speed, page
56
3.7.5 Ground Speed, page
56
Cutting On the Ground,
page 53
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