MacDon D65 Operator's Manual page 263

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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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
Readjust reel minimum
height with cylinders fully
retracted
Reposition reel
Reduce reel speed
Cut at night with heavy
dew once pods have
softened
Increase finger
aggressiveness (cam
position)
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Section
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3.12 Levelling the Header,
page 83
5.5 Knife, page 127
6.2.3 Stub Guard
Conversion Kit, page
231
3.7.12 Crop Divider Rods,
page 72
—
3.7.10 Reel Tine Pitch,
page 65
3.7.8 Reel Height, page
58
Adjusting Reel Clearance,
page 188
3.7.9 Reel Fore-Aft
Position, page 58
3.7.4 Reel Speed, page
56
—
3.7.10 Reel Tine Pitch,
page 65
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