TROUBLESHOOTING
SYMPTOM
PROBLEM SOLUTION REF.
CROP
LOSS
AT
CUTIERBAR
Heads shattering
or
Reel speed
too
fast. Reduce reel speed.
24
breaking off.
Ground speed too fast. Reduce ground speed.
17
Crop too ripe.
Operate at night when
humidity is higher.
Cut
grain
falling
ahead
of
Reel
too
high.
lower
reel.
24
cutterbar.
Cutterbar too high. Lower cutterbar.
18
Does
not
pick-up down
Cutterbar
too
high.
Lower cutterbar.
18
crop.
Reel too high.
Lower
reel.
24
Reel too
far
back.
Move reel forward
on
24
support
anns.
Ground speed too fast Reduce ground speed
or
17
for
reel speed.
increase reel speed.
24
Bat reel unsuitable for Install pickĀ·up reel.
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conditions.
Crop
left
at
dividers. Divider
not
gathering Change divider angle.
25
crop.
Strips
of
uncut materiaL
Crowding uncut crop.
Allow enough room
for
crop
to
be
fed to cutterbar.
Excessive bouncing
at
Float set too light. Adjust float.
20
normal field speed.
Crop build-up
at
reel lift
High crop,
like canola,
Cut top bend
off
divider
cylinders.
carrying
over
divider
rods, place plastic tubes
rods.
over
rods
to
extend height.
30' Header with Bat Reel:
Gauge wheel springs Remove one spring
at
each
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Cannot lower header fully over-riding float setting. gauge wheel support.
to
close cut. (Move remaining spring to
center notch
on
clevis.)
CUTIING
COMPONENTS
Excessive breakage
of
Header angle too steep Flatten header angle
20
sickle sections
or
guards.
in stony field conditions.
or
raise header height.
18
Float set too heavy. Adjust float.
20
Bent
or
broken guard.
Straighten
or
replace.
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