TROUBLESHOOTING
SYMPTOM
PROBLEM SOLUTION REF.
CUTIING
COMPONENTS
(continued)
Sickle back breakage. Bent or
broken
guard.
Straighten or replace. 45
Worn sickle head
pin.
Replace.
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Dull
sickle.
Replace.
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Pitman arm loose al
Tighten or replace.
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wobble
box.
Ragged and uneven cutting
Ground
speed
too
fast.
Reduce ground speed.
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of
crop.
Cutting edge
of
guards Adjust guards
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not close enough or par-
allel
to
sickle sections.
Sickle
hold-downs
not
Adjust hold-downs
so
sickle
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adjusted to permit sickle will work freely, but still
to work freely. keep sickle sections from
lifting off guards.
Cutterbar components
Check and replace all worn 43
such
as
sickle sections, and broken cutting compo-
guards are worn, dam- nents to obtain even cutting
aged,
or
broken.
of crop.
Cutterbar plugged with Adjust reel to sweep
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material.
material off cutterbar.
Sickle is not operating at Check engine speed of
•
recommended speed. windrower
or
combine.
Bent sickle, causing
Straighten a bent sickle.
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binding of cutting parts. Check guard alignment and
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align as necessary for a
smooth cut.
Top of guard out of Adjust tops
of
guards so
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adjustment or bent,
they are parallel to shear
causing poor shearing edge
of
guards.
action.
Reel speed too slow.
Increase reel speed.
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Loose sickle drive belt. Adjust belt tension.
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Excessive vibration of
Sickle is not operating at
Check engine speed of
•
cutting parts.
recommended speed. windrower or combine.
Excessive looseness
of
Remove excessive play
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cutting parts and sickle from cutterbar and drive to
drive. eliminate vibration. Then
make proper adjustments.
* See Windrower
or
Combine Operator's Manual.
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