MacDon D60 - Chapter 6: Troubleshooting; 6.1 Crop Loss at Cutterbar

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6.5 Cutting Edible Beans
Use the following tables to determine the cause of any cutting edible bean problems and the recommended solutions.
Problem Solution Refer to
Symptom: Plants Being Stripped and Complete or Partial Plants Left Behind
Header off ground
Lower header to ground and run on
skid shoes and/or cutterbar
Cutting on Ground, page 46
Float set too light—rides on high spots
and does not lower soon enough
Set float as follows:
• Dry ground: 445-667 N
(100–150 lbf)
• Wet ground: 222–445 N
(50–100 lbf)
3.12.2 Header Float, page 48
Reel too high
Fully retract reel cylinders
3.12.8 Reel Height, page 54
Reel too high with cylinders fully
retracted
Adjust reel height 3.12.8 Reel Height, page 54
Finger pitch not aggressive enough
Adjust finger pitch
3.12.10 Reel Tine Pitch, page 63
Reel too far aft
Move reel forward until the fingertips
skim the soil surface with header on
the ground and the center-link
properly adjusted
3.12.9 Reel Fore-Aft Position, page 55
Header angle too shallow Lengthen center-link Controlling Header Angle, page 49
Header angle too shallow
If cutting on ground, header angle can
be increased by fully retracting lift
cylinders
Controlling Header Angle, page 49
Reel too slow
Adjust reel speed to be marginally
faster than ground speed
3.12.4 Reel Speed, page 49
Ground speed too fast
Lower ground speed 3.12.5 Ground Speed, page 50
Skid shoes too low
Raise skid shoes to highest setting
Cutting on Ground, page 46
Dirt packs on bottom of cutterbar and
raises cutterbar off the ground
Install plastic wear strips on bottom of
cutterbar and skid shoes
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Dirt packing on bottom of cutterbar
with plastic wear strips on cutterbar
and raises cutterbar off the ground
Ground too wet. Allow soil to dry
—
Dirt packing on bottom of cutterbar
with plastic wear strips on cutterbar
and raises cutterbar off the ground
Manually clean the bottom of
cutterbar when accumulation gets
unacceptable
—
Plastic wear strip for cutterbar has
been installed over top of steel
wearplates
Remove steel cutterbar wearplates
when installing the plastic wear strips
for cutterbar
—
Header not level Level header
3.18 Leveling Header, page 90
Worn/damaged knife sections
Replace sections or complete knife
4.7 Cutterbar, page 140
Parts of vines get caught in pointed
guard tip. (Occurs more in row-
cropped beans that are hilled from
cultivating)
Install stub guard kit
5.2.3 Stub Guard Conversion Kit, page
248
TROUBLESHOOTING