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Symptom
Problem
Solution Refer to
Plants being stripped and
complete or partial plants
left behind
Dirt packs on bottom of
cutterbar and raises
cutterbar off the ground
Install cutterbar wear plate
on bottom of cutterbar and
skid shoes
See your MacDon Dealer
Plants being stripped and
complete or partial plants
left behind
Worn/damaged knife
sections
Replace sections or
complete knife
• 5.8.1 Replacing Knife
Section, page 376
• 5.8.2 Removing Knife,
page 377
• 5.8.5 Installing Knife,
page 379
Plants being stripped and
complete or partial plants
left behind
Dirt packs on bottom of
cutterbar with wear plate
and raises cutterbar off
the ground
Ground too wet; allow soil
to dry
—
Plants being stripped and
complete or partial plants
left behind
Dirt packs on bottom of
cutterbar with wear plate
and raises cutterbar off
the ground
Manually clean the bottom
of cutterbar when
accumulation gets
unacceptable
—
Plants being stripped and
complete or partial plants
left behind
Plastic wear plate for
cutterbar has been
installed over top of steel
wear plates
Remove steel cutterbar
wear plate when installing
the wear plate for
cutterbar
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Plants being stripped and
complete or partial plants
left behind
Header is not level Level header
3.9 Levelling the Header,
page 246
Plants being stripped and
complete or partial plants
left behind
Parts of vines get caught
in pointed guard tip
(occurs more in row-
cropped beans that are
hilled from cultivating)
Install stub guard kit
See your MacDon Dealer
Plant vines pinched
between top of draper and
cutterbar
Cutterbar has filled up with
trash with draper to
cutterbar gap properly
adjusted
Manually remove debris
from cutterbar cavity to
prevent damage to
drapers
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Crop accumulating at
guards and not moving
rearward onto drapers
Reel finger pitch too
retarded
Increase finger
aggressiveness (cam
position)
3.7.11 Reel Tine Pitch,
page 91
Crop accumulating at
guards and not moving
rearward onto drapers
Reel too high relative
to knife
Readjust reel minimum
height with cylinders fully
retracted
Adjusting Reel Clearance,
page 438
Crop accumulating at
guards and not moving
rearward onto drapers
Reel too far forward of
cutterbar
Reposition reel
3.7.10 Reel Fore-Aft
Position, page 84
Cutterbar guards breaking Float insufficient Increase float
3.7.2 Header Float, page
58
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