TROUBLESHOOTING
Symptom
Problem
Solution Section
Dirt packs on bottom
of cutterbar and raises
cutterbar off the ground
Install cutterbar wearplate
on bottom of cutterbar and
skid shoes
See your MacDon Dealer
Worn/damaged knife
sections
Replace sections or
complete knife
• 5.8.1 Replac
ing Knife
Section, pag
e299
• 5.8.2 Removi
ng Knife,
page 301
• 5.8.5 Insta
lling Knife,
page 302
Ground too wet; allow soil
to dry
Dirt packs on bottom of
cutterbar with wearplate
and raises cutterbar off
the ground
Manually
clean the
bottom of
cutterbar
when accu
mulation gets
unaccept
able
Plastic wearplate for
cutterbar has been
installed over top of
steel wearpla tes
Remove steel cutterbar
wearplate when installing
the wearplate for cutterbar
—
Header
is not level
Level h
eader
3.9 Lev
elling the Header,
page 17
3
Plants being stripped
and complete or partial
plans left behin d
Parts of vines get caught in
pointed guard tip (occurs
more in row-cropped
beans that are h ille d from
cultivating)
Installstubguardkit
See your MacDon Dealer
Plant vines pinched
between top of draper
and cutterbar
Cutterbar has filled up
with trash with d raper to
cutterbar gap properly
adjusted
Manually remove debris
from cutterbar cavity
to prev ent damage to
drapers
—
Ree
l finger pitch too
ret
arded
Inc
rease finger
agg
ressiveness (cam
po
sition)
3.7.11 Re el Tine Pitch,
page 80
Reel too high relative to
knife
Readjust reel minimum
height wi th cylinders fully
retracted
Adjusting Reel Cle a ra nc e,
page 352
Crop accumulating at
guards and not moving
rearward onto drapers
R
eel too far forward of
c
utterbar
Reposition reel
3
.7.9 Reel Fore-Aft
P
osition, page 73
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