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Problem
Solution Refer to
Symptom: Cutterbar fills up with dirt
Excessive gap between draper and cutterbar
Adjust front deck supports
to achieve proper
clearance between
cutterbar and draper
5.14.5 Adjusting Deck
Height, page 492
Excessive gap between draper and cutterbar
Raise header fully at each
end of field (or as
required) and shift decks
back and forth to help
clean out cutterbar
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Symptom: Reel occasionally carries over plants in same location
Steel fingers bent and hooking plants from drapers Straighten fingers (steel)
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Dirt accumulation on end of fingers preventing plants
from falling off fingers onto drapers
Raise reel
3.7.10 Reel Height, page
95
Dirt accumulation on end of fingers preventing plants
from falling off fingers onto drapers
Adjust reel fore-aft
position to move fingers
out of the ground
3.7.11 Reel Fore-Aft
Position, page 99
Symptom: Cutterbar pushing soil
Tire tracks or row crop ridges
Cut at angle to crop rows
or ridges
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Rolling terrain along length of field
Cut at 90° to undulations
(provided knife floats
across without digging in)
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Symptom: Reel carries over an excessive amount of plants or wads
Excessive accumulation of crop on drapers (up to reel
center tube)
Increase draper speed
3.7.8 Draper Speed, page
91
Finger pitch too slow
Increase finger pitch
3.7.12 Reel Tine Pitch,
page 111
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