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Symptom: Cutterbar guards breaking
Float insufficient Increase float
3.7.2 Header Float, page 60
Excessive amount of rocks in field
Consider installing optional stub
guards
Tip: Experiment with a few guards on
a section of cutterbar to compare the
performance of the two different
styles of guards
• 7.3.3 Stub Guard Conversion Kit,
page 512
• See your MacDon Dealer
Symptom: Reel shattering pods
Reel running too fast Reduce reel speed 3.7.5 Reel Speed, page 85
Bean pods are too dry
Cut at night with heavy dew once
pods have softened
—
Reel finger pitch not aggressive
enough
Increase finger aggressiveness (cam
position)
3.7.11 Reel Tine Pitch, page 97
Reel too far forward of cutterbar C-
section
Reposition reel 3.7.11 Reel Tine Pitch, page 97
Header too heavy
Readjust float to make header lighter
3.7.2 Header Float, page 60
Symptom: Cutterbar pushing too much trash and dirt
Header angle too steep
Decrease header angle with lift
cylinders
3.7.4 Header Angle, page 78
Header angle too steep
Shorten the center-link
3.7.4 Header Angle, page 78
Regular guards push dirt and plug up
with trash or plug up with trash and
then push dirt
Install stub guard conversion kit See your MacDon Dealer
Improper support for header
Install center skid shoes on header
See your MacDon Dealer
Symptom: Cutterbar pushing too much dirt in certain locations for length of field
Tire tracks or row crop ridges caused
by seeding or spraying operations
Cut at angle to ridges, or crop rows to
allow knife and guards to clean out
better
—
Rolling land along length of field due
to cultivating
Cut at 90° to undulations, provided
knife floats across without digging in
—
Symptom: Cutterbar fills up with dirt
Excessive gap between top of front of
draper and cutterbar
Adjust front deck hooks to obtain
proper clearance between cutterbar
and draper
6.12.5 Adjusting Deck Height, page
451
Excessive gap between top of front of
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
—
Symptom: Reel carries over odd plants in same location
Reel fingers (steel) bent and hook
plants out of the crop flow on drapers
Straighten fingers (steel) —
Dirt accumulation on end of fingers do
not let plants slide off fingers over
drapers
Raise reel
3.7.9 Reel Height, page 89
Dirt accumulation on end of fingers do
not let plants slide off fingers over
drapers
Adjust reel fore and aft location to
move fingers out of the ground
3.7.10 Reel Fore-Aft Position, page 90
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