Operator`s manual

SECTION 11. TROUBLESHOOTING
* See your MacDon Dealer.
** Refer to Combine Operator’s Manual.
*** Refer to Draper Header Technical Manual
Form 169006 232 Revision D
SYMPTOM PROBLEM SOLUTION SECTION
Cutterbar Pushing Too
Much Trash And Dirt.
Header too heavy.
Re-adjust float to make
header lighter.
9.11.3
Header angle too steep.
Decrease header angle with
lift cylinders.
9.11.4
Shorten the center-link.
Regular guards push dirt and
plug up with trash or plug up
with trash and then push dirt.
Install stub guard kit.
*, 10.11.6
& 10.11.7
& 12.7
Improper support for header.
Install center skid shoes on
header.
*
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.
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Rolling land along length of
field due to cultivating.
Cut at 90° to undulations,
provided knife floats across
without digging in.
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.
10.13.5
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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Reel Shattering Pods.
Reel running too fast. Reduce reel speed. 9.11.5
Bean pods are too dry.
Cut at night with heavy dew
once pods have softened.
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Reel finger pitch not aggressive
enough.
Increase finger
aggressiveness (cam
position).
9.11.11
Reel too far forward of cutterbar
C-section.
Re-position reel. 9.11.10
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. 9.11.9
Adjust reel fore and aft
location to move fingers out
of the ground.
9.11.10