Instruction Manual

TROUBLESHOOTING
Symptom
Problem
Solution Section
Plastic wear s
trip for
cutterbar has
been
installed ove
r top of
steel wear pla
tes.
Remove steel cutterbar
wear plates when
installing the plastic
wear strips for cutterbar.
—
Header not level. Level header.
4.12 Levelling the Header,
page 83
Worn/damag
ed knife
sections.
Replace sections or
complete knife.
6.5 Knife, p
age 140
Plants being stripped
and complete or partial
plants left behind
(cont’d)
Parts of vines get caught in
pointed guard tip. (Occurs
more in row-cropped
beans that are hilled from
cultivating.)
Install stub g uard kit.
8.2.3 Stub Guard
Conversion Kit, page
262
Divider r
od running down
crop and s
hattering pods.
Remove di
vider rod.
Excessive losses at
dividers
Vines and plants build up
on endsheet.
Install divider rod.
4.7.12 Crop Divider Ro ds,
page 72
Cutter
bar has filled up
with tr
ash with draper to
cutter
bar gap properly
adjust
ed.
Raise h
eader fully at each
end of fi
eld, or as required
and shi
ft decks back and
forth t
o help clean out
cutter
bar.
Plant vines pinched
between top of draper
and cutterbar
Shifting of decks with
header raised does not
clean out cutterbar debris.
Manually remove debris
from cutterbar cavity
to prevent d amage to
drapers.
—
Reel
finger pitch not
aggr
essive enough.
Incr
ease finger
aggr
essiveness (cam
posi
tion).
4.7.10 R eel Tine Pitch,
page 65
Reel too high. Lower reel
4.7.8 Reel Height, page
58
Minimum reel clearance to
cutterbar setting too high.
Re-adjust reel minimum
height with cylinders fully
retracted.
Adjusting Reel Cle a ra nc e,
page 202
Crop accumulating at
guards and not moving
rearward onto drapers
Reel too far forward.
R
eel too far forward.
Re
-position reel.
4.7.9 Reel Fo re-Aft
Position, page 58
Reel speed too high. Reduce reel speed.
4.7.4 Reel Speed, page
56
Bean pods are too dry.
Cut at night with heavy
dew once pods have
softened.
—
Reel shattering pods
Reel finger pitch too
retarded.
Increase finger
aggressiveness (cam
position).
4.7.10 R eel Tine Pitch,
page 65
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