CUTTING EDIBLE BEANS. MacDon D50 & D60

SECTION 9. TROUBLESHOOTING

Material Accumulating On

End Deflectors And

Releasing In Bunches.

End deflectors too wide.

9.5 CUTTING EDIBLE BEANS

For headers with manual deck shift only, trim deflector or replace with narrow deflector (172381).

7.17

Plants Being Stripped, and

Complete Or Partial Plants

Left Behind.

Header being carried off ground.

Float set too light - rides on high spots and does not get back down soon enough.

Lower header to ground and run on skid shoes and/or cutterbar.

Set float for:

100 - 150 lbf - dry ground

50 - 100 lbf - wet ground.

Reel being operated too high. Fully retract reel cylinders.

Reel too high with cylinders fully retracted.

Adjust reel height.

Finger pitch not aggressive enough.

Adjust finger pitch.

Reel too far back on reel support arms.

Header angle too shallow.

Reel too slow.

Ground speed too fast.

Move reel forward until the fingertips skim the soil surface with header on ground and center-link properly adjusted.

Lengthen center-link.

If cutting on ground, header angle can be increased by fully retracting lift cylinders.

Adjust reel speed to be marginally faster than ground speed.

Lower ground speed.

Header skid shoes adjusted too low.

Raise skid shoes to maximum “up” position.

Dirt packs on bottom of cutterbar and raises cutterbar off the ground.

Dirt packing on bottom of cutterbar with poly wear strips on cutterbar and raises cutterbar off the ground.

Install plastic wear strips on bottom of cutterbar and skid shoes.

Ground too wet. Allow soil to dry.

Manually clean the bottom of cutterbar when accumulation gets unacceptable.

7.12.1.2

7.12.2

7.12.8

8.9.1

7.12.10

7.12.9

7.12.3

7.12.4

7.12.5

7.12.1.2

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* See your MacDon dealer.

** Refer to Windrower Operator’s Manual.

*** Refer to Windrower Technical Service Manual.

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Plants Being Stripped, and

Complete Or Partial Plants

Left Behind (Continued).

Plastic wear strip for cutterbar has been installed over top of steel wear plates.

Header not level.

Worn/damaged knife sections.

Remove steel cutterbar wear plates when installing the plastic wear strips for cutterbar.

Level header.

Replace sections or complete knife.

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7.18

8.7.1,

8.7.2 &

8.7.4

Parts of vines get caught in pointed guard tip. (Occurs more in row-cropped beans that are hilled from cultivating.)

Install stub guard kit. 10.3

Divider rod running down crop and shattering pods.

Remove divider rod.

Excessive Losses At

Dividers.

Vines and plants build up on endsheet.

Install divider rod.

Plant Vines Pinched

Between Top Of Draper And

Cutterbar.

Crop Accumulating At

Guards And Not Moving

Rearward Onto Drapers.

Reel Shattering Pods.

Cutterbar has filled up with trash with draper to cutterbar gap properly adjusted.

Shifting of decks with header raised does not clean out cutterbar debris.

Raise header fully at each end of field or as required and shift decks back and forth to help clean out cutterbar.

Manually remove debris from cutterbar cavity to prevent damage to drapers.

Reel finger pitch not aggressive enough.

Increase finger aggressiveness (cam position).

Reel too high relative to knife.

Re-adjust reel minimum height with cylinders fully retracted.

Reel too far forward of cutterbar

C-section.

Re-position reel.

Reel turning too fast.

Bean pods are too dry.

Reduce reel speed.

Cut at night with heavy dew once pods have softened.

Reel finger pitch not aggressive enough.

Increase finger aggressiveness (cam position).

Reel too far forward of cutterbar

C-section.

Re-position reel.

7.12.11

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7.12.10

8.9.1.2

7.12.9

7.12.4

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7.12.10

7.12.9

* See your MacDon dealer.

** Refer to Windrower Operator’s Manual.

*** Refer to Windrower Technical Service Manual.

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Cutterbar Guards Breaking.

Cutterbar Pushing Too

Much Trash And Dirt.

Cutterbar Pushing Too

Much Dirt In Certain

Locations For Length Of

Field.

Cutterbar Fills Up With Dirt.

Reel Carries Over Odd

Plants In Same Location.

Float insufficient.

Excessive amount of rocks in field.

Header too heavy.

Increase float.

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.

Re-adjust float to make header lighter.

Header angle too steep.

Decrease header angle with lift cylinders.

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.

Improper support for header.

Tire tracks or row crop ridges caused by seeding or spraying operations.

Rolling land along length of field due to cultivating.

Excessive gap between top of front of draper and cutterbar.

Install center skid shoes on header.

Cut at angle to ridges or crop rows to allow knife and guards to clean out better.

Cut at 90° to undulations, provided knife floats across without digging in.

Adjust front deck supports to obtain proper clearance between cutterbar and draper.

Raise header fully at each end of field or as required and shift decks back and forth to help clean out cutterbar.

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.

Adjust reel fore and aft location to move fingers out of the ground.

7.12.2

* & 8.7.6

& 10.3

7.12.2

7.12.3

7.12.3

10.3

7.12.1.2

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8.8.6

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7.12.8

7.12.9

* See your MacDon dealer.

** Refer to Windrower Operator’s Manual.

*** Refer to Windrower Technical Service Manual.

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