MacDon CA25 OM - Manual (Page 196)

SECTION 9. TROUBLESHOOTING
* See your MacDon Dealer
** Refer to your Combine Operator’s Manual
*** Refer to your Technical Service Manual
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SYMPTOM PROBLEM SOLUTION SECTION
Plants Being Stripped, and
Complete Or Partial Plants
Left Behind (cont’d).
Dirt packing on bottom of
cutterbar with poly wear strips
on cutterbar and raises
cutterbar off the ground.
Ground too wet. Allow soil to
dry.
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Manually clean the bottom of
cutterbar when accumulation
gets unacceptable.
Plastic wear strip for cutterbar
has been installed over top of
steel wear plates.
Remove steel cutterbar wear
plates when installing the
plastic wear strips for
cutterbar
Header is not level. Level header. 7.11
Parts of vines get caught in
pointed guard tip. (Occurs
more in row-cropped beans
that are hilled from
cultivating.)
Install stub guard kit.
*, 8.9.6
& 8.9.7
& 10.2
Plant Vines Pinched
Between Top Of Draper And
Cutterbar.
Cutterbar has filled up with
trash with draper to cutterbar
gap properly adjusted.
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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Shifting of decks with header
raised does not clean out
cutterbar debris. Manually remove debris from
cutterbar cavity to prevent
damage to drapers.
Crop Accumulating At
Guards And Not Moving
Rearward Onto Drapers.
Reel finger pitch not
aggressive enough.
Increase finger
aggressiveness (cam
position).
7.9.10
Reel too high relative to knife.
Re-adjust reel minimum
height with cylinders fully
retracted.
8.12.1
Reel too far forward of
cutterbar C-section.
Re-position reel. 7.9.9
Cutterbar Guards Breaking.
Float insufficient. Increase float. 7.9.2
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.
*, 8.9.6
& 8.9.7
& 10.2
Reel Shattering Pods
Reel running too fast. Reduce reel speed. 7.9.4
Bean pods are too dry.
Cut at night with heavy dew
once pods have softened.
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