MacDon FD70 for Combine Operators - Manual (Page 233)

SECTION 11. TROUBLESHOOTING
* See your MacDon Dealer.
** Refer to Combine Operator’s Manual.
*** Refer to Draper Header Technical Manual
Form 169006
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Revision D
SYMPTOM PROBLEM SOLUTION SECTION
Plants Being Stripped, and
Complete Or Partial Plants
Left Behind.
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 not level. Level Header. 9.14
Worn/damaged knife sections.
Replace sections or
complete knife.
10.11.1 &
10.11.2 &
10.11.4
Parts of vines get caught in
pointed guard tip. (Occurs more
in row-cropped beans that are
hilled from cultivating.)
Install stub guard kit.
*, 10.11.6
& 10.11.7
& 12.7
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.
Excessive Losses At
Dividers.
Divider rod running down crop
and shattering pods.
Remove divider rod.
9.11.12
Vines and plants build up on
endsheet.
Install divider rod.
Crop Accumulating At
Guards And Not Moving
Rearward Onto Drapers.
Reel finger pitch not aggressive
enough.
Increase finger
aggressiveness (cam
position).
9.11.11
Reel too high relative to knife.
Re-adjust reel minimum
height with cylinders fully
retracted.
10.14.1 &
10.14.2
Reel too far forward of cutterbar
C-section.
Re-position reel. 9.11.10
Cutterbar Guards Breaking.
Main float insufficient. Increase float. 9.11.3
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.
*, 10.11.6
& 10.11.7
& 12.7