Trouble shooting – MacDon 3020 Pull-Type Windrower User Manual
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TROUBLE
SHOOTING
SYMPTOM
PROBLEM
SOLUTION
REF.
WINDROW FORMATION
Heads in center of
windrow, butts sticking
up.
Ground speed too fast.
Reduce ground speed.
19
Heads in center of
windrow.
Draper speed too fast.
Reduce draper speed
(try running R/H draper
slower than L/H).
23
Windrow too narrow.
Opening too narrow.
Remove draper
extensions.
24
Windrow too wide.
Opening too wide.
Install draper
extensions.
25
Drapers too slow.
Increase draper speed.
23
Uneven windrow.
Ground speed too fast
for drapers.
Reduce ground speed.
19
Reel too low.
Raise reel.
21
Reel too fast.
Reduce reel speed.
20
Windrow falls through
stubble.
Stubble too high.
Reduce cutting height.
18
Stubble too thin.
Reduce plant spacing at
next seeding.
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Seed rows too wide.
Reduce row spacing at
next seeding.
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Delivery of bulky crop
impeded by frame tube
Insufficient clearance to
back tube.
Raise frame at casters
for more clearance
26
CROP LOSS AT CUTTERBAR
Heads shattering or
breaking off.
Reel speed too fast.
Reduce reel speed.
20
Ground speed too fast.
Reduce ground speed.
19
Crop too ripe.
Cut earlier or at night
when humidity is higher.
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Cut grain falling ahead
of cutterbar.
Reel too high.
Lower reel.
21
Header too high.
Lower header.
18
Does not pick up crop
that is down.
Cutterbar too high.
Lower header.
18
Reel too high.
Lower reel.
21
Reel too far back.
Move reel forward.
22
Ground speed too fast
for reel speed.
Reduce ground speed
or increase reel speed.
19
20
Cutterbar not level.
Level cutterbar.
26