KUHN FC 202, Assembly & Operators Manual

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PROBLEM POSSIBLE CAUSE REMEDY
Strips of uncut - Broken knives - Replace knives
material left on - Foreign objects on - Disengage tractor PTO
field cutterbar shut off engine, wait
until all parts have
stopped & remove foreign
objects, vegetation or
soil.
- Wet conditions - Reduce cutterbar weight
Frequent breakage - Cutterbar set too low for - Adjust cutterbar by
of knives work on rugged & uneven changing angle or fit
soil high skids.
- Excessive ground speed - Reduce ground speed
V-belt breakage - Rotor vibration - Check for correct number
of comb tines or check
rotor bearings (FC 202)
- Check parallelism of con-
ditioning rollers (FC 202R)
- Downward pressure of - C h e c k f o r c o r r e c t
adjustment
cutterbar and conditioning of downward pressure of
unit on the ground badly cutterbar and conditioning
adjusted. unit on the ground
(see page 18).