Form 46240
16
Issue 06/06
TROUBLESHOOTING
SYMPTOM
PROBLEM
SOLUTION
REF.
CROP LOSS AT CUTTERBAR
Does not pick-up down crop. Cutterbar too high.
Lower cutterbar.
*
Header angle too flat.
Steepen header angle.
*
Reel too high.
Lower reel.
*
Reel too far back.
Move reel forward.
*
Ground speed too fast
for reel speed.
Reduce ground speed or
increase reel speed.
*
*
Reel fingers not lifting
crop sufficiently.
Move cam arms to pos'n. Y
to increase finger pitch
aggressiveness.
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Install lifter guards.
**
Heads shattering or
breaking off.
Reel speed too fast.
Reduce reel speed.
*
Reel too low.
Raise reel.
*
Ground speed too fast.
Reduce ground speed.
*
Crop too ripe.
Operate at night when
humidity is higher.
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Cut grain falling ahead of
cutterbar.
Ground speed too slow.
Increase ground speed.
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Reel speed too slow
Increase reel speed.
*
Reel too high.
Lower reel.
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Cutterbar too high.
Lower cutterbar.
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Reel too far forward.
Move reel back on support
arms.
*
Worn or broken sickle
components.
Replace.
*
Strips of uncut material.
Crowding uncut crop.
Allow enough room for crop
to be fed to cutterbar.
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Broken sickle sections.
Replace.
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* See your Header or Power Unit Operator's Manual.
** See your dealer.
