Symptom
Problem
Solution
Refer to
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
3.9 Levelling the Header,
page 202
Worn or damaged knife
sections
Replace sections or
replace knife
Plants being stripped
and complete or partial
plants left behind.
Parts of vines get caught in
pointed guard tip. (Occurs
more in row-cropped
beans that are hilled from
cultivating.)
Install stub guard
conversion kit
6.2.3 Stub Guard
Conversion Kit, page
448
Divider rod running down
crop and shattering pods
Remove divider rod
Excessive losses at
dividers
Vines and plants build up
on endsheet
Install divider rod
Cutterbar
fi
lls with debris
when draper to cutterbar
gap is properly adjusted
Raise header fully at
each end of
fi
eld (or as
required) and shift decks
back and forth to help
clean out cutterbar
Plant vines pinched
between top of draper
and cutterbar
Shifting the decks with
header raised does not
clean out cutterbar debris.
Manually remove debris
from cutterbar cavity
to prevent damaging
the drapers
—
Reel
fi
nger pitch not
aggressive enough
Increase
fi
nger
aggressiveness (cam
position)
3.7.11 Reel Tine Pitch,
page 89
Reel too high
Lower reel
Minimum reel clearance to
cutterbar setting too high
Adjust minimum reel
height with cylinders fully
retracted
5.13.1 Reel Clearance to
Cutterbar, page 404
Crop accumulating at
guards and not moving
rearward onto drapers
Reel too far forward
Reposition reel
3.7.10 Reel Fore-Aft
Position, page 82
Crop wrapping
around reel
Reel too low
Raise reel
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