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Revision A
Troubleshooting
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Cutting Edible Beans (continued)
Problem
Solution
Refer to
Worn or damaged knife sections
Replace the sections or
replace the knife
Parts of vines get caught in pointed
guard tip. (Occurs more in row-
cropped beans that are hilled from
cultivating.)
Install the short knife guard
conversion kit
4.8.8 Short Knife Guards and Hold-
Downs, page 328
Pushing of crop debris on the ground
Install the short knife guards
4.8.8 Short Knife Guards and Hold-
Downs, page 328
Knife speed too low
Increase the feeder house speed or
check that the knife speed is set
within the recommended range
3.9.9 Knife Speed Information, page
138
or
Symptom: Excessive losses at dividers
Divider rod running down crop and
shattering the pods
Remove the divider rod
3.9.14 Crop Dividers, page 159
Vines and plants build up on the
endsheet
Install the divider rod
3.9.14 Crop Dividers, page 159
Symptom: Plant vines pinched between top of draper and cutterbar
Cutterbar fills with debris when draper
to cutterbar gap is properly adjusted
Raise the header fully at each end of
the field (or as required) and shift
decks back and forth to help clean out
the cutterbar
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Shifting the decks with the header
raised does not clean out the cutterbar
debris.
Manually remove the debris from the
cutterbar cavity to prevent damaging
the drapers
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Symptom: Crop accumulating at guards and not moving rearward onto the drapers
Reel finger pitch not aggressive
enough
Increase the finger aggressiveness
(cam position)
3.9.12 Reel Tine Pitch, page 152
Reel too high
Lower the reel
Minimum reel clearance to cutterbar
setting too high
Adjust the minimum reel height with
cylinders fully retracted
4.13.1 Reel-to-Cutterbar Clearance,
page 389
Reel too far forward
Reposition the reel
3.9.11 Reel Fore-Aft Position, page
144
Symptom: Crop wrapping around reel
Reel too low
Raise the reel
Symptom: Reel shattering pods
Reel too far forward
Reposition the reel
3.9.11 Reel Fore-Aft Position, page
144
Reel speed too high
Reduce the reel speed