Document overview
Operator's manual for DEUTZ FAHR 6040 → 16001 from the 6040 Eco (STAGE 3B) (2012) family. Digital PDF in English, 384 pages.
The original table of contents contains 112 sections and 315 detailed topics, providing a clear view of the systems and procedures covered by this edition.
- Preface, introduction
- Safety
- Adhesive safety warning decals
- Structure and operation
- Technical data
- Control buttons
- Cutting table adjustment
- Travel and transport
- Cutting table
- Threshing mechanism
- Hydraulic system
- Electrical equipment
Document details
- Brand: DEUTZ FAHR
- Family: 6040 Eco (STAGE 3B) (2012)
- Model: 6040
- Starting serial number: 16001
- Document type: Operator's manual
- Language: English
- Pages: 384
- File size: 44.17 MiB
- Format: Digital PDF download
Compatibility
Before purchasing, verify that the model and starting serial number of your machine match 6040 → 16001.
Complete table of contents
Preface, introduction
Introduction
- Operation in compliance with the intended use
Sensible driving – Savings in running costs
- Environmental tips
Safety
Safety instructions
- Recognition of warning symbols and understanding warning terminology
- Observe the safety instructions
- Protective guards and devices
- Basic rule
- Observing road traffic regulations
- Starting the engine
- Using starting aids
- Wear suitable protective clothing
- Provisions for emergencies
- Transfer on urban roads
- Carrying passengers
- Personnel qualifications; basic responsibilities
- Driving conditions, road transport, travel and working operation
- Mobile phones, radios, electrical equipment, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
- Safety equipment, lighting
- Parking
- Front attachments, additional equipment
- Operation, mounting and demounting of front attachments and accessories
- Transporting front attachments
- Grain tank
- Lifting the combine harvester, supporting the machine safely from underneath
- Towing and recovery
- Safe maintenance and repair
- Spare parts
- Caution in the case of leaks from pressurised lines
- Fuel and lubricants
- Electrical equipment
- Battery
- Tyres, wheels and tyre fitting
- Safe maintenance of the cooling system
- Air conditioning system
- Disposal of environmentally harmful substances, environmental protection
- Decals on the combine harvester with contents relevant for maintenance
- Conventions adopted in the manual
Main side hatches locking device
- Side hatches retaining system
- Side hatches opening
- Side hatches closing
- Opening and closing the straw chopper cover flap
- Closing the hatch
Grain tank
- Trafficable surfaces
- Locking the grain tank cover
- Rear lock
Service platforms
- Service platform, rear left
- Service platform, rear right
- Locking the rotary filter cowling
- Steps to the grain tank inspection points
- Access flap for solenoid valves
- Fire extinguisher
- Storage compartment
Cutting table side flap lock
- Locking the side flap of the cutting table
- Opening the side flap
- Closing the side flap
Safety precautions when parking the combine harvester
- Safety precautions when parking the combine harvester
- Battery isolator switch
- Wheel chocks
Protections and warning notices for road travel
- Feed passage
- Feed passage locking bracket
- Excess width indication
- Front attachment locking lever
Adhesive safety warning decals
Adhesive safety warning decals
- Notes concerning the “Safety Symbols” Chapter
Structure and operation
- Construction of the combine harvester
Construction of the threshing mechanism
- Main components
- Threshing drum
- Threshing drum speed variator
- Synchronized straw beater (optional)
- Turbo separator (optional)
Cutting table components
- Pick-up reel
- Crop dividers
- Cutting table intake auger
- Feed passage
Construction of the rape cutting table
- Rape cutting table
- Maintenance of the side knives hydraulic drive system
- Lateral guards on the left hand side of the cutting table
Structure of the tailings return system
- Straw walker
- Screening and winnowing
- Elevator for tailings return
- Straw guide rake
Technical data
- Technical data
- Dimensions
Identification plates
- Identification plate
- Chassis number
- Engine number
- Engine identification plate
- Cutter bar transport trolley identification plate
AdBlue® technical characteristics
- Storage and shelf life
Fuel technical characteristics
- Permitted fuels
- Winter operation with diesel fuel
Control buttons
Control buttons
- Controls to the RH side of the operator’s seat
- Controls to the left of the operator’s seat
- Command and control switches
On-board computer
- A – Multi-information area
- B – Indicator lights AREA
- C – AREA Grain loss monitoring system
- Cutting table control device
Range selector lever
- Main gear lever
Commander Stick
- Control for ground speed and direction changes
Sieve box lighting
- Lighting button
Air conditioning system controls
- Control panel
- Use of the air conditioning system
Headlights and windscreen wiper controls
- Lighting system
- Interior light located on right-hand side of cab roof lining
Climate control system air recalculating filter
- Recirculating air filter
Cab air filters
- Cab ambient air intake filters
Defroster/demister vents
- Defroster/demister vents
Fresh air vents
- Fresh air vents
Grain quality control window
- Inspection window
Steering wheel
- Steering wheel
Lights switch
- Lights – horn stalk
Starter switch
- Diesel engine ignition switch
Operator seat
- Standard operator seat
- Aerofit operator seat
Storage compartment and beverage holder
- Storage compartment under the right-hand console
- Storage compartment positioned under the driver seat
- Beverage holder
- Storage compartment in cab roof lining
Service brakes
- Brake pedal
Parking brake
- Parking brake
Cab access
- Cab door internal handle
- Cab external handle
Rear-view mirrors
- LH rearview mirror
- RH rearview mirror
CCTV monitor BE-850M
- 5-inch LCD TFT colour monitor BE 850M
- VIDEO CAMERA
Cutting table adjustment
Electronic Cutter bar Table Control
- Principle of operation and function of the electronic cutting table control
- Quick guide
- Operating modes
- Fitting and removing front attachments
- Calibration
Description and list of error messages
- Fault diagnosis
- Error code
- List of error codes
Travel and transport
Safety instructions – Road travel
- Driving on public roads
- Getting up and down from the combine harvester
Starting – stopping the engine
- Engine operation
- After starting the engine
Transmission
- Drive-away and acceleration
Operating principle and instructions for the brake system
- Separate braking
Towing hitch
- Manual towing hitch
- Automatic towing hitch
- Cab access ladder
Ballast weight
- Metal ballast
- Ballasting by filling the steering tyres with water
- Filling the tyres with water.
- Draining water from the tyre
Towing the combine
- Transport over long distances
Cutting table
Safety warnings
- Safety instructions
- Important notes for operation
- Cutting table components
Reel drive
- Reel control
- Cutter bar
- Intake auger
- Feed passage lifting cylinders
Cutting table engagement/disengagement
- Cutting table engagement
- Connections for operation
- Multi-way coupling (optional)
- Cutting table disengagement
- Multi-way coupling disengagement (certain markets only)
- Disconnecting the cutting table
Table trolley
- Drawbar jockey wheel
Transport trolley with brakes
- Adjusting the brake activated by the drawbar eye
Manoeuvres of the cutting table
- Cutting table control device
- Raising and lowering the cutting table
- Activation of the cutting table
- Cutting table disengagement
- Pick-up reel adjustment
- Electrical reversal of the cutting table
- Manual reversing
Mounting optional attachments
- Ear lifters
- Crop dividers
- Serrated bars secured to the feed auger to convey the straw
Cutter bar maintenance
- Maintenance
- Changing the feed fingers
- Changing the cutter bar
- Changing reel tines
- Changing the linings of the slipping clutches
- Setting the slipping clutches
- Faults on the cutting table
Threshing mechanism
- Safety instructions for the threshing section
Feed passage
- Tensioning the conveyor chains
- Feed channel reversing device
Threshing mechanism
- Engaging the threshing section
- Setting the speed of the threshing drum
- Threshing drum speed adjustment
Concave de-awning plates
- De-awning plates opening adjustment
Cleaning the threshing drum and concave
- Emptying the stone trap
- Straw walker
Straw chopper
- Straw chopper (optional)
Chaff spreader blowers
- Chaff spreader (manufacturer: KPAB)
Setting the turbo fan speed
- Turbo fan speed
Grain loss monitor sensors and renewal and adjustment of the sieves
- Sensors for monitoring grain loss
- Removing and adjusting the sieves
- Cleaning/inspecting the sieves
- Installing the bottom sieves
- Installing the top sieves
- Installing the top sieve extensions
- Adjusting the sieves (standard version)
Grain tank
- Checking the level in the grain tank
- Grain sampling flap
- Inspection window
- Trafficable surfaces at the top of the combine harvester
- Grain tank cover
- Grain tank light
- Setting deflectors of the grain auger at the bottom of the grain tank
Grain tank discharge pipe
- Rotation of the discharge pipe
To empty the tank
- Emptying residual grain from the grain tank
Grain elevator
- Checking elevator chain tension
- Tensioning the chain
Tailings return system
- Setting the engine speed
- Safety flap in the event of clogging
- Protection against overloads
- Cleaning the grain returns elevator
- Cleaning the conveyor augers
Faults on the threshing mechanism
- Fault diagnosis
Basic adjustments on the threshing section
- Basic adjustment of the combine harvester (factory adjustment)
- Advice on using the adjustment tables for different crops
Adjustment on the basis of crop type
- Beans
- C.C.M. (Corn Box Mix)
- Peas
- Alfalfa
- Oats
- Maize
- Flax
- Rapeseed
- Rice
- Rye
- Barley
- Wheat
- Sunflower
- Soya
- Rye
- Durum wheat
- Barley
Hydraulic system
- Safety instructions for the hydraulic system.
System components
- Ground drive hydraulic transmission
Control valves block
- Emergency operation” of the control valves
- Changing the hydraulic motor oil recovery circuit oil filter
Steering system
- Checking the working hydraulic systems
- General checks of the hydraulic systems
Electrical equipment
- Safety warnings
- Electrical system main components
- Fuses and relays compartment
- Fuse and relay assignment in control cabinet
- Potential faults – causes and corrective actions
Maintenance
Safety warnings
- Comply with all the safety warnings given in the “Safety measures” section.
- Personnel qualification:
- Fluids / lubricants and fill volumes
General checks required before using the combine harvester
- Main maintenance operations before using the combine harvester for the first time
- Maintenance required before using the combine harvester for the first time
Maintenance and inspection schedule
- Checks and maintenance operations to be carried out every year before the start of the harvest season
- Antifreeze and coolant
Fuel technical characteristics
- Fuels with high sulphur content
- Fuel additives
- Ann. 1: Fuel Specifications (minimum requirements) according to EN 590:2004
- Ann. 2: Fuel Specifications (minimum requirements) according to ASTM D 975
- Coolant used in the cooling circuit
Storage of the combine harvester
- Operations prior to long term garaging
Checking the engine cooling system
- Draining / bleeding the cooling system
Air filter
- Cleaning the dry air filter
- Cleaning the dry air filter
Chains and drive belts maintenance
- General warnings
- Tensioner roller springs length adjustment method
- Tensioner springs length adjustment method
V-belt clutches
- General information
- Prescriptions for adjusting belt clutches
- Check the tension of the springs of the tensioners, controlled by means of an electric servomotor
Threshing section clutch
- Adjusting the belt guides
- Setting the grain pan position
- Turbofan transmission
Elevator for tailings return
- Elevator drive
Grain elevator drive
- Slipping clutch
- Checking the elevator chain tension
- Checking the elevator head chain tension
Grain-tank discharge drive
- Checking the chain tension
Threshing drum drive
- Changing the threshing drum variator belt
Chaff spreader blowers
- Checking the oil level
Cab air conditioning system
- Safety instructions for the air conditioning system
Daily intervention
- Checks required before daily use
- Combine harvester checks before starting operation and following prolonged periods of storage
- Check the AdBlue® level
Maintenance every 50 hours
- Maintenance and care of the engine
- Feed passage
- Lubrication
Maintenance every 100 hours
- Drive belts and chains
- Mounting the cutting table
Maintenance every 250 hours
- Fuel tank
- Check level and change oil of front axle gearbox and final drives
- Threshing drum reduction gear
- Straw walker drive
- Changing the hydraulic oil
- Sieve box crank rod
- Braking system
- Ground drive hydraulics faults
- Tyre inflation pressure, tightening torques
- Lubrication points of grain elevator and steering axle (LH side)
- Check the battery
- Replacing the knives and fingers of the cutter bar
Maintenance every 500 hours
- Grain tank auger clutch
- Changing the oil filter of the ground drive hydraulics
- Cleaning the filter on the hydraulic motor oil recovery pipe
- AdBlue® feed pump filter
- Basic adjustment of the concave
- Straw walker cleaning unit
Maintenance every 1000 hours
- Changing the cab air filters
Lubrication
Warnings for the use of lubricants
- Using lubricants
- Cutting table lubrication points
- Feed passage lubrication points
- Lubrication points on front LH side
- Lubrication points of grain elevator and steering axle (LH side)
- Lubrication points on the rear RH side of the combine harvester
- Lubrication points on the central RH side of the combine harvester
- Lubrication points on the front RH side of the combine harvester
- Lubrication points of Brake pedals and grain tank unloading system
- Lubrication points
