Document overview
Operator's manual for DEUTZ FAHR 6060 → 14885 from the 6000 (2012) family. Digital PDF in English, 508 pages.
The original table of contents contains 141 sections and 400 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
- Commander Control 2000
- Cutting table adjustment
- Balance
- Daily checks
- Travel and transport
- Cutting table
Document details
- Brand: DEUTZ FAHR
- Family: 6000 (2012)
- Model: 6060
- Starting serial number: 14885
- Document type: Operator's manual
- Language: English
- Pages: 508
- File size: 53.54 MiB
- Format: Digital PDF download
Compatibility
Before purchasing, verify that the model and starting serial number of your machine match 6060 → 14885.
Complete table of contents
Preface, introduction
Introduction
- Operation in compliance with the intended use
Sensible driving – Savings in running costs
- Environmental tips
Safety
- Conventions adopted in the manual
Safety instructions
- Recognition of warning symbols and understanding the warning notes
- Observe the safety instructions
- Protective guards and devices
- Basic rule
- Observing road traffic regulations
- Starting the engine:
- Quick start
- Wear suitable protective clothing
- Provisions for emergencies
- Transfer on urban roads
- Carrying passengers
- Personnel recruitment and qualification; basic requirements
- Driving conditions: road transport, travel and work conditions
- Mobile phones, radios, electrical equipment, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
- Safety equipment, lighting
- Parking
- Front attachments, accessories
- 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 tasks and repairs
- Spare parts
- Leaks from pressurised lines
- Fuel and lubricants
- Electrical equipment
- Battery
- Tyres, wheels and tyre fitting
- Safe maintenance of the cooling circuit
- Air conditioning system
- Disposal of environmentally harmful substances, environmental protection
- Decals on the combine harvester with indications of relevance for maintenance purposes
Side flaps opening and locking device
- Combine harvester side flaps
- Opening the side flaps
- Closing the side flaps
Grain tank
- Trafficable surfaces
- Grain tank cover
- Transport and on-road driving
- Fastening the grain tank cover
- Rear lock
Periodic maintenance
- Ladder for fluids top-up and engine maintenance
- Platform to the right of the operator’s cab
- Access to rotary filter drum and coolers pack
- 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 hatch
- 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 stop device (Italian market only)
- Excess width indication
- Cab access ladder
- Front attachment locking lever
Operator seat safety system
- Operation of the operator seat safety system
Adhesive safety warning decals
Adhesive safety warning decals
- Notes concerning the “Safety Symbols” Chapter
Structure and operation
- Construction of the combine harvester
Cutting table structure
- Cutting table control device
- 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
Construction of the sunflower cutting table
- Sunflower cutting table
Construction of the threshing mechanism
- Main components
- Threshing drum
- Threshing drum speed variator
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
Control buttons
Controls
- Controls to the right of the operator
- Controls located in the cab roof lining
On-board computer
- Information on the display
- A – Multi-information AREA
- B – Indicator lights AREA
- C – AREA Grain loss monitoring system
- Command and control switches
- Commander Control 2000
- Cutting table control unit
Gearshift lever
- Gearshift lever
Commander Stick
- Control for ground speed and direction changes
Sieve box lighting
- Lighting button
Cab air conditioning controls
- Control panel
- Using the air conditioning system
Headlights and windscreen wiper controls
- Lighting system
- Interior courtesy light
Road lighting systems
- Lights for road use
- Headlights
- Rear lights
- Worklights
Climate control system air recirculating 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
Ignition switch
- Diesel engine ignition switch
Operator seat
- Standard operator seat
- Aerofit operator seat
- Seat belt
Passenger seat
- Passenger seat
- Passenger seat belt
Storage compartments and Beverage holder
- Storage compartments under the control console
- Storage compartments positioned under the driver seat
- Beverage holder
Cab control pedals
- Control pedals
Service brakes
- Brake pedal
Parking brake
- Parking brake
Rear-view mirrors
- Rear-view mirrors
- Electrical adjustment of the mirrors
Cab access
- Cab door internal handle
- Cab external handle
Camera monitor
- 5-inch TFT LCD colour monitor BE 850M
- VIDEO CAMERA
Commander Control 2000
Commander Control 2000
- 1. Display
- 2. Operating status indicators:
- 3. Grain tank discharge pipe Extend/Retract control
- 4. Threshing section Engage/Disengage
- 5. Cutting table Engage/Disengage
- 6. Threshing drum clearances adjustment, sieve adjustment, concave rapid opening
- 7. Setting the speed of the threshing drum
- 8. Setting the winnowing fan speed
- 9. Threshing drum speed adjustment
- 10. Reel speed adjustment
- “Commander Control 2000” activation
- Selecting the language / Setting the view angle
- Setting operating speed “warning limits”
- Setting the automatic reel speed control (optional)
- Adjustment of concave clearance and position of the turbo separator (if installed)
- Concave rapid opening
- Sieve adjustment
- Calibration
- Calibration of the sieves setting using the buttons in the access area to the rear service platform
Description and list of error messages
- Error messages and warnings
Cutting table adjustment
Cutter bar electronic 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
Balance
BALANCE control
- Balance operation
- Balance control
- Calibration of the position controller
Operation of automatic cutting angle control
- Operation of automatic cutting angle control
- Adjustment of the response time for automatic cutting angle control
Daily checks
Checks required before daily use
- Combine harvester general cleaning
- Combine harvester checks before starting operation and following prolonged periods of storage
Travel and transport
Safety instructions – Road travel
- Driving on public roads
- Boarding and alighting 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 hitches
- Manual coupling
- Towing hitch (CUNA “C”)
- “EEC” automatic towing hitch
Tyre inflation pressure, tightening torques
- Wheel screw tightening torques
- Inflation pressure of tyres on front driving wheels
- Inflation pressure of tyres on rear steer wheels
- Cab access ladder
- Cab access ladder for machines equipped with track chains
Adjustable steering axle
- Track width adjustment
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 structure
Reel drive
- Reel control
- Cutting table
- 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
Cutting angle adjustment
- Cutting angle adjustment with Autocontrol
- Mechanic cutting angle adjustment
- Mechanic cutting angle adjustment
- Hydraulic cutting angle adjustment
- Basic setting of cutting angle without Autocontrol
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
- Replacing the knives and fingers of 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 section
- Activation of the threshing section
- Setting the speed of the threshing drum
- Concave rapid opening
- Threshing drum speed adjustment
Basic adjustment of the concave
- Turbo-separator
Multi-segment concave
- Multi-segment concave structure
- Removing the segments
- Basic setting of the separator concave
Concave de-awning plates
- De-awning plates opening adjustment
Cleaning the threshing drum and concave
- Emptying the stone trap
- Straw walker
Chaff spreaders
- Chaff spreader
Straw chopper
- Straw chopper (optional)
- Straw chopper spreader plates
Straw chopper spreader plates
- Manual adjustment
Straw walker cleaning unit
- Screening and winnowing
Setting the turbo fan speed
- Turbo fan speed
- Setting automatic pick-up reel speed control
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)
- Adjusting sieves equipped with electric servomotors
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 access ladder
- Grain tank light
- Lifting/Lowering the grain tank elevator (optional for certain versions)
- Setting deflectors of the grain auger at the bottom of the grain tank
Grain tank discharge pipe
- Swinging the grain tank discharge pipe outboard
- Swinging the grain tank discharge pipe inboard
Emptying the grain tank
- Emptying residual grain from the grain tank
Grain elevator
- Checking elevator chain tension
Tailings return system
- Setting the engine speed
- Moving the drive belt
- 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
- Work hydraulic system and combine harvester lubrication hydraulic system
Control valves block
- “Emergency operation” of the control valves
Changing the hydraulic oil
- Hydraulic oil
- Changing the hydraulic circuit oil filter
- Cleaning the filter on the oil recovery pipe from the hydraulic motor
- Changing the hydraulic motor oil recovery circuit oil filter
Ground drive hydraulics faults
- Anomalous noise levels in the combine harvester traction system
- Commander Stick “NEUTRAL” position adjustment
- Checking the pump
Steering system
- Checking work hydraulic systems
- General checks of the hydraulic systems
Electrical equipment
- Safety warnings
- Electrical system main components
- Battery isolator switch
- Check the battery
- Fuses and relays compartment
Fuses and relays layout in electrical panel
- Load switching unit (A8)
- 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
Cleaning the combine harvester
- External cleaning
- Internal cleaning
- Engine area cleaning ventilation system
Storage of the combine harvester
- Operations prior to long term garaging
Lubrication
- Lubrication plan
Central lubrication system
- Automatic lubrication system diagram
- Automatic lubrication system fault
Maintenance and care of the engine
- Warnings:
- Engine faults
Checking the engine cooling system
- Draining / bleeding the cooling system
Air filter
- Cleaning the dry air filter
Fuel feed system
- Fuel feed pump
- Bleeding the fuel system
- Drain water from the fuel prefilter
- Renew fuel prefilter
Braking system
- Check service brakes
- Bleeding the brakes
- Proceed as follows:
- Parking brake
Check level and change oil of front axle gearbox and final drives
- Checking the oil level
- Changing the oil
- Front axle final drives
- Balance system hydraulic speed reducer
- Gearbox control linkages
Threshing drum reduction gear
- Checking the oil level
- Changing the oil
- Drive belts and chains
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
Grain tank auger clutch
- Adjusting the belt guides
Mounting the cutting table
- Adjusting the belt guides
- Functional test
- Setting the grain pan position
- Straw walker drive
- Coolers pack dust ejector V-belt
- Engine cleaning ventilation system fan belt
- Turbofan transmission
Elevator for tailings return
- Elevator drive
- Sieve box crank rod
Grain elevator drive
- Slipping clutch
- Checking the elevator chain tension
- Checking the elevator head 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
Feed passage
- Adjusting the diagonal struts
- Slipping clutch
- Adjusting the slipping clutch
Changing the cab air filters
- Air filters (1)
- Air recirculation filter
Chaff spreader blowers
- Checking the oil level
Cab air conditioning system
- Safety instructions for the air conditioning system
Air compressor
- Compressed air reservoir
Lubrication
Warnings for the use of lubricants
- Using lubricants
- Cutting table lubrication points
- Feed passage lubrication points
- Lubricant control valve for Balance system
- Lubrication points on front LH side
- Lubrication points of grain elevator and steering axle (LH side)
- Lubrication points of combine harvester LH centralised control valve
- 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 front RH side
- Lubrication points of brake pedals and grain tank unloading system
Centralised grease control valve on the combine harvester RH side
- Lubrication control valve lines
- Troubleshooting instructions
- Centralised grease control valve on the combine harvester RH side
- Lubrication points
