A doublecut bar/sickle will shatter less, but you don"t change them without significant cost. Are you combining row beans? Are they bunching on the cutterbar? Consider cutting at an angle across the field.....20-30 degrees. If beans are thin, consider wrapping duct tape across the lower ends of the fingers on the reel (creating a batt reel). Stalks pull in sooner, less shatter.
If running the FCB by hand, keep the bar lower. On my F2 I mounted a rod on the thresher housing, ran it up through a ring at the front of the cab frame......it indicated hdr height. I zeroed it at the ground, put tape on the window...raised it til the bar was about to come off the ground.....put tape on the window. When the rod was between the tapes, I knew where the bar was in relation to the ground. Running the bar lower cuts the angle of the sheets the beans need to ride up on. Running on the low side, the sheets are nearly flat, so beans go straight in.
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